The world would be a far less efficient place without Vise-Grip locking pliers. A Danish immigrant blacksmith named William Petersen patented the concept in 1924 and started a family business that ...

Kunze envisaged a "fractal" vise using a number of freely rotating semi-circular grips, smaller ones nested within the larger ones, such that as the vise is tightened on an object, the grips are ...

A regular vice is great if you want to clamp rectangular objects, but it can fall down a little with more complex shapes. Inspired by an ancient vise [Chris Borge] whipped up his own 3D-printed ...

Vise-Grip had more than a hold on damaged bolts and ... Malco found the ideal fit in this small Nebraska town. “We found all of that and more in DeWitt,” said Mardon Quandt, at the time ...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be a way to improve the traditional vice grip," said an inventor, from Huntington, W.V., "so I invented the Ireland Grip.