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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7228631 | Contouring shave The invention is directed to a hand tool for cutting shavings from the surface of a workpiece of wood (or other workable material) to shape and make smooth any three-dimensional surface having concave, flat, and/or convex contours. The thickness of the shavings is m... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7066221 | Plate joiner A plate joiner including a fence support, a drive, and a fence system. The fence support includes a cutter and a contact surface, which defines a cutter slot. The cutter is arranged and configured to protrude from fence support through cutter slot to make a plunge c... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6814157 | Rotary tool flex shaft with lock pin and end cap A handpiece for a rotary tool including a flexible power shaft configured for connection at one end to the rotary tool, and at the other end to the handpiece, with at least one locking formation affixed to the shaft. The handpiece includes a housing having a first e... | 11/09/2004 |
| 5845719 | Vibrating cutting machine An elongated rod is journalled in a housing to reciprocate substantially vertical therefrom and has a cutting blade fixed on the tip of the lower end of the rod. A rotary motor is located at the upper end of the housing and is provided with an eccentric c... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5415725 | Device for removing glued down carpet Apparatus for removing glued-down carpet and it has a frame having a pair of laterally spaced side walls connected together by a plurality of cross members. A motor that is connected to a gear box is mounted on one of the cross members. The frame is mount... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5274923 | Cutting apparatus A cutting apparatus comprising a cutting blade arranged along a pole pendent from a motor portion, a press rod having a cloth press attached to the lower end thereof, which is vertically movably arranged at a front part of the cutting blade, and a brake d... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5035059 | Hand-held scroll saw A hand-held scroll saw having a blade includes a body having a handle provided at the upper portion of the body, a foot plate provided at the lower portion of the body so as to be slid on a workpiece which is to be cut by the saw, a piston provided over t... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5009012 | Saber saw A saber saw comprises an elongated displacing rod which supports a saw blade and is reciprocable in a displacement direction extending along its elongation and also swingable in a swinging direction which is transverse to the displacement direction, and a... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4884344 | Saber saw A saber saw comprises an elongated displacing rod which supports a saw blade and is reciprocable in a displacement direction extending along its elongation and also swingable in a swinging direction which is transverse to the displacement direction, and a... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4854207 | Circular saw blade guide and vibration damper Disclosed is a power driven circular saw blade and a guide assembly for such blade where the guide assembly includes a pair of guide units mounted respectively one of each of opposite side of the blade. Each guide unit includes a guide housing with a guid... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4669190 | Portable motor-driven cutter A portable motor-driven cutter for cutting off a sheet material includes an eccentric shaft rotatably supported by a gear case and a gear cover, an L-shaped driver arm having an upper end rotatably fitted over an eccentric portion of the eccentric shaft, ... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4662069 | Cutting tool having parallel cutting blades A tool having parallel cutting blades for cutting matching seam edges from two pieces of material, such as two pieces of carpet. The tool is comprised of an insulative housing having a pair of rotatable cutting blades disposed on opposite sides thereof in... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4617737 | Machine for cutting out flat material A machine for cutting out flat material comprising a support for the flat material, a carriage guided for displacement along the support by at least one guide rail, the carriage bearing a beam extending above the support and pivotable, in relation to the ... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4574673 | Stiffened cutting blade with reversible replaceable edge member A stiffened elongated cutting blade for use in a cutting apparatus of the type employing an elongated cantilevered cutting blade for cutting layups of fabric or other similar sheet material, and reciprocated along its longitudinal axis when actively cutti... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4557051 | Manually guided power assisted cutting machine The invention relates to a cutting machine, in particular a fabric cutting machine, comprising a bearing table for the material and a supporting structure, which is displaceable along the table, for a cutting tool rotatable about a vertical axis and compr... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4546546 | Apparatus for cutting out flat goods or structures applied to a base fabric A cutter frame or base of substantially C-shaped configuration is rotatable about a substantially vertical axis and carries an oscillating cutter element. The cutting edge of the cutter element can be guided between the base fabric and the appliqued flat ... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4545275 | Blade for severing fibrous material An elongated blade has a notch in its leading edge, with parallel chisel edges adapted to chop through the oriented fibers (boron or graphite) of uncured sheet material as the blade is reciprocated vertically at a high frequency relative to its forward ve... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4403416 | Cloth-cutting machine A cloth-cutting machine designed to cut pieces of cloth on a working table by a cutting mechanism provided with an automatic cutter and capable of achieving effective cutting operation in any place on the working table without exerting any unbalanced load... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4366620 | Roof seam cutting machine A machine for cutting standing seams which connect roof panels together includes a cutter wheel located adjacent a platen wheel. The cutter wheel is movable and is moved toward the platen wheel by a jack-screw mechanism mounted on the frame of the machine... | 01/04/1983 |
| 4343088 | Precision trimming device A precision trimming device (18), which is provided for removing metal areas (12a) between contact pads (12) of a printed circuit board (10), includes a rotary drive motor (20) mounted for lateral and pivotal movement on a frame (22). The drive motor (20)... | 08/10/1982 |
| 4334356 | Anti-mar base for saber- and bayonet-type saws and the like An anti-mar base is provided for a saber- or bayonet-type saw. The anti-mar base is provided with spring clips to detachably affix the same to the corresponding base of the saw in order to prevent the marring of objects to be cut. The anti-mar base is mad... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4277890 | Device for cutting multiple plies of material An oscillating knife in a textile cutting machine is inclined to cut multiple plies of material generally substantially 90 degrees to each ply by inclining the cutting machine or a knife blade.... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4244102 | Carpet cutting machine Apparatus to cut a carpet into two sections with the edge of each section being beveled. The apparatus employs two rotary cutters mounted at an angle to each other and which are driven at the same speed in the same direction.... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4131996 | Blade for cutting wallboard A blade having a chisel point at one end and a cutting point intermediate its ends is mounted in the blade holder of a sabre saw. As the sabre saw is moved along the wallboard to be cut, the chisel point on each stroke moves through the gypsum core, its r... | 01/02/1979 |
| 4114270 | Butcher's meat saw A butcher's meat saw has a housing from which extends a flat guide plate having an edge along which is slidable a blade reciprocated by an eccentric-type drive mechanism within the housing. Either the edge of the guide or the edge of the blade is formed w... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4107839 | Manually guided cutting machine for sheet material A manually guided cutting machine for cutting stacked layers of cloth and the like which includes a frame having a downwardly extending column with a foot plate of flat extensive construction for supporting the machine on a cutting table as the machine is... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4092777 | Cutting-out machine for flat material A cutting-out machine for flat material such as cloth has a slit blade cutting mechanism mounted on one end of a double-arm beam. The beam arms are pivotally connected to one another about a vertical axis. The cutting mechanism is pivotally connected to o... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4024633 | Simplified safety guard for a cloth cutting machine A simplified safety guard for a cloth cutting machine of the vertically oriented circular blade type. The simplified guard includes a fixed section mounted to the machine that permanently guards substantially three-quarters of the blade's periphery, and a... | 05/24/1977 |
| 3994065 | Foam rubber cutting device A reciprocating saw for cutting foam rubber having a blade with a pattern of no-set teeth interrupted at intervals by toothless arcuate grooves, and a guide member having a slotted, elongated, wedge-shaped section enclosing the portion of the blade rearwa... | 11/30/1976 |