Tabletop cutting machine
AssigneeMakita Corporation
InventorsYuki Miwa, Goh Yamamura
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Abstract
An easily operable, highly durable cutting machine finely adjusts the miter angle of a turntable. A cutting machine includes a turntable supported in a manner rotatable horizontally to a base and including a substantially disk-shaped table body to receive a workpiece and a table extension protruding forward from the table body, a cutting machine body located above the turntable and connected in a manner swingable vertically to the turntable, and a fine angle adjuster that adjusts a rotation angle of the turntable with respect to the base and including a rack on the base, a pinion located in the table body within an area of the table body as viewed from above and engageable with the rack directly or indirectly, and an operation part operable to rotate the pinion.
Claims19
A cutting machine, comprising:
- a base;
- a rotation support shaft;
- a turntable (i) supported in a manner rotatable horizontally to the base around the rotation support shaft and (ii) including
- a substantially disk-shaped table body configured to receive a workpiece, and
- a table extension protruding forward from the table body;
- a cutting machine body above the turntable and connected in a manner swingable vertically to the turntable;
- and
- a fine angle adjuster configured to adjust a rotation angle of the turntable with respect to the base, the fine angle adjuster including
- a rack on the base,
- a pinion that (i) overlaps the table body as viewed from above and (ii) is configured to engage the rack, and
- a rotational shaft (i) including an operation part that is configured to rotate the pinion and (ii) extending parallel to the rotation support shaft,
- wherein the pinion is coaxial with the rotational shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.