ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,846, issued on April 29.
"Machine vise stop device" was invented by Ritchie Lee Omdahl (Corcoran, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stop device having a L shaped mounting bracket secured to a machine vise by a mounting bracket screw, a stop arm having an elongated slot extended within the stop arm and running in a parallel direction to a length of the stop arm, a pivot clamp and pivot clamp screw connected to the elongated slot and attaching the stop arm to the mounting bracket along a length side of a machine vise, the stop arm moveable in both an Y and Z direction and lockable by the pivot clamp, a fixed jaw located at the seco...