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Drilling and milling guide for accommodating interchangeable power tools

US4572715A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJul 2, 1984
Grant dateFeb 25, 1986
Priority date
Expiry dateJul 2, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T409/306496
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A drilling and milling guide for interchangeably accommodating for example, powered hand drills or milling machines, with the guide including a machine support adapted to be displaced along two parallel guide columns against a readjusting spring force, and a bottom plate at which the guide columns are pivotally mounted, with the bottom plate being provided with a central opening for accommodating different machine types and in order to enable the installation of adjustable guide stops, ends of the readjusting spring, not attached to the machine support, are fixed at a separate abutment which is adapted to be displaced and fixed along the guide columns. The bottom plate is provided with two parallel channels disposed in a plane parallel to the bottom plate for accommodating two guide rods which support a guide stop. Each of the channels pass near the guide columns and vertically through a plane extending through both guide columns.

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