Abstract: A tool for cleaving a plastic optical fiber has a body with a cleaving aperture at the insertion face of the body and through which the termination end section of the plastic optical fiber is inserted and in which an operative section is positioned upon inserting the plastic optical fiber into the tool. A cutting blade has a cutting edge and is moveable along a cutting path between a first operative position at which the cutting edge is spaced from the cleaving axis and a second operative position at which the cutting edge intersects the cleaving axis to cleave the plastic optical fiber to create an optical finish on an end surface of the operative section of the plastic optical fiber. A clearance region is located at the termination face of the body and generally aligned with the cleaving aperture and in which the termination end section may deflect upon engagement of the cutting blade with the plastic optical fiber.

Abstract: A rod cutter apparatus includes a rod holding plate having a rod opening for receiving a rod to be cut; a cutting member having a central opening defined by a cutting edge, the central opening being substantially aligned with the rod opening; and a drive assembly connected between the rod holding plate and the cutting member to cause oscillation of the cutting member relative to the rod holding plate, wherein oscillation of the cutting member relative to the rod holding plate cuts a rod in the rod opening.

Abstract: A portable conduit cutter for attaching to a power tool is disclosed. The portable conduit cutter includes a plate for use in attaching the conduit cutter to the different power tools. The plate may be adapted to fit different power tools depending upon the attachment requirements of the particular power tool. A compression spring and spring can assembly may be attached to a jaw slide and used to allow the jaw slide to move parallel with respect to the plate.

Abstract: A pair of pipe cutting pincers includes a pincers body having a first handle and a second handle pivotally assembled together. The first handle has its front end pivotally combined with a pipe-cutting member disposed with a cutting blade and its rear end bent toward a second receiving groove to form a pivotally driven member. An elastic member positioned between the first and the second handle has one end hooked on the first handle and the other end hooked with the rear end of the pivotally driven member for pulling the pipe-cutting member to carry out reciprocating shifting. A pivotal actuating member is rotatably assembled in the second handle to resist against the lower end of the pivotally driven member. In using, the pivotally driven member is actuated by the elastic member to move and make the pivotal actuating member rotate and drive a cutting edge to cut off a pipe.

Abstract: A power tool, such as a pipe cutter, includes a rotatable cutting head assembly, an electric motor connectable to a rechargeable battery, and a controller. The controller is configured to monitor the state of charge on the battery, compare the state of charge to one or more thresholds, and prevent or limit operation of the power tool when the state of charge is less than or equal to one or more of the thresholds. In some embodiments, the threshold includes the state of charge required to cut a pipe, the state of charge required to return the cutting head assembly to a home position, and a state of charge indicative of an overdischarged condition of the battery. In some embodiments, the controller is configured to detect when the pipe cutter has completed cutting the pipe and returns the cutting head assembly to the home position.

Abstract: A power tool includes a motor, a pipe holder configured to support a pipe, and a cutting mechanism coupled to the pipe holder. The cutting mechanism is movable relative to the pipe holder. The power tool also includes a drive mechanism coupled to the cutting mechanism and the motor to move the cutting mechanism from a starting position toward the pipe holder to cut the pipe. The drive mechanism includes a first member operable to disengage a second member to allow movement of the cutting mechanism to the starting position.

Abstract: A cutting tool having a clamp mechanism, a holding device, and a cutting device disposed on one of the clamp mechanism and holding device is disclosed, whereby the clamp mechanism and the cutting device cooperate to cause a severing of a work piece by the cutting device.

Abstract: A power tool includes a pipe holder, a knife pivotally coupled to the pipe holder, and a drive mechanism coupled to at least one of the pipe holder and the knife. The drive mechanism is operable to move the at least one of the pipe holder and the knife relative to the other of the pipe holder and the knife. The power tool also includes a motor coupled to the drive mechanism and a power supply electrically coupled to the motor to selectively power the motor for operating the drive mechanism.

Abstract: A candle cutter may include a case having an outer surface and in inner surface, which may form an inner cavity. The outer surface may have one or more outer surface slots and the inner surface may have one or more inner surface slots. The candle cutter may further include a cutting assembly that meshes with the case and moves through the inner cavity for the purpose of cutting the object therein, such as a candle. The movement may be pivotal if the cutting assembly is attached to a pivot point. The movement of the cutting assembly may not be pivotal. For example, it may be controlled by guide means, such as guide rods. Some embodiments may include features such a clamping mechanism, a case handle, a locking mechanism, a bottom container, handles or knobs, and/or a detachable blade.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for cutting the tapered tip of a cartridge, providing a cutler device with an angular guide adapted to receive the tapered tip through a tapered passage and cutting the tapered tip by operating the cutter between a withdrawn and deployed position. In general the cutting device includes a slide, an elongated structure having a top, bottom, proximate and distal ends and a channel adapted to receive the slide associated with the distal end. A guide associated with the elongated structure is adapted for receipt of the tapered tip and a reciprocating blade extending from the slide has a cutting edge which is adapted for engaging the tapered tip during operation of the cutter between deployed and withdrawn positions.

Abstract: A hand-held and hand-operated cutting tool particularly well suited for cleanly and quickly cutting plastic pipe or tubing, rubber hose, or the like is provided. The tool has a blade which is easily manually removed from and replaced into the cutting tool without the use of additional tools. The blade is slid into the tool and then rotated slightly into an initial operating or loaded position whereat a blade pivot pin may be inserted into the tool and through a hole provided in the blade. During use, the blade is rotatable in increments or steps from a retracted position in which it is substantially enclosed within the tool housing to a cut off position in which it cooperates with a stationary cradle anvil so as to sever the article to be cut. A ratchet drive interconnects a movable handle and the blade so as to incrementally drive the blade towards its cut off position upon manipulation of the handle.

Abstract: A serrated pipe cutter comprising handles pivotally coupled together and movable between first and second positions; wherein the first handle includes a grip at one end and a blade at an opposite end; the blade includes an elongated cutting edge which defines a cutting edge surface tapering inwardly, a plurality of serrations extending along the cutting edge, and a plurality of cutting tips extending between adjacent serrations. Each serration defines a cutting edge surface, a substantially concave facet tapering inwardly, and a linear serration cutting edge extending between adjacent cutting tips. Each cutting tip defines a cutting tip surface tapering inwardly and a linear cutting tip edge extending between adjacent serrations, at least a portion of which is offset from at least a portion of the serration cutting edge.

Abstract: A ratcheting cutting tool for plastic pipes having first and second, elongated rigid members pivotally mounted to each other, Each rigid member has a handle and the first rigid member additionally has an anvil at an end opposite from its handle. A spring-biased, knife blade member with a cutting edge and with a plurality of ratchet teeth is pivotally mounted to the first member The tool further includes drive and catch pawls pivotally mounted to the respective rigid members. In operation, the handles of the rigid members can be repeatedly squeezed together to progressively move the cutting edge of the knife blade member in a step-by-step manner toward the anvil to cut through a plastic pipe positioned therebetween.

Abstract: A flexible electric power extension cable includes at least two conductors for electrical pipe processing equipment, a plug and a female cable connector part. The plug contains the at least two-conductors and is electrically connected to the front end of the electric power extension cable for receiving line power while geometrically fitting into a line-power electric outlet box. The female cable connector part contains the at least two conductors and is electrically connected to the rear end of the electric power extension cable. There is a mismatch between the geometry of the female cable connector part and that of the cable plug to preclude connection between the female cable connector part and the plug.

Abstract: A bar steel cutting tool in which a fixed blade body and a rotary blade body that is capable of rotating around a first shaft, by operating a handle, are provided at the front end of a tool base for shearing bar steel with concave blades formed on outer peripheries of the fixed blade body and the rotary blade body. The handle is so constructed that the front end of a proximal portion of the handle thereof is supported by a second shaft at a position above the tool base and equipped with an elongated hole extending obliquely backwards from the second shaft. The rotary blade body has an arm portion extending backwards, and forms branch portions which nip both the right and left sides of the proximal portion of the handle at the rear end thereof.

Abstract: A clamping tool for use with a power tool includes a housing mounted on a power tool. The housing includes at least one engaging portion. The locking pliers includes a retaining section with a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end is mounted on the at least one engaging portion for retain the locking pliers in a selectively, releasably, rotational relationship relative to the housing. An engaging section of the locking pliers is mounted relative to the retaining section and is selectively locked relative to the distal end of the retaining section for positioning an article therebetween. In two embodiments, after an article is locked in the locking pliers, the locking pliers can be rotated either away from or towards the housing to permit the power tool to come into engagement with an article.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plastic pipe cutting tool comprising a housing body with handle, a blade holder mounted on the housing body and a rotatable blade associated with the blade holder to form a cutting opening, is characterized in that said housing body is provided with a motor which is drivable connected with said blade, and is further provided with a power supply which is electrically connected with the motor by switch to form a loop circuit. The plastic pipe cutting tool according to the present invention is driven by electric and can decrease labor intensity, and is light and easy-carried.

Abstract: A hand-held ratchet tool has first and second elongated handles with free first ends and second ends pivotally coupled together. A first jaw member is pivotally mounted on the second end of the first handle. An elongate linkage has a first end pivotally mounted on the second end of the second handle and a second end pivotally connected with a second jaw member on the first jaw member. The second jaw member includes a plurality of ratchet teeth. A pawl is pivotally mounted on the second end of the second handle along with the elongate linkage. The pawl has first and second sets of ratchet teeth alternatively engageable with the second jaw member teeth by means of a pivotally mounted spring member and a rotatable actuator with cams that can be rotated into over center positions with respect to the spring member and held there by the spring member and a stop engaged by the actuator.

Abstract: A press device to be modified such that profile rods can also be removed by a shearing movement. The tool is configured so that a cutting plate can be fixed to each pivoting arm and is displaceably mounted in the opposite pivoting arm. The clamping arms of the pivoting arms have a fork-shaped slit and the cutting plates are maintained in the clamping arms with fixing bolts.

Abstract: A pair of pipe cutting pincers includes a pincers body having a first handle and a second handle pivotally assembled together. The first handle has its front end pivotally combined with a pipe-cutting member disposed with a cutting blade and its rear end bent toward a second receiving groove to form a pivotal driven member An elastic member positioned between the first and the second handle has one end hooked on the first handle and the other end hooked with the rear end of the pivotally driven member for pulling the pipe-cutting member to carry out reciprocating shifting. A pivotal actuating member is pivotally assembled in the second handle to resist against the lower end of the pivotal driven member. In using, the pivotally driven member is actuated by the elastic member to move and make the pivotal actuating member rotate and drive a cutting edge to cut off a pipe.

Abstract: A cutting tool (10) for severing flexible hose square to the hose length has a bail (36) for holding hose in a cradle (28) so that the hose length is perpendicular to a blade (30) that severs the hose.

Abstract: The planetary tubing cutter of the invention provides a gearing assembly having a pair of ring gears and a number of pinions with a blade affixed to each pinion. The ring gears are parallel to one another and are individually driven. The pinions are rotatably mounted to a side surface of one ring gear and engage a sun gear assembled to the other ring gear. When the ring gears rotate at the same speed, the pinions and blades do not revolve around their respective axes, and when one ring gear rotates at a speed different from the other ring gear, the pinions and blades revolve about their respective axes, intercepting and cutting a tube passing through an axial passage through the ring gears.

Abstract: A locking mechanism for a cutting tool for plastic pipes. The tool includes two elongated members pivotally connected to each other in a scissors-like manner. Each elongated member has a handle portion and a jaw portion with one jaw portion including a knife blade and the other an anvil. In the preferred embodiments, the jaws of the cutting tool are spring-biased apart toward an open position. The locking mechanism for the tool includes a bail member on one handle and a C-shaped catch member on the other. In operation, the bail member can be pivoted to an extended position to contact and automatically slide along the opposite handle into a locking position with the catch member as the handles are squeezed together.

Abstract: A pipe cutting supplemental apparatus and method prevents thin-walled pipe from collapsing when being cut with a standard pinch roll cutter. The tool may be embodied as a solid cylindrical insert, or a hollow cylindrical sleeve, or an expandable, segmented body.

Abstract: A chain pipe-cutter is made up of chain links joined together by cross bars, the cross bars further engage cutting wheels. A pair of adapters each having a U-shaped body with a pair of longitudinally oriented legs joined together by a back portion from which the legs depend. The legs have holes so the adapters may engaged with one of the chain links at a terminal position on the chain by cross bars. The back portions providing a groove having a longitudinal orientation so that with the chain wrapped around a brittle pipe the adapters are positioned in near adjacency, and may be further forced into convergence by a tool engaging each of the longitudinal grooves to sever the pipe.

Abstract: A scissor shear apparatus is disclosed for shearing material. The apparatus includes a frame and a first shear blade having a first and a second end, the first shear blade being pivotally secured to the frame about a first pivotal axis which extends through the frame and through the first shear blade between the ends thereof. The first shear blade defines a first cutting edge which is disposed adjacent to the first end thereof. A second shear blade has a first and a second extremity, the second shear blade being pivotally secured to the frame about the first pivotal axis between the extremities thereof. The second shear blade defines a second cutting edge which is disposed adjacent to the first extremity thereof such that the cutting edges cooperate together for shearing the material when the second end of the first shear blade and the second extremity of the second shear blade move away from each other for pivoting the shear blades relative to each other.

Abstract: A compact dispensing tube opener for accessing contents of a dispensing tube having a dispensing tip and an inner seal. The opener includes a housing with first and second passageways therein meeting at an angle at an intersection. A blade carriage is movable in the second passageway and across the intersection at one end thereof, a manually accessible portion at an opposite end thereof extending from the housing. A cooperative guide structure at the housing and the blade carriage maintains carriage slidability within the housing during use without binding. Return springs are maintained in the housing for returning the carriage after use. A dispenser tube tip locator is slidably maintained at the housing adjacent to an opening to the first passageway and has plurality of angled passages therethrough each with a different diameter. A lance is mounted at the housing for puncturing the seal, and is pivotable into and out of a channel defined crosswise in the housing.

Abstract: A pipe cutter includes a housing having a handle for being held by a user and a notch for receiving a pipe to be cut, a cutter blade slidably received in the housing and having a number of teeth, a latch having a tongue biased to engage with the teeth of the cutter blade for limiting the cutter blade to move relative to the housing, a trigger pivotally coupled to the housing and having a pawl biased to engage with the teeth of the cutter blade, and a knob slidably engaged in the housing for being actuated by the user to selectively disengage the tongue of the latch from the teeth of the cutter blade. A lock device may selectively engage with the trigger to prevent the cutter blade from being moved inadvertently by the children.

Abstract: A tube cutting device and method thereof are disclosed, which are adapted for performing a remote tube cutting operation upon a tube. The tube cutting device is comprised of: a holding unit; a cutting unit; and a control unit, connected to the holding unit and the cutting unit in a remote manner; wherein, the control unit is capable of directing the holding unit to hold and move a tube to a specific position and thereafter directing the cutting unit to perform a cutting operation upon the tube. With the aforesaid tube cutting device, an operator operating the tube cutting device can perform an cutting operation upon the tube remotely without having to contact directly with the tube, and thus the operator is prevented from having to stay in a working environment containing hazardous materials, such as radioactive pollutants, gas/liquid with strong acid or alkali, etc., so that the safety of the tube cutting operation can be enhanced.

Abstract: A cutter tool includes first and second elongate members carrying a cutting blade pivotally attached with the second elongate member and slidably attached with the first elongate member to enable cutting an associated tubular workpiece with an increased mechanical advantage with the tool in an opened position. The tool is characterized by a first handle having a cradle for supporting a tube to be cut, a second handle pivotally attached to the first handle, a cutter blade attached to the second handle for displacement therewith and relative thereto, and a pin and slot interengagement between the cutter blade and the first handle by which the angular displacement of the cutter blade from an opened to a closed position relative to the cradle is greater than the angular displacement of the handles to achieve such blade displacement.

Abstract: A reciprocating pipe cutter that uses a thin diameter wire saw as a cutting element. The wire saw blade attaches at one end to a reciprocating blade that can is mounted into a standard electrically powered reciprocating saw tool. The saw wire proceeds from the reciprocating blade, around the perimeter of a fixed pulley and then around the perimeter of a pulley mounted to a swingable arm. The wire terminates at its other end to an extension spring. When the electric tool is turned on, the saw wire reciprocates so that when the wire is pushed into the wall of a pipe, it can cut the pipe in two. The swingable arm allows pipes of varying diameters to be cut. The reciprocating pipe cutting tool allows the user to cut a pipe while it is in place without doing damage to near by surfaces.

Abstract: A tool for cutting flexible plastic conduit having a pair of pivotally attached handles. One of the handles includes a cutting blade. The cutting blade cooperatively associates with an anvil located on the other handle. The cutting blade and anvil form a cutting jaw. The anvil includes at least one support to resist deformation of the flexible conduit during the cutting operation. The support is shaped to conform to a portion of the exterior profile of the flexible pipe being cut. A slot bisects the anvil such that the cutting blade can completely pass through the conduit and the supports.

Abstract: A cutter includes a lever having a handle on one end and a fixed jaw on the other end and having one or more catches extended from the fixed jaw and having a groove formed in the fixed jaw, a cutter device is pivotally attached to the lever and has a cutter blade movable toward and away from the fixed jaw, a hand grip is pivotally coupled to lever and coupled to move the cutter device toward and away from the fixed jaw. One or more carriers each includes one end engageable with the catch of the lever, and a fin for engaging into the groove of the fixed jaw and for quickly anchoring and positioning the carrier to the fixed jaw of the lever without fasteners.

Abstract: A bar steel cutting tool in which a fixed blade body and a rotary blade body that is capable of rotating around a first shaft, by operating a handle, are provided at the front end of a tool base for shearing bar steel with concave blades formed on outer peripheries of the fixed blade body and the rotary blade body. The handle is so constructed that the front end of a proximal portion of the handle thereof is supported by a second shaft at a position above the tool base and equipped with an elongated hole extending obliquely backwards from the second shaft. The rotary blade body has an arm portion extending backwards, and forms branch portions which nip both the right and left sides of the proximal portion of the handle at the rear end thereof.

Abstract: A locking mechanism for a cutting tool for plastic pipes. The tool includes two elongated members pivotally connected to each other in a scissors-like manner. Each elongated member has a handle portion and a jaw portion with one jaw portion including a knife blade and the other an anvil. In the preferred embodiments, the jaws of the cutting tool are spring-biased apart toward an open position. The locking mechanism for the tool includes a bail member on one handle and a C-shaped catch member on the other. In operation, the bail member can be pivoted to an extended position to contact and automatically slide along the opposite handle into a locking position with the catch member as the handles are squeezed together.

Abstract: A pipe cutting supplemental apparatus and method prevents thin-walled pipe from collapsing when being cut with a standard pinch roll cutter. The tool may be embodied as a solid cylindrical insert, or a hollow cylindrical sleeve.

Abstract: A rod cutter having multiple sets of cutting dies for cutting threaded rods of varying sizes is described.

Abstract: In a cutoff tool, a hood is arranged to overlap a distal end portion of a cutting blade, and a distal end portion of the hook is arranged to protrude from a toothed portion of the cutting blade. When the cutting blade retracts farthest in a uniaxial direction, the distal end portion of the cutting blade is arranged to overlap the hook in a plan view, wherein a space for holding an object to be cut is formed between the toothed portion of the cutting blade and the distal end of portion of the hook. When the cutting blade advances farthest in a uniaxial direction, the distal end portion of the cutting blade is arranged not to protrude from the hook to the outside.

Abstract: An end prep tool with a pneumatically driven tool slide assembly comprises a mandrel mountable to the internal diameter of a tubular work piece. Mounted on the mandrel are a rotational head assembly and a rotatable housing that are longitudinally displaceable along the mandrel. The rotational head assembly carries either one or two tool feed assemblies thereon for orbital movement around the work piece. The tool slide assemblies are driven by a pneumatic motor to provide a true phonographic finish with no tripper marks.

Abstract: Provided is a cutter capable of cutting a pipe-shaped material so as to produce a cut surface which is almost perfectly perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the pipe-shaped material. A blade 1 has a disc-like base plate 2 with a mounting hole 3 provided at a center of the base plate 2. An outer periphery of the base plate 2 is sharpened to function as a blade edge 4. The blade 1 has a level surface 5 which is perpendicular to an axial direction of the blade 1 and a sloped surface 6 which is slanted so that a thickness of a central portion of the base plate 2 is larger than a thickness of a periphery of the base plate 2. Since the sloped surface 6 is only provided on one side of the blade edge 4, the blade 1 is asymmetric when viewed from a side thereof.

Abstract: A cutting device for rod-shaped workpieces has two actuating levers each in the form of a two-arm pivot lever. The two-arm pivot levers each have a first arm as an actuator and a second arm having a shearing edge. The actuators move the shearing edges relative to one another. The pivot levers each have an end face. The end faces rest against one another in the shearing position. The second arms each have a detachable cutting insert, and the shearing edges are arranged on the cutting inserts. The actuators can be engaged by a drive device for pivoting the actuators in opposite direction relative to one another.

Abstract: The planetary tubing cutter of the invention provides a gearing assembly having a pair of ring gears and a number of pinions with a blade affixed to each pinion. The ring gears are parallel to one another and are individually driven. The pinions are rotatably mounted to a side surface of one ring gear and engage a sun gear assembled to the other ring gear. When the ring gears rotate at the same speed, the pinions and blades do not revolve around their respective axes, and when one ring gear rotates at a speed different from the other ring gear, the pinions and blades revolve about their respective axes, intercepting and cutting a tube passing through an axial passage through the ring gears.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting workpieces adapted to engage the workpiece in at least four points of surface engagement. The apparatus has a clamping mechanism designed to be fastened to the workpiece. The clamping mechanism has a tool unit attached which includes adjustment means for displacing the tool unit relative to the clamping mechanism towards or away from the workpiece. The clamping mechanism has a frame element and arms extending from the clamping mechanism. Each of the four arms includes a bearing wheel. Each of the wheels may be used to engage a workpiece to retain its position while it is being cut.

Abstract: Upper and lower handle members are pivotally attached at one end. Crimper jaws are operated via the handles. The upper handle carries a guide assembly to mount the blade, and operate the cutting mode using an upper handle cradle. Other accessories include a hole punch, a nut driver, a rivet remover and a hammer.

Abstract: A tool installs barb emitters in irrigation tubing. The tool has a cradle which receives irrigation tubing and a punch mounted opposite the cradle. The punch has a first cylinder and a second cylinder telescopically received within the first cylinder. The first cylinder has a cap at the upper end and an annular ring extending inwardly from to partially occlude the lower end. The second cylinder includes a second cap at the upper end which slidably engages the first cylinder and is resiliently urged by a spring against the annular ring. The cap has a punch holder extending downwardly therefrom. A needle has a sharp tip extending downwardly from the punch holder through the second cap to a point within the second cylinder when the spring is fully extended and beyond the second cylinder when the spring is fully compressed. One of the jaws has a knife blade extending from the other end thereof opposite. The of the jaws defines a semi-circular concave anvil at the other end.

Abstract: A cutting guide. The cutting guide includes a body portion having a leading edge and an opening therethrough and an engagement portion concentrically attached to the body portion. The leading edge is adapted to guide a saw while a cut is being made in a material.

Abstract: Provided is scissors comprising a movable first handle unit; a stationary second handle unit including a bifurcated jaw, a pivotal blade in the jaw, a spring biased pivotal plate member in the jaw and including teeth, a gear and ratchet wheel assembly, and a spring biased pivotal pawl; and a spring biased lever including a pawl member engaged with the ratchet wheel. Continuously pivoting the first handle unit about the second handle unit by moving the first handle unit alternately back and forth in each action of pivoting the first handle unit toward the second handle unit will pivot the first and second protrusions counterclockwise, rotate the gear and ratchet assembly clockwise, and pivot the teeth counterclockwise to cut a pipe anchored in the mouth.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting wooden piles underwater and a method of use are disclosed. The apparatus has a frame and brace configured for engaging a pile. A pressure medium activated cutting device is connected to the frame and oriented at an angle such that a pile can be cut at a point below the bottom surface. The frame and brace are placed on opposite sides of the pile and connected to each other with a chain or cable. The apparatus has lines attached thereto and the other ends of the lines are attached to a boat or other flotation device. Using the disclosed apparatus to remove pilings causes significantly less turbidity than devices or methods currently available. Additionally, using the disclosed device also eliminates the need to decontaminate silt removed from the water using the currently available methods or devices.

Abstract: Manual cutting tools for cutting cables, steel cord, rods to size, the cutting tools including a stationary cutting part connected to a stationary handle, and a movable cutting part adapted to be moved against the stationary cutting part by a movable handle via a transmission. Each of the stationary and movable cutting parts has associated therewith a concavely shaped replaceable cutting element mounted in a floating fashion.

Abstract: A roller shade cutting machine includes a base, a track assembly, a shade holder, a slat cutting device and a shade cutting device. The track assembly is mounted the base and includes a stationary track and an adjustable track with a ruler slidably mounted on the stationary track. The shade holder is mounted on the stationary track and has a rotating chuck to clamp a roller of the roller shade. The shade cutting device is mounted on the stationary track below the shade holder to cut the spinning roller. The slat cutting device is mounted on the stationary track and has a rolling cutter that is swiftly turned to cut a slat of the roller shade. Therefore, the cutting machine can be used to cut not only the roller but also the slat of the roller shade so that the machine is convenient to use.