Patent ID: 6305447
Filing Date: 2001-10-23
Classification: B27C

Abstract:
A base plate, for mounting a powered hand manipulatable router having a shaft carrying a cutter in a horizontal support table defining an orifice having an inwardly extending ledge about the lower portion of the orifice to receive and support the base plate, comprising in combination:a base plate configured to fit in the orifice defined in the support table with at least a portion of the peripheral edge of the base plate supported on the upper surface of the ledge extending inwardly about the support table orifice, said base plate defining an orifice to allow the passage of the router shaft through the orifice and spacedly above the base plate to operatively carry a cutter above the base plate;leveler means carried by the ledge about the support table orifice to contact the base plate to vertically move the base plate relative to the support table responsive to motion of the leveler means,at least one fastening means carried by the support plate adjacent the periphery thereof including a bolt, depending through the base plate and spacedly therebelow, carrying an elongate fastening dog to contact the support table and a threadedly engaged nut outwardly of the fastening dog to move the fastening dog toward the base plate to fasten the support plate in the support table.