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  2. Locking pliers - Wikipedia

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    A historic version of the Vise-Grip brand locking pliers. Locking pliers (also called Vise-Grips, Mole wrench or Mole grips) are pliers that can be locked into position, using an "over-center" cam action. Locking pliers are available with many different jaw styles, such as needle-nose pliers, wrenches, clamps and various shapes to fix metal ...

  3. Thomas Coughtrie - Wikipedia

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    Mole branded Self-grip wrench locking pliers. Thomas Robb Coughtrie (25 November 1917 – 27 August 2008) was a chartered engineer from Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland.. He was credited by The Times as the inventor of the self-grip Mole wrench [1] although this conflicts with other sources which show the invention of the Vise-Grip locking pliers [2] in Nebraska, United States, with an ...

  4. Vise - Wikipedia

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    A bench vise, B machine vise, C hand vise. A vise or vice (British English) is a mechanical apparatus used to secure an object to allow work to be performed on it.Vises have two parallel jaws, one fixed and the other movable, threaded in and out by a screw and lever.

  5. Irwin Industrial Tools - Wikipedia

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    In 2008, Irwin announced the closing of its DeWitt, Nebraska plant, ending 80 years of American production for Vise-Grips, citing a necessity to move production to China "to keep the Vise-Grip name competitive." [9] In 2010, Irwin closed the customer service office in Wilmington, OH and moved the customer service department to Huntersville, NC.

  6. Pliers - Wikipedia

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    Medieval pincers found in Hamburg-Harburg (15th/16th century) As pliers in the general sense are an ancient and simple invention, no single inventor can be credited.Early metal working processes from several millennia BCE would have required plier-like devices to handle hot materials in the process of smithing or casting.

  7. Professional wrestling holds - Wikipedia

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    CM Punk doing an anaconda vise on Mike Knox. The anaconda vise is a compression choke. The wrestler wraps their arms around the head and one arm of the opponent and squeezes, choking the opponent. It is considered legal in professional wrestling, although it is a chokehold. This submission hold was invented by Hiroyoshi Tenzan.

  8. Clamp (tool) - Wikipedia

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    Upper row: F-clamp or bar clamp, one-handed bar clamp ("Quick Grip"), wooden handscrew; Lower row: spring clamp, C-clamp (G-clamp ), wooden cam clamp. A clamp is a fastening device used to hold or secure objects tightly together to prevent movement or separation through the application of inward pressure.

  9. Chuck (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    This is the most common size and takes a hammer up to 4 kg. The wedges grip an area of 75 mm 2 (0.116 sq in) and the shank is inserted 40 mm into the chuck. SDS-top A 14 mm shank similar to SDS-plus, designed for hammers from 2 to 5 kg. The grip area is increased to 212 mm 2 (0.329 sq in) and the shank is inserted 70 mm. This size remained ...

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