Work piece Guide for Woodworking Machines
OwnerKelvin Craig Broderseninventor
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Abstract
An improved design for a featherboard. The featherboard exerts lateral pressure against a work piece, keeping it pressed against a guide fence of a power tool for improved accuracy of cut. The featherboard consists of a bracket, which can be fixed to and removed from the worktable without tools. It has one or more attachment posts. The bracket also has a guide that accepts a featherboard arm that can be locked in place with a locking knob when it is in the desired position. At the end of the featherboard arm is one or more flexible plates with guide marks. When the featherboard arm is properly positioned the flexible plate(s) is/are pressed into the work piece to hold the work piece against the guide fence and to prevent kick back of the work piece by the saw.
Claims21
A work piece guide for woodworking machines having a worktable comprising:
- a) a rigid featherboard arm having a proximate end and a distal end and a length, said featherboard arm also having a slot formed in said distal end;
- b) a flexible plate, being generally rectangular and being removably installed in the slot formed in the said featherboard arm;
- c) a means for temporarily securing said flexible plate in said slot of said featherboard arm;
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- d) a means for temporarily securing said featherboard arm to said worktable.
A work piece guide for woodworking machines having a worktable comprising:
- a) a rigid featherboard arm having a proximate end and a distal end and a length, said featherboard arm also having a slot formed in said distal end;
- b) a plurality of flexible plates, being generally rectangular and being removably installed in the slot formed in the said featherboard arm;
- c) a means for temporarily securing said plurality of flexible plates in said slot of said featherboard arm;
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- d) a means for temporarily securing said featherboard arm to said worktable.
A work piece guide for woodworking machines having a worktable comprising:
- a) a rigid featherboard arm having a proximate end and a distal end and a length, said featherboard arm also having a first slot formed in said distal end and a second slot formed in said distal end, being spaced apart from said first slot;
- b) a first flexible plate, being generally rectangular and being removably installed in said first slot formed in the said featherboard arm;
- c) a second flexible plate, being generally rectangular and being removably installed in said second slot formed in the said featherboard arm;
- d) a means for temporarily securing said flexible plate in said slot of said featherboard arm;
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- e) a means for temporarily securing said featherboard arm to said worktable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.