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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7238096 | Orbital rotary blade sharpener An orbital rotary blade sharpener for sharpening rotary cutter blades and other rotary blades includes a bottom blade holding portion having a center and a perimeter edge, a top blade holding portion rotatably connectable to said bottom blade holding portion, having... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7198558 | Knife blade dressing apparatus A dressing device (10,90) for sharpening or conditioning of a blade (18) or the like includes one or more disk pairs (36–40,108), each having a pair of disks (52,54,110,112) respectively presenting a series of circumferentially spaced, ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7147549 | Plate with deflector for machining surfaces The present invention describes a plate comprising a mono-block body through which a plurality of holes pass, and a deflector that covers at least the external part of the upper surface of said mono-block body. The mono-block body is made up of a rigid support sunk ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6881137 | Manual knife sharpener with angle control A sharpener for blades comprises a physical structure supporting at least one abrasive surface. A displaceable guiding plate having an integral linear structural feature of the support is disposed toward one side of the abrasive surface. The linear structural featur... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6875098 | Electroplated grinding wheel and its production equipment and method Objectives: To improve the cutting sharpness and life while the manufacturing cost is being lowered. Solution mechanism: The whetstone particle layer (13), which consists of multiple whetstone particle layer units (12), . . . , is configured on ... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6739963 | Disk for grinding concrete Of the type designed to be attached to the propeller-shaped bases or heads of a concrete grinder, to enhance the grinding effect of said propeller-shaped bases after the latter are used without disks, it is shaped like a cross, with four equal arms which are equiang... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6676500 | Drill bit sharpener A drill bit sharpener includes a motor assembly and a drill bit grinding assembly. The motor assembly has a motor with a drive shaft to drive the drill bit grinding assembly, which includes a driven assembly, a sharpener housing, a grinding wheel assembly... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6253756 | Accessory for cutting device Disclosed is an accessory mounted on a cutting device including two mutually parallel guide bars. The accessory includes a first channel formed in the accessory for receiving one of the two mutually parallel guide bars. A second channel is formed to recei... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6190746 | Polishing cloth and a method for attaching/detaching the polishing cloth to/from a base plate of a polishing machine A polishing cloth according to the present invention includes: a polishing cloth substrate; a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer laminated on one face of the polishing cloth substrate; and a release sheet attached to the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer i... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6039642 | Blade sharpener A blade sharpener having a magazine slidably carried within a sleeve. The magazine contains two sets of three sharpening wheels carried for rotation within the magazine, which are positioned in a staggered relationship with respect to one another, such th... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5676591 | Bit sharpener A bit sharpener includes a casing with a front plate having a first tube extending therefrom and a rear plate with a plurality of first holes defined therein, the rear plate having a first tubular member and a first rod centrally extending from an inner s... | 10/14/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5655957 | Sharpening Machine A sharpening machine for sharpening the cutting edges of instruments, particularly the curved inner cutting edges of dental instruments, to obtain an arbitrary wedge angle. A grinding disk is provided with both a plane surface and a radiused outer edge. A... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5616071 | Bevel grinder A bevel grinder for an edge of a sheet workpiece of predetermined thickness has a generally planar support on which the workpiece lies, a head having a frustoconical grinding surface centered on an axis substantially perpendicular to the support and rotat... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5586930 | Grinding chip fitting type grinding plate A grinding chip fitting type grinding plate uses grinding chips to which cylindrical mounting portions are added, thereby facilitating the attachment and removal of the grinding chips. The grinding plate comprises a plurality of grinding chips each having... | 12/24/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5394652 | Sanding wheel for raised wooden panels A sanding wheel modified to incorporate a rub collar that provides a guide surface for sanding raised wooden panels. The modified sanding wheel was specifically designed and is particularly useful for accurately and quickly sanding arched panels. The whee... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5390431 | Method and apparatus for knife and blade sharpening Both facets of a double faceted blade are simultaneously sharpened as the facets are moved across a first pair of planar abrasive coated surfaces crossing to form a vertex and positioned to establish a total included angle at the vertex nominally equal to... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5159784 | Portable apparatus for sharpening blades A portable blade sharpening apparatus is disclosed which can be used to sharpen blades while they remain attached to their machines. The blade sharpening apparatus is powered by an electric motor and includes a circular grinding stone which is angled on o... | 11/03/1992 |
| 4979337 | Polishing tool for contact lenses and associated method A polishing tool for contact lenses and an associated method is provided. The polishing tool is comprised of a base, an exteriorly convex resilient polishing head, and a polishing cloth. The polishing head is made of a suitable resilient material, said ma... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4886009 | Composite tool having wear indicator An indicator that provides information on the wear status of a composite tool that is subject to abrasion during use. The composite tool contains at least one wear groove in the area subject to abrasion. The wear groove has a desired length and predetermi... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4723375 | Device for sharpening knives A device for sharpening knives, comprising a frame and a grinding element rotatably mounted in the frame. The grinding element is provided with two cone-shaped grinding surfaces turned towards each other. The cone angle of the grinding surfaces varies in ... | 02/09/1988 |
| 4672778 | Rollable knife sharpener Knife sharpener rollable on a support and having two substantially coaxially disposed equally sized rollers (2,4) pressed resiliently against each other. The rollers have on their facing sides externally conical intermeshing toothed rings (32) which consi... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4305233 | Honing device and method of use A device, for honing the axially-facing cutting edges of a rotary shaver cutter, has two parts which are rotatable one with respect to the other. Within one part there is disposed a frictional element abutted by the cutter so as to prevent relative rotati... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4090418 | Device for reforming and grinding the blade of a knife to be sharpened A device for reforming and grinding the blade of a knife to be sharpened comprising a supporting rod, a grinding plate having a plurality of concentric triangular projections at the both sides thereof, and guide disks arranged at the both sides of said gr... | 05/23/1978 |
| 4050197 | Blade and scissors sharpener A blade sharpener is disclosed that has a sharpening unit rotatably mounted in a support with an upper portion thereof exposed to enable a knife blade to be reciprocated with a beveled edge maintained in contact with a side of the abrasive wheel of the un... | 09/27/1977 |
