Ballistic resistant body covering
A ballistic resistant body covering for protecting the torso, groin and neck area from ballistic missiles.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7788813 | Hand held cutter The present invention relates to a hand held cutter (11) utilizing auxiliary wheels (9) individually performing two working modes including cuts along a rectilinear path and a desired curved path. By switching a control, a pair of auxiliary wheels (... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7444749 | rotary knife A rotary knife apparatus has first and second protecting strips placed on both sides of a joint end of a blade of the rotary knife, and two protecting strips placed on the same base tube as a rotating point. A bi-fork braking component is used to control its opening... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7434319 | Circular cutter A circular cutter comprises a circular blade mounted to a front end of a handle via a shaft assembly, in the handle is disposed a slide member for controlling a hood having a T-shaped hole, the T-shaped hole is located correspondingly to a center of the circular bla... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7290340 | Circular cutter A circular cutter comprising a circular blade mounted to a front end of a handle via a shaft assembly, in the handle is disposed a slide member for controlling a hood, the hood is formed with a T-shaped hole located correspondingly to a center of the circular blade ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7275872 | Adjustable bearing A bearing that can be reoriented to move its center is disclosed. The center of the bearing is offset from the center of its outer housing. Should the shaft extending through the bearing need to be raised or lowered the outer housing is simply rotated in its recepta... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7204023 | Rotary cutter A rotary cutter includes a housing, a swing member rotatably attached to the housing and having a trigger extended out of the housing and having a curved slot and an enlarged opening communicating with each other. A button is slidably engaged through the housing, an... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7188424 | Cutting wheel A cutting device in accordance with the present invention is deal for use in cutting pizza and other “flat-bread” like cuisine. For example, in accordance with various embodiments, a cutting device is provided which exhibits improved functionality and ease of us... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7185435 | Utility knife with dual blades A utility knife that includes a pair of blades mounted on a blade holder. One blade is to be extendable from the housing of the utility knife adjacent the fore end of the utility knife with the other blade to be extendable from the housing to be usable for adjacent ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7127820 | Flexible flush cut saw The invention described herein relates to a flush cut saw that is capable of safely making a flush cut. The saw has a handle with a thin, flexible blade extending therefrom. The blade has two elongated extensions running away from the handle. The extensions can each... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7089669 | Sheet material cutter with adjustable blades A small, handheld sheet material cutter has a pair of cooperating cutting wheels and a mechanism for easily adjusting the position of one of the cutting wheels in order to provide a lateral gap of varying width between the cutting edges of the two cutting wheels, th... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7077392 | Food cutting board with a sloping trough slide A cutting board for chopping food articles and household items includes a baseboard having a cutting surface for cutting articles thereon. The cutting board further includes a smooth curved sloping surface region at one edge. A surface of the smooth curved sloping s... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7073263 | Hand-held tool with discal blade A hand-held tool includes a body having a handle, a discal blade rotatably supported at a tip end of the body, a cover for covering the discal blade at one side in a thicknesswise of the discal blade, an operating member connected to the cover for reciprocal movemen... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6931814 | Devices for positioning and tapering the edges of adjacent wallboards and methods for using same An apparatus is disclosed for reshaping a butt joint formed by a pair of adjacent butt edges of mounted wallboards. The apparatus has tapering means, which includes a body with a pair of beveled surfaces for contacting and simultaneously tapering the adjacent butt e... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6745476 | Cutting tool A cutting tool (10) adapted to produce chamfers along the edges of drywall panels. The tool (10,110,210) comprises a housing having a channel (18) defined by a base wall (13) and substantially parallel first and second sidewalls (15,17... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6675689 | Circular blade unit A blade unit for cutting sheet material including a base member assembly mounting a circular blade and a cover member for detachable engagement with the base member assembly. The base member assembly includes a supporting wall having a circular upper edge... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6643936 | Hand-held rotary cutter A hand held rotary cutter comprising a first handle including a head at one end thereof for receiving a blade and a second handle pivotally connected to the first handle. The second handle includes a rotating member at one end thereof. The rotating member... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6612035 | Drywall cutting tool A drywall cutting tool provides cuts in drywall material either parallel or perpendicular to a reference edge of the sheet, without repositioning the tool from the reference edge. The tool comprises a T square, with the head and stem portions immovably af... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6502313 | Edge trimming tool An edge trimming tool for trimming the edge of a piece of material. The edge trimming tool includes a trimming head rotatably attached to a handle. The trimming head defines a first cylindrical section having a peripheral surface and a pair of substantial... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6484405 | Rotary wheel cutting apparatus with a spring-biased blade cover A rotary-blade cutting apparatus which includes a spring-biased cutting-blade cover. The cover is spring biased to a closed position and includes a projection for manually applying a hold-open force to rotate and hold the spring-biased cover in an open or... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6327783 | Rotating and locating structures of protective shield of round knife A round knife including a handle which is provided in a head end thereof with a slot for receiving pivotally a round knife blade and a support frame. The slot is provided with a protective groove for retaining and locating the support frame. When the supp... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6298561 | Tool for cutting sandwich type plaster boards The present invention is directed to a tool for cutting sandwich type plaster boards such as gypsum plaster boards. It is an object of the present invention to provide a tool which allows the exact cutting of those boards in a time saving manner. Accordin... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6282794 | Rotary cutter with a blade cartridge The present invention is directed to a cutter having a disposable blade cartridge, a grip for handling by a user, and a coupling arrangement for coupling the cartridge to the grip in such a manner to prevent undesired rotation of the cartridge with respec... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6154967 | Rotatable pivoting cutting tool A tool is described as including a pivotable guide member through which a rotatable cutting blade extends. As the cutting tool is advanced over the object to be cut, the guide member pivots in response to contacting the object which allows the object to b... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6094824 | Rotary cutter A rotary cutter has a handle, a rotary blade having a cutting edge, a protective member for covering the blade, a lock mechanism for locking the protective member, and a brake mechanism for applying rotational resistance to the blade. The blade is rotatab... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6044565 | Physiologically appropriate hand-held cutter for fabric and sheet goods A physiologically appropriate hand-held cutter for fabric and sheet goods comprising a rotary cutter blade encased within a handle that includes a recessed depression within the handle surface essentially proximate the area of the handle enclosing the bla... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5899000 | Hand held cutter A hand held cutter which is self guiding and includes a roller with a resilient workpiece contacting surface and is rotatably mounted adjacent each pair of cutting rolls on a cutting roll supporting body. When the cutting roll supporting body is pulled or... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5894774 | Method of cutting cloth materials A guard for use with rotary cutters in the cloth cutting and related arts. The design includes a wide, clear plate for placement over cloth to be cut and an upturned edge portion to allow application of a rotary cutter device. The method steps of the inve... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5881624 | Media cutting apparatus A cutting apparatus in a strong plastic housing having two rotatable slitter blades. The cutting apparatus is mounted on a guide rail for movement by hand across a tightly held sheet of media such as paper, vellum or film. The slitter blades are mounted b... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5765289 | Rotary cutter A rotary cutter includes an elongated handle having a gripping portion connected to a platform having a peripheral edge. A generally circular blade is rotatably mounted on a shaft extending through an aperture formed in the platform. The cutter also inclu... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5720104 | Drywall sheet trimmer A compact, reliable and convenient drywall-sheet trimmer has opposed cutter disks (7, 8) positioned rotationally in opposing walls (3, 4) of a trimmer channel (2) having a slide bar (19) that is adjustable in positioning intermediate the opposing cutter d... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5600892 | Dual side drywall panel cutter A cutter for simultaneously severing opposed sides of a drywall panel. The inventive device includes a guide assembly for sliding along an exposed edge of a drywall panel. Support columns project from the guide assembly for positioning along respectively ... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5557996 | Method and apparatus for cutting pieces of cloth for use in quilts or the like A method and apparatus for cutting cloth into shapes for use in quilts or the like. A sheet of transparent material has a first linear slot disposed through a sheet at a first location on the sheet so that a cutter can extend therethrough to cut several l... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5493781 | Cutter A cutter includes a movable blade, a handle and a slider. The movement of the slider causes the blade to move between an extended cutting position and a retracted storage position. The slider includes one projection which is pressed against a surface of t... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5488773 | Material scoring apparatus In order to facilitate a scoring of a sheet of material such as drywall, plasterboard, wallboard or the like, an apparatus includes a pair of arms each having an upper end and a lower end where the arms are spaced apart to define a sheet-receiving channel... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5355588 | Rotary cutting blade assembly for a hand-held cutter A rotary cutter having a handle, a cylindrical head formed on one end of the handle and having a planar surface on each side of the head, an actuating member pivotally mounted in the head, a circular blade mounted on the actuating member and having a pink... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5299355 | Rotary blade actuator for a hand held cutter A rotary cutter including a handle, a cylindrical head formed on one end of the handle and having a planar surface on each side, the handle and head having an internal cavity, a unitary actuating member mounted in the cavity in the handle and head, a circ... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5144749 | Utility knife A utility knife has a bolster formed at a downward angle from a body which receives a blade shield and a circular blade. A channel is formed in the body at the bolster and has an upper pair of notches and a lower pair of notches. The blade shield has a ci... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5101564 | Hand-held cutter having a rotatable circular blade and safety guard A rotary cutter having a handle, a cylindrical head formed on one end of the handle and having an internal cavity with a planar surface on each side, an actuating member is pivotally mounted in the cavity with a circular blade secured to one side of the a... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5079941 | Temper mill installation and shearing machine for use in such an installation A temper mill installation for steel strip has an uncoiler, a rolling mill for the strip, a shearing machine for cutting the strip to remove damaged turns at the end of a coil and a coiler for coiling the strip after rolling. To avoid wastage of sheet, th... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5027515 | Drywall twin cutting block A dry-wall cutting tool is described. It has a block-like configuration and is designed to slide over the edge of the drywall and to cut both sides of the drywall to the same distance from the edge and at the same time as it does so. The depth of the cut ... | 07/02/1991 |