Dial test indicator holder

Claim 1

AN ADJUSTABLE DEVICE FOR HOLDING A DIAL INDICATOR IN A VARIETY OF POSITIONS COMPRISING A BASE ADAPTED TO BE MOUNTED ON A RIGID PLATFORM, AND A HOLDER SUB-ASSEMBLY REMOVABLY ATTACHED TO THE BASE, AND HAVING AN OUTER END ADAPTED FOR REMOVABLE CONNECTION WITH A DIAL INDICATOR, SAID BASE COMPRISING A CYLINDRICAL SHANK, AND AN OUTER MEMBER HAVING INTERNAL THREADS FOR AXIALLY THREADED CONNECTING TO THE HOLDER SUB-ASSEMBLY, SAID HOLDER SUBASSEMBLY INCLUDING AN EXTERNALLY THREADED MEMBER AT ITS INNER END THREADEDLY RECEIVED IN THE INTERNALLY THREADED MEMBER OF THE BASE, SAID HOLDER SUB-ASSEMBLY FURTHER COMPRISING A HOLDER PIVOTALLY MOUNTED ON A THIMBLE, SAID THIMBLE BEING AN INTEGRAL EXTENSION OF THE EXTERNALLY THREADED MEMBER, IN FURTHER COMBINATION WITH A CONTROL SHELL MEANS THREADEDLY MOUNTED ON THE SAID THIMBLE, WHEREBY SAID SHELL MEANS CAN BE RECIPROCATED LONGITUDINALLY WITH RESPECT TO THE AXIS OF THE THIMBLE, AND RELATIVE TO SAID PIVOTED HOLDER, FURTHER INCLUDING SPRING PRESSED MEANS DISPOSED BETWEEN AND IN CONTACT WITH THE INNER END OF THE HOLDER, AND THE SAID THIMBLE, SAID MEANS BEING ECCENTRIC OF THE AXIS ABOUT WHICH THE HOLDER CAN PIVOT, WHEREBY RECIPROCATION OF THE CONTROL SHELL MEANS TOWARDS THE HOLDER, WILL CAUSE PRESSURE ON SAID MEANS, THEREBY CAUSING ROTATION OF THE HOLDER ABOUT ITS PIVOTAL AXIS, SAID CONTROL SHELL MEANS ENCOMPASSING SAID THIMBLE, SAID HOLDER FURTHER INCLUDING MEANS FOR RETAINING A DIAL INDICATOR ATITS OUTER END, SAID MEANS BEING ROTATABLE ABOUT AN AXIS AT RIGHT ANGLES, TO THE AXIS ABOUT WHICH THE HOLDER PIVOTS, SAID HOLDER AND THE LAST SAID MEANS BOTH BEING RETAINABLE AT VARIOUS POSITIONS OF ROTATION WITH RESPECT TO THEIR AXES.