Patent ID: 7661346
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: B23Q,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A guide assembly for power tools for assisting a user to make accurate cuts easily and quickly when employing power saws and like power tools, said guide assembly comprising: a rectilinear guide; a rotary guide; means for slidably attaching said rotary guide to said rectilinear guide; and means for removably securing said rectilinear guide to a support surface, wherein said rectilinear guide has a slot formed therein, said slot having a longitudinal length oriented parallel to opposed lateral edges of said rectilinear guide and further being equidistantly spaced from said respective lateral edges, said slot having longitudinally opposed ends terminating proximal of associated ones of longitudinally opposed ends of said rectilinear guide, wherein said rotary guide comprises: a plurality of cylindrical clamps, each of said clamps having manually adjusted inner diameters; a sleeve monolithically formed with an outer surface of each said clamp, said sleeve having a centrally registered axis oriented parallel with a centrally registered axis of said clamp, said sleeve having an aperture formed in a medial portion of an outer surface thereof and located diametrically opposite of said clamp, said aperture having a centrally registered axis oriented perpendicular to said centrally registered axis of said sleeve; a post having axially opposed top and bottom ends respectively, said post having a diameter that is less than a diameter of said sleeve such that said post is interfitted within said sleeve, said sleeve being telescopically adjusted along an entire longitudinal length of said post; and a knob provided with a rod having a first end directly attached to a bottom surface of said knob, said rod having a second end extending outwardly and away from said first end of said rod, said rod having a longitudinal length registered at a right angle to said bottom surface of said knob, said rod rotating in sync with said knob; wherein said second end of said rod is interfitted within said aperture of said sleeve such that said second end of said rod is abutted directly against an outer surface of said post thereby prohibiting said sleeve from prematurely and undesirably shifting along said longitudinal length of said post during operating conditions.