Adjustable routing template
OwnerRay Arnold Lundquistinventor
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Abstract
An adjustable routing template for use with a routing tool in a manner allowing a craftsman to rout a variety of ornamental grooves and recesses on work pieces such as cabinets, doors and the like, the template consisting of a set of four identical bars for legs which are slidingly interconnected at opposite end portions thereof to define a frame type configuration for engaging corner edges of the work piece with the frame overlapping and lying parallel to the work piece to provide rigid guide edges in adjusted spaced relationship to the work piece for guiding the router thereover. Guide members are readily received in corners defined by adjacent bars to provide for the routing of a variety of ornamental designs on the work piece.
Claims7
An adjustable routing template for use in guiding a cutting tool, such as a router, for the routing of grooves, steps, ledges and the like in a work piece, such as a cabinet door, the template comprising, in combination:
- a set of four substantially identically constructed longitudinally elongated rigid bar members;
- means associated with each of said bar members for adjustably slidably interconnecting adjacentmost ones of said bar members to define said templates;
- a plurality of corner guide members, each guide member removably insertable into a corner defined between adjacentmost bar members for defining ornamental configurations to be routed with the template;
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- a plurality of corner stop members, each stop member removably insertable into a corner of said template in a manner not interfering with the placement of said corner guide members, each stop member adapted to engage a corner of a work piece to be routed for securely mounting said template in an overlapping manner on said work piece with said corner stop members engaging corner portions of said work piece.
An adjustable routing template for use in guiding a cutting tool, such as a router, for the routing of grooves, steps, ledges and the like in a work piece, such as a cabinet door, the template comprising, in combination:
- a set of four substantially identically constructed longitudinally elongated rigid bar members;
- means associated with each of said bar members for adjustably slidably interconnecting adjacentmost ones of said bar members to define said templates;
- each of said bar members comprising, in combination:
- a flat elongated generally rectangular body member having a flat horizontal top surface, a flat horizontal bottom surface, a flat vertically extending inner edge, an outer edge, a flat foot end, and a head end portion;
- a flat downwardly facing horizontally extending surface extending the complete length of said body member parallel to said top and bottom surfaces and disposed therebetween;
- an upper channel extending centrally of said inner edge completely between said foot end and said head end thereof and dividing said inner edge into a pair of vertically spaced apart parallelly extending upper guide surfaces;
- a vertically disposed longitudinally extending lower guide surface extending parallel to said upper guide surface and interconnecting said bottom surface with said flat downwardly facing surface;
- a lower channel disposed longitudinally in said lower guide surface adjacentmost said flat downwardly facing surface extending parallel to said upper channel completely between said foot end and said head end of said body member;
- an adjustment slot extending longitudinally through said top surface terminating inwardly of said head end and said foot end thereof and in communication with said flat downwardly facing surface;
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- a head end portion associated with said head end projecting outwardly therefrom to be slidingly received in said channels and abutting said guide surfaces of an adjacentmost one of said bar members to which it is to be slidingly mounted.
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