Patent ID: 7017464

Claim:
A tension board for guiding a workpiece across the surface of a cutting machine table, comprising: a body having a peripheral portion extending peripherally along a plane extending transversely through said body, and having means for mounting said tension board upon the surface of a cutting machine table with said transversely extending plane through said body being to the cutting machine table surface, and at least one resiliently deformable bow member comprised of a strip of material having opposite end portions fixedly attached at mutually spaced, different points along said peripheral portion of said body and projecting generally arcuately from said different points, away from said body on said transversely extending plane thereof, laterally over the surface of the cutting machine table when so mounted, whereby said bow member can deform resiliently toward said body to cooperate with upstanding structure on the cutting machine table to apply lateral force to a workpiece pushed therebetween, said resiliently deformable bow member always being at a fixed location with respect to said plane.