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PARALLEL CLAMP [2 records]

Record 1 2006-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
DEF

A woodworker's clamp with two hardwood jaws joined by a pair of right-hand and left-hand threaded screws that maintain parallel adjustment of the jaws when their handles are turned in the same direction.

CONT

Wood screw clamps are made of two heavy baseboards connected by parallel bolts. These must be maintained parallel to each other to be effective.

CONT

Adjustable hand screws. Termed hand screws, these woodworking clamps have maple jaws that do not require pads of scrap wood to protect the work. Since the steel clamping screws operate through crosswise pivots in the wood jaws, they can be set at any required angle. Sizes, based on jaw length, range from 6 to 14 inches, openings from 3 to 10 inches ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
CONT

Les serre-joints de bois doivent être réglés correctement pour le serrage des pièces.

OBS

Pluriel : des serre-joints.

OBS

serre-joints (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

OBS

serre-joint : Outil utilisé par les ajusteurs, les menuisiers, les ébénistes, les monteurs, pour assembler provisoirement entre eux les différents éléments d'un ensemble afin d'effectuer des opérations communes à ces éléments ou d'assurer le serrage des assemblages pendant la prise de la colle.

Spanish

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Record 2 1988-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Machine-Tooling (Metallurgy)
CONT

A toolmaker's clamp (parallel clamp) is used to hold parts together when making a layout. It is also used for machining operations, such as drilling.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Usinage (Métallurgie)

Spanish

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