Drill press and saw table
OwnerThomas G. Pinskeinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus for automatically cutting a drawer slide groove and drilling a drawer-securing pin hole in a drawer with a bottom with a number of edges extending downwardly from the bottom, and a rear wall. The apparatus includes a support, the drawer resting on the support during the cutting and drilling operations; a power saw having a moving blade adapted for cutting a groove in the drawer; a first guide mounted on the support and adapted to engage one of the plurality of downwardly extending drawer edges, thereby positioning the saw blade adjacent the downwardly extending drawer edge; a drill carrier movable in a first direction and a second direction relative to the support; and a power drill mounted in the drill carrier and having a drill bit adapted to drill a drawer-securing pin hole in the rear wall of the drawer.
Claims20
An apparatus for automatically cutting a drawer slide groove and drilling a drawer-securing pin hole in a drawer, the drawer having a bottom with a plurality of edges extending downwardly from the bottom and a rear wall, the apparatus comprising:
- a) a support, the drawer resting on the support during the cutting and drilling operations;
- b) a power saw having a moving blade adapted for cutting a groove in the drawer;
- c) a first guide mounted on the support and adapted to slidingly engage one of the plurality of downwardly extending drawer edges, thereby positioning the saw blade adjacent the downwardly extending drawer edge;
- d) a drill carrier movable in a first direction and a second direction relative to the support;
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- e) a power drill mounted in the drill carrier and having a drill bit adapted to drill a drawer-securing pin hole in the rear wall of the drawer.
The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the saw blade further comprises a first subset with cutting edges substantially parallel to the blade's axis of rotation and a second subset with cutting edges at an acute angle to the blade's axis of rotation.
An apparatus for automatically cutting a drawer slide groove and drilling a drawer-securing pin hole in a drawer, the drawer having a bottom with a plurality of edges extending downwardly from the bottom and a rear wall, the apparatus comprising:
- a) a support, the drawer resting on the support during the cutting and drilling operations;
- b) a power saw having a moving blade adapted for cutting a groove in the drawer;
- c) a first guide mounted on the support and adapted to slidingly engage a first of the plurality of downwardly extending drawer edges, thereby positioning the saw blade adjacent the first downwardly extending drawer edge;
- d) a second guide mounted on the support and spaced from the first guide, the second guide being adapted to slidingly engage a second of the plurality of downwardly extending drawer edges, thereby positioning the saw blade adjacent the second downwardly extending drawer edge;
- e) the support having a saw blade cut-out between the first guide and second guide, the saw blade being positionable in the saw blade cutout;
- f) a drill carrier movable in a first direction and a second direction relative to the support;
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- g) a power drill mounted in the drill carrier and having a drill bit adapted to drill a drawer-securing pin hole in the rear wall of the drawer.
An apparatus for automatically cutting a drawer slide groove and drilling a drawer-securing pin hole in a drawer, the drawer having a bottom with a plurality of edges extending downwardly from the bottom and a rear wall, the apparatus comprising:
- a) a support, the drawer resting on the support during the cutting and drilling operations;
- b) a power saw having a moving blade adapted for cutting a groove in the drawer;
- c) a first guide mounted on the support and adapted to slidingly engage a first of the plurality of downwardly extending drawer edges, thereby positioning the saw blade adjacent the first downwardly extending drawer edge;
- d) a second guide mounted on the support and spaced from the first guide, the second guide being adapted to slidingly engage a second of the plurality of downwardly extending drawer edges, thereby positioning the saw blade adjacent the second downwardly extending drawer edge;
- e) the support having a saw blade cut-out between the first guide and second guide, the saw blade being positionable in the saw blade cut-out, a movable saw support adapted to position the saw blade in the saw blade cut-out, a hydraulic piston adapted to move the movable saw support toward and away from the saw blade cut-out, a foot switch adapted to activate the hydraulic piston;
- f) a drill carrier movable in a first direction and a second direction relative to the support, a first switch signaling the drill carrier to move the drill in the first direction adjacent the first guide and a second switch signaling the drill carrier to move the drill in the first direction adjacent the second guide, wherein one of the first switch and the second switch activates the foot switch;
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- g) a power drill mounted in the drill carrier and having a drill bit adapted to drill a drawer-securing pin hole in the rear wall of the drawer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.