Woodworking – Work guide – Work urged laterally
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-27
2007-11-27
Self, Shelley M. (Department: 3725)
Woodworking
Work guide
Work urged laterally
C144S286100
Reexamination Certificate
active
11545897
ABSTRACT:
A featherboard for use with a cutting machine, such as a table saw, having a table which supports a workpiece, and a fence extending upwardly from the table. A row of flexible fingers lie in respective parallel finger planes and have distal ends for engaging the workpiece. The distal ends generally lie in an engagement plane which is parallel to a featherboard engagement surface of the workpiece, and each of the flexible fingers is capable of flexing in a flex direction perpendicular to its respective finger plane. In a compound angle configuration, the finger planes intersect the engagement plane at a pair of angles so that, during use, a single featherboard provides forces which urge the workpiece both against the fence and against the table as the workpiece is pushed along the fence in a workpiece travel direction. A parallel setting gauge may be included.
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Carter & Schnedler, P.A.
Self Shelley M.
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