Hand tool means

A unit for milling rectangular work members, where a machined fit is required, such as the door facings of a filter unit having a series of doors into an exchange unit, or equipment bases where a pump or turbine is being installed which requires a machined surface and it is necessary to accomplish the...     

A template unit on a router for trimming laminate plastics comprising a base and template follower. A clearance space exists between the base and template follower for the insertion of material to be flush trimmed. The template follower has a template abutment for the placing of template material adjacent...     

Routing apparatus comprising a frame which at one end is connected, or adapted for connection, with electric motor drive means. The frame at its other end has an arm which provides a location for a bearing defining with the drive means the axis of rotation of a shaft having a routing cutter thereon....     

An improved arrangement by which a router may be accurately and inexpensively used to trim the edge of a laminate overlay flush with the edge of the underlying wooden member. It particularly comprises a guide fence having a relatively long straight edge interrupted centrally by a recess for the router...     

A guide apparatus for a portable tool, such as is used for carving or sculpturing wood. A maulstick is adapted to pivotally support the tool. It has a handle at one side, and is loosely guided by a post at its opposite side. The center portion of the maulstick includes an offset yoke that movably supports...     

A tool has a shank extending axially in one direction from a material-removing formation and engageable in the chuck of a handle-held electric drill, and has a shaft extending axially in the opposite direction. A handle is rotatable on but axially fixed on this shaft and a guide ring can be secured at...     

A portable electric router comprising a base having a dust chamber formed below a motor mounted to the base to be axially adjustable therein. A pair of handles are connected to the base with a passage formed in one of the handles in communication with the dust chamber. A blower is formed on the top side...     

A tooling jig is described for accurately cutting planar material, such as laminate faced chipboard. A base board has a guide fence extending therealong which has a straight edge against which one edge of the workpiece is clamped. A bridge is secured to the base to overlie the workpiece and the bridge...     

A portable planing machine is shown that is adapted to straddle the work piece and is freely movable on a work bench. The machine comprises a pair of runners that are joined by a pair of rails or ways. An adjustable carriage is supported on the rails, and a router is fastened to the carriage. A datum...     

A router base plate defines a continuous radial slot through a diameter of its annular shape for receiving a pair of mating slides. The slides define positioning holes which accommodate pilot pins to be forced into the work piece in order to anchor the router for circular cuts, the pilot pin being the...     

A grooving indexer is provided for use with routing apparatus to improve the capability of the apparatus for rapidly routing straight parallel grooves in cabinet doors and similar panels. The routing apparatus is of the type in which a router is mounted on the end of a bar for extension over a panel...     

A router guide assembly adapted to be releasably or semipermanently attached to the work face of a router. The router guide assembly includes a circular base plate having a central aperture through which the cutting bit of the router extends. A pair of guide posts may be adjustably mounted to the base...     

Work table has fence thereon for supporting and locating workpiece. Hold-down bars and guide bars are secured to a mounting bar and are movable so that the hold-down bars lie across the workpiece. A carriage is movably mounted on the guide bars and is arranged to carry a router across the workpiece so...     

A router assembly including a router sub-assembly vertically adjustable relative to a supportive base plate through the utilization of a sub-assembly supported rack gear and a pinion gear meshed with the rack gear and journaled from the base. The base includes a handle portion for horizontal directional...     

Apparatus to cut a carpet into two sections with the edge of each section being beveled. The apparatus employs two rotary cutters mounted at an angle to each other and which are driven at the same speed in the same direction.

A portable deglazing tool for removing glazing compound from window frames while simultaneously refinishing all surfaces preparatory to facilitate reglazing and glass replacement if required. The deglazing is accomplished by a fluted cutting bit with a flat lower end driven from an electric motor at...     

A cutting guide for cutting plastic laminate material is used in conjunction with a conventional router. The cutting guide includes an elongate, flat base plate having an opening in one end portion thereof for receiving the bit of the router which has been mounted thereabove. An elongate guide fence...     

The present router guide has a guide plate with a central opening for passing the router bit, and an eccentric periphery and a groove in the top extending parallel to that periphery. A slide is coupled to the guide plate at the groove and it presents a straight edge disposed beyond the guide plate for...     

A trammel beam carrying a pair of dove-tail shaped slider blocks rotatably carried on a pair of adjustable trammel points is attached to a workpiece support base which includes a pair of crossed right angle mutually perpendicular dove-tail tracks along which the slider blocks move as the trammel beam...     

A plunge type router is disclosed which includes a base housing having a work engaging surface and an upper portion within which a driving motor is supportingly mounted for reciprocable movement with respect thereto. A pair of extension coil springs are provided extending between a first pair of projections...     

A plunge type router is disclosed which includes an improved depth lock system operative to exert a clamping force directly on the motor housing and which distributes the clamping force over a substantial surface area thereof whereby the motor housing may be securely retained in position without damaging...     

A device for full depth hand routing characterized by a two piece base including a foot block and an attachment block, the attachment block being held to the foot block by a connector bolt and two adjusting screws to enable attaining parallel planes for a tool in the base of the block; a cantilevered...     

A router guide for a router comprising first and second spaced-apart end supports adapted to be removably positioned on spaced-apart supporting surfaces. First and second support members are secured to and extend between the ends of the first and second supports and have an elongated router track slidably...     

A guide system for guiding the movement of an article such as a router includes a carrier for a guide plate, an arrangement for coupling the carrier to the router and means for enabling the location of the carrier relative to the coupling arrangement to be finely adjusted. This fine adjustment is provided...     

A bench having a horizontal working surface and a fence at the rear edge which defines a straight edge. The fence includes a forwardly extending ledge which overhangs the rear portion of the working surface. The working surface can be raised and lowered, so that a workpiece on the working surface can...     

A cutting tool mechanism including a slide member, a track member slidably guiding the slide member along a preselected path, a saw, and structure associated with the slide member for mounting the saw thereto. The mechanism includes structure for directing the user's hands away from the saw blade in...     

An attachment for portable routers having a relatively long, rotary cutting tool for imparting decorative contours in relatively non-portable construction components such as staircase railings and the like. A massive block is mounted on a relatively thick base plate and the block, in turn, mounts a cantilevered...     

A portable router for cutting slots in a cabinet door to receive wings of hinges includes a router motor and spindle mounted on a slide which moves back and forth on a frame. The latter rests on the door when cutting each slot and is located on the door by a selected one of two guides. The latter are...     

A router attachment assembly is described herein which includes a pair of guide rails between which a router carriage assembly moves. A router is attached within the carriage assembly and the assembly includes mechanisms for lowering and raising the router carriage assembly to allow the router to perform...     

The press router has a base and a frame for receiving a router motor assembly including a router cutting tool. A movable rack supported by the frame is coupled to the router motor assembly. A pinion supported by the frame engages the rack and is rotatable by a feed handle for moving the rack and hence...     

A woodworking router accessory tool having a rectangular router base member having rollers in the bottomfor easy rolling against a straight edge for linear cutting. An adjustable length radius bar attaches to the base member for circle cutting, and longitunal straight frame member that closely retains...     

A router attachment for a saw table having a raised work-guiding fence at one edge thereof, the attachment consisting of a horizontal arm attachable at one end to the table at the edge thereof carrying the fence, and extending laterally across the table so that a work piece being moved across the table...     

An apparatus for simultaneously cutting and beveling plastic pipe such as water or sewer pipe is described. This apparatus includes a rotatable cutting head on which inclined and protruding cutting edges are provided to cut and bevel the pipe. The cutting head is mounted in a housing the lower surfaces...     

A fixture for a router for permitting one end of a finishing tool extending therethrough to be moveable along a radius edge of a countertop for trimming such edge off of the countertop. The fixture includes a base member adapted to be attached to the front surface of a router housing and includes a central...     

A router guide 26 includes a subbase plate 28 coupled to a guide element 68 by a pair of rods 30 and 32. A pair of guide surfaces 124 and 136 are located on guide element 68 adjacent subbase plate 28 when the guide element is in a first position for use in linear cutting and edge planing operations....     

A router guide assembly which permits rectilinear movement of a router for cutting acoustic tile panels while providing a reveal edge along the cut edges. Quick and easy movement is provided by two railed carriage sub assemblies, one of which is carried by the other. Manually activated mechanical stops...     

A machine to cut grooves in the mitred end portions of frame members of a picture frame, so that connectors can be inserted in these grooves and join the members to form the picture frame. A base structure mounts a pair of frame members spaced from one another, and a motor with a router bit is positioned...     

An automatic self-centering cutting guide base plate for electric routers which can be utilized as either the main base plate or as an auxiliary sole plate and is adjustable for variable work surface heights and widths.

In the present application there is disclosed an adapter for attachment to a hand-held power tool of the type having cutting means driven by the power tool. The adapter includes a baseplate having an opening through which the cutter may extend. Means for fixing the baseplate to the power tool a guide...     

This invention relates to a router guide in general and in particular to a router guide which can follow the edge of a piece of wood whether it be straight or curved to provide a groove in the wood spaced from the edge of the wood. The guide includes an adjustable roller to engage the edge of the wood...     

A cutting apparatus for forming a V-sectioned groove in a workpiece includes a support surface, a pair of guide rails mounted in parallel relationship with one another and in relatively low relationship with the support surface and a platform mounted upon the guide rails for movement relative to and...     

A power tool for trimming laminate having a motor, a motor housing, interchangeable bases, and a clamping ring. The motor housing has a lower portion having a smaller diameter than that of the rest of the housing. The clamping ring extends from and over the base and clamps around the lower portion of...     

A cutting tool guide device fits within a window frame in a vertically mounted position. The device guides a cutting tool, such as a router, along the X,Y, and Z coordinates. Simultaneous movement along the X and Y coordinates parallel to the window is possible by means of vertical and horizontal controls...     

The present invention relates to a router trammel including several attachments and features which allow the user to operate a router to accurately and reproducibly create different designs and cuts on a piece of wood. The inventive device includes an adjustable miter gauge including a protractor device...     

A biscuit jointer cutter for making segment shaped cuts by plunge cutting has a shoe assembly reciprocally movable relative to a housing containing a motor. The shoe assembly houses a cutter blade rotatably driven by the motor, and has a front opening through which the blade is movable in a forward direction...     

A router guide assembly for cutting quarter circles and annular pieces from a workpiece comprising: a guide frame comprising a first locking means, a first arm and a second arm, the first arm positioned at a right angle to the second arm; a guide bar adjustably connected to the guide frame by the first...     

An attachment mountable on the underside of a router by means of which slots or grooves may be accurately cut in a work-piece parallel to an edge of the piece. The attachment comprises a plate member preferably formed of transparent plastic sheet material. The plate member is generally sector-shaped...     

Disclosed is a bench mountable joining machine. The joining machine comprises machine apparatus for supporting and positioning a workpiece while making a slot-like plunge cut into a joint surface of the workpiece. The machine also includes a base member for removably mounting the machine to a bench.

A portable electric tool including an electric motor for driving a cutter to cut an object to be machined. The electric tool comprises a bracket for supporting the electric motor and handles attached to handle-mounting sections of the bracket for keeping the electric tool in cutting operation. Also included...     

A router attachment which is particularly useful for cutting the slots to receive standard biscuits used in biscuit joinery.

A chamfering device comprising a housing in which a motor is housed, a guide base arranged at one end of this housing, a rotating shaft which is driven by the motor and whose front end is projected outside from the guide base, a chamfering blade fixed to the front end portion of the rotating shaft, partly...     

A cutting guide for hand-held routers has a guide fence which pivots about a base. The guide fence engages a workpiece and provides a steady support for a variety of routing operations including bevelling or chamfering, splining, rabbeting, dadoing and edging. The cutting guide also has an after-cut...     

A chamferring machine has a machine body provided with a rotary cutter formed with cutting edges on its outer periphery. The rotating cutting edges chamfer the side edge of a workpiece. A guide is mounted on the base of the machine body and has two guide surfaces intersecting at a predetermined angle...     

A guide device securable to a hand-held router facilitates the guiding of the router across a thin workpiece so that the rotatable cutting tool of the router severs the workpiece along a prescribed cutting path and so that the prescribed cutting path corresponds with an edge of an object underlying the...     

A portable circular saw with a 60.degree. bevel cut capability that is provided by a combination of blade diameter, height of front and rear pivot points above the footplate, the ability to tip the saw about a front hinge point to avoid projections contacting the footplate at a 60.degree. angle and recesses...     

A portable chamfering tool comprises a casing; a rotating shaft projected from one end of the casing; a ring-shaped connector arranged on the outer circumference of the rotating shaft, and having a ring-shaped groove formed on the outer circumference of the ring-shaped connector; a ring-shaped boss attached...     

Disclosed herein is a boat hull including a stringer member having an end surface including therein a cut-out, and a projection extending beyond the end surface, a bulkhead member extending transversely to the stringer member, fixed thereto, and including an end surface extending in coplanar relation...     

A cutting guide mates with a variety of types and brands of power tools and quickly and easily allows circular cuts to be made in sheets of wood. The cutting guide is attached to a radius arm such as a length of two-by-four lumber that defines the circle. The cutting guide is provided with adjustment...     

A portable routering apparatus for use with a hand-held router to rout figures, designs, alphanumeric characters and the like without the requirement of a template for each figure, design, or character, wherein the apparatus is adjustable to accommodate workpieces of variable width and thickness and...     

An apparatus wherein a router assembly is mounted to a top surface of a transparent plate utilizing a forward "V" notch to guide the router and direct the router along a predetermined lineal dimension, wherein a handle is mounted longitudinally aligned relative to the transparent plate rearwardly of...     

A portable electric router having a depth of cut adjustment mechanism including an adjustment ring which engages a screw thread on the motor housing and rotationally engages the router base. There is further provided an arrangement for preventing relative rotation between the motor housing and the base....     

A versatile woodworking device for hobbyist or professional use which is rugged, reliable, precise, and portable, wherein woodworking accessory equipment may be selectively and quickly mounted thereto for use therewith, as hand-held circular saws, routers, shapers, radial arm saws, and the like. A pair...     

A router base and combination router and base for use as a guide in making a dado, rabbet groove, or similar cuts, has a plurality of peripheral edge segments spaced different distances from the center line of the router bit. The base provides for making one or more cuts of varying distances from a conventional...     

A split ring router mount apparatus (10) adapted to releasably engage a conventional router (100) to a substrate; wherein the apparatus includes a collar unit (11) operatively engaged with the base (101) of the router and provided with a plurality of tongue elements (18); and, a base member (20) equipped...     

A router attachment which has a body member, having a mounting end, mountable to a router; and a work end having an inclined guide surface capable of engaging a variable width slot in a template; the body member has a centrally located bore passing from said mounting end to said work end.

A mounting assembly for mounting a hand-held tool to a bench surface is provided. The mounting assembly comprising a mounting plate having a substantially flat portion, at least one mounting arm extending from the flat portion, and a pair of coupling fixtures. The mounting arm has an engagement hole...     

A portable electric router having a depth of cut adjustment mechanism including an adjustment ring which engages a screw thread on the motor housing and rotationally engages the router base. The adjustment ring is formed as a split ring with radially directed projections adjacent opposite sides of the...     

A portable electric plunge router (10) having an improved housing (20) including a right handle (28) and a left handle (30) each including an elongated portion (32) and a hand rest lobe portion (34). The handles of the router are conveniently gripped in two positions corresponding to a plunge operation...     

A tool including a shaft having a drive portion, a lateral stop portion, and an intermediate portion straddled by the drive and lateral stop portions, the drive portion being adapted for detachable engagement with a rotary drive; a router blade mechanism retained by the intermediate portion of the shaft...     

The end of a laid flooring board between adjacent laid flooring boards can be jointed by a jointer including a router mounted on a slide slidable along ways carried by a frame held in position on flooring by pressure on a positioning plate attached to the jointer frame and having a reference line for...     

A portable electric router having a housing supporting within it a motor on whose shaft is fixed a chuck for fixing in place a rotary cutting bit. A base is provided for fixing an axial position of the housing. A guide plate having a guide surface in contact with the workpiece is fixed to the base for...     

A spindle arranged for mounting shaper cutters to an associated router is configured to include a lower shaft coaxially aligned with an upper shaft having an abutment collar therebetween. An upper threaded boss mounts a fastener assembly to secure and position the shaper cutter between the abutment collar...     

A routing machine has a motor housing with a lower side having a tool receptacle for a milling tool, a foot plate adapted to be placed on a workpiece, guiding columns extending perpendicularly relative to the foot plate, the motor housing being arranged displaceably on the guiding columns parallel to...     

The present invention provides an improved biscuit jointer which allows a ruler guide to be kept completely level during fine adjustment of the vertical position and angular orientation of the ruler guide with respect to a ruler and accurately abuts against a workpiece. The biscuit jointer of the invention...     

This invention is an attachment mountable to the underside of a router by means of which dados (grooves) may be accurately cut in a work-piece uniformly and equidistant from the previous dado without any adjustment to the attachment. The initial dado may or may not be parallel to the edge of the material....     

An adjustable fence for orienting a plate joiner having a body and a rotating generally planar cutter to cut an arcuate slot in a workpiece is disclosed. The fence comprises a base, a handle and a fastening mechanism. The base is shiftably affixed to the plate joiner body and has a planar surface forming...     

A manual milling machine comprises a motor housing, a foot plate adapted to be placed on a workpiece and having a central opening, a milling tool extending through the central opening, a tool receptacle provided on the lower side of the motor housing, a guiding sleeve which surrounds the milling tool...     

A positioning device is disclosed that positions and guides a nominally hand-held router or other machine tool for machining with respect to a workpiece that is used as a reference. A novel configuration is employed in which a main body holds a centrally located lead screw and attached micrometer dial....     

A router dust hood has a sub base which attaches to the base plate of a router. A dust hood slides over the motor and is coupled to the sub base. The handles of the router are taken off and mounted on to the hood. A top rubber casing slides over the motor and is coupled to the top of the dust hood. A...     

The present invention provides a small, portable hand-held tool having a rotating cutter blade therein. The blade is adjustable to extend within to a very small degree above the base of the tool to engage and trim off such imperfections in the surface of the paint job without cutting into the surface...     

A router dust hood has a sub base which attaches to the base plate of a router. A dust hood slides over the motor and is coupled to the sub base. The handles of the router are taken off and mounted on to the hood. A top rubber casing slides over the motor and is coupled to the top of the dust hood. A...     

A pocket joint cutter system for forming a pocket cut and fastener bore into a workpiece. The pocket cut and fastener bore receives a fastener such as a self-tapping screw which passes through the bore and into a second workpiece for forming a Joint between the two workpieces. The head of the fastener...     

A compact, and lightweight portable electric router providing sufficient cutting efficiency. The router includes rotary components such as an armature of a drive motor, a motor shaft, a cooling fan connected to the motor shaft and a chuck for fixing thereto a cutting bit. An outer peripheral portion...     

An adjustable fence for orienting a plate joiner having a body and a rotating generally planar cutter to cut an arcuate slot in a workpiece is disclosed. The fence comprises a base, a handle and fastening means. The base is shiftably affixed to the plate joiner body and has a planar surface forming a...     

A sub-base is provided for a router adapted to engage a stationary guide while cutting a workpiece. The sub-base includes a plate and an elongated guide-edge. The guide-edge extends from a linear edge of the plate in a manner as to lie in outboard shielding relationship to the router base. The sub-base...     

The invention concerns a radius-milling fixture for machining workpieces by means of a hand-held router. The fixture has a rectangular support (1), made preferably of plexiglas, which has a support surface designed to accommodate the hand-held router. The support (1) has a slot in which a fastening device...     

A plunge-type router comprising a motor housing having a driving motor provided therein, a base having a workpiece-engaging flange member and a support plate axially movable with respect to the flange member along substantially perpendicular guide means, the support plate being biassed away from the...     

An improved wood threader that utilizes an aluminum plate as a router mounting base to which a mounting block, that may conveniently be wood, is attached, and to which interchangeable, machined, high-performance plastic threader inserts are attached with an indexing means that assures that each insert...     

The height adjustment ring assembly is provided for adjusting height of a router motor housing relative to a router body, the router being movable between upright and inverted positions. The housing includes external threads formed thereon. The height adjustment ring assembly comprises a support member...     

The present invention relates to a machine for forming grooves of uniform configuration in a face surface of a one-piece frame such that the adjacent grooves meet at inside corners to define miter lines. This machine comprises a support means adapted to securely support a side of the frame under a predetermined...     

A router attachment is provided for converting a small hand-held rotary cutting tool into a miniature router. The attachment has a base having a planar lower surface, a central aperture, an upright column and a handle. A tool holder slidably mounted on the upright column is provided with a clamp for...     

A machine for cutting a cope or kuda in the end of a log has a base member that is secured to a longitudinal side of the log. A support member is attached to the base member. A sleeve is associated with the support member, and an elongate shaft extends longitudinally through an elongate opening through...     

A high-speed carbide rotary cutting tool designed for use in the carving, cutting and shaping of most materials including, but not limited to, wood, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, bone, stone, plastics and composites. It is designed for use in high-speed, hand-held rotary grinders, such as flex shaft...     

A device and method are provided for reducing a length of an annular core on which a roll is mounted. If the core extends beyond the end of the roll, the roll is unstable when it is stacked. This device and method will trim the length of the core extending beyond the end of the roll to provide a flat...     

A overhead power tool guide including a template that has short walls with long walls therebetween. The template has a pair of guide rails fixedly attached to an upper surface. Included is a tool guide that is formed from a pair of steel angle irons that are coupled together by a pair of bars at a first...     

An offset router guide assembly for guiding the movement of a router around an outer edge of a structure having corners during rough cutting of a covering material overlying the structure to provide a predetermined overlap beyond the outer edge of the structure includes a base member having an aperture...     

An accessory carriage unit attachment for electric router, composed of one main elemental component: the slab carriage unit securable to the router at a perpenduclar angle to the major guide side surface, with attachable plastic means for greater slidable movement, with optional; legs, work stock/piece...     

A router for engaging a workpiece to be cut has a housing and a motor operable to rotate a drive shaft. A first fence is adjustably secured to the housing, and has a first planar surface oriented substantially parallel to the drive shaft axis. The first fence is adjustable to move the first planar surface...     

A router plate for use with a router having a planar surface and an arbor projecting therethrough. The router plate comprises a flat plate member having an opening extending therethrough with a rabbet flange extending inwardly from the outer perimetric edges of the opening. The invention also includes...     

A biscuit joiner for engaging a workpiece to form a slot sized to receive a carpentry biscuit is provided. The biscuit joiner has a base with a fence surface for engaging the workpiece. The fence surface has an elongated opening formed therein. A motor is fixed to the base, and has a drive shaft. A link...