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. Clamp may refer to: Look up Clamp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A fastener is a hardware device that mechanically joins or affixes two or more objects together. ... This article is about pressure in the physical sciences. ... For other uses, see Construction (disambiguation). ... Artists can use woodworking to create delicate sculptures. ...

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 which performs the action of clamping may be called a clamp, so this gives rise to a wide variety of terms across many fields. These are some of the more common ones:

Temporary

A selection of woodworking clamps. Top: Pipe clamp; 2nd row from top: F-clamp or bar clamp, one-handed bar clamp ("Quick Grip"), wooden handscrew; 3rd row: spring clamp, G-clamp (C-clautmp), wooden cam clamp.

These clamps (or cramps) are used to position components temporarily for various tasks (see picture for some examples): Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1717x1383, 287 KB) Picture of various woodworking clamps taken 18 September, 2005 by Luigi Zanasi (myself) on my workbench using a Olympus digital camera. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1717x1383, 287 KB) Picture of various woodworking clamps taken 18 September, 2005 by Luigi Zanasi (myself) on my workbench using a Olympus digital camera. ...

• 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 which will clamp onto round, square, or rectangular tubing, or onto flat objects, such as dimensional lumber or plywood sheets. It can then be used to mount motion picture lights, or grip equipment such as gobo heads.
• C-clamp (also G-clamp) (lower centre in the photo)
• Flooring cramp A carpenter's clamp used to cramp up floorboards prior to fixing.
• Gripe (a specialized clamp, tightened with a wedge, for holding strakes in position when building a clinker boat)
• Handscrew (upper right in the photo)
• 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
• Toolmakers' clamp (a smaller, precision version of the handscrew, all in steel)

A band clamp (also known as a web clamp) is a type of clamp which allows the clamping of items where the surfaces to be clamped are not parallel to each other; where there are multiple surfaces involved; or where clamping pressure is required from multiple directions at once. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with F-clamp. ... An F-clamp is a simple mechanical device used for holding materials together. ... The C-clamp or G-cramp is a type of clamp device typically used to hold a wood or metal workpiece. ... A gripe is a simple form of clamp used in building a clinker boat, for temporarily holding the strake which is being fitted onto the one to which it is to be attached. ... A Strake is part of a boat or ship. ... Clinker is a boat building technique used for constructing hulls of boats and ships by fixing wooden planks and in the early nineteenth century, iron plates to each other so that the planks overlap along their edges. ... Magnetic base as used in the engineering metaltrades. ... Miter clamps are designed to hold miter joints together. ... A short pipe clamp A pipe clamp is a clamp with a long grip which generally uses an ordinary steel pipe to achieve its length. ... A set screw, also called a grub screw in British English, is a type of screw generally used to secure an object within another object. ...

Permanent

• Hose clamp
• Wire rope clamp

A hose clamp or hose clip is a device used to attach and seal a hose onto a fitting such as a barb or nib. ... Steel wire rope (right hand lay) Wire rope consists of several strands laid (or twisted) together like a helix. ...

Medical Clamps

• Foerster clamp
• Hemostatic clamp
• Pennington clamp
• Umbilical cord clamp

A foerster clamp is a surgical clamp with a round eyelet. ... Hemostats, curved and straight tip. ... A Pennington clamp, also known as a Duval clamp, is a surgical clamp with a triangular eyelet. ...

Other

• Wheel clamp
• Pandrol clip
• Tube clamp (name for the different clamps used in a tube and clamp scaffold)

Denver Boot as used by the Los Angeles Department of Transportation Less secure style of wheel clamp as used in England A wheel clamp (American English: Denver boot, or boot) is a device that is designed to stop vehicles from moving. ... track Rail tracks are used on railways (or railroads), which, together with railroad switches (or points), guide trains without the need for steering. ... A versatile type of scaffold consisting of steel tubes and clamps. ...

See also

• Vice

Bench vise A vise (American and Canadian English) or vice (British English) is a mechanical screw apparatus used for holding or clamping a work piece to allow work to be performed on it using other tools, such as saws, planes, drills, mills, screwdrivers, sandpaper, In general, vises have a fixed...

References

• Patrick Spielman (1986). Gluing and Clamping: A Woodworker’s Handbook. Sterling Publishing. ISBN 0-8069-6274-7