Cutting torch guide
OwnerRobert E. Cruzan, IIinventor
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Abstract
A screw operated cutting torch guide comprising an upward opening channel or other suitable structural member that is closed at its ends by end plates and having one of a pair of interchangeable threaded rods or screws mounted lengthwise therein. Each threaded rod is mounted for rotational movement about its longitudinal axis in the end plates. One of the rods is adapted for operation by a power drill and the other is adapted for hand operation. A torch holder assembly, capable of vertical and angular adjustment, and adapted for receiving a cutting torch attached thereto, is mounted on the threaded rod for reciprocating lengthwise movement within the said channel.
Claims1
A cutting torch guide comprising an upward opening channel having two ends and having provided lengthwise thereon guide means adapted to engage a guide block wherein each of the said ends is closed by an end plate joined to the said channel and wherein each of the said end plates has provided therethrough a hole adapted to receive a bushing, a body portion of a shoulder nut, and a threaded rod inserted therethrough;
- a rod adapted to and extending lengthwise within the said channel and inserted and extended through the aforesaid holes in the aforesaid end plates and having provided thereon external threads adapted to engage a torch holder assembly and adapted to receive thereon a plurality of shoulder nuts and a plurality of jam nuts and being adapted at one end thereof to be coupled to a power source for rotational movement about the longitudinal axis thereof;
- connector means for detachably and rotatably coupling the aforesaid rod to the aforesaid end plates comprising a pair of bushings, a pair of shoulder nuts and a pair of jam nuts;
- and a torch holder assembly comprising a vertical plate having two opposing surfaces and having a hole therethrough adapted to receive the aforesaid rod inserted therethrough and adapted for reciprocating lengthwise movement within the said channel and adapted to engage the aforesaid guide means on the aforesaid channel and having provided on each of the said opposing surfaces thereof a nut-stop;
- a pair of nut-stops mounted on the aforesaid opposing surfaces of the aforesaid plate and adapted to engage a pair of rod support nuts mounted on the said rod and on opposite sides of the said plate and adapted to prevent the said nuts from rotating on the said rod and to prevent the said rod from making contact with the said plate;
- a pair of rod support nuts adapted to be threaded onto the aforesaid rod and adapted to engage the aforesaid nut-stops and to cooperate with the said nut-stops to prevent the said rod from coming into contact with the aforesaid plate;
- a torch support bracket mounted on the aforesaid guide block adapted to receive a rotatable plate means detachably coupled thereto and having provided thereon indexing means adapted for cooperation with indexing means on a rotatable plate means for adjusting the height of a cutting torch;
- plate means adapted to be detachably and rotatably coupled to the aforesaid bracket means and having provided thereon indexing means adapted to cooperate with the aforesaid indexing means on the aforesaid bracket means for adjusting the height of a cutting torch and having attached thereto a horizontal suppot bar adapted to receive a tubular means tiltably and detachably coupled thereto;
- connector means for detachably coupling the aforesaid rotatable plate means to the aforesaid torch support bracket;
- a tubular means tiltably and detachably coupled to the aforesaid horizontal bar means and adapted to receive a flame torch detachably mounted thereto;
- coupling means for tiltably and detachably coupling the aforesaid tubular means to the aforesaid bar means;
- and screw means mounted in the said tubular means and adapted to reversibly engage and hold a flame torch in the said tubular means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.