US 12,138,730 B2
Device for supporting and/or guiding a machine tool
Wolfgang Spengler, Neidlingen (DE)
Assigned to Festool GmbH, Wendlingen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/260,480
Filed by Festool GmbH, Wendlingen (DE)
PCT Filed Jul. 19, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/069598
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 14, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/016446, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 102018117677.5 (DE), filed on Jul. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0268619 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. B23Q 9/00 (2006.01); B25H 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B23Q 9/0042 (2013.01) [B25H 1/0078 (2013.01)] 49 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for supporting and/or guiding a machine tool or a tool or a workpiece, wherein the device comprises:
a contact body having a contact surface for abutment against a work surface of a workpiece or a wall, and
a holding element releasably held by the contact body,
wherein the holding element has an adhesive for adhesion to the work surface, and
wherein, when the contact surface of the contact body already abuts against the work surface, the adhesive is displacable from a positioning state into an adhesive state, and
wherein the adhesive is not in contact with the work surface when the adhesive is in the positioning state such that the contact surface of the contact body is positionable with respect to the work surface, and
wherein the adhesive adheres to the work surface when the adhesive is in the adhesive state such that the contact body is immovable with respect to the holding element and the holding element fixes the contact body on the work surface.