Tool guide

DETAILED DESCRIPTION In the practice of the present invention, a guide is provided for guiding a tool on a workpiece including a surface and a back edge.
The guide includes a guide rod with front and back ends and an angle section for engaging a workpiece surface and back edge.
A connector assembly includes an upper plate connected to the guide rod back end and a lower plate connected to the angle section.
A pivot pin pivotally interconnects the upper and lower plates and a clamp bolt is provided for clamping them together with the guide rod and angle section in predetermined, rotational, angular orientations with respect to each other.
A guide tube assembly includes juxtaposed guide tubes, each of which is adapted for slidably receiving a guide rod for performing certain types of cuts.
The guide tube assembly also includes a connecting bar extending laterally from one of the guide tubes and adapted for releaseable connection to the tool.
OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION The principal objects of the present invention are: to provide a guide for tools; to provide such a guide which is particularly adapted for hand-held power tools; to provide such a guide which is especially adapted for circular saws; to provide such a guide which is adapted for guiding tools through cuts having various angular orientations; to provide such a guide which can eliminate the necessity of marking a board to be cut with a square or similar type of device; to provide such a guide which is adaptable for most circular saws; to provide such a guide which is adaptable for many types of cutting jobs; and to provide such a guide which is economical to manufacture, efficient in operation, capable of a long operating life and particularly well adapted for the proposed use thereof.
A further object of this invention is to provide a guide system with a retainer for retaining a saw blade guard in a retracted position and automatically releasing same.
Yet another object of this invention is to provide a guide with a leveling device for making cuts which are either vertical or horizontal