Patent ID: 6532677
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: G01B

Abstract:
A planing machine for planing at least one of a pair of surfaces of a planar workpiece having at least one elongate marginal edge in order to obtain a desired workpiece thickness, the planing machine comprising:a housing including a base, a left side, a right side and a top; a cutter assembly cooperating with the base to define therebetween a workpiece opening for receiving the workpiece, the cutter assembly including a rotatably driven cutting head that extends into the workpiece opening to plane a workpiece as the workpiece is fed past the cutting head, the top of the housing including: an elongate body extending in a longitudinal direction; and at least one elongate ridge member extending longitudinally along the top of the body, the at least one elongate ridge having an upper portion which forms a plurality of laterally extending spaced apart notches, each notch being defined by an adjacent pair of longitudinally spaced face portions and a bottom surface extending longitudinally therebetween, wherein the work piece is inserted on edge by an operator into one or more of the spaced apart notches to determine the thickness of the workpiece relative thereto.