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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8152420 | Drill bit jig A drill bit jig includes an elongate member, two jig securing elements and a drill bit guide. The elongate member is hollow so that one or more elongate drill bits may be stored therein. The drill bit guide includes a plurality of through holes where the axes of the... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8147172 | Drilling jigs Drilling jigs consisting of a first substantially rectilinear bar (2) having a plurality of through holes (4) through which holes can be drilled in a surface, and a plurality of locator members (6, 7, 8) which are rotatable relative to one or ot... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8128321 | Drilling templates A drilling template for use in jointing workpieces, the template consisting of a substantially rectilinear bar with through holes through which holes can be drilled in the workpieces to effect said jointing, a locating device for locating the template relative to th... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8029214 | Pocket hole jig tool system A pocket hole jig tool system includes a base on which a workpiece is supported. A drill guide support is slidably mounted to the base. Drill guide bushings are movably mounted relative to the drill guide support for clampingly engaging the workpiece and for guiding... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8007211 | Apparatus for making aligned inclined holes in work pieces An apparatus is disclosed for making aligned inclined holes in upper and lower work piece. The apparatus includes a set of drill bits and an alignment element. Each of the drill bits can be driven into the upper and lower work pieces to make the inclined holes. The ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7976252 | Pocket hole jig tool system A pocket hole jig tool system includes a base on which a workpiece is supported. A drill guide support is slidably mounted to the base. Drill guide bushings are movably mounted relative to the drill guide support for clampingly engaging the workpiece and for guiding... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7967534 | Pocket hole jig tool system A pocket hole jig tool system includes a base on which a workpiece is supported. A drill guide support is slidably mounted to the base. Drill guide bushings are movably mounted relative to the drill guide support for clampingly engaging the workpiece and for guiding... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7878740 | Drill guide jig A drill guide jig for guiding a drill orthogonally to a curved surface of a workpiece is disclosed. The jig is provided with a guide member having a guide hole for passing a drill and a holding member for holding the guide member. The holding member has a contact pa... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7798750 | Drill guide with removeable clamp retainer A drill guide apparatus includes a body providing a workpiece clamping surface. The body includes one or more drill guides, wherein the one or more drill guides pass through the workpiece clamping surface at an acute angle, a first track, and a second track. The dri... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7766584 | Drilling auxiliary device having a cooling effect An auxiliary device for a drill includes a base having a first side provided with a gathering portion, a fixing post mounted on a second side of the base and provided with a limit hole connected to the gathering portion, a water inlet port mounted on the second side... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7762749 | Single bore self-centering jig A device to aid the user to drill a hole in the exact transverse center of an elongated object, such as the edge of a board to be joined by dowels. It has a single pivoted cross which expands and contracts in response to movement of a pair of spaced parallel channel... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7670089 | Simple inclined-hole drilling jig A simple inclined-hole drilling jig comprises a jig body having a crossover plane at the bottom to evenly press against the wood workpiece, and a beveled end member at the front concavely disposed with a guiding shaft hole extending downwardly from the beveled end m... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7641425 | Adjustable holding systems Adjustable holding systems may include a fixed or portable base with a base opening and clamp assembly. The base opening is defined by a back surface, two side surfaces, and a partial front surface. A guide assembly may be movable within the base opening when the cl... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7597513 | Upright inclined-hole drilling jig An improved upright drilling jig comprises two parallel panels parallelly mounted on a leveled base platform, and an inclined-hole drilling jig slidably disposed between the sides of the parallel panels in a manner that it can be vertically adjusted. A sliding saddl... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7549827 | Hole placement guide A hole placement guide adapted for marking and/or drilling hole locations at chosen positions in workpieces, and an elongated extension member for attaching to the hole placement guide in numerous positions, such that hole positions interior to the workpiece surface... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7530770 | Door lockset mounting tool A door lockset mounting tool includes a base body, which has a first plate member and a second plate member fixedly arranged at right angles, a first positioning hole defined in the first plate member, and a second positioning hole defined in the second plate member... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7497647 | Device for orienting a work tool at a predetermined attitude relative to a work piece A device (20) for orienting a work tool (10) at a predetermined attitude relative to a work piece includes a base (22) having a first surface (34 or 44) abuttable against a work piece, a sleeve (24) coupled to the base, and ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7484914 | Fixture for drilling pocket holes in workpieces of different thicknesses A fixture for drilling a pocket hole in a working face of workpieces of different thicknesses is a U-shaped member having a guide leg and a clamp leg parallel to each other and joined together at a bottom end of each by a transverse base leg. An angled guide channel... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7481607 | Mounting jig assembly for a door latch A mounting jig assembly for mounting a door handle to a door having a main door bore includes a drill jig constructed and arranged for placement on the door over the main door bore and having at least one mounting hole, wherein the drill jig is constructed and arran... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7374373 | Pocket hole drilling machine A pocket-hole drilling apparatus for drilling pocket-holes in a workpiece is disclosed. In one embodiment, an initiation switch actuates clamping the workpiece and the movement of a drilling module to cut a pocket-hole. The drilling module has a motor and a step-dri... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7365905 | Collimated optical system An optical system provides a lens cell having a generally cylindrical lens cell body and an optical lens system therein. The lens cell body has a lens cell central longitudinal axis and a lens cell optical axis, eccentrically offset from the lens cell central longit... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364388 | Multi-layer drilling template and method of drilling using the template Drilling template include a generally planar member comprising at least one mechanism for guiding a drill. The at least one mechanism is structured and arranged to align a drilling machine having the drill. The generally planar member has at least two layers which c... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356902 | Lock set installation apparatus and kit and method of using the same A lock set installation apparatus has a pair of hole saw guides which locate a hole to receive door operating members of a lock set. Each hole saw guide has at least one rail member which oppose one another. A lock bolt hole mechanism is movable and coupled with the... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7328495 | Method and apparatus for registering a torque-transmitting tool in a fixture and for forming a diagonal bore in the tool A torque transmitting tool is machined by registering the torque transmitting tool using a shoulder between the shank and the out-of-round drive portion of the tool as a reference. First and second seating surfaces are milled on first and second opposed surfaces of ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7320516 | Apparatus, fixture, packing, a method for machining of spectacle lenses There is described an apparatus and a fixture used in determining position and for producing assembling holes in a spectacle lens for rimless spectacles. The assembling holes are intended for receiving a U-shaped bracket which is used in fastening bridge and side ba... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7316527 | Lockset drilling guide A lockset drilling guide that comprises a frame is provided. The frame comprises a first flange and a second flange. The second flange is capable of flexing relative to the first flange. The lockset drilling guide further comprises at least a first opening and a sec... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317296 | Electric motor The electric motor is equipped with an electronic control, for example in the form of a frequency converter (2) and comprises at least one Seebeck element (6) whose one side is connected to the motor (1) in a heat-conducting manner and whose oth... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7299554 | Hinge base plate mounting tool for face frame hinges A jig for face frame hinges may include a base and gripping members, wherein the jig may be secured to a frame member or a wall adapted to receive a hinge base plate and the hinge base plate may be abutted with a first hinge abutting edge of the jig. The gripping me... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7293488 | Splitter for circular table saw and method of installation A kit containing a splitter and drill guide for installing the splitter behind a circular saw blade to prevent contact between the cut work piece and the upwardly moving rear portion of the saw blade. The splitter includes a plurality of pegs that are installed into... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290963 | Drill guide for cutting openings in stone countertops A guide assembly for use with a rotating bit when forming an opening in a stone countertop. The assembly includes a base unit having an annular, resiliently flexible body with a ring-shaped suction cup at its lower end. The suction cup forms a seal about the bottom ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7252463 | Double-sided ultra-thin door marking template A square channel shaped template of ultra-thin rigid plastic, metal or other material has one or more mating configurations of pencil-point-size marking holes in the two opposing faces of the channel. Each configuration of marking holes matches a configuration of sc... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7241091 | Decoration-used mold unit A decoration-used mold unit for defining a border on a work piece to facilitate cutting or milling. The mold unit includes an elongated rectangular main body formed with a first window for processing a first sink and a second window for processing a second sink. A f... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7229237 | Tool for removing an object from a workpiece A tool for removing an object from a hole in a workpiece which includes a first and second arm pivotably connected together. Each arm having an opening between the ends. The second arm also has a drill hole at the second end. A liner bushing and a drill bushing can ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7226253 | Clamping mechanism The drilling of a hole through at least two structural components in alignment with a predrilled hole or marked location in one of the structural components is facilitated by a clamping mechanism that has a bail with two legs. One leg carries a first clamping sectio... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7220085 | Universal jig/work holding fixture and method of use A universal jig/work holding fixture for precision manual reaming of valve bores within a transmission valve body, or other work piece is disclosed. The universal jig/work holding fixture includes a tool holder (i.e. jig) having universal swiveling movement in all a... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7214008 | Adjustable drill template An adjustable drill template has a base plate and a plurality of drill blocks. The drill blocks are movably coupled to the base plate. The drill blocks can move along the length of the base plate so that the drill blocks can be configured to conform to a desired hol... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7210880 | Lock set installation apparatus and kit and method of using the same A lock set installation apparatus has a pair of hole saw guides which locate a hole to receive door operating members of a lock set. Each hole saw guide has at least one rail member which oppose one another. A lock bolt hole mechanism is movable and coupled with the... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207751 | Gun drill guide and gun drill guide assembly A gun drill guide is disclosed comprising a cylinder body member of a resilient polymer material having a central opening extending therethrough, a radially extending flange means at one end thereof to engage the end face of a bearing assembly and an annular groove ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7195429 | Drill template with integral vacuum attach A drill template includes a vacuum housing with a skirt having a CAD-formed contact surface formed to an exact fit with a mold line surface of a structure. The drill template includes at least one drill guide bushing extending through the vacuum housing from a top s... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7189035 | Cabinet door knob pull measuring jig A cabinet door knob pull measuring jig (1) comprising a frame having a baseboard (2) and a backboard (3) which are connected together to form an L-shape, a drilling plate (4) adjustably attached within a vertical slot (12) located ... | 03/13/2007 |
