Progressive Technology, Inc.

Jerry M Multop

Michael Collins

Luke Hall

A versatile woodworking device for hobbyist or professional use which is rugged, reliable, precise, and portable, wherein woodworking accessory equipment may be selectively and quickly mounted thereto for use therewith, as hand-held circular saws, routers, shapers, radial arm saws, and the like. A pair of spaced rails are provided having a slidable carriage therebetween, wherein a desired woodworking power tool is mounted upon a mounting plate carried by and detachable from the slidable carriage. The tool mounting plate is rotatable with respect to the carriage thereby to position the tool as desired with respect to the workpiece and the carriage, and fixed in position if desired. The carriage itself may also be releasably fixed with respect to the slide rails. Scale indicia means permit precise positioning and repositioning of the carriage as desired with accuracy.

Versatile precision woodworking apparatus

Apparatus is provided for guiding a powered cutting tool as a function of a traced preselected pattern. The apparatus preferably includes a table member for supporting both of work piece and a paper or the like, exhibiting the pattern of interest. A first pair of rail members are fixedly mounted to or adjacent opposite sides of the table member, in parallel with each other, and on opposite sides of both the work piece and the paper exhibiting the pattern. In addition, a carriage assembly is slidably positioned on the first pair of rails, for movably supporting a stylus above the paper exhibiting the pattern, and for movably supporting the cutting tool and its driving mechanism adjacent the work piece.

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Woodlands, TX, United States of America

Jerry M Multop