Toggle Clamp With Spring

Turn blue lever to clamp or release yellow workpiece.
Green bolts are used to create precompressed state for the cross-shaped spring. So at clamping position the fixture gets into toggle position (centers of three grey pivots are inline) and the work is clamped by spring force.
Violet screw is for preventing the unclamping action (when the lever exceeds the toggle position).

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