Patent Application
20190358781
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The disclosure and prior art relates to jig devices and more particularly pertains to a new jig device for drilling holes in a support at a precise location.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a pair of locking pliers that include a pair of jaws and an adjustment screw. An eyebolt is coupled to the adjustment screw and a pulling line may be coupled to the eyebolt for pulling on the locking pliers. A pair of panels is each coupled to a respective one of the jaws. Each of the panels is compressed against a support when the locking pliers are closed. Each of the panels has a pair of apertures extending therethrough to facilitate holes to be drilled through the support at a precise location.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A pair of panels 24 is provided and each of the panels 24 is coupled to a respective one of the jaws 14. Thus, each of the panels 24 is compressed against a support 26 when the locking pliers 12 are closed on the support 26. The support 26 may be a ceiling joist in a building, a piece of sheet metal and any other type of support 26 on which a pipe is suspended. The pipe may be a plumbing pipe or any other pipe that must be installed in accordance with the requirements of the International Building Code.
Each of the panels 24 has a pair of apertures 28 extending therethrough. The pair of panels 24 includes a first panel 30 and a second panel 32. Moreover, each of the apertures 28 in the first panel 30 is aligned with a respective one of the apertures 28 in the second panel 32 when the locking pliers 12 are closed. In this way the apertures 28 on each of the first panel 30 and the second panel 32 facilitate holes to be drilled through the support 26 at a precise location. The holes are drilled through the support 26 to facilitate a pipe hanger to be coupled to the support 26 in accordance with the International Building Code.
Each of the panels 24 has a first surface 34, a second surface 36 and a peripheral edge 38 extending therebetween. The first surface 34 of each of the panels 24 is coupled to the interior surface 20 of the respective jaw 14 and the peripheral edge 38 of each of the panels 24 has a front side 40 that is spaced from the respective jaw 14. The apertures 28 on each of the panels 24 extend through the first surface 34 and the second surface 36 of a respective one of the panels 24. The apertures 28 on each of the panels 24 are spaced apart from each other and the apertures 28 on each of the panels 24 are distributed along the front side 40 of the respective panel. The apertures 28 in each of the panels 24 may be spaced from the front side 40 of the respective panel a distance of approximately ¼ inch. Additionally, each of the apertures 28 in each of the panels 24 may have a diameter ranging between approximately 5/16 inch and ⅜ inch. Finally, each of the apertures 28 may be spaced approximately 9/16 inch from a respective one of a first lateral side and a second lateral side of the respective panel.
In use, the locking pliers 12 are clamped onto the support 26 at a predetermined location for drilling holes in the support 26. Each of the panels 24 is compressed onto the support 26 when the locking pliers 12 are closed. Holes are drilled, with a drill or the like, through each of the apertures 28 in the panels 24 thereby facilitating the holes to be precisely located in the support 26. In this way a pipe hanger can be installed on the support 26 in accordance with International Building Code.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
