Abstract: A router machine for making repetitive router cuts at predetermined positions on one or two workpieces. The router machine has a free standing main frame with an open work horizontal platform for supporting said one or two workpieces. The platform has a longitudinal front edge with a fence therealong. Clamping mechanisms for clamping the one or two workpieces at the predetermined positions. A workpiece feed mechanism for advancing the one or two workpieces to each of the predetermine positions. A pair of routers are provided having vertically oriented, opposed, coaxial bits. A movable support assembly supports the routers. The routers are shiftable vertically on the support assembly toward each other to an extended cutting position and away from each other to a retracted non-cutting position.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 7, 1995
Date of Patent:
January 14, 1997
Assignee:
Merrick Machine Co.
Inventors:
Harold E. Damratowski, Richard J. Merrick