Patent ID: 8510961
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: B27C,B27G

Abstract:
1. A hand or power planer tool having a housing and a base plate, the base plate being arranged to contact a work surface during operation and a cutter being mounted relative to the base plate so that the cutter can cut into a workpiece to a required depth and/or orientation as a result of the relative movement between the cutter and the workpiece, the base plate has a movable portion selectively movable relative to the remainder of the base plate between a first position in which the portion is disposed within a recess in the base plate and a second position in which the movable portion is extended from the base plate about a pivot axis which is substantially parallel with the direction of movement of the tool during use and when in said second position the said portion acts as a chamfer support as the planer tool is moved along the workpiece to perform a planing action and wherein when disposed in the first position the movable portion is substantially flush with, or recessed from, the remainder of the surface of the base plate to allow contact with the workpiece substantially over the entire area of the base plate as the planer tool is moved along the workpiece.