Method for machining drawers of an article of furniture
AssigneeGulfstream Aerospace Corporation
InventorsRonald Fink, Blake Porto, Mark Prince
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Abstract
A method for machining a plurality of surfaces of a respective plurality of drawers in an article of furniture includes mounting the article of furniture to a support structure to form a work piece, positioning the work piece on a base of a vertical gantry router in an orientation such that the plurality of surfaces are generally perpendicular to a cutting head of the vertical gantry router, and machining the plurality of surfaces with the vertical gantry router until the plurality of surfaces are substantially flat and substantially coplanar with one another.
Claims20
A method for machining a plurality of surfaces of a respective plurality of drawers of an article of furniture, the method comprising the steps of:
- mounting a side of the article of furniture to a support structure to form a work piece;
- positioning the work piece on a base of a vertical gantry router in an orientation such that the plurality of surfaces are generally perpendicular to a cutting head of the vertical gantry router;
- moving each drawer of the respective plurality of drawers relative to the side of the article of furniture to an extended position such that the plurality of surfaces are generally aligned with one another in a single plane;
- fixing each of the drawers in the extended position to define the drawers in fixed, extended positions relative to the side of the article of furniture;
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- machining the plurality of surfaces of the drawers in the fixed, extended positions with the vertical gantry router until the plurality of surfaces are substantially flat and substantially coplanar with one another.
A method for machining a plurality of surfaces of a respective plurality of drawers of an article of furniture, the method comprising the steps of:
- mounting a pair of side plates to opposite sides of the article of furniture to form a work piece, each side plate having a forward edge and a bottom edge that are substantially square to one another;
- positioning the work piece on a base of a vertical gantry router, the base being substantially square to a cutting head of the vertical gantry router, the work piece being supported on the base by a bottom surface of each side plate of the pair of side plates;
- indexing the work piece with respect to the cutting head;
- extending each drawer of the respective plurality of drawers relative to the opposite sides of the article of furniture to an extended position such that each surface of the plurality of surfaces is generally planer with each other surface of the plurality of surfaces;
- fixing each drawer of the plurality of drawers in the extended position to define the drawers in fixed, extended positions relative to the opposite sides of the article of furniture;
- machining each surface of the plurality of surfaces of the drawers in the fixed, extended positions until each surface is substantially flat and substantially coplanar with each of the other surfaces of the plurality of surfaces.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.