Microstop Setting Station
OwnerLeroy K. Leoinventor
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Abstract
An assembly for translating extensions of a microstop's bit to other microstop bits, wherein the microstop has a shank, a first platen, and bit cutting end which is alternatively extendable from and retractable toward the first platen, the assembly incorporating a frame; a second platen having a port which is fitted for through extensions of the bit cutting end; a contact member; a spring biased slide shaft for positioning the contact member beneath the port at a first position, the slide shaft being adapted for, upon an extension of the bit cutting end from the first platen, engaging the contact member and moving the contact member to a second position; the assembly further incorporating a linear encoder mounted to the frame for measuring displacements of the contact member between the first and second positions.
Claims18
An assembly for translating an extension of a first microstop countersink bit to second microstop countersink bit extensions, the first microstop having a shank, a first platen having a contact surface, and a bit having a cutting end alternatively extendable from and retractable toward said contact surface, said assembly comprising:
- (a) a frame having a microstop end;
- (b) a second platen having a contact surface, the second platen being supported at the frame's microstop end, the second platen having a port fitted for, upon a contact of the first platen's contact surface with the second platen's contact surface and upon the extension of the bit's cutting end from the first platen's contact surface, receiving the bit's cutting end;
- (c) a contact member;
- (d) means for positioning the contact member at a first position, said means being adapted for, upon the extension of the bit's cutting end from the first platen's contact surface, engaging the bit's cutting end at a contact point, said means being further adapted for permitting movement of the contact member toward a second position;
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- (e) means for measuring a displacement of the contact member from the first position to the second position, said means being connected operatively to the contact member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.