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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2007
Applicant:
Kuo Tsing Tsai, Singapore, SG;
Inventor:
Kuo Tsing Tsai, Singapore, SG;
Assignee:
Illinois Tools Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 3/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A wedge action grip for tensile or similar testing is provided with a pair of jaws wherein at least one jaw includes a swiveling element with a gripping surface. The jaw and associated swiveling element may have cylindrical swiveling surfaces whereby the swiveling element swivels with a single degree of freedom about a vertical or horizontal axis or may have spherical swiveling surfaces whereby the swiveling element swivels with two degrees of freedom about a point. The two jaws may have different swivel characteristics, and one of the jaws may have a non-swiveling fixed gripping surface.