Combination vise

Claim 1

A vise body having a pair of sidewalls, a pair of end walls joining said sidewalls, and a bottom wall joining the end and sidewalls, the exterior surface of the bottom wall forming a first plane support of the vise body on a table, guide means on said vise body on an upper side thereof opposite the bottom walls, a fixed jaw mounted on the upper wall adjacent said guideway, a movable jaw mounted on said guideway for movement toward and away from said fixed jaw, said fixed and movable jaws having longitudinal jaw axes extending transverse to the direction of movement of the movable jaw and generally parallel to the first plane, the side and bottom walls having generally flat exterior surfaces, the sidewalls defining plane at right angles to the bottom wall and parallel to each other, the fixed and movable jaws being of size to be entirely between the planes of the sidewalls, each of said sidewalls, end walls and bottom walls having groove means defined therein opening to the respective walls, and the groove means defining surfaces at right angles to the plane of the respective wall in which the respective groove means is formed to permit selectively placing the sidewalls and bottom wall onto a support table using the groove means surfaces for clamping, to thereby permit the vise body to be placed on a support table supported on either of said sidewalls with the longitudinal axes of said jaws extending perpendicular to such table, or supported on the bottom wall with the longitudinal axes of said jaws extending parallel to the table.