Clamp (tool)

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Clamp (tool)
For other uses, see Clamp.
A clamp is a fastening device to hold or secure objects tightly together to prevent movement or separation through
the application of inward pressure. In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term cramp is often used instead when
the tool is for temporary use for positioning components during construction and woodworking; thus a G cramp or a
sash cramp but a wheel clamp or a surgical clamp.
There are many types of clamps available for many different purposes. Some are temporary, as used to position
components while fixing them together, others are intended to be permanent. In the field of animal husbandry, using
a clamp to attach an animal to a stationary object is known as "rounded clamping." A physical clamp of this type is
also used to refer to an obscure investment banking term; notably "fund clamps." Anything that performs the action
of clamping may be called a clamp, so this gives rise to a wide variety of terms across many fields.
Although technically not a clamp, gripping elements mounted on the buckets of heavy duty equipment are referred to
as clamps too.
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Types
Temporary
A selection of woodworking clamps. Top: Pipe
clamp; 2nd row: F-clamp or bar clamp,
one-handed bar clamp ("Quick Grip"), wooden
handscrew; 3rd row: spring clamp, C-clamp
(G-clamp), wooden cam clamp.
These clamps (or cramps) are used to position components temporarily
for various tasks:
Band clamp or web clamp
Bar clamp F-clamp or sliding clamp (upper left in the photo)
Bench clamp (for holding things to a bench top) The bench forms
the fixed jaw.
Cardellini clamp jaw-style clamp that clamps onto round, square,
or rectangular tubing; or onto flat objects, such as dimensional
lumber or plywood sheetsto mount motion picture lights, or grip
equipment such as gobo heads
C-clamp (also G-clamp) (lower centre in the photo) (UK G-cramp
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)
Flooring clamp A carpenter's clamp used to cramp up floorboards
prior to fixing.
Forked clamp stainless steel for ST ground glass joints with/without setscrew. Sizes for: ST 14, 19, 24, 29 nd 45.
Gripe (a specialized clamp, tightened with a wedge, for holding strakes in position when building a clinker boat)
Handscrew (upper right in the photo)
Kant-Twist clamp
Magnetic clamp (see Magnetic base)
Mitre clamp
Pipe clamp (top of photo)
Sash clamp (a specialized, long form of the bar clamp)
Set screw
Speed clamp
Toggle clamp
Clamp (tool)
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A push-pull toggle clamp. Although
these are typically used for
machining applications, this clamp
serves as a theatrical wagon brake.
Operation of a latch clamp
Surgical Clamp
Toolmakers' clamp (a smaller, precision version of the handscrew,
all in steel)
Pinch Dog (a small "staple" shaped device, designed to straddle a
joint, and pull the joint tightly together during the glue up process)
Permanent
Hose clamp
Marman clamp
Wire rope clamp
Joiner's dog
Medical
Foerster clamp
Hemostatic clamp
Pennington clamp
Umbilical cord clamp
Aortic clamp
Debakey clamp
Glover clamp
Gomco clamp
Mogen clamp
Clamp (tool)
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Other
Adel clamp
Wheel clamp
Pandrol clip
Tube clamp (name for the different clamps used in a tube and clamp scaffold)
References
[1] Attachments with Top Clamps (http:/ / dymaxinc. com/ attachments/ 6041/ )
[2] http:/ / www. technologystudent. com/ equip1/ cramp1.htm
Patrick Spielman (1986). Gluing and Clamping: A Woodworkers Handbook. Sterling Publishing. ISBN
0-8069-6274-7
Lee Jesberger (2007). Pro Woodworking Tips (http:/ / www. prowoodworkingtips. com/ Pinch_Dogs. html)
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