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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8043142 | Sharpener carried by the product table of a food slicer A food slicer has a support member including a base portion and an upstanding portion integrally formed with the base portion. The upstanding portion includes a rotating cutting blade for slicing food product. The base portion includes a food product table slidably ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7722442 | Knife-edge sharpening apparatus Two counter-rotating, intermeshing, toothed wheels grind opposite sides of an interposed blade to create or burrlessly sharpen a knife-edge on the blade. The wheels can be solid or comprised of a fixed stack of toothed disks, concentrically aligned, the teeth of eac... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7264540 | Arrow blade sharpening apparatus The arrow blade sharpening apparatus is best suited for precision sharpening of arrow blades, Exacto® knife blades, and other like edges which require precision and fine honing. The transparent lidded apparatus is motorized and counter rotates drive gears and then ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7220169 | Sharpening apparatus A sharpening apparatus (16) for a blade-like cutting implement. The sharpening apparatus has an elongate body (18) and a cutting edge extending widthwise across one end of the body (11) at a predetermined angle relative to the longitudinal axis ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7121932 | Portable drill sharpener A portable drill sharpener includes a casing, a sand-wheel, a positioning device, a first grinding unit and a second grinding unit, a holding member for positioning a drill to be ground, a first adjustment unit and a second adjustment unit respectively connected to ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 6932683 | Knife sharper having cutting edge protective structure A knife sharpener includes a housing having one or more access slots for receiving knife blades to be sharpened, one or more grinding wheels rotatably received in the housing and disposed close to the access slots of the housing for grinding and sharpening the cutti... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6786808 | Sharpening device for rotating cutting tools and machine employing said device A device for sharpening a rotating discoidal cutting tool (13) is described, comprising at least one sharpening grinder (21; 23). The device provides a dressing tool (61; 71) which interacts with said at least one grinder to dress the working su... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6709320 | Width adjustable sharpener A knife sharpener includes a handle and an operation portion in which two grinding members are respectively and pivotably received. An aperture is defined through a top of the operation portion and communicates with the grinding members. Each of the two grinding mem... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6623340 | Grinding jig A grinding jig (5) is to be attached on an edge tool (4) to be ground on a rotating grindstone (2) in a grinding machine (1), having a support means (3) in the vicinity of the grindstone. The jig is split by having a base portion (6) and two parallel open... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6544105 | Control device to implement a grinding process for a knife shaft The present invention relates to a control device to grind a knife shaft used in a machine intended for cutting sheets of materials into strips, for example sheets of paper, plastic, plates of photosensitive film or any other material having the form of t... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6261161 | Sharpener assembly for a food slicer and related method A sharpener assembly for a food slicer includes a rotatable frame with a sharpening member and a truing member operatively connected for rotation with the frame. The frame is mounted on a food slicer to place the sharpening member and truing member on opp... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6257967 | Sharpener for veneer knife A sharpening tool for a veneer knife has a primary stone and a secondary stone driven by a power head. The secondary stone is inclined at an angle to the primary stone corresponding to the angle of the defined faces of the veneer knife cutting edge. Outri... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6071181 | Knife sharpening machine A knife sharpening machine has sharpening and honing assemblies each having fixed and movable subassemblies with circular stones mounted on shafts, the stones being spaced from one another. An adjusting mechanism moves the movable subassemblies toward and... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5700182 | Apparatus and method for automated honing of elongated straight-edged cutting blades An apparatus and method for automated honing of elongated straight-edged cutting blades such as those used in the printing and binding industry for the trimming of books or pamphlets and the like, wherein a sharpened blade which has been ground on other e... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5645470 | Method of honing a knife blade A honing process for a long knife blade such as that used in chipping wood products comprises two honing bodies each formed by a shaft carrying three honing discs with the shafts spaced by a distance less than the radius of the discs so the discs interlea... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5435771 | Method and apparatus for sharpening scalloped-edge blades A sharpening apparatus for sharpening scalloped-edged blades in a carton slitting machine includes at least two rotating cylindrical hones mounted on a pneumatically controlled actuator. A sharpening operation is initiated by a machine operator as needed ... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5027559 | Sharpening unit for leather splitting machines The sharpening unit comprises two diamond grinding wheels 6,7 mounted on respective shafts 8, 9 rotatably supported by a carriage 14 movable away from and towards the cutting blade 4 of a leather splitting machine to bring the grinding wheels in contact w... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5018310 | Knife sharpener A grinding device (2) is inserted in the synthetic resin housing (1) of the knife sharpener, this grinding device consisting of a supporting unit (3) with two resiliently designed supporting arms (6, 7) for two grinding wheels (8, 9). In the installed con... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4928436 | Device for sharpening knives The object of the invention relates to a device for sharpening knives, comprising a freely rotatably mounted grinding element (6) consisting of two truncated cones turned against each other. In known devices of this kind, one side of the knife blade (17) ... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4809464 | Method and apparatus for sharpening metal blades Apparatus is provided for forming sharp edges on a flat metal blade strip. The apparatus is comprised of two series of synchronously rotated enmeshed abrasive wheels which successively contact the blade strip in opposite directions to remove the burr that... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4454866 | Bathroom appliance for concurrently sharpening razor blades and treating gum tissue by spaced pressure pulses of liquid A bathroom appliance for concurrently sharpening single or double edged razor blades and treating gum tissue by applying spaced pressure pulses of liquid to depress discrete areas of gum tissue with the spacing of said pulses one from the other of a durat... | 06/19/1984 |
| 4038782 | Honing mechanism A honing mechanism for honing blades which includes a pair of honing wheels mounted on carriages for movement in a direction toward and away from each other between an operating or honing position and a dressing position. Each honing wheel is driven by a ... | 08/02/1977 |