Vertical Spindle Patents (Class 144/135.2)
  • Patent number: 11648615
    Abstract: A sled assembly configured to push stock along a fence includes a carriage and rollers mounted at spaced apart positions. The rollers engage the fence to guide movement of the carriage therealong and each has a peripheral portion for being received in a fence race. An adjustable roller mount selectively adjusts the position of the roller to align the peripheral portions of the rollers with the width of the race. An adjustable fence assembly includes an outfeed fence movable relative to an infeed fence. An outfeed fence adjustment mechanism includes mounting posts at spaced apart locations along the length of the outfeed fence movable to drive movement of the outfeed fence along an axis transverse to the feed direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Inventor: Darrin E. Smith
  • Patent number: 11467557
    Abstract: A system and apparatus for Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machines wherein a workpiece is maneuvered about a working surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Inventor: Daniel Lipsker
  • Patent number: 10888977
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a suction device including a shell with a chamber, the chamber including an opening. A fan is disposed in the chamber, and a power component for driving the fan to rotate is disposed on the shell. An external fluid source holding an additional fluid is connected to the chamber. The additional fluid of the external fluid source flows into the chamber to occupy a volume in the chamber and at least partially forces a first fluid originally present in the chamber out of the chamber. The fan drives fluids in the chamber to rotate so that a stepped negative pressure is generated in the chamber, with a magnitude of the negative pressure decreasing as a distance to a periphery of the chamber decreases. Thereby, a pressure difference between an inside and an outside of the shell is decreased, decreasing vacuum leakage of the suction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xin Li, Kaige Shi
  • Patent number: 10702957
    Abstract: A cutting system is disclosed. The cutting system comprises a moving mechanism, a cutter mounted on the moving mechanism, a support table having a material plate disposed thereon, and a fixation device including a pressing plate having a row of teeth defining a row of teeth slots. The row of teeth press the material plate on the support table while the moving mechanism drives the cutter to move along edges of the row of teeth slots. The cutter cuts a plurality of workpieces out of the material plate by a single cutting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Corporation, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Liu, Liming Xin, Lvhai Hu, Dandan Zhang, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
  • Patent number: 10518435
    Abstract: A feeding system with numerically adjustable pneumatic cylinder speeds includes: a frame; an X-axis pneumatic cylinder; a Z-axis pneumatic cylinder; a feeding table connected to the pneumatic cylinders in order to be driven into motion in the X- and Z-axis directions; an X-axis detection module; a Z-axis detection module; a microcomputer; and a display screen electrically connected to the microcomputer. The microcomputer uses each detection module to determine the time interval between the instant at which the piston rod of the corresponding pneumatic cylinder passes the corresponding starting point and a subsequent instant at which the same piston rod passes the corresponding endpoint. The time intervals thus determined are defined as a duration of X-axis forward movement and a duration of Z-axis forward movement respectively. Both durations are displayed on the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: OAV EQUIPMENT AND TOOLS, INC.
    Inventors: Hsuan-Chu Liu, Long-Chang Jan
  • Patent number: 10293497
    Abstract: One aspect of the robotic surgery system according to the invention relates to a robot assembly comprising at least one robot and an instrument assembly comprising at least one instrument that is guided by said robot assembly. Said instrument assembly comprises at least one instrument housing having at least one drive unit housing part containing a cavity designed to hold the drive unit, said drive unit housing part having a seal for the sterile sealing of an insertion opening of the cavity in addition to a dynamic sterile barrier which delimits the cavity in a sterile manner and across which the drive train arrangement can be actuated; and/or the drive unit is offset laterally in relation to a longitudinal axis of the instrument shaft towards a connection between the instrument housing and the robot assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: KUKA Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Lohmeier, Cuong Nguyen-Xuan
  • Patent number: 10207377
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for machining a planar workpiece, having a machine stand which has a support surface (application surface) for a planar workpiece, and further having a machining head which can be moved relative to the support surface, which machining head has a tool for machining the workpiece and also has a holding unit (“hold-down unit”) with a pressure plate whereby the workpiece is pressed against the supporting surface; characterized in that the pressure plate has a structure which is comprised of a plurality of pieces, preferably two pieces, wherein at least one of the pressure plate parts is movable back and forth relative to at least one other pressure plate part, namely it is movable between the application position, in which the pressure plate part presses the workpiece against the application surface when the workpiece is applied to said application surface, and a released position, in which the pressure plate piece is at a minimum distance away from the workpiece when the workpie
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. Kg
    Inventors: Matthias Kienholz, Lars Martin, Kersten Wurm, Alexander Glowacki
  • Patent number: 10190682
    Abstract: An actuator system and method (10) includes a blow out preventer (11), a hydraulic motor (12), a gear box (13) intermediate hydraulic motor (12) and blow out preventer (11), and a position indicator (14). Gear box (13) has an input (19), an output (20), and a gear set (23). Gear set (23) is biased by a spring (33) acting on a piston (31) to a default high range gear ratio when blow out preventer (11) is open, to provide maximum closure/lock speed. Gear set (23) is moved by a hydraulic command signal acting on piston (31) to a low range gear ratio when blow out preventer (11) is closed/locked, to provide maximum torque to move blow out preventer (11) toward its open position. Position indicator (14) shows the actual position of blow out preventer (11) independent of the number of turns of input (19) to move the blow out preventer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Paisley, Bruce Fishburn
  • Patent number: 10183337
    Abstract: A laser beam is transmitted through a drill bit comprising diamond or other suitable light-transmitting material having sufficient hardness. The laser beam exits a tip of the drill bit, thereby heating and softening the material being drilled at and/or near the interface of the drill with the material being drilled. The process may be utilized to drill hard and brittle materials such as ceramics and semiconductors, composites and ceramic matrix composites. The process may cause high pressure phase transformation, resulting in a more ductile and plastic material near the drill point/tip. The process provides more rapid drilling, improved surface quality in drilled holes, and less tool wear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University
    Inventors: John A. Patten, Hossein Mohammadi
  • Patent number: 10099333
    Abstract: A working machine comprising a working head (1) having a spindle (10) and which is movable in a xyz working space and further comprising a clamping device (2,3) for clamping pieces (100) to be worked by said machine. The clamping device (2,3) comprises first (21, 31) and second (22,32) clamping means which are movable along a z direction between a first operative position, in which they are in clamping contact with pieces (100) to be worked, and a second non-operative position, in which they are at a distance from said pieces (100), said first (21, 31) and second (22, 32) clamping means being fixed with respect to an xy working plane when in said first operative position and being movable together with said working head (1) in said xy working plane when in said second non-operative position, said first (21, 31) and second (22, 32) clamping means being alternatively moved between said first and second position during a working cycle of said working machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Belotti S.p.A.
    Inventor: Luciano Belotti
  • Patent number: 9308666
    Abstract: A blocking arrangement for preventing the elevating table from moving includes a platform with four threaded stems extending downwardly from the underside of the platform. Each threaded stem has a threaded member and a chain wheel screwed thereon. A chain is trained about the four chain wheels so as to drive the chain wheels and the threaded members to elevate the elevating table. A brake wheel is securely mounted to the chain wheel of one of the threaded stems. The blocking arrangement includes a stop block which is movably connected beneath the elevating table so as to be in contact with the brake wheel to set the predetermined height of the elevating table to prevent any movement due to vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Inventor: Ben Yu
  • Patent number: 9162367
    Abstract: A system and a method of using the system for reproducibly cutting a cove using a table saw are presented. The system comprises a first fence assembly and a fixturing means, where the fence assembly is rotatably affixed to the fixturing means, wherein the fixturing means can be releasably secured to the table of the table saw. The method comprises providing a blank molding, a table saw having a table and saw blade, and the cove system and releasably affixing the cove system to the table. The method further comprises setting a fence angle using the first fence assembly and setting a fence depth by adjusting the position of the fixturing means with respect to the table. The method finally comprises feeding the blank molding over the saw blade thereby cutting a cove in the blank molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: The New Guilds, LLC
    Inventors: Ted Williams, Brian Kelly
  • Patent number: 8485766
    Abstract: A rotary cutter lifting apparatus comprising a table plate having an opening and an upper surface, a carriage disposed beneath the table plate and adapted for supporting the rotary cutter, and an adjustment mechanism positioned entirely below the table plate upper surface and operable through the opening. A method of operating a rotary cutter lifting apparatus comprising the steps of positioning the rotary cutter lifting apparatus having a carriage and an adjustment mechanism entirely below a table plate upper surface having an opening, and operating the adjustment mechanism through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Woodpeckers, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard M. Hummel
  • Patent number: 8430141
    Abstract: A fixture includes a router guide portion having a router support surface and a workpiece support surface, a drill guide portion having a drill bit member, an opening adjacent the router guide portion and the drill guide portion for accepting a workpiece, and a clamping portion. The clamping portion includes a clamping member for securing the workpiece to the router guide portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Inventor: Mark D. Garnett
  • Publication number: 20130000783
    Abstract: A blocking arrangement for preventing the elevating table from moving includes a platform with four threaded stems extending downwardly from the underside of the platform. Each threaded stem has a threaded member and a chain wheel screwed thereon. A chain is trained about the four chain wheels so as to drive the chain wheels and the threaded members to elevate the elevating table. A brake wheel is securely mounted to the chain wheel of one of the threaded stems. The blocking arrangement includes a stop block which is movably connected beneath the elevating table so as to be in contact with the brake wheel to set the predetermined height of the elevating table to prevent any movement due to vibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventor: Ben Yu
  • Patent number: 8282323
    Abstract: A rotary cutter lifting apparatus comprising a table plate having an opening and an upper surface, a carriage disposed beneath the table plate and adapted for supporting the rotary cutter, and an adjustment mechanism positioned entirely below the table plate upper surface and operable through the opening. A method of operating a rotary cutter lifting apparatus comprising the steps of positioning the rotary cutter lifting apparatus having a carriage and an adjustment mechanism entirely below a table plate upper surface having an opening, and operating the adjustment mechanism through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Woodpeckers, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard M. Hummel
  • Patent number: 8066039
    Abstract: An apparatus cuts rail ends for cabinet doors. Infeed and outfeed carriages are reciprocally movable along spaced apart tracks, and a transverse carriage is reciprocally moveable between the tracks. An arbor between the tracks supports and rotates a cutter. Clamps on the carriages selectively clamp a workpiece, so a workpiece clamped to the infeed carriage is carried past the arbor to cut an end of the workpiece, transferred to the transverse carriage, carried a desired distance towards the outfeed carriage, clamped to the outfeed carriage, carried past the arbor again to cut a second end of the workpiece, and released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Inventor: Kevin J. Arvin
  • Patent number: 8021090
    Abstract: A router lift adjustment mechanism for an inverted router (50, 52) mounted to a router table (92) comprising an assortment of attachments (98a, 98b, 98c, 98d) that engage the height adjustment mechanism of various types routers. The routers height adjustment mechanism, the attachment (98), a flexible attachment holder (100), a driving shaft (104), and a rotatable adjustment mechanism, typically a hand wheel (122) are contiguously coupled respectfully. The driving shaft is retained by a rocker drive guide (112) providing the driving shaft (104) the ability to rotate and slide to and fro within the bore of a bushing (114) lined rocker drive guide (112). Additionally, the rocker drive guide (112) hinges pivotably on the base mount (128) which is typically mounted to a stable surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Inventor: Thomas Joseph Kochanowicz
  • Publication number: 20110222981
    Abstract: A router table clamp system for attaching a router to a router table, wherein the system includes a first plate that is fixed with respect to the router table, a second plate that is configured to cooperate with the first plate to enable the router to be removably attached to the router table, and a clamping mechanism configured and arranged to move the second plate with respect to the first plate between a locked position and an unlocked position, wherein when the clamping mechanism is in the locked position, the router is securely attached to the router table. The clamping mechanism also includes a lever assembly configured and arranged to move the second plate in a locking direction and an unlocking direction, which directions are both generally coincident with a plane defined by the second plate, wherein the locking direction is opposite of the unlocking direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: John Charles Derler, Creighton Wade Nachtigall, Hagen Walter Dost, Juan Javier Ibarra Sandoval, Patrick Michael McAuliffe, Bobby Brent Boyd
  • Patent number: 8002504
    Abstract: A router lift adjustment mechanism for an inverted router (50, 52) mounted to a router table (92) comprising an assortment of attachments, FIG. 9 (98a, 98b, 98c, 98d) that engage the height adjustment mechanism of various types of routers. The routers height adjustment mechanism, the attachment's (98a, 98b, 98c, 98d), a flexible attachment holder (100), a driving shaft (104), and a rotatable adjustment mechanism, typically a hand wheel (122) are contiguously coupled respectively. The driving shaft is retained by a rocker drive guide (112) providing the driving shaft (104) the ability to rotate and slide to and fro within the bore of a bushing (114) lined within the rocker drive guide (112). Additionally, the rocker drive guide (112) hinges pivotably on the base mount (128) which is typically mounted to a stable surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Inventor: Thomas Joseph Kochanowicz
  • Patent number: 7997308
    Abstract: A wood working machine includes a mounting plate assembly for supporting a cutting tool, the assembly including a base plate, first and second intermediate plates on the base plate, and first and second guide plate elements pivotally supported on the intermediate plates, and a cutting tool support plate slidably disposed between the guide plate elements, the guide plate elements being positionable at angular intervals with respect to the intermediate plates, whereby the cutting tool support plate is slidably movable on the base plate between the guide plate elements at a prescribed angle. The mounting plate assembly may include laser sources providing crossed laser beams for positioning the tool bit of the cutting tool near a work piece, and light sources for illuminating the tool bit. A digital sensor may be included for positioning of the work piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Inventor: Lewis E. Stepp
  • Patent number: 7882866
    Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus that works a work piece that employs routers disposed on opposite upper and lower sides of a table. The routers operate on opposite sides of a work piece contemporaneously. The resultant work piece may be worked so as to be uniform and identical with previously and successively worked work pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Woodmaster Tools, Inc.
    Inventor: Lloyd Pulsifer Burrows
  • Patent number: 7857019
    Abstract: A system for cutting a profile along a linear edge of a wooden workpiece utilizes two spaced-apart rotatable cutting tools which are mounted for rotation in opposite rotational directions and a support surface for supporting the workpiece for movement along each of the two cutting tools. By positioning the workpiece upon the support surface so that the linear edge thereof extends between the two cutting tools, the workpiece can be moved into cutting engagement with a first of the cutting tools and subsequently into cutting engagement with the second of the cutting tools. By subsequently reversing the movement of the workpiece along the first cutting tool before the cutting edges thereof exit a trailing (side) edge of the workpiece, the likelihood that the workpiece will be damaged from the profile-forming process is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Inventor: Phillip Freeman Willis
  • Patent number: 7785049
    Abstract: A fastening device (61) for fastening a hand router to the underside of a work platform (2) of a workbench (1) has radially outwardly extending projections which are associated with a base ring for the hand router and which may be introduced into associated fastening pockets by rotating the base ring in the work platform (2). The fastening pockets can be formed by fastening members (12) associated with the underside (2?) of the work platform (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Wolfcraft GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Radermacher
  • Publication number: 20100043923
    Abstract: An apparatus cuts rail ends for cabinet doors. Infeed and outfeed carriages are reciprocally movable along spaced apart tracks, and a transverse carriage is reciprocally moveable between the tracks. An arbor between the tracks supports and rotates a cutter. Clamps on the carriages selectively clamp a workpiece, so a workpiece clamped to the infeed carriage is carried past the arbor to cut an end of the workpiece, transferred to the transverse carriage, carried a desired distance towards the outfeed carriage, clamped to the outfeed carriage, carried past the arbor again to cut a second end of the workpiece, and released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventor: KEVIN J. ARVIN
  • Publication number: 20090145521
    Abstract: A power tool includes a motor assembly, a base assembly, and a clamp assembly coupled to the motor assembly or the base assembly to selectively provide a retention force to the other to removably couple the motor assembly and the base assembly. The clamp assembly includes a handle member, a fulcrum member, and a biasing lever member. The lever member includes a first portion and a second portion disposed on opposite sides of the fulcrum member. The handle member is coupled to the first portion, and the handle member is movable between an open and closed position. The handle member rotates the first and second portions of the biasing lever member about the fulcrum member when moving from the open to the closed position, causing the second portion of the lever member to provide the retention force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: The Black & Decker Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel P. Wall, Craig A. Carroll
  • Patent number: 7509984
    Abstract: A power tool and accessories therefor including a variable speed motor for a mortiser, an integrated chisel positioning tool for positioning a chisel in a desired position, and an integrated tool sharpening device mounted directly on the power tool to permit ease and efficiency in the sharpening of tools. Additionally, an improved clamping arrangement is provided that permits firm clamping of a work piece without slippage. Greater flexibility in the hold down may be achieved by using arms for the hold down that are both rotatable about and can be translated along respective horizontal axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: WMH Tool Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Barry M. Schwaiger, William J. Phillips
  • Publication number: 20090056833
    Abstract: A router table comprises a table top, a bit mount, and a drive train. The bit mount is configured to hold a router bit such that the router bit extends from the table top defining a bit axis. The drive train is positioned under the table top and is operably connected between the bit mount and a drive coupling. The drive coupling is configured to engage a driven member, with the drive coupling defining a drive axis that is not coaxial with the bit axis. The driven member may be provided by a drive bit on a portable router secured to the table top. Operation of the portable router results in rotation of the driven member. Rotation of the driven member and associated drive coupling operates the drive train and results in rotation of the bit mount and associated router bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicants: Credo Technology Corporation, Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Carl Alexander Cepress, Bobby Brent Boyd, John Charles Derler, Stefanie Danielle Reynolds, Carl Christian Carlson
  • Publication number: 20090050236
    Abstract: A plunge router and kit are provided. In some aspects, a kit includes a first router base, a second router base, a motor assembly, and a depth adjustment mechanism at least partially supported by the motor assembly. The motor assembly is interchangeably supported by the first and second router bases. The depth adjustment mechanism adjusts a depth of cut of a tool element relative to the router base on which it is supported. The motor assembly may also be inserted into and supported by the first and second router bases along a substantially linear path. In other aspects, a depth of cut of a plunge router is finely adjustable. The depth of cut may also be coarsely adjustable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Troy C. Thorson, Andrew J. Weber
  • Publication number: 20090050235
    Abstract: Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to one example embodiment, a router table may comprise a table top, a mounting can, a sleeve, and an adjustment mechanism. The table top may have an aperture and a plurality of support members; the support members may be configured to support the table top. The mounting can may be attachable to the table top in a vicinity of the aperture. The sleeve may be engaged to the mounting can, and may be configured to receive a router and to position a router bit of the router along an axis extending through the aperture. The adjustment mechanism may be configured to move the sleeve within the mounting can and relative to the table top to thereby move the router along the axis and position the router bit at one of a plurality of positions relative to the table top.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Sommerville, Sean Hill, Anthony Smith
  • Patent number: 7434604
    Abstract: A jig apparatus for aiding in the formation of a variety of mechanically interconnecting structures or joints in workpieces. The jig apparatus may include a base and a template mounting system for adjustably positioning a template with respect to the base. A securing system for securing a workpiece in a desired position may be included. The jig apparatus may also include a repeatable template positioning system. Additionally, a quick-change template guide system may be used with a router and template for removing material from a workpiece. A router bit positioning system for aiding in establishing a pre-determined bit depth may be included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Steven D. McDaniel, Harold Duggin
  • Publication number: 20080210337
    Abstract: Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to one example embodiment, a router table may comprise a table top, a mounting can, a sleeve, and an adjustment mechanism. The table top may have an aperture and a plurality of support members; the support members may be configured to support the table top. The mounting can may be attachable to the table top in a vicinity of the aperture. The sleeve may be engaged to the mounting can, and may be configured to receive a router and to position a router bit of the router along an axis extending through the aperture. The adjustment mechanism may be configured to move the sleeve within the mounting can and relative to the table top to thereby move the router along the axis and position the router bit at one of a plurality of positions relative to the table top.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Sommerville, Sean Hill, Anthony Smith
  • Publication number: 20080115855
    Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus that works a work piece that employs routers disposed on opposite upper and lower sides of a table. The routers operate on opposite sides of a work piece contemporaneously. The resultant work piece may be worked so as to be uniform and identical with previously and successively worked work pieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: WOODMASTER TOOLS, INC.
    Inventor: Lloyd Pulsifer BURROWS
  • Patent number: 7290574
    Abstract: A support fixture for a hand-held power tool includes a base plate and a guide plate assembly supported for movement relative to the base plate to bring the working end of the power tool into contact with a workpiece on which the base plate is supported. The guide plate assembly includes a tool support housing configured for supporting the body of the power tool, and an overthrow nut assembly for threaded engagement with a threaded portion of the power tool adjacent the working end of the tool. The fixture includes a guide bushing that is top-loaded into a bushing collar defined in the base plate, in which the guide bushing is configured to engage a template supported on the workpiece. A threaded plug holds the guide bushing within the bushing collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Credo Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Brad M. Baber
  • Patent number: 7273080
    Abstract: A support fixture for a hand-held power tool includes a base plate and a guide plate assembly supported for movement relative to the base plate to bring the working end of the power tool into contact with a workpiece on which the base plate is supported. The guide plate assembly includes a tool support housing configured for supporting the body of the power tool, and an overthrow nut assembly for threaded engagement with a threaded portion of the power tool adjacent the working end of the tool. The fixture includes a guide bushing that is top-loaded into a bushing collar defined in the base plate, in which the guide bushing is configured to engage a template supported on the workpiece. A threaded plug holds the guide bushing within the bushing collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Credo Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Brad M. Baber
  • Patent number: 7207753
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for shaping an edge of a tile. The preferred embodiment enables an operator to place a tile between an elevator and a reference plate. The operator snugs the edge of the tile up against a reference plate, and causes the elevator to press the tile towards the reference plate. The reference plate and the elevator are coupled with a transporter. The transporter is moved to maintain the tile in contact the guide surface, whereby the edge is placed into an edge shaping zone of a shaping tool, such as a router bit or a saw. Two or more shaping tools may be placed in series along the guide surface whereby the edge may be successively shaped by each shaping tool in a two or multi-stage process. A motor and a lead screw or a chain may be used to move the transporter and tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Inventors: Dennis C Stoscher, Enrique Rayon
  • Patent number: 7131473
    Abstract: A coping bit capable of being easily modified to cut profiles having tenons of varying lengths is provided. The coping bit includes an axially extending primary drive shaft and a first cutting member fixed on the primary drive shaft. An axially extending secondary drive shaft having an upper and a lower portion is removably mounted on the primary drive shaft for rotation therewith, and a second cutting member is mounted on the secondary drive shaft in spaced relation to the first cutting member when the secondary drive shaft is mounted to the primary drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Freud America, Inc.
    Inventor: James M. Brewer
  • Patent number: 7131470
    Abstract: A table with a working surface has a parallel rail on each side of the working surface. A slide assembly includes a shaft with ends and a pair of brackets. Each bracket has a hole. The holes receive the ends of the shaft. The slide assembly includes cylindrical tunnels. The tunnels slidably receive the rails. An operating assembly has primary and secondary arms. Each arm has a free exterior end and an interior portion. The interior portion is coupled to the shaft. A router is secured to, and depends from, the free end of the secondary arm. Control mechanisms include a scribe. The scribe is secured to, and depends from, the free end of the primary arm. Movement of the primary arm and scribe with respect to a template will cause corresponding movement of the secondary arm and router with respect to work pieces to be routed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Inventor: James Sommers
  • Patent number: 7108463
    Abstract: A support mechanism for selectively mounting a fixed base or plunge type router on a router table comprises a table plate having top and bottom sides and an opening therethrough having an opening axis, and a carriage beneath the table plate for supporting a router coaxial with the opening axis. Guide posts slidably support the carriage for axial displacement toward and away from the table plate, and adjusting screws rotatable relative to the table plate interengage with the carriage for rotation of the screws to displace the carriage relative to the table plate. The carriage includes a pair of carriage blocks interengaging with the guide posts and adjusting screws, and a router mounting plate which is removably mounted on the carriage blocks. The router mounting plate is provided with a plurality of sets of mounting holes, and each set is for mounting a different model router on the table plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Inventor: Richard M. Hummel
  • Patent number: 6948892
    Abstract: A lift mechanism for a plunge router mounted on the underside of a router table comprises an adjusting screw extending vertically beneath the table and being rotatable relative to the table from the top side thereof, and a lift arm threadedly engaged with the screw and having an end spaced from the screw and interconnected with the router, whereby rotation of the screw displaces the router relative to the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Inventor: Richard M. Hummel
  • Patent number: 6881018
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for shaping an edge of a tile. The preferred embodiment enables an operator to place a tile between an elevator and a reference plate. The operator snugs the edge of the tile up against a reference plate, and causes the elevator to press the tile towards the reference plate. The reference plate and the elevator are coupled with a transporter. The transporter is moved to maintain the tile in contact the guide surface, whereby the edge is placed into an edge shaping zone of a shaping tool, such as a router bit or a saw. Two or more shaping tools may be placed in series along the guide surface whereby the edge may be successively shaped by each shaping tool in a two or multi-stage process. A motor and a lead screw or a chain may be used to move the transporter and tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Inventors: Dennis C. Stoscher, Enrique Rayon
  • Patent number: 6880595
    Abstract: A radial overarm router includes a machine base with a work surface, a vertical column, a bearing housing, a slide assembly, and a carriage subassembly. The bearing housing is mounted to, and may rotate about, the vertical column. The slide assembly mounts to the bearing housing and in combination with the bearing housing, the slide assembly has transnational and rotational motion relative to the column. The slide assembly includes a carriage subassembly that houses a router. The carriage subassembly is configured to allow pivotal and vertical or plunge type motion of the router. The carriage subassembly further provides for transverse movement of the router. Locking knobs and adjustable limit stops are provided for all directions of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Inventor: Bart A. Nuss
  • Patent number: 6859988
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a compact, low-cost, lightweight, versatile and easy-to-operate, processor-controlled carving and multi-purpose shaping device (“PCCMPS machine”). The PCCMPS machine that represents one embodiment of the present invention is configured, in part, similarly to common, commercially available portable wood planers and ubiquitous laser and ink-jet computer printers, with work pieces fed into the PCCMPS machine in a horizontal direction. The PCCMPS machine includes a motor-powered cutting head that can power detachable bits to drill, cut, shape, and rout a work piece under processor and computer control. The cutting head may be translated, under processor control, back and forth across the surface of the work piece in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the work piece is fed into the PCCMPS machine and moved by motor-powered rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: LHR Technologies
    Inventors: Christopher Scott Lovchik, James David Jochim, Dennis Girard Lawler
  • Patent number: 6792984
    Abstract: Devices and systems for adjustably positioning a router on a work surface such as a router table are disclosed. A router lift in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a top plate having an opening therethrough adapted to receive a router bit, one or more columns extending from the bottom surface of the top plate, a router housing operatively coupled to the one or more columns, and a power screw threadably connected through the top plate and housing. The housing may include a generally circular portion defining a cylindrical aperture that can be adjusted to accommodate for various router sizes. The housing may also include cooling fins to dissipate heat generated from the router. A calibration dial having a scale that can be used to measure elevation of the router and router bit relative to the top plate may also be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Bench Dog, Inc.
    Inventor: Norston Fontaine
  • Patent number: 6752572
    Abstract: A circle cutting accessory for use with a generally cylindrical powered rotary hand tool with an output shaft at one end thereof, the tool having a second accessory attached to the one end, with the second accessory having at its distal end an outwardly extending flange with a first predetermined diameter around a substantial portion of the circumference thereof, the circle cutting accessory including a generally flat housing for receiving and supporting the second accessory and the rotary hand tool. The housing has an upper support surface with an aperture through which a cutting tool attached to the output shaft can pass. The circle cutting accessory further includes a generally horizontal elongated arm mounted to the housing and extends outwardly from the housing. A circle center and sizing elongated member is slidably attached to the arm and has a centering pin extending downwardly therefrom at one end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: S-B Power Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Mark S. Talesky, Robert D. Pjevach
  • Patent number: 6742558
    Abstract: A holding device for holding a tool includes a holding block having a central opening formed from a stack of laminated members secured together. The block includes holes extending away from the central opening. A pair of support plates are secured to the block and are secured at right angles to one another. Key hole slots are in one of the support members and have a first bore containing a slug and a second bore at right angles thereto. A threaded member extends through the other of the support members, through the second bore, and is threaded into the slug within the first bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Witt Family Partnership, L.P.
    Inventor: Bradley R. Witt
  • Publication number: 20030159758
    Abstract: A stand is made up of two channel shaped sides. There is a removable top that has holes drilled in it so a router with router bits of different diameters and shapes, such as round-nosed and straight router bits or heads, can be attached. There is a removable wood guide having a front with two wood guide sides attached to it. The electric router is the power source for the cutter. The round nose bit cuts the wood ends to form tenons of different diameters and shapes, such as radius, chamfered (tapered) or square-shouldered tenons. The top will be a flat surface with holes that will support a router and attach to the sides. The two channel shaped sides will include holes for attaching a top, securing it to a work bench, and attaching wood guides. The fronts will have different diameter holes, and will attach to wood guide sides. The wood guide sides will have a slot where a bolt can pass through to attach wood guides to channel sides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventor: Leslie G. Smith
  • Publication number: 20030136466
    Abstract: A radial overarm router includes a machine base with a work surface, a vertical column, a bearing housing, a slide assembly, and a carriage subassembly. The bearing housing is mounted to, and may rotate about, the vertical column. The slide assembly mounts to the bearing housing and in combination with the bearing housing, the slide assembly has transnational and rotational motion relative to the column. The slide assembly includes a carriage subassembly that houses a router. The carriage subassembly is configured to allow pivotal and vertical or plunge type motion of the router. The carriage subassembly further provides for transverse movement of the router. Locking knobs and adjustable limit stops are provided for all directions of movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventor: Bart A. Nuss
  • Patent number: 6588468
    Abstract: A machine for use with a table-mounted router to form a wide variety of woodworking joints by manipulating a workpiece to engage the router cutter in predetermined locations, in some instances by reference to a joint element template, and in other instances by reference to predetermined lateral locations, to form joint elements with predetermined shapes and spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Lee Valley Tools Ltd.
    Inventors: Edwin C. Tucker, Brent K. Hyde
  • Patent number: 6568442
    Abstract: The invention is for a method for removing at least a portion of a floorboard from a plurality of floorboards installed on a surface base. The method comprises isolating the floorboard or portion thereof for removal and removing a central portion of the isolated floorboard so as to leave a pair of elongate lateral strips, a pair of end portions and a substantially central open space. A routing bit having a shaft and a blade portion is then located such that the blade portion is parallel to, and cuts in, the same plane as the surface base on which the floorboard is installed. The blade is placed beneath the lateral strips and/or end portions so as to remove all material between a lower surface of the floorboard and the base upon which it is installed. The invention is also for a routing bit for removing a floorboard from the base upon which it is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Inventor: Joseph Anthony Meugniot