Slide table for power saws

• US 4,601,226 A
• Filed: 08/17/1984
• Issued: 07/22/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Maurice L. Mcclintock
• Original Assignee: Maurice L. Mcclintock
• Inventors: McClintock, Maurice L.
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/641,805
• Time in Patent Office: 704 Days
• Field of Search: 83/471.2, 83/486.1, 83/859, 83/467, 83/452-454, 83/471.3, 83/412-414, 83/409, 83/415, 83/437, 144/287, 108/143
• US Class Current: 83/415
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 47/025 of tables
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 1/58 a single sliding pair
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 1/14 with provision for adjusting the bench top
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/654 With work-constraining means on work conveyor [i.e., "work-carrier"]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/6568 With additional work-locating means on work-carrier
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/6584 Cut made parallel to direction of and during work movement
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/7722 Support and tool relatively adjustable

Abstract

A slide table comprising a table top slidably mounted on a pair of guide rails and having a plurality of recesses in the top surface of the table top to receive dowel pins that serve as a fence. Clamps for holding work pieces may be screwed into tee-nuts that are fixed in the table top. Slide collars are provided on the bottom of the table top, which collars partially encircle the guide rails and allows for lengthwise sliding movement of the table top on the guide rails while severely restricting vertical and lateral movement of the table top relative to the guide rails. The guide rails are attachable to the base of a radial arm power saw, and the ends of the guide rails are supported on adjustable height legs. Work pieces are positioned against the fence pins and tightly clamped to the table top. An operator feeds work to a saw by pushing or pulling on handles that are attached to the table top.

Claims

1. A slide table comprising a table top having provided in the top surface thereof a plurality of recesses adapted to receive a plurality of fence pins removably inserted therein and a plurality of fence pins each of which is adapted to be removably inserted into any of the said recesses, the said table top having provided therethrough a plurality of internally threaded coupling means adapted to receive a plurality of clamp means detachably coupled thereto, the said table top having provided on the bottom thereof a plurality of slide means fixed in spaced apart relationship relative to each other, each of which slide means comprises a collar adapted to slidably engage a guide rail for reciprocating lengthwise movement relative thereto and each of which slide means is adapted to limit vertical and lateral movement of the said table top relative to a pair of guide rails, and wherein the said table top is provided with handle means adapted to be grasped by a person, and guide means comprising a pair of horizontal and parallel guide rails fixed by a plurality of suitable spacer means in spaced apart relationship relative to each other, wherein each of the said guide rails comprises a plurality of rail members detachably coupled together end-to-end by suitable coupling means and wherein each of the said guide rails is adapted to be detachably coupled to a base of a power saw, and means for supporting each end of each of the said guide rails, each means comprising an adjustable length leg depending vertically from a said guide rail and adapted to rest on the floor of a work area, said rails having provided on the ends thereof caps adapted to cover and protect the said ends of the said rails.

2. A slide table comprising a table top slidably mounted on guide means, the said table top and guide means being adapted to feed work pieces to a radial saw, wherein the said table top is provided in the top surface thereof with a plurality of recesses adapted to receive a plurality of fence pins removable inserted therein and a plurality of fence pins each of which is adapted to be removably inserted into any of the said recesses, and wherein the said table is adapted to receive a plurality of clamp means detachably coupled thereto, and wherein the said table top is provided on the bottom thereof with a plurality of slide means fixed in spaced apart relationship relative to each other, each of which slide means comprises a collar adapted to slidably engage a guide rail for reciprocating lengthwise movement relative thereto and is adapted to limit vertical and lateral movement of the said table top relative to the said guide rails, and wherein the said table top is provided with handle means adapted to be grasped by a person, and guide means comprising a pair of horizontal and parallel guide rails fixed by a plurality of suitable spacer means in spaced apart relationship relative to each other, wherein each of the said guide rails comprises a plurality of rail members detachably coupled together end-to-end by suitable coupling means and each of the said guide rails is adapted to be detachably coupled to a base of a power saw, and means for supporting each end of each of the said guide rails, each means comprising an adjustable length leg depending vertically from a said guide rail and adapted to rest on the floor of a work area.