Patent ID: 8096219

Claim:
A fixture to support a workpiece for use with a working surface of a cutting tool having a straight guide slot of uniform width enabling a straight line cut to be achieved, the cutting tool having a blade that extends from the working surface; said fixture comprising: a main support component having an elongated rectangular panel shape with a top surface with channel along the longitudinal axis of the panel for engaging one or more clamps for supporting a workpiece and a bottom surface with an elongated rectangular channel for engaging a slide component for linear movement along the slide component; said slide component having an elongated rectangular panel shape which mates with said bottom surface channel of said main support component; a bar member with an elongated rectangular shape and tapered ends affixed to the bottom surface of said slide component; wherein said bar member mates with the guide slot of the working surface a pair of wedge components having an end with a tapered shape that matches the tapered ends of said bar member, wherein said pair of wedge components wedge the corresponding ends of the bar member to lock the bar member into the guide slot of the cutting tool and said slide component to the working surface; a secondary support component having a narrow elongated rectangular panel shape with a top surface with a channel along the longitudinal axis of the narrow elongated rectangular panel for engaging one or more clamps for supporting a workpiece; said secondary support component being slidably engageable with the top surface channel; wherein said main support component supports a workpiece to be cut on the top surface as said main support component slides along the slide component towards the cutting tool.