Patent ID: 7108077

Claim:
A power tool ( 10 ) with a housing ( 12 ) which accommodates a driven shaft ( 32 ) for holding a material-removing tool ( 40 ) and which sets the driven shaft into rotary oscillating motion produced by an eccentric ( 22 ) rotating around an axis extending at a right angle to the driven shaft ( 32 ), the eccentric engaging in a connecting element coupled with the driven shaft ( 32 ), wherein a selected travel of the rotary oscillating motion of the driven shaft ( 32 ) and, therefore, of the tool ( 40 ), is adjustable, wherein the connecting element is a fork, wherein the fork encompasses the eccentric ( 22 , 24 ) such that rotation of the eccentric brings about a reciprocating motion of the fork and transfers the reciprocating motion to the driven shaft ( 32 ), wherein the eccentric ( 22 , 24 ) is supported in a longitudinally displaceable, lockable manner in parallel with the fork prongs ( 28 ) with minimal play, within an enclosure of the fork ( 26 ).