Drill press having a movable head and a tilt table

A drill press for drilling a workpiece, comprising:

• a base;
• a column standing upright on said base;
• a drill head having a quill, said quill having means for holding a tool;
• a driving motor for rotating said quill;
• a head rotating mechanism facilitating the rotation of said drill head around said column;
• a head vertically moving mechanism for moving said drill head vertically along said column;
• and
• a tilt table mounted on said base, said table being movable in two directions perpendicular to each other with respect to said base.

A tilt table mountable to a drill press base comprising:

• a supporting base mountable to said drill press base, said supporting base having a substantially horizontal base portion engageable with a top surface of said drill press base and a pair of spatially separated vertical trunions extending upwardly from the opposite ends of said base portion;
• a pivoting frame having a generally rectangular shape, said pivoting frame having a pair of longitudinal side members and a pair of transverse end members connected to the respective ends of said longitudinal side members, each of said end members having a sector disk extending vertically downward adjacent to a respective one of said spatially separated trunions;
• a table plate supported within said pivoting frame by said longitudinal side members and said transverse end members;
• means for pivotably connecting said sector disks to said trunions;
• and
• means for locking said supporting base to said drill press base.

A work clamp for a drill press having a head assembly mounted on a column attached to a base, said work clamp comprising:

• a work clamp housing attachable to said head assembly, said work clamp housing having a substantially vertical guide bore passing therethrough;
• a work clamp bar slidably and rotatably received in said guide bore;
• means for locking said work clamp bar in said guide bore;
• an arm having one end attached to a distal end of said work clamp bar and rotatable therewith about a vertical axis;
• and
• a pressure foot attached to a distal end of said arm;
• and
• means for displacing said pressure foot relative to said arm.

A drill press assembly comprising:

• a substantially horizontal drill press base having an elevated central portion, said elevated central portion having a top surface, a bottom surface and a transverse mounting slot;
• a vertical column rigidly attached to said drill press base, said vertical column having a vertical axis of symmetry;
• a head assembly slidably attached to said vertical column;
• rack and pinion means for displacing said head assembly along said column;
• a tilt table assembly attachable to said drill press base, said tilt table assembly having a pivoting base and a pivoting frame pivotably attached to said pivoting base, said pivoting base having a base portion engageable with said top surface of said drill press base and a pair of trunions extending vertically from opposite ends of said base portion, said base portion having at least one longitudinal slot, said tilt table assembly further including a cam activated locking mechanism receivable in said transverse slot through said longitudinal slot, said cam actuated mechanism having an unlocked state permitting said tilt table to be longitudinally, transversely, and rotatably displaced relative to said drill press base and a locked state frictionally locking said bottom portion of said pivoting base to said top surface of said drill press base, and a board insert receivable in said pivoting frame to form a workpiece mounting surface.