US 7,743,517 B1Granted

Guide for establishing reveal on door and window frames during molding installation

OwnerJason Burgeseinventor

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Abstract

A guide preferably of small size preferably two and a half inches square is disclosed for establishing reveal on doors and window frames during molding installation without having to do measuring and marking. In one embodiment two square blocks making up the guide are fixedly attached to each other and a different guide is used for different molding reveals. In another preferred embodiment of the present invention, the position of the two blocks relative to each other is adjustable such that one block moves along the other block only along a diagonal providing a simple single adjustment which provides the same amount of reveal on two orthogonal sides of the guide.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A molding guide, comprising:

a first block having a shape of a square prism having a face with four edges of a first predetermined length with rectangular sidewalls;
a second block having a shape of a square prism having a face with four edges of said first predetermined length and having rectangular sidewalls;
said first block and said second block being adjustably attached to one another a square face to a square face and in such a way that said first block and said second block are offset such that each sidewall of said square block is parallel to one of the adjacent sidewalls of said second block and a diagonal can be drawn through two corners of each block with one line;
said offset is equal to a desired predetermined molding reveal;
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wherein said blocks are adjustably attached such that said first block can only move in such a way that the diagonal between the two corners of the first block remains collinear with the diagonal of said second block.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.