Protective device for a hand machine tool

US6953394B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Juergen Schanbacher · Stuttgart, DE
• Mike Voigt · Gaildorf, DE
• Albert Kleider · Schwäbisch Hall, DE
• Joachim Schadow · Stuttgart, DE
• Kurt Neef · Gaildorf, DE
• Dieter Wendt

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 22, 2002
• Grant date: Oct 11, 2005
• Expiry date: Jun 22, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T83/7734
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A guard device for a hand power tool, in the form of a sanding/grinding hand power tool, has a wheel guard enclosing at least part of a rotating tool in a radial direction; a guide for guiding the wheel guard along a work piece, and comprising a fastening device for mounting the wheel guard on the hand power tool, wherein the guide is joined with the wheel guard in torsion-resistant fashion, and the wheel guard is mounted in a fashion that allows it to move relative to the fastening device; and a depth-of-cut stop limiting the relative movement of the wheel guard and fastening device, and being lockable in position with positive engagement in preselected stepped positions.