Method and device for cutting staggered pockets
OwnerMax W. DURNEYinventor
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Abstract
A pocket-cutting device routs staggered pockets in elongated joinery member. The pocket-cutting device includes a base having a worktop, a clamp assembly for clamping the joinery member to the worktop, a router assembly for routing the pockets in the joinery member, a drill assembly for drilling bores in the joinery member, and a guide mounted in the worktop dimensioned and configured to position the joinery member in first and second positions relative to the router assembly for routing first and second pockets and first and second bores in the joinery member at staggered positions. A method of using the staggered pockets is also disclosed.
Claims20
A pocket-cutting device for routing staggered pockets in an elongated joinery member having a longitudinal groove, the pocket-cutting device comprising:
- a base including a worktop for supporting the joinery member, and including an end stop against which an end of the joinery member abuts to longitudinally position the joinery member;
- a router assembly movably mounted relative to the worktop between recessed and routing positions, the router assembly including a router having a router bit for routing the pockets in the joinery member when the end abuts against the end stop and the router assembly is moved to the routing position;
- a clamp assembly for clamping the joinery member to the worktop, the clamp assembly including a clamp foot and a clamp actuator for moving the clamp foot relative to the worktop;
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- a guide mounted in the worktop dimensioned and configured to position the joinery member in first and second positions relative to the router assembly for routing first and second pockets in the joinery member having staggered positions relative to a bottom surface of the joinery member.
A pocket-cutting method for routing staggered pockets in an elongated joinery member having a longitudinal groove, the pocket-cutting method comprising:
- securing the joinery member with a guide in a first position relative to a router assembly for routing a first pocket in the joinery member;
- routing the first pocket in the joinery member by moving a router of the router assembly from a recessed position to a routing position;
- securing joinery member on the guide in a second position relative to the router assembly for routing a second pocket in the joinery member;
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- routing the second pocket in the joinery by moving the router from the recessed position to the routing position;
- wherein first and second pockets in the joinery member having staggered positions relative to a bottom surface of the joinery member.
A joinery member comprising:
- an elongated member including top and bottom surfaces, opposing first and second edges, and an end, the elongated member further including a longitudinal groove in the bottom surface extending between the first and second edges;
- first and second pockets routed in the bottom surface of the elongated member, wherein the first and second pockets in the joinery member have staggered positions relative to a bottom surface of the joinery member;
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- first and second bores drilled in the end of the elongated member, each bore extending from the end to a respective one of the first and second pockets, wherein the first and second bores in the joinery member have staggered positions relative to a bottom surface of the joinery member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.