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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7354336 | Abrading tool and method for refurbishing electrical connector pin contacts An abrading tool for refurbishing pin contacts in situ in an electrical connector is provided. The abrading tool includes a bore defined in a first end for receiving the pin contacts therein and a transverse slot which intersects the bore. A removable abrading eleme... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7268281 | Apparatus for abrading a reed used in a musical instrument An apparatus for abrading a reed for a musical instrument comprises: a base having two top surfaces tilted toward each other and having tapered parallel tracks in its side edge surfaces; and a carriage slidable on the tracks. The carriage includes an abrasive surfac... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7186169 | Angle positioning tool and hand-scaler grinding device using same The object of the present invention is to provide an angle setting tool for setting the blade section of a hand scaler at a predetermined angle during sharpening of the scaler, and a hand scaler sharpening device which has a relatively simple structure, is easy to o... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7182679 | Conical point sharpener A conical point sharpener for sharpening conical shaped points such as fishhooks, needles, surgical instruments includes a handle, a mandril with an abrasive material coating fixed to one end of said handle, a drive spindle, wherein said drive spindle is movably att... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7066796 | Device for manually sharpening knives and other blades, comprising interchangeably mounted hard metal plates A device for the manual sharpening of knives and other blades having exchangeably held carbide plates. The exchangeable carbide plates of manual sharpening devices are inserted or pushed into recesses or into a reception of the device body and must be fixed t... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7018281 | Sharpening apparatus The sharpening apparatus of the present invention preferably comprises a hand sharpener that may be assembled or mounted on the knife (e.g., sold mounted on the knife by the knife manufacturer or purchased separately and mounted on the knife by the end-user), and wh... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7013772 | Method and apparatus for arrow shaft truing A method and an apparatus for truing the interface between an arrow shaft or insert and the arrow tip is provided. A squaring tool having a frame with at least one V-shaped channel supports an arrow shaft in parallel with the frame longitudinal axis. A cutting tool ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6997795 | Versatile manual scissor sharpener A manual sharpener for sharpening either right or left-handed blades of scissors or shears comprises a support structure with an attached hand holding arrangement. A magnetic device holds at least one adhesive pad on the supporting structure. One or more precision a... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6971949 | Sharpening guide for dental tools A sharpening guide for a dental tool is provided, with the dental tool having a handle, a working portion, and a shank extending between the handle and the working portion. The sharpening guide includes a guide body and at least one opening formed in the guide body ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6949018 | Apparatus for finishing surfaces A method is described for surface finishing complex and simple surface shapes by abrasion of selected zones of surface, leaving contiguous zones unfinished. ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6932682 | Method and apparatus for ultrasonic machining A method for machining a component. The method includes providing a machining apparatus configured to induce vibrations such that a vibration direction of the machining apparatus is substantially aligned with respect to a machining direction of the component, and vi... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6923713 | Cylindrical grinder, and mechanism for producing relative movement between grinding wheel and workpiece in cylindrical grinder A cylindrical grinder includes a workpiece support section adapted to support a generally cylindrical workpiece and rotate the workpiece about a rotational axis, and a wheel head adapted to support and rotate a grinding wheel. The wheel head is moved relative to the... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6679757 | Shaping tool and method for shaping curved surfaces on workpieces A tool for shaping curved surfaces on a workpiece, in particular upper curved surfaces of the forward and aft rails of a gas turbine engine shroud section. The shaping tool includes a base member for securing the workpiece and a shaping member movable rel... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6405615 | Fixture for snowboard edge finishing tool A fixture for positioning an abrasive tool above a running surface of a snowboard for beveling a snowboard edge including a head having one or more feet, each foot including an indexing portion for indexing the fixture against a marginal side of the snowb... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6398633 | Two stage knife sharpener A hand held sharpener comprises a housing that has three sharpening stones having part cylindrical outer surfaces. A center stone is supported on the housing, and second and third stones are positioned on opposite sides of the center stone with axes of th... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6361408 | Method and apparatus for finishing surfaces A method is described for surface finishing complex and simple surface shapes by abrasion of selected zones of surface, leaving contiguous zones unfinished.... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6312017 | Skate guard with sharpener An ice skate guard with a sharpener. The ice skate guard has a housing with a channel and a sharpener. The channel extends along the housing, and receives a skate blade. The sharpener is mounted in the housing and extends into the channel. When a skate bl... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6260441 | Ski edge sharpener The ski edge sharpener comprises a generally rectangular-in-cross-section elongate block or body having four elongate side surfaces, a file blade mounting plate releasably fixed to one of the elongate side surfaces and a file blade mounted on or to the fi... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6224475 | Sharpener sheath The present invention is a device for storing and selectively sharpening a knife. The present invention includes a scabbard with opposing first and second ends. An opening is defined in the first end and a passage defined in the scabbard for receiving a k... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6220950 | Tool and method for improving electrical conducting of jack connectors A tool for distributing electrically conductive particles, and optionally abrasive particles, on the surface of a male, electrical jack connector and a tool for distributing electrically conductive particles, and optionally abrasive particles, on the surf... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6187106 | Contained instrument cleaner for use in a controlled environment A contained instrument cleaner including a housing having an enclosed chamber and an opening sized to insert an instrument. A rigid member having an abrading surface is supported inside the chamber for cleaning debris from an instrument. The device includ... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6074293 | Apparatus for finishing surfaces Apparatus is described for surface finishing complex and simple surface shapes by abrasion of select zones of the surface, leaving contiguous zones unfinished. The apparatus is simple in construction and required little in training for operation. The appa... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6030283 | Ice skate blade sharpener A hand held ice skate blade sharpening tool has a holder having a rotatably mounted cylindrical sharpening stone material. The holder and stone are retained with a two-piece body. A releasable connector holds the body together. The body has a longitudinal... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5879229 | Ice skate blade resurfacer A hand held sharpener has two slots to selectively accommodate the blades of ice hockey skates. A two-piece body having stepped inside housing walls accommodate different diameter and length abrading stones. Fasteners releasably holding the members of the... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5810649 | Tool guide for sharpening woodcarving and tools A tool guide for sharpening woodcarving and lathe tools comprises a holder frame having an adjustable clamping member for clamping a portion of a tool against an inner surface thereof, and an adjustable foot member removably connected to the holder frame ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5782681 | Conditioner for windshield wiper blades The invention relates to a two part hand held windshield wiper conditioning device with a main body or housing having a male half and a female half having contoured outer surfaces. Both halves of the device are substantially triangular, the male half havi... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5749774 | Valve refacing tool A valve refacing tool comprising a hollow cylindrical column. The column has an upper end and a lower end and has a central bore throughout its entire length. The column has exterior threads at its upper end and an outwardly flared cylindrical support at ... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5704829 | Hand-held skate blade edge deburring tool A compact, hand-held tool for safely deburring the edges of a skate blade. The tool utilizes a pair of resiliently biased deburring surfaces which are movable between an open position and a closed position. The deburring surfaces are resiliently biased in... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5700189 | Knife-blade sharpening apparatus A blade-sharpening apparatus for knives and other cutting tools which uses a ceramic sharpening element. The sharpening element is a recycled aluminum oxide sodium vapor streetlight bulb. The vapor and heat expansion and contraction of the bulb during use... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5660582 | Dual rotary cutter blade sharpener This invention is a tool designed to sharpen rotary cutter blades. In a first embodiment, an inside-threaded clamp is screwed down upon the blade, pressing it tightly against a platform from which a threaded shank rises, and holding the blade from turning... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5607347 | Ice skate blade sharpener Improved apparatus for sharpening a blade of an ice skate. The device includes a plurality of abrasive element holders, each having an external profile substantially the same as that of the other holders. Each holder is provided with a cavity formed there... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5594966 | Knife with blade sharpener stored in knife handle A blade sharpener for a pocket knife is in the form of an appendage which can be removably secured to the knife handle and which carries a superabrasive layer sharpening surface, such as an electroplated diamond grit. The appendage may take the form of a ... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5582535 | Method and apparatus for knife and blade sharpening An apparatus for sharpening the edge of an elongated object includes a housing having an exposed sharpening section with a sharpening element in the sharpening section. The sharpening element is formed from a single abrasive coated sharpening element havi... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5569064 | Tool for refurbishing skate blades A refurbishing tool for renewing edges on a skate blade, including a pair of rigid, generally rectangular supporting members pivotably connected to each other. Each member has a flat abrasive surface on one side thereof and extending in the lengthwise dir... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5499943 | Rotary cutter blade sharpener This invention is a tool designed to sharpen rotary cutter blades used for cutting fabrics. In the preferred embodiment, when a dulled blade is placed over a threaded shank, an inside-threaded clamp is screwed down upon the blade, pressing it tightly agai... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5499556 | Portable ice skate blade sharpener An ice skate blade sharpener having an elongate body with a first elongated slot along one side edge and a honing stone affixed to a bottom thereof, presenting a convex, elongated, outwardly facing surface. The side walls extending from the one side edge ... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5467498 | Self-sharpening scraping tool A self-sharpening type scraping tool having particular utility for scraping surfaces such as to remove paint from walls of a structure, in which the manual actuation of the tool simultaneously effects sharpening of one or more blade edges. A rectangular/s... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5462476 | Blade sharpening device The blade sharpening device is an adjustable multi-angle edge sharpening unit comprised of a base connected to a rotatable sharpening stone table and a vertically adjustable blade support table. A hand movable sharpening stone is positioned on the sharpen... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5458534 | Knife sharpening device with angled guide plates A sharpener which has a main body portion to hold and support a sharpening stone 1. The main body is connected at one of its ends to a front guide plate and on the opposite end to a back guide plate. These two plates, in addition to guiding the direction ... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5449317 | Grinding and cutting guide assembly for hand held shaping tool A drilling, grinding, and shaping guidance assembly particularly suited for attachment to a precision jewelers' grinding and cutting handpiece. The guidance assembly is integrally attached or clamped on the jewelers' handpiece. The guide arms of the assem... | 09/12/1995 |
