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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 |
| 6941664 | Shingle cutting tool A shingle cutting tool for trimming shingles includes a vertical panel having a front edge, a back edge, a bottom edge and a top edge. A horizontal slot for receiving shingles extends into the front edge and extends toward the back edge. A front handle is attached t... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6931733 | Carpenter's combination plane A carpenter's combination plane comprised of a basic holder and a blade holder, adapted with various holder accessories depending on the size of the work surface and the distance of reciprocal planing; other auxiliary accessories may be provided to the holder access... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6718642 | Rabbeting plane A method and apparatus for a blade clamping mechanism in a woodworking plane that allows a plane iron as wide as the plane body itself to be clamped in a wedge shaped slot in the plane body. The slot begins at a point tangent to a waste ejection hole proximate a fro... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6347456 | Flush plane A plane having an easily removable blade positionable in use flush against the work surface. A magnet attached to the underside of the handle of the plane secures the blade to the handle. The blade may be positioned on the handle with the cutting edge exp... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6205668 | Protective cover for a carpenter's hand plane A protective cover for a carpenter's plane includes a base plate having an upper surface and a width which is substantially similar to a width of the carpenter's plane and opposing side walls having a lower portion attached to opposing edges of the base p... | 03/27/2001 |
| 5136786 | Planing tool A low weight, high stability, disassemblable low metal content planing tool is set forth. The overall length of removeable handles is approximately equal to the longitudinal length of the tool. In narrow workspaces the tool can be operated with such handl... | 08/11/1992 |
| 4809434 | Hand held portable facing device The specification discloses a hand held portable facing device to be used primarily for facing polystyrene building panels after installation. The facing device is constructed of a frame, a wire planing element, and tension arms which mount on the frame f... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4704795 | Adjustable scraper A scraper device comprises a carrier presenting a working face and including two slot formations disposed at different angles to the plane of the working face. An elongate scraper blade, such as a conventional hack saw blade, is releasably mountable in ei... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4603479 | Guide means for manual planing tools A manual planing or milling tool having a rotary driven cutter is displaceable longitudinally along a fixedly arranged guide rail. The tool is connected with a holder which carries a running part sliding on the guide rail. The holder may be guided pivotin... | 08/05/1986 |
| 4597181 | Planing tool having a quickly releasable rotary planer head A planing tool has a rotary planer head driven rotatably by an electric motor. The planer head is removably connected to a drive shaft which comprises a plurality of elements which can be axially disengaged to enable the planer head to be easily replaced.... | 07/01/1986 |
| 4589209 | Woodworking plane A plane with an interchangeable iron that can be displaced at an angle to the contact surface of the plane frame, along the direction in which the plane travels. The iron is also displaceable on each side of a midposition parallel to the contact surface o... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4584772 | Hand-held planing tool with a rotary cutter A hand-held planing tool has a housing with a chamber adapted to receive a rotary driven planer head. The chamber is sized to receive either a small planer head and blade which makes a shallow flat planar cut in a workpiece, or a larger planer head and bl... | 04/29/1986 |
| 4492260 | Woodworking plane A plane in which the cutting blade is fixedly mounted, and a portion of the sole plate is adjustable relative to another portion thereof in order to adjust the depth of cut of the plane. As distinguished from conventional planes in which the cutting blade... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4373628 | Woodworking plane holder A holder for a plane that will protect the plane's blade when in storage and allow for vertical storage of the plane and holder.... | 02/15/1983 |
| 4213572 | Blade holder A blade holder for machine blades, especially for blades which are arranged in an annular fashion along the periphery of cutting tools. The blade holder has a blade carrier and a blade holding plate which is detachably mounted on the blade carrier by at l... | 07/22/1980 |
| 4088165 | Planing tool Planing tool comprising a front part movably connected to a rear part and having surfaces which face each other and are movable towards and away from each other, said surfaces being inclined in the direction of forward push of the tool and having means fo... | 05/09/1978 |
