US 11,931,812 B2
Auto-adjustable pocket hole jig docking station
Robert N. Poole, Coronado, CA (US)
Filed by Robert N. Poole, Coronado, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/526,868.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/114,143, filed on Nov. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0212271 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. B23B 47/28 (2006.01); B23B 49/00 (2006.01)
CPC B23B 47/287 (2013.01) [B23B 49/005 (2013.01); B23B 2247/10 (2013.01); B23B 2260/0482 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An auto-adjusting pocket hole jig docking station, comprising:
a housing;
an adjustment mechanism carried by the housing, the adjustment mechanism comprising:
a first rack reciprocally movable between a raised position and a lowered position, relative a body;
a second rack reciprocally movable between a raised position and a lowered position, relative the body; and
a double pinion gear carried rotatably by the housing, the double pinion gear including a first gear in meshing engagement with the first rack and a second gear in meshing engagement with the second rack, the first gear and the second gear of the double pinion gear having a rotational ratio therebetween;
wherein movement of one of the first rack and the second rack moves the other of the first rack and the second rack a distance proportional to the rotational ratio; and
an attachment fixture removably attaching a guide block to the housing.