Device for changing abrading products

A detacher to detach an abrading product from a gripping means of an abrading tool, the detacher comprising:

• a base;
• a table for receiving into contact the abrading product as mounted to the gripping means of the abrading tool, the abrading product having a thickness;
• one or more column arrangements connecting the base to the table;
• a blade adapted to penetrate in-between the abrading product and the gripping means of the abrading tool;
• and
• a mechanism to adjust a mutual distance (d) between the blade and a first face of the table to correspond to the thickness of the abrading product such that:
• said mechanism to adjust the mutual distance (d) comprises an actuator, wherein said mechanism to adjust the mutual distance (d) is operable to adjust the mutual distance (d) to at least two different values in an absence of the abrading product, and
• said mechanism to adjust the mutual distance (d) is arranged to operate such that the blade and the table remain in parallel planes over an entire surface area of the blade regardless of a magnitude of the mutual distance (d),
• wherein the one or more column arrangements are adapted to vary a second mutual distance (h), the second mutual distance (h) extending parallel to the mutual distance (d) and corresponding to a distance between the base and a second face of the table, the second face of the table being located opposite the first face of the table, and
• wherein at least one of the one or more column arrangements comprises:
• a hollow outer column,
• a telescopic inner column movably coupled within the outer column and capable of penetrating to inside the outer column, and
• one or more springs within the outer column that resist a penetrating movement of the inner column to inside of the outer column, whereby the one or more springs absorb an impact exerted by the abrading product onto the table.