Hand-held power tool having a height adjustment device
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorFlorian Bantle
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Abstract
A hand-held power tool, more particularly a router, includes (i) a housing in which a drive unit for driving an insertion tool is disposed; (ii) a base plate for guiding the hand-held power tool on a workpiece surface, the base plate being height-adjustable on the housing, and the base plate having an opening, through which the insertion tool at least partly extends; and (iii) a height adjustment device for setting a working height of the base plate on the housing relative to the insertion tool. A setting aid is provided which allows height adjustment of a bottom of the base plate by way of the height adjustment device such that said bottom is flush with a predefined cutting edge of the insertion tool.
Claims6
A hand-held power tool, comprising:
- a drive unit configured to drive an insertion tool;
- a housing in which the drive unit is arranged;
- a base plate configured to guide the hand-held power tool on a workpiece surface, the base plate being height-adjustable on the housing, and the base plate having an opening through which the insertion tool can at least partly extend;
- a height adjustment device configured to adjust a working height of the base plate on the housing relative to the insertion tool;
- and
- a setting aid configured to facilitate a height adjustment of a bottom of the base plate by way of the height adjustment device such that said bottom is flush with a predefined cutting edge of the insertion tool,
- wherein:
- the setting aid is arranged on the bottom of the base plate at least in a setting position, in which setting position of the setting aid, the height adjustment is able to take place,
- the setting aid has a fastening section,
- the bottom of the base plate includes a receptacle,
- the fastening section is arranged in the receptacle when the setting aid is in the setting position, and
- the setting aid is pivotally arranged on the bottom of the base plate via the fastening section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.