Patent ID: 6918419
Filing Date: 2005-07-19
Classification: B23Q,B27C,B27G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A power planer comprising: a base; a carriage assembly; a carriage elevation mechanism having a plurality of guide posts and a plurality of nut assemblies, each of the guide posts being fixed to the base and having a threaded adjustment portion, each of the nut assemblies being coupled to the carriage assembly and threadably engaged to the threaded adjustment portion of an associated one of the guide posts; and a locking mechanism that is operable in an engaged condition in which the nut assemblies are frictionally engaged to the threaded adjustment portions of the guide posts to inhibit rotation of the nut assemblies relative to the guide posts, the locking member also being operable in a disengaged condition which does not inhibit rotation of the nut assemblies relative to the guide posts.