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US 4,050,194 AGranted
Multi-angle sander
OwnerJessie A. Riceinventor
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Abstract
A multi-angle sander for accurately sanding the corners of picture frame moldings and the like having a stand structure supporting a rotatable multi-element sanding disk with adjustable guide brackets on said table for the purpose of guiding the material being sanded at the correct angle to the rotating sanding disk. Motor means mounted within the stand drive the rotatable disk and suction means also provided within the stand remove sawdust particles as rapidly as they are produced.
Claims5
A multi-angle sander device comprising;
- a support structure, a removable top member on said support structure having a longitudinal aperture therein, a rotatably drive mounted within said support structure, sander means mounted on said rotatable drive and passing through said aperture for sanding angles on workpieces and running cool and not burning, and adjustable guide means mounted on the top member for guiding workpieces being sanded at the proper angle to the sanding means, the adjustable guide means includes at least one rectangular guide plate member pivotally mounted perpendicular to the surface of the top member and having a slotted adjusting flange integral therewith, and the adjustable guide means includes two of the pivotally mounted rectangular guide plate members and further includes an enlarged head locking screw guidingly mounted in the slot of the flanged member of each of the rectangular guide plate members and engaging with a screw-threaded member fastened in the removable top member for the purpose of positively locking the rectangular guide plate members once they are adjusted, and additional flat triangular shaped guide plates which complement the pivotally mounted rectangular guide plate members, said flat triangular shaped guide plates having adjusting apertures therein and being adjustably locked to the top member by enlarged head locking screws.
A sander device for sanding multi-angle ends on workpieces comprising;
- a substantially cubical support structure having a removable top member, a longitudinal aperture in said top member, a drive motor mounted within said support structure, a pulley on said drive motor, a bearing arbor supported within said support structure and connected to the pulley on the drive motor by a drive belt and pulley on said arbor, a sanding disk means mounted on the other end of said arbor and passing through the aperture in the removable top member, adjustable guide means mounted on the top surface of the removable for maintaining a desired angle of sanding, at least four slotted brackets attached to the underside of the removable top member and held by nuts and bolts to the substantially cubical support structure, and sawdust removing means associated with the substantially cubical support structure which is adapted to utilize the conventional home vacuum cleaner, the sanding disk means for cool sanding of workpieces including a Masonite disk of approximately one-fourth inch in thickness suitably coated with sanding material on at least one surface thereof, the adjustable guide means mounted on the removable top including two pivotally mounted rectangular guide members having adjusting flanges perpendicular to the guide members integral therewith an arcuate slots in said adjusting flanges, said adjusting flanges slidable along the top surface of the top and adjustably retained in position thereon by locking screws, and additional guide means which includes two flat triangular shaped guide members having arcuate corners and each said plate being provided with a longitudinal slot for permitting the guide plates to be slid and rotated on the top surface of the removable top and positively retained in adjusted position by means of large head locking screws.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.