Patent ID: 7987568

Claim:
Device for positioning a tool in relation to an object to be processed, the device comprising: a toolholder element suitable for bearing said tool and movable along a registration direction in which said tool is moved towards and away from said object; an adjustable member movable in a sliding direction transversely of said registration direction so as to be operationally associatable with said toolholder element; and an abutting member suitable for tightening said toolholder element against said adjustable member, said toolholder element being interposed between said abutting member and said adjustable member along said registration direction; wherein said adjustable member comprises a block actuated to slide in said sliding direction by an adjusting arrangement and provided with a tilted face suitable for interacting with a correspondingly tilted active surface of said toolholder element, said face and active surface being tilted in relation to a vertical plane; and wherein said abutting member translates said toolholder element in said registration direction which is transverse in relation to said sliding direction.