Hand tool

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 laminate trimmer guide including a frame adapted to be hand held for greater precision and control in trimming and an alignment rod of sufficient length to provide vertical alignment of a rotary cutter of a laminate trimmer with the vertical surface of a structural member having a horizontal laminate...     

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...     

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 dustless 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...     

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...     

The invention is directed to an arrangement for cutting a workpiece with a portable tool such as a circular saw, router or the like and includes a supporting structure and a pair of elongated vise members mounted on the supporting structure. The vise members are disposed in side by side relation to each...     

A router clamp for positioning and attaching a router having a housing to a radial saw arm so as to enable a user to accomplish overhead routing operations. The router clamp includes a bridge plate member affixed to a pair of inverted L-shaped brackets, one of the brackets being adjustably and removably...     

This invention provides a novel attachment for a portable router that can perform the dual functions of serving as both a workpiece chip collector and an adjustable depth edge guide with respect to an edge of a workpiece that is aligned generally parallel to the rotational axis of the router bit.

An attachment for a power tool adapted to perform materials working or shaping operations by means of a rotatable working or shaping element thereof. The attachment has a base member adapted to be secured to the housing of the tool, adjacent the shaping element; at least one arm mounted on the base member...     

A spring bias spacing attachment for a portable electric router is placed between the router motor and the base of the router. The attachment, which comprises two concentric rings separated by a series of springs, is slidably mounted over the skirt of the router motor housing prior to inserting the motor...     

A portable kit which can be quickly and easily set up so to operate either as a circular saw, a table saw, jig saw, or wood shaper; the kit including a portable case for being carried in a hand, and containing a collapsable table, a wood and a metal table top for placement on the table, a set of power...     

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 radius router guide having a pair of spaced legs arranged for receiving a piece of material at an end of the material where a radius is to be cut. The legs are connected to a track arrangement which slidably supports a router, and the legs are also attached to the workpiece itself in such a manner...     

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...     

An accessory for an electric router which facilitates edging, trimming, groove cutting, and the like, on small workpieces. The accessory features a two tier construction, the workpiece being positioned on a work table pivotally mounted to the lower tier, while the router is vertically mounted on the...     

An accessory is provided for use with routing apparatus to facilitate the routing of arcuate designs 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 to be routed and in which the router can be moved...     

A hand operated power tool is used for trimming and edge finishing a workpiece such as a counter top or desk top. The tool comprises a housing having two guide surfaces arranged substantially perpendicular to each other and an electric motor-driven cutter mounted in a recess in one of the guide surfaces,...     

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...     

An attachment for power tool such as a router adapted to cut an end of circular cross-section onto a rectangular piece of wood suitable for use as a circular tenon in mortise and tenon construction, the attachment being formed from a block of solid material adapted to be attached to the power tool adjacent...     

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...     

An apparatus and method for guiding a router bit relative to a guide surface on a workpiece includes a pair of guide pins adapted to be supported in generally fixed relation to the router bit and in spaced-apart relation from one another and the router bit. The guide pins are maintained in continuous...     

A fixture for positioning and guiding a router above the surface of a stationary workpiece, whereby the router is subject to a composite, three directional movement as it is moved above the workpiece. The fixture comprises an indexing table rotating on a base which is secured on top of or around the...     

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...     

The present router guide has a guide plate for attachment to the base of a router with a central opening for passing the router bit. On the bottom, the guide plate has a series of openings spaced apart along a spiral of progressively increasing radius which has the central opening as its center. A pivot...     

A template device for guiding a cutting tool in cutting engagement with a surface of a work piece to provide ornamental design in the surface of the work piece. The template device comprises a base plate having a base plate opening therein; a carriage support having a carriage support opening therein,...     

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 harness for securedly and slidably mounting a hand-operated router to the track of a support arm of a standard radial saw, without removal of the saw. The additional support and positional alignment capabilities of the support arm are advantageously employed to provide an economical overhead...     

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...     

An improvement is set out in a table saw arrangement (10) which includes a generally vertically oriented generally circular rotatable saw blade (12) extending upwardly through a slot (14) in a work table (16), which work table has a fence (24) generally parallel to the slot (14), which fence is adjustably...     

A woodworking power tool comprising a base plate having a motor mounted thereon at one end of the base plate. The motor has a motor housing on which a spindle housing is mounted for rotation through an arc of 180.degree.. The spindle housing has a spindle therein and the spindle is adjustably mounted...     

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 device for support of a portable router above a work table so as to convert a portable router into a pin router assembly. The device includes a mounting plate which is directly attached to the base portion of the router. The mounting plate is formed integral with a support carriage assembly that is...     

The tool includes a handle containing a motor whose shaft extends from a tool head and carries a ball-shaped or a barrel-shaped cutter. A cantilever arm extends from the tool head and has a guide element cantilevered from its free end. The guide element is pivoted about one or two axes, extending at...     

A method and apparatus for forming a wall irregularity following countertop are disclosed wherein a countertop as originally manufactured is disposed on the counter base and against the adjoining wall, is then parallelly shifted away from the adjoining wall by a predetermined amount and a router with...     

A router device having a cutting blade which rotates in a planar path normal to the axis of blade rotation. The path intersects a work surface at an angle. This angle and the position of the path along the axis of blade rotation, are both adjustable cooperatively to vary the length and depth of cut the...     

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...     

A versatile router guide apparatus or kit is disclosed comprising a pair of side rails and a pair of headpieces, which may be releasably secured together to form a "modified box type" router guide. When so secured the guide may be clamped to a workpiece between the headpieces and a router moved in the...     

An attachment (10) to facilitate precise cutting of a sheet of inlay material (26) with a router (12) to fit a cutout in a sheet of underlying material (28) comprises a top plate (30) and a spaced-apart bottom plate (32) defining a slot (34) for receiving the sheet of inlay material to be cut. The router...     

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 hand-held router is provided that includes a motor with a router bit mounted on the motor in driven relationship. A router head is attached to the motor an at least partially surrounds the router bit. A device for controlling the depth of cut of the router bit is mounted on said router head as is a...     

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 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...     

Router jig apparatus includes a base portion, a router positioning portion, a workpiece orbiting portion and a workpiece positioning portion. The base portion includes a quadrangular frame section disposed generally horizontally and a supporting stand extending downwardly from the frame section. The...     

A woodworking router has an electric motor driven router head (12) surrounded by a dust collection collar (20). Pneumatic means (26) control the height of the collar relative to the router head between (a) a raised position exposing the router head for tool changing; (b) a lowered safety position in...     

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.

A cutting support and guide attachable to routers for use in cutting paneling. A workpiece is moved between two opposing plates, the top plate having a router mounted thereon with its cutting blade extending through an aperture in the top plate. A fence is disposed between the two plates and has a datum...     

A dowel attachment for a router wherein the attachment is a rectangular body with a bore and a counterbore extending through the body to receive a blank to be formed into a dowel. The bore being adapted to have the finished dowel pass through it. A notch is formed in the rectangular body, perpendicularly...     

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 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 cutter to be mounted on a spindle of a rotary tool for use in shaping timber. The cutter comprising a rigid member to be mounted co-axially on the tool spindle to rotate therewith and having a plurality of spaced cutting teeth about the periphery of the member, each tooth having a cutting edge extending...     

A woodcutting guide is set forth wherein an elongate guide surface maintains a cutting tool in alignment overlying a workpiece to be cut. The guide includes an elongate coextensive "T" slot with a first fixed arm directed orthogonally outwardly thereof, with a second movable arm spaced from the first...     

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...     

A routing cutter comprises drive means, an upper housing part arranged to receive the drive means and having a lower side, a cutting tool arranged at the lower side of the upper housing part, a base plate displaceable substantially vertically relative to the upper housing part, and fixable relative to...     

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 temperature and processing compensated time delay circuit of the type which can be fabricated in a monolithic integrated circuit utilizes a field effect transistor (FET) (12) connected to the terminals of a charged capacitor (14). A bias voltage connected to the gate of the FET (12) varies with temperature...     

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 machine for chamfering the corner of an object comprising a rotating cutter arranged in a machine body and having cutting blades around the outer circumference of that portion of the rotating cutter which is projected from and tilted relative to an underside, a slide guide for slidably supporting the...     

A chamfering machine comprising a planar guide base, a rotary shaft extending at right angles to the guide base, upward and downward cutting edges attached to the rotary shaft and used to chamfer respective bottom and top edges of a workpiece, a first rotation guide located above the upward cutting edge...     

A chamfering machine comprises a casing, a rotating shaft projecting from one end of the casing, a ring-shaped connector enclosing the rotating shaft and having a slit formed parallel to the center axis of the rotating shaft, and also having a downward slope formed on the outer circumference of its lower...     

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 chamfering machine comprises a rotary shaft, a guide base provided perpendicularly to the rotary shaft, an adjusting unit for adjusting the relative positional relationship between the rotary shaft and the guide base, a cutter detachably mounted on the rotary shaft for chamfering the edge of a workpiece,...     

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 router guide apparatus having a support arm attached to the router, a base plate supported on the support arm, an opening in the base plate through which a router bit may pass, and, a router guide member on the base plate, the router guide member having a semi-cylindrical surface area having a radius...     

A scribing accessory for an offset router including an elongated metal plate having a guide wheel journaled to one end thereof and a spacer block attached to the lower surface thereof. Screws are provided for attaching the metal plate and/or block directly to the router base and for affixing a base plate...     

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...     

The machine comprises on a body bearing and rolling devices (5), a guiding arrangement constituted by adjustable claws (11) adapted to bear against the edge of the work piece (30) to be chamfered, and a router (20) including a milling cutter (24) mounted on the body to be pivotable in a plane perpendicular...     

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 carbide tipped cutting tool adapted to shape the edge surface of a counter top which opens about a sink or bowl mounted therebeneath. The cutting tool is provided with a plastic follower adapted to engage the side wall of the sink or bowl to facilitate cutting and shaping of the edge portion of the...     

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...     

An accessory attachment for electric hand planers, composed of two elemental components: one, the shoe plate securable to the planer, which has an incorporated canting angle, two is the actual "fence" which has the desired miter angle incorporated into it, with capacity for any of its angles to be varied...     

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 hollow shaft, threaded on the interior, permits a workpiece, having a square cross section, to be rotated therein and thereby moved axially to be driven against a cutting edge to form the dowel.

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 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 light weight, mobile, and flexible holder assembly for cutting tools is described. It enables the user to make three dimensional adjustments to the orientation of the cutting tool so as to make cuts in a plurality of patters on workpieces of practically any size. A single holder may be adapted for...     

A 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. The adjustment...     

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...     

The invention relates to a device for performing a machining movement with at least one rotatable planing knife, comprising: a planing knife holder fixed rotatably in a carrier with a first and a second shaft and a first and a second bearing, wherein at least the first shaft is connected fixedly to the...     

A matched edge jointer is used with a router to produce matched edge surfaces on two workpieces. The guide contains an elongated guide bar, an elongated platform mounted and centered longitudinally under the guide bar, an elongated base adjustably mounted under the platform, and a means for adjusting...     

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...