Abstract: A power tool assembly includes a drop arm frame with an opening configured to rotatably support an arbor shaft, a lower surface spaced apart from the opening, and a plurality of ribs extending between the lower surface and the opening. The plurality of ribs define a respective one of a plurality of axes, the plurality of axes intersect at a locus, and the locus is adjacent to, but spaced apart from, a center of gravity of the drop arm assembly. The power tool assembly further includes an actuating device configured to transfer a force to the drop arm assembly when the drop arm assembly is at the first drop arm assembly position, and a control system configured to control the actuating device to transfer the force to the drop arm assembly when an unsafe condition is sensed.

Abstract: A device for adjusting a sawing device's width, wherein the sawing device comprises at least two circular blades 10, 12, facing each other and adjacently positioned, and a fastener 44 adapted to assemble the blades together. The device for adjusting the sawing device's width comprises a wavy annular spring 14 provided between the blades, a recess 42 provided in each of the blades, wherein the recesses are positioned opposite to one another and wherein said wavy annular spring is received within the recesses, an adjustment member 32 adapted to force the blades together against said wavy annular spring or to part them so as to maintain a predetermined distance between the blades. The distance between the blades is set to present a desired cutting width.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for making tenons using an adjustable shim placed between cutting blades. The adjustable shim has a plate with a recess capable of accepting spacers of varied thicknesses and a cover that encloses any of the spacers placed in the recess. The thickness of the adjustable shim is adjusted by placing spacers in the recess to shim apart the cutting blades leaving between them a distance approximately equal to the desired tenon thickness.

Abstract: A trim saw is mounted in conjunction with a hogger, or device for reducing scrap to particles, or saw dust. The hogger is made up of a any desired number of units that will reduce scrap to sawdust. Each unit has a pair of oscillator plates that hold a pair of semicircular blade portions at an angle to the axis of rotation, so the blade portions sweep a wide kerf. Since the blades are generally conventional saw blades, they can be sharpened by conventional machines, obviating the need for hand sharpening. Also, the relatively fine teeth on the hogger blades allows substantially uniform power loading for uniform operation.

Abstract: A slitting tool for a circular saw machine has a tool carrier with a first and second tool flanges arranged coaxially and axially displaceable relative to one another. A slitting saw blade has first and second blade halves. Fasteners are provided for fastening the first blade half in a detachable manner to the first tool flange and for fastening the second blade half in a detachable manner to the second tool flange. The fasteners are distributed circumferentially about the tool carrier. An adjusting device is arranged within the tool carrier and connects the two tool flanges to one another. At least one fastener is arranged in a displaced position relative to other fasteners for balancing the slitting tool, wherein the displaced position is determined according to balancing criteria.

Abstract: A blade arrangement for cutting dados that includes magnetic dado spacers, which firmly adhere through magnetic attraction to the dado blades, is disclosed. Also, with the blade arrangement of the present invention, problems due to blade vibrations are reduced. The cutting width is conveniently measured and adjusted without having to repeatedly install and remove the nut, since the magnetic dado spacers hold adjacent blades firmly together, before they are tightened. Additionally, the use of magnetic dado spacers reduces the possibility of the spacers falling into and becoming caught in the thread of an arbor. A further advantage is that the magnetic dado spacers are much quicker and easier to install than prior art dado spacers.

Abstract: A magnetic dado shim is a disc cut from highly flexible magnetic sheeting, and includes a central arbor hole. When the magnetic dado shim is placed concentrically on a steel dado blade, it sticks securely thereto, and will not easily shim in position. Therefore, the magnetic dado shim will not fall into the thread of an arbor and become damaged when the dado set is tightened thereon. Accordingly, the magnetic dado shim is very easy to install.

Abstract: An adjustable dado having the adjustment ease of a wobble type dado with the cut quality of a stacking type dado. The outer cutting blade is bored and threaded, and a threaded adjusting collar is threaded into the outer blade. An adjustment washer has pins to engage openings in the adjusting collar, so that rotation of the adjustment washer adjusts the position of the outer blade. The invention allows quick and easy adjustment of a stacking dado without removal of the dado blades.

Abstract: Dado shims that are disks of substantially incompressible, flexible, color coded plastic sheet material of uniform predetermined thicknesses having a central arbor hole and a radial slot narrower in width than the arbor hole diameter so that each shim is shaped like the letter "C" and can be distorted slightly during positioning on a saw arbor between dado set blades without removing any of the blades, by slipping the shim over the arbor through the slot until the shim seats on the arbor within the shim arbor hole.

Abstract: A multiple saw blade adjustable dado cutter assembly. The cutter can be used with a table saw or a radial arm saw, for example, to make dado cuts in board lumber. A pair of cooperating cams, each connected to a saw blade, can be adjusted to make a dado cut of a desired width. If the desired dado width is wider than the two blade configuration can cut, a center cam attached to another blade can be inserted between the pair of cooperating cams. With the three blade configuration, the three cams cooperate to allow the three blades to be spaced for the desired width of cut. In both configurations and at any spacing width, the two or three blades employed remain in a generally parallel alignment and transverse to the axis of the arbor on which the assembly is secured. To permit the blades to function with this geometrical relationship and to be adjustable, not all of the blade teeth lie in the same plane. The sequentially operating three or more cam assembly has uses beyond dado cutting.

Abstract: An adjustable wobble dado assembly has a planar circular blade with spaced peripheral cutting teeth. The cutting teeth have respective top cutting edges at their radially outer extremities which are located at progressively different radial distances from the axis of the blade so that, when the axis is tilted relative to the arbor for purposes of cutting a groove, those top cutting edges located at progressively greater radial distances from the axis cut portions of the groove located progressively further from the longitudinal center of the groove. The top cutting edges also have respective different top angles relative to the axis of the blade, those edges located at progressively greater radial distances from the axis having progressively greater top angles relative to the axis. An adjustable hub assembly includes a hub composed of an integral portion of the material of the blade having a thickness greater than that of the blade.

Abstract: A motor driven rotary tool machine having a drive shaft, an outer end portion thereof having a shoulder thereon, a rotary tool such as a saw blade having a substantially axially positioned aperture, and a retention device for securely but readily removably securing the tool on the shaft tightly against the shoulder means, wherein the retention device includes the threaded bolt receiving bore formed axially in the outer end of the shaft, a bolt mounted through the aperture of the tool and having a shank threaded into the bore, a stop on an outer end portion of the bolt spaced from the tool, and a linearly slidable ramp piece interposed between the tool and the stop and retentively forcing the tool against the shoulder of the bolt.

Abstract: The hub (3) of the circular or disc-saw is supported, at the end adjacent to the saw, by at least one swingable radial bearing (6), while at the opposite end, driven for rotation by the pulley (28), the hub is supported by a servo-control (10-12) by which the axis of the hub can be maintained in line with the axis of rotation or said axes can be spaced apart angularly by rotation about a common point thereof, whereby the teeth of the saw will have a composite rotational movement and symmetrical side oscillation, with a frequency proportional to the rotational speed of the saw and with an amplitude proportional to the spacing of the axes and to the radius of the saw. The saw is used to score the panels which are subsequently cut through by the saw while being driven only in rotation.

Abstract: This invention relates to a dado cutting circular saw arrangement and more particularly to an arrangement comprising a pair of saw blades which are adjustable from a minimum dado width cutting position wherein the blades are juxtaposed relative to a plane perpendicular to the rotational axis of the blades. A cam arrangement adapted to be interposed between the saw blades is employed for selectively adjusting the position of the blades to cut dados of varying widths. The cam arrangement causes the blades to pivot from their minimum dado position, juxtaposed to the plane, about adjacent peripheral pivot points in a manner that selectively adjustably positions the peripheral edges of the blades diametrically opposite from those adjacent pivot points outward relative to the plane and, thus, provide a range of dado cutting widths.

Abstract: A rotating arbor in a sawing machine such as a table saw or radial saw or in a milling machine is provided with a pair of pressing members that are mounted on the arbor so as to be rotated in unison therewith, and a bearing sleeve which is provided on the arbor between the pressing members so as to be rotatable in unison therewith. A rotary blade for forming a groove is clamped from both sides thereof by a pair of clamping members which are mounted on the bearing sleeve in a tilted orientation for holding the rotary blade at an inclined angle with respect to the arbor, the clamping members being pressed between, and hence secured by the pair of pressing members. Turning both clamping members relative to the pressing members allows the clamping members to be tilted together with the rotary blade with respect to the central axis of the arbor.

Abstract: An adjustable wobble dado assembly having a plate-like circular blade, a pair of inner plate members fixedly mounted on either side of the blade having generally parallel outer surfaces and complementary inner surfaces for holding the blade at an inclined position relative to the outer surfaces, and a pair of interconnected outer plate members on either side of the inner plate members having parallel outer surfaces and complementary inner surfaces inclined relative to the outer surfaces and bearing rotatably against the inner plate members. Each inner plate member has an inwardly tapering central aperture for rotatably receiving a respective cylindrical hub of an outer plate member. Each cylindrical hub extends along an axis perpendicular to the outer surface, rather than the inclined inner surface, of the outer plate member, such axis also being coincident with the axis of an arbor bore extending through the hub.

Abstract: This invention pertains to an adjustable dado head with positive positioning means in the assembly of the respective parts, making it impossible to misalign parts during assembly. Some of the positioning means also act as fasteners to hold the parts in assembled relation.