Abstract: Sanding pads are disclosed. A sanding pad has at least about 1/32 inch thickness, having one top flat surface and an opposite flat bottom surface. The top and bottom surfaces are capable of providing attachment for an abrasive material, such as a pressure adhesive sand paper. The sanding pad is formed of various geometric shapes and made from an expanded PVT material which has a Shore D durometer hardness value between 30 and 60. The sanding pad comes in a kit that includes several sanding pads, each of a different shape and situated purpose.

Abstract: A container for storing at least one object, such as a knife, utensil, and the like, wherein the object has a blade that is occasionally dressed is disclosed. The container includes a housing presenting an object-receiving opening and a blade-dressing assembly configured to provide selective dressing of the blade. The blade-dressing assembly includes a carrier and a dressing component supported on the carrier. The carrier is shiftably supported on the housing so as to move between a storage position in which the dressing surface is incapable of engaging the blade and an operating position in which the dressing surface is engageable by the blade.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutting tool, in particular in the form of a razor blade, a scalpel, a knife, a machine knife, scissors etc., which has a synthetic diamond layer with a cutting edge. The diamond layer thereby consists of fine-crystalline diamond.

Abstract: An improved structure of a honing apparatus includes a body, a suction unit, a control unit, a driving unit, a connecting unit and a upper cap, wherein a base is formed at circumference of the body and a trough is formed in the middle of the base, and a sliding trough is formed at one side wall on the other side of the body and a first hone is formed at a top surface of the body. At center of one lateral surface of the suction unit has an extended pulling stick and an eccentric protruding portion is formed in the control unit, while the other lateral surface has an extended manipulating portion. The driving unit has a threaded stick that has a rotating button at one enlarged end. The connecting unit has a through opening at a closer end of a lateral surface and a threaded unit is inside the connecting unit and aligned with the through opening. A second hone is hingedly formed at a top surface of the connecting unit close to the other end.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cutting tool, in particular in the form of a razor blade, a scalpel, a knife, a machine knife, scissors etc., which has a synthetic diamond layer with a cutting edge. The diamond layer thereby consists of fine-crystalline diamond.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for sharpening and cleaning a safety razor blade. The device comprises a polymer-based mat and either one or more polymer-based holding elements (21-24) for holding the safety razor blade in a fixed relationship with the device, or a pair of guiding tracks (4,4?) being arranged so that least part of the polymer-based mat is arranged between said pair of guiding tracks. The guiding tracks and the polymer-based mat are arranged relative to each other in such a way that the guiding tracks define a maximum allowed penetration depth of the blades of the safety razor blade into the polymer-based mat. By applying the device and a method according to the present invention the lifetime of safety razor blades may be increased by a factor of up to five.

Abstract: A knife maintenance apparatus has a substantially rectangular hone body, a length with an open end and a base end, a width, a top surface covered with an abrasive material, and a bottom surface. There is a first hone edge extending along the length of the hone body and has a first radius. The opposite edge has a second radius and is parallel to and approximately the length of the first hone edge. The first hone edge and the second hone edge are approximately the hone body width apart. There is also a rectangular base portion that has a base top surface, a base bottom surface, a base width approximate the width of the hone body. The base portion has a sliding portion adjacent to and parallel to the base top surface. The base portion is hingably attached to the hone body along the base end and has at least one adjustment hole disposed through both the base portion and the sliding portion. There is at least one adjustment pin that extends through the adjustment hole.

Abstract: A treatment device for improving the cutting properties of the blade of a non-electric shaving razor. The device has a treatment surface for interacting with the cutting edge of the razor blade, as the blade is put into sliding contact with the treatment surface. The treatment surface has a plurality of resilient honing projections that are compressed as the blade is moved in sliding contact with the surface.

Abstract: A multipurpose flashlight comprising a slotted locking donut and insert stick that can be used to start a fire. The multipurpose flashlight provides an easy way for an individual to have all the tools they will need to create a fire in a survival situation or anytime they are participating in outdoor activities.

Abstract: The combination of a knife storage block and a knife sharpener including a sharpening unit. The combination has a guard extending forwardly from either the knife storage block or the sharpener which in use protects a user's hand while drawing a knife through the sharpening unit. The knife sharpener may be external to the knife block or integral to it.

Abstract: Truing devices constructed and arranged for truing one or more disposable metallic blades and methods for the manufacture and use of same are disclosed herein.

Abstract: Apparatus for sharpening and or honing a multi-bladed razor cartridge including a sharpening member, a housing to secure the sharpening member. An aloe Vera or soap solution dispenser provides a lubricant to the sharpening member to lubricate the razor and a housing to limit the travel of the razor on the sharpening member. The sharpening and or honing member is made of a mirrored plate glass secured in a channel within the housing.

Abstract: A hand-held sharpener device for sharpening and deburring convergent surface cutting edge implements including an elongated cylindrical body having a central area mounting a plurality of sharpener bit assemblies and opposite end areas providing hand grips for holding and moving the sharpener device across a cutting edge to be sharpened. One of the sharpener bit assemblies includes two associated sharpening bits for sharpening blades having two converging cutter surfaces and a second sharpener bit assembly includes a sharpening bit and a dummy bit for sharpening blades having only one cutting surface. The sharpener bits and the dummy bit are held and clamped in bit receiving cavities in mating sections of the sharpener body.

Abstract: The invention concerns a knife sharpener for household knives or the like. In order to design a knife sharpener, which, one the one hand, can be used for sharpening and sits solidly on a surface without it having to be held, and which, on the other hand, is producible with little economic cost regarding production and assembly, the invention proposes a knife sharpener with a housing, which has a surface designed to be a base, and at least one longitudinal, cylindrical grinding element made from ceramics, at least part of the surface of which is arranged on the surface of the housing, whereas the base is designed at a right angle to a longitudinal line of the grinding element and the grinding element is positioned in the middle in relation to a projection of the base.

Abstract: 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 of the body (11). The cutting edge is formed by an inclined face formed on one side face of the body. The apparatus includes a cradle (26) for holding a blade-like implement to be sharpened and a mounting body for mounting the cradle (26) relative to a grinding surface. The cradle is mounted on a pair of guide rails (22, 24) for movement along a rectilinear path, the cradle including first and second rail followers slidably connected to a first and second of the guide rails respectively. The cradle (26) includes a seat for locating the blade-like implement at a reselected reference position on the cradle (26) such that the cutting edge of the implement to be sharpened is located parallel to said rectilinear path.

Abstract: A blade grinding tool includes a main base, a sucker mounted on the main base and attached to a surface, and a grinding unit mounted on the main base for grinding a blade of a cutting tool. Thus, the blade grinding tool is attached to a surface, so that a user needs not to hold the blade grinding tool by his one hand when grinding the blade of the cutting tool by the grinding unit, thereby facilitating the user grinding the blade of the cutting tool, and thereby protecting the user's safety.

Abstract: A blade sharpener (10) comprises sharpening strip providing carriers (12) and (14) each including an obliquely extending linear sharpening strip providing rod (16) and carrier movement non-interference guiding means in the form of a slot defining formation formed by facing rail pairs (18), (20) facing one another across a slot (22). The rail pairs (18) and (20) form part of a carrier support frame (24) to which the carriers (12), (14) are mounted to be displaced in diametrically opposed directions and along the spacings formed between the rails of the rail pairs (18), (20). A crossover point (28) is defined between the rods (16) within which the cutting edge of the blade of a knife is in an abrasion fashion moved during a sharpening action. The crossover point (28) is constrained to move along a linear sharpening path extending along the slot (22) during sharpener use.

Abstract: A manual knife sharpener is provided with angle control structure. The structure includes a guide member having a guide surface which forms an angle with the abrasive surface of the sharpening member. When the blade is inserted into the space between the abrasive surface and the guide surface the blade presses against the guide surface to displace the guide surface linearly in a direction perpendicular to the guide surface so that the movement is a lateral movement in the same plane without any pivoting or twisting of the guide member. Thus, the angle between the guide surface and the abrasive surface remains constant regardless of the extent of displacement of the guide member.

Abstract: An apparatus for maintaining culinary knifes, the apparatus having a handle assembly formed of a handle portion and a knife guide. An elongated tubular burnishing member is connected to the bottom end of the knife guide portion. A rubber friction tip is inserted into the bottom end of the tubular burnishing member. An elongated honing member is also coupled to the bottom end of the handle assembly and mounted in the interior of the tubular burnishing member. The burnishing member therefore performs a second function, that of being a protective sheath for the honing member.

Abstract: A honing head for microburnishing surface of a recording/reproducing disc to a smoothness at which asperities are limited to submicron heights including a hardened contact bearing surface having an array of depressions with abrupt trailing edges interconnected by recessed channels leading outwardly from the honing head. The array of channels span a band in which an asperity may be present, and the sharp edges shear off the asperities within the band which extend above the chosen submicroinch height, with the separated particulates being passed through the recesses and channel system to the outer edge of the honing head. The trailing edges act to shear off the unwanted heights of the asperities, while the recesses enable pressure differentials and air flows to direct the separated particulates outwardly relative to the disc, centripetal forces of rotation bearing the particulates from the disc.

Abstract: The present invention relates to coated silicon nitride based cutting tools and a method of making the same. By a carburizing heat treatment prior to the deposition of the coating, an improved bonding strength of the coating is obtained. A continuous or semicontinuous transition zone of 2-10 &mgr;m thickness is formed between the substrate and the inner layer of the coating in which transition zone the glass phase is replaced by the material of the inner layer.

Abstract: An abrasive cutter formed of at least one diamond particle, preferably at least one mono-diamond crystal and metallic binder material distinguished by the fact that the diamond particle (D) has a size of about 50 &mgr;m to about 500 &mgr;m and each diamond particle (D) is enclosed by a coating (H) produced in a fluidized bed with the coating having a wall thickness of about 10 &mgr;m to about 200 &mgr;m. The volume of the coating (H) constitutes at least 30% of the volume of the diamond particles (D) in the fully consolidated state following individual sintering of the coated diamond particles (D, H). The abrasive cutters can be applied directly onto an abrasive tool. Further they can be processed to form composite cutters or cutting segments. In the method of forming the abrasive cutter, the diamond particle (D) is brought into a fluidized bed reactor and enclosed in a metallic coating (H).

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus which is suitable for sharpening the drill bits of both the power drill and hand drill. Additionally, the operation of said apparatus is simple, and the sharpening is accurate.

Abstract: A stropping device of a blade for safety razors, capable of allowing an existing razor blade to be repeatedly used, is disclosed. The stropping device consists of a main body and an adhesive sheet attached on the back surface of the main body. A guide groove part is longitudinally formed on a front portion of the main body, while a protrusion is integrally and horizontally formed on a top portion of the main body. Also, side walls are formed at both side ends of the main body in such a manner that their outer surfaces are smoothly curved. A stropping plate member, produced from a leather material such as a natural or synthetic leather or suede, is attached on the bottom surface of the guide groove part by an adhesive means. In addition, a recess is formed on a rear portion of the protrusion in such a manner that a nail, driven in a wall in a house, is inserted into the recess.

Abstract: A knife sharpener is provided including a base. A plurality of sharpening members are positioned on the base and situated in side-by-side relationship. Also included is a biasing assembly for urging the sharpening members into abutment.

Abstract: An abrasive tool includes a base having an upper surface and a perforated sheet having a lower surface and an upper surface. A layer of abrasive grains is bonded to the upper surface of the perforated sheet. The upper surface of the base is bonded to the lower surface of the perforated sheet by a brazing material. A method of assembling an abrasive tool includes bonding the upper surface of the base and the lower surface of the perforated sheet by brazing the surfaces together and bonding a layer of abrasive grains to the upper surface of the perforated sheet.

Abstract: 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 body together can be loosened to allow the different stones to be interchanged.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for sharpening razor blades and the like including a sharpening element with a high alumina-oxide content and a lubrication sharpening slurry. The method involved sharpening the effected surface of the blade by polishing the blade within the slurry having entrained microscopic material formed by reaction of the alumina-oxide sharpening element with the compounds of the lubrication material without actual contact of the blade with the sharpening element.

Abstract: 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 sharpening stone table and the blade to be sharpened positioned on the blade support table, with the blade in grinding contact with the sharpening stone. An angle selection chart on the base allows vertical movement of the blade support table in conjunction with rotational adjustment of the sharpening stone table to accurately select a specific angle at which the blade edge is ground. A scissors adapter unit may be attached to the blade support table which permits the sharpening of scissors blades. The scissors blade is pressed against the scissors adapter, the blade being in grinding contact with the sharpening stone in much the same manner as knife blades are sharpened by the device.

Abstract: The present invention is directed at a method and an apparatus for finishing an orifice surface of a work piece consisting of a hard material such as ceramics or glass. The method removes surface anomalies on the orifice surface with a broach to produce a finished orifice. The broach tapers from a broad end down to a narrow end. The cross-section at the broad end is sized to fit snugly in the finished orifice. The method involves inserting the narrow end of the broach through an orifice of the work piece, and passing the broach through the orifice. In this way, the broach files and thereby removes the surface anomalies to conform the orifice to the finished orifice.