US 6,575,067 B2Granted

Table saw

AssigneeBlack & Decker Inc.

InventorsJames Parks, Robert S. Gehret, Scott Livingston, Michael L. O'Banion, Robert P. Welsh, William Scott Taylor, Todd L. Huston, Edwin G. Zehr, Scott Stropkay, David Louis Weissburg, Mark Allen Nichols, William R. Stumpf, Lewis Hampton Rohr, Henry Louis Tew, Thomas S. Paladino, Paul Eichelberger, David Edmund Duncanson, Jerry Wayne Holleman, Adan Ayala

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Abstract

A table saw including a base, a main table supported by the base, first and second rails attached to the table, a sliding table fixedly attached to the rails and sliding along the longitudinal axis of the rails and a cross-cut table slidably movable in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the rails. The cross-cut table may be adjusted to ensure movement parallel to a blade protruding from the main table. An improved miter gauge assembly is also disclosed. An improved fence assembly is further disclosed herein. In addition, a table saw having an improved panel and leg construction is disclosed herein.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A saw comprising:

a base assembly comprising a base and a table supported by the base;
a first rail attached to the base assembly, the first rail having a longitudinal axis;
a second rail attached to the base assembly and connected to the cross-cut table;
and
a subpanel disposed on the first and second rails,
wherein said subpanel is horizontally movable with respect to said first and second rails;
a cross-cut table slidably attached to said subpanel, the cross cut table being slidable in a sliding direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the first rail and wherein said cross-cut table is adjustable along a vertical axis relative to said first and second rails.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/194,825Filed 12 Jul 2002 · continuation
Priority: 13 Feb 1998
Published: US 2002/0194971 A126 Dec 2002
Granted: 10 Jun 2003
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification22 codes

B27B 25/10
Feeding devices for timber in saw mills or sawing machines; Feeding devices for trees: manually-operated feeding or pressing accessories, e.g. pushers
B23D 47/025
Of frames; of guiding arrangements for work-table or saw-carrier: of tables
B27B 5/222
With non-feedable circular saw blade: the saw blade being arranged underneath the work-table; Guiding arrangements for the work-table
B27B 27/02
Guide fences or stops for timber in saw mills or sawing machines; Measuring equipment thereon: arranged laterally and parallel with respect to the…

Family

Application60/074,706Us provisional application · filed 13 Feb 1998
Application09/213,466Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 17 Dec 1998
Application09/328,614Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Jun 1999
US 2002/0194971 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Dec 2002
Application09/328,614Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2001/0047706 A1Published application
US 6,575,067 B2This patent

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