Work-support includes passageway for tool (e.g., slotted table)

A table mounting for a power tool wherein a pair of opposed rods frictionally engage the top of the power tool base and the rods are held in place under stress by mountings connected to the underside of a table, so that the bottom of the base is held against the underside of the table and the powered...     

A miter table assembly adapted to produce miter cuts with a power saw, such as a circular handsaw, and which is particularly adapted to be safe to operate and readily collapsible for easy transportation from one job site to another. This miter table assembly comprises a table top, hollow legs pivoted...     

A material cutting machine includes a pair of cylindrical rollers through which a web of sheet material is passed, one roller being driven while the other is allowed to track with the sheet material so that it accurately measures the length of the material passing through the rollers. Means are included...     

A machine for cutting steel stock of various shape such as angle irons, channel, flat bars, eye beams, tubing and pipe, the machine performing the cutting at a very high speed; the machine including a table with a circular saw driven by an electric motor, and the machine also including an adjustable...     

A metal saw is mounted upon a tippable arm above a table and is lowered to cut a work piece on the table. The saw and the tippable frame supporting it are mounted upon a vertically axised swing arm which has its vertical axis extending upwardly through the table in the plane of the saw blade and adjacent...     

A cut-off mechanism for severing a record member in a data terminal device is disclosed which includes a cutting wheel mounted on a pivoted support arm member which is so mounted that when rocked about its pivot by an actuating member such arm member moves the cutting wheel in a rectilinear plane along...     

An enclosure or housing for removal of sawdust generated by a saw blade rotating on a shaft located below a work table. A portion of the rotating saw blade projects above the top surface of the work table to engage and saw material being moved on the work table. The saw portion below the work table is...     

A cut-off machine includes a housing having a top surface with an elongated slot therethrough. A rotatable cutting disc is mounted within the housing for raising and lowering movement through the slot to cut workpieces supported on the top surface. Elevating means is selectively operable for moving the...     

A miter attachment for use with a portable electric circular saw. This miter attachment has a smooth upper platform secured to rails positioned at 90.degree., and at 45.degree. right and left which are also secured to the base. A portable saw is placed on the upper platform with the circular blade in...     

A cutter for the armor of a BX cable or the like wherein the cable to be cut is held firmly in a cable guide by a manually actuated cable clamp, the clamped cable being movable into armor-cutting engagement with a fixed power driven circular saw.

A folding extension table is attached to the discharge end of a table saw to facilitate support of comparatively long workpieces. The extension table is designed to permit miter gauge rods to slide forward without interference. Other features include the manner of attachment, which offers versatility...     

A table for a saw has three equal table segments supported on foldable legs. The three segments are spaced from one another by spacer elements and held in position by front and back longitudinal rails and nut and bolt combinations through the spacer elements. The spacer elements hold the table segments...     

A jig, having two fixed jig faces forming a right angle, is rotatably mounted on a guide rail which can slide in each of the linear grooves formed parallel to and on opposite sides of a conventional wood-cutting saw table. Complementary cuts for the construction of mitered corners are obtained by directing...     

A cutter for the armor of a BX cable or the like wherein the cable to be cut is held firmly in a cable guide by a manually actuated cable clamp, the clamped cable being movable into armor-cutting engagement with a fixed power driven circular saw, and means for fine adjustment of the cable, clamp and...     

The specification describes a multiple purpose woodworking structure including a working surface having a single work area for performing a plurality of operations. A motor rotatable from a locked horizontal position to a locked vertical position is located below the working surface. The motor is mounted...     

A cutting machine particularly for cutting plates of plastic material and non-ferrous metal sheets, having a cutting blade rotating in such a direction that its cutting rim enters into a guard casing at the cutting place, said guard casing having a rim closely adjacent said cutting blade at least near...     

A portable workstand for power tools and the like which is convertible from a tool utilization condition to a portable condition wherein a wheel and a pair of handles extend therefrom for wheelbarrow-like portability. The handles are connected to the wheel in an arrangement such that pivotal movement...     

The invention is directed to a power tool apparatus such as a table saw which includes a housing having a table top with an appropriate opening for a motor driven tool. Pivotally mounted within the housing is an assembly which in the disclosed embodiment includes a frame having a subassembly pivotally...     

An attachment to a rotary blade power saw (either hand-held or belt-driven) which allows said saw to be utilized in conjunction with any of the commonly available workbenches (such as that disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,615,087 and sold by The Black and Decker Manufacturing Company of Towson, Md., as the...     

A sawing machine for the straight or oblique cutting or sawing of profiled sections has two columns maintained parallel by two bridging members and along which slide followers adjustable by nut and screw, and a tool holder which can pass between the followers into the profiled section, and there being...     

A typical bench saw, using a removable, adjustable position guide rail is shown in a typical environment for this invention. To prevent reverse travel of the workpiece after a cut has reached a point where it is not under full operator control, a blocking device is housed in an opening of the fence guide...     

A scoring blade operating in advance of the main blade of a tilting arbor saw is mounted to tilt with the main saw blade. Provision is made for adjusting the scoring blade laterally and vertically.

A portable saw table having an elevated, adjustable track for accommodating various cutting tools such as sabre saws, circular saws and routers, a guide mounted beneath the conventional saw table slot for guiding a cantilevered type blade, such as a sabre saw, during the reciprocatory movement thereof,...     

A rocking arm saw is disclosed which may be used in one mode with an operating handle as a pull-through power saw for accurate cross or angle cutting while being readily convertable by removal of the handle to a table saw for ripping or groove cutting. The saw in its free standing form comprises a cutting...     

A power tool accessory table for attaching portable power tools to convert them for use as table-mounted tools, consisting of a removable plate to which the power tool may be attached so that its cutting element projects above the plate's top surface, and a tabletop with an opening in which the plate...     

Clamp for pressing a workpiece to a miter square and advancing the workpiece through a saw or the like. The clamp comprises two spanning arms and two other arms pivotally joined in a four-sided structure such that, if the arms comprise two pairs of equal length arms, the clamp comprises a parallelogram....     

Orbit saw apparatus including a driven shaft rotatably supported in an upright mounting wall which is part of the frame in the apparatus. Orbit arm structure is rotatably supported on one end of said driven shaft, and an arbor shaft parallel to the driven shaft and mounting a circular saw blade is journalled...     

An attachment for circular saws that supports a workpiece for movement past the saw blade. The attachment includes a saw-top plate that is adapted to cover and slide over the saw table surface of the circular saw. A guide on the saw-top plate fits within a groove on the saw table to allow longitudinal...     

A portable table assembly for a hand-held portable circular saw of the kind having a base plate and a motor rotated circular saw blade. A boxlike saw table has a substantially planar horizontal top pendently supporting the portable circular saw therebeneath with the blade rising up through a slot in...     

A saw workpiece pushing device is operably attachable to a table saw and is utilized to facilitate the cutting of styrofoam or other similar material. The device includes an elongated pushing member which is attachable to the saw's miter gauge and which includes an U-shaped frame defining an opening...     

A table extension for a table saw comprises a generally rectangular member extending from one end of the table, and a clamp for securing the member to a rail at that end of the table such that the top surface of the member and that of the table are substantially coplanar. A leg structure is secured to...     

A cantilevered sliding table is mounted on a main table having a horizontal top surface supported on a main frame. An elongated guide rail is supported adjacent one edge of the top surface and a parallel thrust rail is mounted on the main frame below the guide rail. The sliding table has an open bottomed...     

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...     

An attachment for a miter gauge of the type having an arm slidably movable in the slot of a work table so that a wooden workpiece is moved into engagement with a table saw blade depending upon the angle of the arm with respect to the miter gauge body. The attachment is mounted on the miter gauge in such...     

An adjustable miter guide device for a table saw having parallel tracks to each side of a saw blade wherein two guide assemblies are provided each with a rail which can be fixed in any one of an infinite number of positions relative to a runner slidable along one of the tracks. The guide assemblies are...     

An overhead guide for a power saw provided with a vertically adjustable overhead fence guide which can engage the work product directly or a template affixed to the upper surface of the work product. The device clamps to a conventional power saw fence and can be rotated away from the work area to allow...     

A straddle block is used with a table saw having a rip fence, and consists of a body having a substantially vertically extending fixed leg, a bridge extending from the fixed leg, an adjustable leg attached to and vertically displaceable relative to the bridge. The vertically adjustable leg may be reversed...     

Shown is a crosscut saw carriage for use on table and other crosscut saws. The saw carriage includes a transverse beam which supports a workpiece over a substantial length so that more accurate positioning of the workpiece can be maintained. A rolling carrier supports the transverse beam at the edge...     

The saw includes a sectional table top made up of one or more sections that may be opened to receive insertable conversion assemblies adapted to provide additional woodworking functions. A rotary saw blade is moveable reciprocatively with respect to the table top at selected angles of tilt and at selected...     

A material forming machine comprising a forming tool driven by a forming tool motor, a workpiece, a feed drive motor, a sensor, and a reference signal, wherein said sensor varies the speed of the feed drive motor by responding to variations of the speed of the forming tool's motion, and wherein the reference...     

A combination table and miter saw is provided which has a slotted strip attached directly to a rotatable work supporting base plate. The slotted strip is part circular and forms a bearing connection for a saw assembly which accommodates pivoting of the saw assembly about an axis through a working surface...     

A saw table outfit is made up of a table frame manufactured using lengths of aluminum section. There is a base plate mounted on the frame for supporting a power saw. In the base plate there is a gap or hatch which is covered by a plate with a slot in it for the blade of the power saw. Under the base...     

An improved saw and saw table combination is provided having a unique movable saw carriage and tracking assembly and a unique table top miter-rip fence assembly, all of which allow cross-cutting, mitering or ripping of both small and large pieces or sheets of wood.

An adjustable fence structure in combination with the work supporting table of a power tool. The fence structure is a parallogram frame structure including elongate, parallel mounting and fence rails and a pair of elongate, parallel links spaced longitudinally of, extending between and pivotally connected...     

A circular sawblade useful in cutting circular figures from a planar material utilizing a power source to rotate the sawblade where the blade has a selected degree of concativity to accommodate the radius of the circular figure to be cut from the planar material. The present invention further comprehends...     

A guide clamp (15, 80) has a channel shape which receives the first edge of a board and which forms a straight edge (31, 87) to be slid along a saw fence clamp (23) while cutting the board along a straight line (55, 56) with a table saw (11). A top arm (27, 82) of the channel includes clamping members...     

The present invention provides an improved stand for a table saw which has an upper work supporting surface. The stand comprises a generally rectangular frame having a top, bottom, two spaced sides and two spaced ends. The table saw is secured to the top of the frame while a pair of elongated supports...     

A miter gage having an adjustable workpiece clamp. The miter gage is of the type having a bar shaped to slidably engage a guideway of a tool work table, a protractor mounted on the bar and a grip mounted on the protractor. The clamping device includes a lock guide having a base adapted to be attached...     

A machine saw comprises a machine frame, a slotted flat plate rotatable about a vertical axis and serving to receive a workpiece to be sawn, a motor-driven circular saw blade which is rotatable about a horizontal axis of rotation and is adapted to be passed upwards through the slot in the rotatable plate...     

An accessory for a table saw comprises a plate having rollers thereon received in the parallel grooves of a conventional table saw. The rollers rotate about a vertical axis and act to guide the plate toward and away from the circular saw. A work piece is placed on the plate at a desired angle by an adjustable...     

A scoring saw is disclosed for use in association with a main saw blade and disposed forwardly of the main saw blade and rotating in the opposite direction. A mechanical connection transmits the power from the main blade to the scoring blade. The mechanical connection is mounted in a longitudinal casing...     

A table saw guide or fence for maintaining a workpiece in position parallel to the plane of a saw blade, in which the guiding edge is capable of initial adjustment in direct contact with a planar surface of the blade, and is maintained in such condition until a parallelogram linkage is secured to the...     

A saw guard system adapted to be mounted on the headstock quill of a multipurpose woodworking tool includes a rear portion adapted to be clamped to the headstock quill, a front portion which forms a pocket with the rear portion and is adjustable so that the pocket size can be varied to accommodate rotary...     

In sawing and drilling machine for splitting up and drilling panel-type workpieces, a saw carriage and a drilling device for planar face and/or end face drilling are guided below a machine table having a saw slit, along a straight-line guide parallel to the saw slit. To minimize the structural expenditure...     

A wood working accessory including a vice with a first jaw having an engagement surface for engaging one surface of a fence or the like, a second jaw for engaging an opposite surface of the fence, a yoke joining the first and second jaws and adapted to extend over an edge of the fence extending between...     

The triangle structure includes a base and the three sides of the triangle proper. The sides (blades) are detachably fitted together by pin/notch connections, being movable to a folded position and a set-up position and the same pin-notch connections are utilized in both positions. The bottom blade is...     

A sawing machine for cutting workpieces such as panels or packs of panels (P) comprises a horizontal workpiece support table (A) having a straight longitudinal slot (L) defining a cutting line, a sawing tool (S) movable along the cutting line and a longitudinal pressure device arranged above the workpiece...     

A method and apparatus for automatically adjusting a bench type machine feed table extension. The traditional infeed/outfeed table for a planar, jointer or similar machine is extended and the extension automatically maintained at the height of the feed table which it serves. A feed table extension is...     

A rip fence for use with a table saw or the like having a rotatable saw blade extending through its upper surface is disclosed. The rip fence holds a workpiece in position relative to the rotatable saw blade for longitudinal or rip cutting along the length of the workpiece. The rip fence includes depending...     

A circular saw comprises a machine structure, a gearbox, a motor-driven circular saw blade rotationally mounted on the gearbox and a pivot shaft on which the gearbox is pivotably supported. The pivot shaft is firmly connected at one end to the machine structure and is mounted at the other end in two...     

Device for guiding a workpiece to be cut at any of a plurality of angles on a power saw and like cutting machine of the type including a tabletop and a blade movable within a cutting line for cutting the workpiece held stable on the tabletop. The device includes a pair of guiding bar; one bar is constantly...     

A saw chip collector for use in cutting slots in a work, comprises an enclosure surrounding the saw blade except for an opening at the cutting position, a floating block mounted on the enclosure at the blade cutting position and spring biased against the work for sealing the top of the enclosure against...     

A dry end tail cutter for a papermaking machine comprises a slotted housing for accommodating the traverse of a cutter in a cross machine direction relative to the machine. A drive motor mounted on the housing drives a slot closing band around a pair of opposed pulley wheels. The slot closing bank is...     

An extension table for work tables such as a circular saw table, in combination therewith. The extension table provides a flat surface with a support frame for attachment to commercially available tables. The support frame is preferably connected to the work table work surface by means of "U"-channel...     

A production table saw is disclosed that includes a saw blade that is movable from an unexposed position that is fully received by a work stand to an exposed position wherein at least a portion of the blade is exposed through a blade slot in the working surface of the table. A foot operated mechanism...     

A crosscut fixture for a table saw which includes a flat board, a guide rail which is fixed to the bottom surface of the board, and an elongated guide bar which is pivotally connected to the top surface of the board for enabling the guide bar to move relative to the board to a plurality of angular positions...     

An accessory for use with a table saw having a generally horizontal surface defining at least one rectalinear groove and a circular saw blade projecting through the horizontal surface and parallel to the groove; the accessory including a plate having lower and upper surfaces with the lower surface adapted...     

A mitering gauge is constructed from three legs of a triangle. Two of the legs have fixed lengths and the third leg is adjustable in length. One of the fixed length legs is formed as a sliding plate and the other fixed length leg is formed as a fence pivotally mounted on the plate for orienting a work...     

A horizontally elongated base member is provided as well as a pair of horizontally elongated extension members. The extension members are removably mounted from opposite end portions of the base member in coextensive, longitudinally spaced relation with the spaced adjacent ends of the extension members...     

A saw blade position setting apparatus of a working table such as a table saw which is mounted on a support frame and to which a blade assembly is mounted with a handle assembly including a handle and a handle shaft held by the support frame to be rotatable and operatively connected to the blade assembly....     

An attachment for a miter gage used on a table saw. The attachment includes two linear fences arranged at right angles to each other on a table surface. One of the fences is formed by an elongated channel member having a bottom wall, two side walls, and two inturned flanges. A manually-operable locking...     

A table saw has a circular saw table, a miter table and a supplementary table to form a working table, on the front and rear sides of which two guide rails are disposed slidably with respect to the working table. The miter table has a miter fence thereon whose pivot points are provided at two separate...     

The disclosure herein describes an attachment assembly for mounting to a conventional bench saw; the assembly comprises a rigid member which is mounted to the power-operated main shaft of the bench saw. The member has two projecting rods at one end thereof which are adapted to slide on a pair of guiding...     

An improved slot device for use with a table saw is provided. A throat plate having an enlarged central opening straddled by a dove-tailed groove into which a wood insert slidingly fits presents a slot through which the table saw blade may project with minimal clearance when the blade is raised for operation...     

An apparatus for trimming three-dimensional workpieces made, e.g., of plastic comprises a bottom platen for supporting the workpieces and a cutter, which is movable relative to the bottom platen along a line of cut. To permit an automatic trimming by means of an inserted-tooth cutter, the bottom platen...     

A self-aligning quick pick-off rip fence for use in a table saw is disclosed. The rip fence holds a workpiece relative to a rotatable saw blade extending through an upper surface of the table saw for longitudinal or rip cutting along the length of the workpiece. The rip fence includes a fence head slidably...     

A circular saw arrangement has a table top pivotally mounted on a frame between a first chop saw position in which its first side faces upwardly and a second table saw position in which a second side faces upwardly. A support element is rotatably mounted on the table plate and carries a circular saw...     

The disclosure herein describes an attachment assembly for mounting to a conventional bench saw; the assembly comprises a rigid member which is mounted to the power-operated main shaft of the bench saw. The member has two projecting rods at one end thereof which are adapted to engage a spring biased...     

An apparatus for removing material from sheet goods to allow attachment of levered closures, such as cabinet door pivot hinges. Consisting in part of a main frame with a plurality of elongated support members of equal length. Having incorporated a plurality of tooling mounted to said frame, consisting...     

A table saw fence assembly wherein a fence element is connected in a "T" arrangement across the end of a slide blade which is reciprocable linearly between guide wheels on a base affixed to the top of a saw table, preferably directly above the saw blade axis when the saw blade axis is horizontal.

A table saw has a circular saw table, a miter table and a supplementary table to form a working table, on the front and rear sides of which two guide rails are disposed slidably with respect to the working table. The miter table has a miter fence thereon whose pivot points are provided at two separate...     

A circular saw arrangement has a table arrangement which provides a support area for the workpiece to be cut. For cutting the workpiece, a saw unit is provided for chop-saw and rip-saw cutting. The saw unit contains a power saw blade which is pivotally lowered from a raised position in the direction...     

A table saw has a circular saw table, a miter table and a supplementary table to form a working table, on the front and rear sides of which two guide rails are disposed slidably with respect to the working table. The miter table has a miter fence thereon whose pivot points are provided at two separate...     

This invention provides for a portable workbench system (10) which may be used on-site in construction projects. The workbench system (10) permits cutting of workpieces (12) on-site without the necessity of removing the workpieces (12) to a central location. The workbench system (10) provides for a workbench...     

A transparent safety device and pushing tool with an adjustable and reversible shoe member for depth and angle used to push, hold down, and guide work pieces through or over cutting devices. The adjustable and reversible shoe member can be removed and reassembled for use by either a right or left handed...     

A new and improved table saw extension apparatus includes a pair of support arm assemblies attachable to respective ends of a table saw. A cross member assembly is supported by the support arm assemblies and includes an assembly for relative vertical adjustment of the cross member assembly with respect...     

A precision miter gauge that consists of a sine-plate assembly mounted on a guide bar for engagement in a conventional table-saw miter slot. The sine-plate assembly comprises a stationary plate substantially perpendicular to the guide bar and a hinged plate pivotally connected to the stationary plate...     

A saw guide for hand-held circular saws that aids the saw user in making straight cross and angled cuts. The guide utilizes a slotted saw track upon which the circular saw rests the base of the saw aligning flush against side walls of the track. The saw track is initially elevated above the workpiece...     

A power tool (10) has a working assembly (20) mounted on a first side of a table (16). The table is pivotable about an axis (41 ) with respect to a frame (14) between two working dispositions. A working head (e.g. blade 32) of the assembly (20) is positionable through an aperture in the table so that...     

A workpiece support table forms a platform supporting a chop saw and workpieces at a convenient elevation for cutting metallic workpieces to length by an inverted channel member forming an elongated workpiece support which is transversely intersected by a recessed box-like member supporting the base...     

A new and improved power mitre saw table comprised of a hollow base portion having a parallel and spaced apart front tube and a back tube. A plurality of apertures are formed in both the front tube and the back tube. Two support brackets are secured to the front tube and the back tube. Two hollow arm...     

A saw (10) comprises a frame, a table (12) mounted in the frame and adapted to adopt two positions. A pivot member (14) is on a first side of the table and a saw assembly (16) is pivoted (at 18) to the pivot member. A blade (26) is journalled in the assembly and a motor (22) drives the blade. An upper...     

The precision cut off machine (10) includes a spindle shaft (24) rotatably journaled on a platform (12). A motor (30) drives the spindle (24) through a cogged belt (36) trained around cogged pulleys (38 and 40). A flexible abrasive cutting disk (64) is attached to the end of the spindle opposite the...     

A base of a sawing machine is provided which includes a base portion, and a bench portion disposed on the base portion. A drive device may be disposed on an under side of the of the bench portion, with a saw disk extending through an aperture in the bench portion and drivingly coupled to the drive device....     

A safety device for use on powered woodworking tools such as table saws, radial arm saws, and jointer-planers, to push a workpiece through an area of engagement with a rotating blade of such a tool. The safety device includes a guide bar mounted on the power tool in a position where it does not interfere...     

The protective push stick includes a transparent cover extending over the saw blade of a table saw to protect the operator's hand from the saw blade and to protect the operator's eye from particles flying upwards from the saw blade.

A bevel table saw 10 comprising a table 14 supported by a frame 12, the table 14 defining a slot 16 for a saw blade 44, and a blade assembly 30 mounted to the frame 12 below the table 14 such that, in use, a saw blade 44 of the blade assembly 30 protrudes through the slot 16 to cut workpieces on the...     

A table saw is disclosed comprising a main saw unit and an air table attachment. The air table is mounted adjacent a main support surface of the main saw unit, and includes a body portion and a generally planar table top. The body portion has a plurality of subsections formed therein. The table top is...     

A self-adjusting accessory for a table saw that includes a guide for sliding in the guide groove of the work supporting table of a table saw and which is biased against the edge of the guide groove which is closest to the cutting blade. The guide bar is used in conjunction with the plurality of table...     

A work piece guide and retention device for use with a power saw or similar power tool. The guide attaches to the power saw table and has one or more vacuum chambers having orifices. When a vacuum from a source such as a shop vacuum is applied to the chamber, a suction force is generated at the orifices...