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US 7,607,870 B2Granted
Rotary tube notching apparatus
OwnerRobert K. Hughes, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A rotary tube notching apparatus capable of operable attachment to a powered rotational drive device such as a drill, is comprised of a surface mountable tube support assembly capable of alternately receiving straight or bent tubing; a height adjustable carriage assembly pivotally mounted to the tube support assembly to enable offset notching, and a shaft assembly rotatably mounted to said carriage assembly for receiving a cutting tool.
Claims8
A rotary tube notching apparatus capable of operable attachment to a powered rotational drive device, the apparatus comprising:
- a. a tube support assembly for alternately receiving a straight or bent tube, said tube support assembly being comprised of a frame member having a tube receiving side, said tube receiving side having a planar tube receiving location and a recessed V-shaped tube receiving location, said planar tube receiving location having a plurality of tube clamp mounting holes and tube retention means mounted within one of said plurality of tube clamp mounting holes for securing said straight or bent tube to said tube receiving location or said recessed V-shaped tube receiving location;
- b. a height adjustable carriage assembly pivotally mounted to said tube support assembly, said carriage assembly being comprised of 1) a swivel pivotally mounted to said tube support assembly, said swivel having an axis of rotation, and 2) a slide adjustably engaged with said swivel along an axis parallel with said axis of rotation of said swivel;
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- c. a shaft assembly rotatably mounted to said carriage assembly for receiving a cutting tool.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.