Improvements to router apparatus
AssigneePower Box AG
InventorsRobert Firth, Andrew Linton
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Abstract
A router power tool including a housing mounted to be moveable with respect to and spaced from a base, said housing including a motor to rotate a shaft which includes, at its free end, a tool holder for a cutting tool, said shaft extending from the housing such that the tool holder is located at or adjacent to the base and said housing is connected to the base by at least one extendable assembly. The power tool is selectively locatable with a guide plate via retaining means. The guide plate includes apertures for the receipt of retaining means to allow the power tool to be engaged therewith and datum tabs to contact with the power tool to ensure the accurate location of the power tool with the guide plate when held in position by the retaining means.
Claims11
A power tool comprising:
- a housing and a base, said housing mounted to be moveable with respect to and spaced from the base, said housing including a motor, connected to rotate a tool holder for a cutting tool, said tool holder located at or adjacent to the base and said housing connected to the base by at least one extendable assembly, said cutting tool provided to be movable through an aperture in the base to contact with and perform work on a workpiece located on the side of the base opposing the side at which the housing is located and said base locatable with a work surface or a guide plate component to act as a guide for the tool via at least one engagement means provided on the power tool and which is movable between a first, engaging, position and a second release position, said engagement means including a gripping portion which is provided with an internal threaded formation to receive a shaft with which a locating head is formed or attached, said locating head provided to be received in an aperture or passage formed on the guide plate or worksurface and the shaft passes through an aperture in the base and into the internal threaded formation of the gripping portion which is located on the opposite side of the base from the locating head wherein the shaft is formed as two parts, a first part in threaded engagement with said internal threaded formation and a second part in which said locating head is formed and said second part is in threaded engagement with the first part and the locating head is movable to a selected one of a number of positions by rotation of the said gripping portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.