A Better Way for watch service and repair

From thirty years of retail watch service, the Portavise® watch service system has been engineered to greatly assist front line associates in performing quality watch battery and related services efficiently. New methods and patented tools add security to holding watches tightly but with light pressure. The holding techniques within jaws have protective receivers in polymer panels. The benefit from this is that it prevents cuts to ones hands from hand held knife like tools and pressure applications using unsecured techniques. Using new techniques also avoids scratching, gouging, or breaking watches. The long life but replaceable jaw panels are made of a deformable blend of plastics to hold many different shapes of watches. Watch cases seat securely within receivers to protect the watch and the setting crown. The bottom of the kit has a “grip to the surface” non-skid material to give maximum stability to prevent movement, while working on any counter or glass top using a natural work load. The kit even has a compartment to hold small tools to prevent loss and to encourage organization.
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Portavise Punch Press Adds to the Product Line

Miniature quality metal parts that are tiny (1/4”) have been in high demand for jewelry, classy identification and even for parts to prototype an invention. Additionally, a manufacturer may have a short run specialty product requiring small formed parts. “Formed part” means, for instance, a heart shape that looks uniformly puffed instead of flat. A formed part is considerably stronger, and more useful with eye appeal not prevalent in flat metal. The problem is, to make a quality, formed type, punch and die is very expensive. Additionally, manufacturers require large orders of 10,000+ parts to make it worthwhile. The invention here is making the punch and die and formed parts inexpensively. Plus having the benefit of pressing parts as needed, a few or many at a time. The Portavise Punch is the same basic vise used in the other products except it requires more pressure and a saddle jacket to provide additional strength to the vise. In this invention, punch and dies can be made inexpensively and techniques applied to make parts from non-precious or precious metals, such as the initials alphabet, symbols, ID’s, logos, nail and skin jewelry, design pieces for phone, iPods, etc. Perfect small polished parts are very noticeable and could open new markets especially for specialty stores, jewelry manufactures, small and large. A patent search in utility patent methods has been made and may be patentable for a new search and patent application for a new manufacturer. The anti-skid vise base is patented and the press has trade secrets.