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  2. Tack strip - Wikipedia

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    Tack strip being removed from a floor. Tack strip also known as gripper rod, carpet gripper, Smoothedge tackless strip, gripper strip or gripper edge is a thin piece of wood, between 1 and 2 metres (3.3 and 6.6 ft) long and about 3 centimetres (1.2 in) wide, studded with hundreds of sharp nails or tacks used in the installation of carpet.

  3. Coping (joinery) - Wikipedia

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    Coping is commonly used in the fitting of skirting and other mouldings in a room. It allows for clean joints between intersecting members when walls are not square to each other. It allows for clean joints between intersecting members when walls are not square to each other.

  4. Remote center compliance - Wikipedia

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    Remote center compliance in operation Schematic of an RCC equipped robot: 1. Robot wrist, 2. Attachment ring, 3. RCC, 4. Gripper mechanism, 5. Gripper fingers. In robotics, a remote center compliance, remote center of compliance or RCC is a mechanical device that facilitates automated assembly by preventing peg-like objects from jamming when they are inserted into a hole with tight clearance.

  5. Gripper - Wikipedia

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    A gripper is something that grips things or makes it easier to grip things. It may refer to: grippers, tools for building hand strength; a Robot end effector, the "hand" of a robot; a person working in a grip (job), a position held in filmmaking

  6. Bernoulli grip - Wikipedia

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    This is the cause of a net force on the object in the direction normal to the side with higher local pressure. A Bernoulli gripper takes advantage of this by maintaining this negative pressure at the gripper face compared to the ambient pressure below the sample, while maintaining an air gap between the gripper and the object being held.

  7. Grippers - Wikipedia

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    A mass market, plastic-handled gripper A gripper being closed. Grippers, sometimes called hand grippers, are primarily used for testing and increasing the strength of the hands; this specific form of grip strength has been called crushing grip, [1] which has been defined as meaning the prime movers are the four fingers, rather than the thumb.

  8. Captains of Crush Grippers - Wikipedia

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    By 1992, IronMind had moved all design and production of its grippers in-house. [14] The next generation of the Silver Crush Grippers, released in 1993, marked the next major step in gripper evolution; their stainless-steel handles replaced the previous chrome-plated mild steel handles, and a new assembly technique eliminated the drift pin central to the design of the older grippers. [15]

  9. Reach extender - Wikipedia

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    A 36 in (910 mm) reach extender with a secondary trigger and a pole that can be rotated 90 degrees. A reach extender (or reacher, grabber arm, helping hand, trash picker, picker-upper, extended gripper, long arm gripper, extended reach grabber, grabber tool, litter picker, or caliper) is a handheld mechanical tool used to increase the range of a person's reach and grasp when grabbing objects.