Patent ID: 7905260

Claim:
A sawdust collector for a woodworking apparatus having a horizontal worktable, a guide fence, a dust port in the guide fence, a router having a cavity therein and operably attached to the underside of the worktable with a cutting tool mounted into a collet and adjustable upward through the worktable, said router generating chips and sawdust when in operation, the sawdust collector comprising: a flexible cup having a bottom wall with sides that extend upwardly therefrom forming a cavity therein, a vacuum port formed in a portion of the side thereof and an opening formed in the bottom wall; a first vacuum hose having a first end and a second end, the first end attached to the vacuum port; and a second vacuum hose having a first end and a second end, the first end attached to the dust port in the guide fence, wherein the second ends of the first and second vacuum hoses are configured for attachment to a vacuum device, the flexible cup being positioned adjacent a bottom surface of the work table within the cavity of the router such that the collet and cutting tool of the router extend through the opening in the bottom wall of said flexible cup; wherein the bottom wall of the cup has a continuous, rounded contoured channel formed therein, the contoured channel being circumferential to and encircling the entire said opening in said bottom wall; wherein the cup is made of a flexible, heat resistant material.