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US 4,489,634 AGranted
Portable power tool table
OwnerMichael J. Volkinventor
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A table for supporting and guiding diverse portable power tools with precision and safety is disclosed. In one mode of use with a sabre saw, adjustable guide rails for the saw have free-floating engagement with locator posts on the table and rest directly on the workpiece which is being cut. The guide rails at one end can be raised or lowered for precise leveling and locked in the chosen position. Very smooth cutting by the sabre saw is enabled without chattering of the workpiece. In another form of the table there is a second mode of use with a circular saw or router, the guide rails are supported at a fixed height atop the locator posts and above the top surface of the workpiece resting on the table. A workpiece protractor guide on the table enables various cutting angles. Precision cutting of cove molding by a sabre or circular saw is possible by proper angular adjustment of the protractor guide and saw blade. The sabre saw can also be used in a ripping mode across the guide rails when the latter are supported at a fixed height atop the locator posts.
A table for portable power tools comprising a table body portion having a workpiece support surface, a guide rail assembly comprising end mounting members and a pair of guide rails for the support and guidance of power tools, at least one guide rail being laterally adjustable relative to the other guide rail, means on the table body portion near opposite ends thereof and adjacent to said mounting members to, in one mode of use of the table, floatingly support the mounting members and the guide rail assembly for unrestrained vertical movement while restraining the mounting members and guide rail assembly against lateral and longitudinal movement relative to the workpiece support surface, support surfaces on said means on the table body portion at a fixed elevation above the workpiece support surface, and in a second mode of use of the table, said mounting members engaging said support surfaces on said means on the table body portion to support said mounting members, and guide rail assembly at a fixed elevation above the workpiece support surface restraining the mounting members and guide rail assembly from vertical movement and against lateral and longitudinal movement relative to the workpiece support surface.
A table for portable power tools as defined in claim 17, and said means on the table body portion comprising at least a pair of guide posts rising vertically from the table body portion near its opposite ends and adjacent to said mounting members, and the mounting members each having at least one guide opening adapted to register with and receive said posts movably.
A table for portable power tools comprising a table body portion having a workpiece support surface, a guide rail assembly comprising end mounting members and a pair of guide rails for the support and guidance of power tools, at least one guide rail being laterally adjustable relative to the other guide rail, means on the table body portion near opposite ends thereof and adjacent to said mounting members to floatingly support the nounting members and the guide rail assembly for unrestrained vertical movement while restraining the mounting members and guide rail assembly against lateral and longitudinal movement relative to the workpiece support surface, a vertical adjusting slide on the table body portion beneath one mounting member to vertically adjust said one mounting member and the corresponding end of the guide rail assembly relative to the workpiece support surface independently of the other mounting member, and means to lock said slide in a selected adjusted vertical position.
A table for portable power tools comprising a table body portion having workpiece support surface, a guide rail assembly comprising end mounting members and a pair of guide rails for the support and guidance of the power tools, at least one guide rail being laterally adjustable relative to the other guide rail, at least a pair of guide posts rising vertically from the table body portion near opposite ends thereof and adjacent to said mounting members, said mounting members each having at 1east one guide opening adapted to register with and receive said posts movably to floatingly support the mounting members and the guide rail assembly for unrestrained vertical movement while restraining the mounting members and guide rail assembly against lateral and longitudinal movement relative to the workpiece support surface, and stop elements at the tops of said guide posts to limit upward movement of the mounting members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.