Patent ID: 9662780
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: B25H,B60B

Claim:
1. Apparatus for utilizing a conventional portable shop vacuum to facilitate collecting dust generated by a machine tool in a workshop, to enable selective translation of the machine tool along a workshop floor among chosen locations by virtue of casters provided by the shop vacuum, and to render the machine tool stationary at any one particular chosen location along the workshop floor, the apparatus comprising: a frame; a support construct carried by the frame for mounting the machine tool on the frame; a coupling construct carried by the frame for coupling the shop vacuum with the frame, the coupling construct being dimensioned, configured and so located on the frame as to be adapted to receive and position the shop vacuum with the casters of the shop vacuum in place upon the workshop floor for operation of the casters to enable selective translation of the frame and the mounted machine tool along the workshop floor; and an actuating mechanism carried by the frame, the actuating mechanism being selectively actuated to preclude said operation of the casters, thereby selectively disabling translation of the frame and precluding further translation of the machine tool mounted on the frame, along the workshop floor upon placement of the machine tool at one particular chosen location.