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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7430807 | Universal saw A universal saw capable of being employed as a jigsaw or sabre saw, having a housing containing a drive train that includes an electric drive motor and a motion converter that converts the rotary motion of the drive motor into a reciprocating working motion of the s... | 10/07/2008 |
| 5557853 | Air cooled cloth cutting machine A cloth cutting machine having a base mounted on at one end of an upright standard, and a motor mounted on the other end of that standard. A cloth cutting knife is connected to the standard, and is driven by the motor. A handle connected to the machine is... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5283955 | Contact and induction cutting machine The present invention relates to a cutting machine the blade of which is controlled to slide up and down for cutting a stack of cloth by means of an induction produced through the contact of an inductive handle of the machine with an operator's hand. The ... | 02/08/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5136904 | Means and methods of cutting patterns with powered coping saws Powered coping saw systems and corresponding methods of cutting workpieces with powered coping saws are provided by this invention, which holds a workpiece stationary and moves the reciprocating saw blade relative to the workpiece. By disposing the workpi... | 08/11/1992 |
| 4803781 | Cutting machine for flat material such as cloth, sheet material and the like A cutting machine for fabrics, comprising a table, a carriage reciprocating along the same, a pivoted cantilever extending above the table and having an inner arm pivotably mounted about a vertical axis on the carriage and an outer arm articulated on the ... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4712303 | Straight knife machine with safety features A cutting machine comprising a housing having a base, a motor carried by the housing, a knife blade having a cutting edge and carried by the housing for reciprocal motion generally normal to the base in response to operation of the motor, a presser foot m... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4698910 | Safety device for cloth cutting machines A safety device is provided for a cloth cutting machine having a motor driven cutting blade and a presser foot rod. The safety device (10) includes a housing (30) which in one embodiment serves as a magnetic concentrator. This housing (30) carries an elec... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4683658 | Manually controllable machine such as a fabric cutting machine A manually controllable machine for cutting out or notching fabric has a supporting foot (2) for supporting the machine on a cutting table (). The foot (2) has a flat face (15) on which the machine rests. To reduce the effort required to displace the mach... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4654969 | Cutting machine for flat material The disclosure describes a cutting machine for flat material, such as fabrics, sheeting and the like, with a compressed-air-cooled trivot, a trivot drive which is supported on a foot plate by means of a support such as a column, two blade guides having th... | 04/07/1987 |
| 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 |
| 4554738 | Apparatus for supporting and guiding machine for operating on sheet material such as cloth Apparatus for supporting and guiding a machine for operating on sheet material such as cloth while the material lies on a surface of a supporting structure having a pair of substantially parallel sides extending lengthwise of the structure, the apparatus ... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4515051 | Knife block guide An improved cutting machine including a thin, elongated cutting blade and a guide block with an opening which is shaped to conform to the cross-sectional shape of the elongated cutting blade. The guide block with the defined opening both guides the elonga... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4436013 | Reciprocating cutting apparatus with theta dither An apparatus for cutting sheet material spread in one or more layers over a supporting surface uses a reciprocating cutting blade cutter movable in two coordinate directions in the plane of the supporting surface to enable the cutting blade to follow a de... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4325186 | Protection device adaptable for vertical blade cutters Protection device adapted for use with a vertical blade cutter comprising a cutting blade. The device comprises a moveable plate for covering the blade and protecting against accidental contact with the blade. The moveable plate is adapted to be retracted... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4290721 | Tool holder assembly for a portable power tool A toolholder assembly incorporated in a portable power tool having a housing and a drive disposed therein. The assembly includes a toolholder body, a first releasable securing arrangement for attaching the toolholder body to the drive for oscillating the ... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4195404 | Cutting machine with an oscillating knife In a cutting machine of the type having a vertically reciprocating cutting blade, an internal grinder and a presser foot on a carrier bar, a lifting device responsive to operation of an actuating member for stopwise lifting the carrier bar to permit true ... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4161149 | Cutting apparatus for flatbed sewing machine A cutting apparatus for cutting a strip of tape connected to a shoe upper component and extending beyond the edges thereof includes a blade for cutting the tape and presser feet for tensioning the tape during cutting. The blade and presser feet are indepe... | 07/17/1979 |
| 4152829 | Cloth cutter with sharpener and cloth contacting parts are teflon coated The invention relates to a cloth-cutting machine with a sword-knife, provided with a band sharpening device, an elastic hold-down and all the parts being in contact with the cloth sheet to be cut are coated with an anti-friction polytetrafluorethylene coa... | 05/08/1979 |
| 3973324 | Sawing apparatus A saw for cutting off plaster casts and the like. A single freely reciprocal sawblade is driven by a motor for providing cutting of a cast of the like. A flat guiding plate is disposed in the same vertical plane as the sawblade, and is spaced from the rea... | 08/10/1976 |
