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US 5,622,463 AGranted
Ceiling tile cutting table
OwnerVincent M. Testainventor
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Abstract
The present invention comprises a ceiling tile cutting table which can be supported at a slight angle onto the side of a scaffold. The table includes a pair of support rails on one side of the table. The support rails slidingly support a rotatively empowered cutting tool which has a cutting bit extending therebetween. The table may be removed from the scaffold and attached to a set of wheels to permit the table to be mobile while also carrying tiles on the wheel's cross-arm bars therebeneath.
Claims18
A cutting table arrangement for accurately cutting ceiling tiles, comprising:
- an adjustable planar tabular element having an upper and a lower surface and having parallel front and back edges and parallel side edges;
- a pair of supports for attaching a front edge of said table to a scaffold, at a slight angle with respect to the horizontal;
- a tool support arranged adjacent one of said side edges to slidably support a cutting tool thereon;
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- an arrangement of legs and a pair of attachable wheel supports which are securable to said legs for conversion of said table from a scaffold table to a mobile table.
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A method of using a multi-position multi-function cutting table, comprising:
- attaching a cutting table to a rung of a scaffold so as to support said table at an angle of about 15 to about 40 degrees with respect to the horizontal;
- pivoting a pair of legs from said table into secure engagement with a portion of the scaffolding;
- supporting a cutting tool on a pair of rails attached parallel to one side of said table and spaced therefrom;
- placing a tile to be cut onto a support rule arranged on said table and securing it at a desired angle, so as to permit the accurate cutting of successive tiles placed thereon with correspondingly similar angles;
- removing said table from the scaffolding to which it is attached;
- pivoting a pair of support legs under said table into a vertical orientation;
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- attaching a wheeled frame to the distal end of said legs to permit said table to be mobile on its own wheels.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.