Abstract: A die having a scoring rule and an accommodating counter plate for use in paper or similar soft materials scoring operations in which alignment between the scoring rule and the score in the counter plate is accommodated by adjustably positioning a scored counter member for receiving the scoring rule within a slot formed in the counter plate.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hair clipper including a housing, a motor located in the housing and including a shaft having a drive member thereon, and a blade set connected to the housing. The blade set includes a lower blade connected to the housing, and a movable blade assembly including a thin planar movable upper blade member and a shoe member including a planar body having a groove formed in its upper surface, a notch therein, and laterally spaced wall portions on opposite sides of the notch and extending upwardly from the upper surface. The movable blade assembly also includes a yoke member secured between the upper surface of the movable blade member and the shoe member, the yoke member including first and second laterally spaced walls extending upwardly through the notch and being engaged by the drive member to cause reciprocating movement of the movable blade assembly relative to the fixed blade.

Abstract: An effective and inexpensive hackle clamp comprising a loop of flat spring wire having free ends extending from the loop, the free ends being flatly fastened together inwardly from the terminal ends thereof forming a clamp which is easily opened by squeezing the sides of the flat wire in the loop area.

Abstract: A cosmetic pencil sharpener comprising a sharpener unit having a body of rectangular configuration embraced within a casing composed of upper and lower members separably engageable with one another and with the sharpener unit. A chip collector chamber is formed within the interior of the casing to receive shavings removed from the pencil during sharpening thereof. The upper and lower members have coextensive, elongate, cut-out portions, extending along mutually perpendicular sides to cooperatively define an L-shaped opening through which a portion of one of the sides and the front end of the body of the sharpener unit is exposed. In the exposed portion of the front end of the sharpener unit is an aperture leading to a bore in which the pencil to be sharpened is inserted.

Abstract: A knife and chopper board combination is provided in which the knife is pivotally coupled to the board at its forward end to permit it to be turned about a vertical axis to various angular positions with respect to the top of the board and then turned about a horizontal axis for chopping, slicing or dicing food. A feature of the combination is the fact that the knife is easily removable from its supporting structure for cleaning and storing purposes.

Abstract: A hand saw with an interchangeable saw blade comprising a saw blade with a tongue a U-shaped reinforcing member for reinforcing the saw blade and the tongue, and a molded handle including a blade receiving opening. The handle includes a set screw which protrudes into notches formed in the tongue of the blade and the reinforcing member to lock the blade to the handle. The notches in the tongue and the reinforcing member are arranged so that only the notch in the tongue of the blade engages the tip of the set screw, thereby ensuring a firm clamping of the saw blade to the handle. The opening for receiving the tongue of the blade is defined by ribs formed on the handle.

Abstract: An improved sharpener for self-sharpening feed chopping knives used in cutting crops, forage, ensilage and the like. The sharpener may be lowered on top of the chopping knives so that the knives are continuously sharpened during the cutting operation. The stone may be pivoted out of the chopping box when the knives have been sharpened to prevent a sharpening stone mounted on the sharpener from being exposed to potential breakage from foreign material received inside a chopper box containing the knives mounted on a rotating cutter head.

Abstract: A tool for cleaning, deburring, burnishing, or otherwise treating an end of a tubular conduit comprises a rotatable body coupled to a carrier provided with an abrading substance. In one form the carrier may be accommodated within the conduit, whereas in another form the carrier is adapted to accommodate the conduit. In each case the carrier is axially slotted to enable it to expand and contract radially to cause the abrading material to engage the conduit. The body and the carrier are telescoped for relative movement and are provided with complementally tapered surfaces which react in response to relative telescopic movements to effect radial expansion and contraction of the carrier.

Abstract: Apparatus to cut a carpet into two sections with the edge of each section being beveled. The apparatus employs two rotary cutters mounted at an angle to each other and which are driven at the same speed in the same direction.

Abstract: A chipping hammer for cleaning welds or deburring the oxidized metal about the cut from a cutting torch which comprises a handle and a head of unique configuration secured to an end of the handle. The head is secured at right angles to the axis of the handle and has a hammer head portion at one end and a toothed chipping blade at the other end. The ends of the teeth lie along a concave curve wherein the rearmost tooth extends outwardly from the blade a greater extent than does the front tooth.

Abstract: A portable electric grinding tool for use in sharpening saw chains by means of a guide attachment attachably mounted at the sharpening end of the tool. The guide attachment consists of a detachable housing axially mounted on the tool having a separately detachable and reversible guide plate mounted parallel to the axial direction of the grinder rod displaced to either side of the axis of the grinder rod.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing and feeding an abrasive-containing suspension into the zone of action of work tools of polishing and finishing lathes consisting of units series-connected by pipes and forming a closed circuit, comprising a unit for preparing a suspension from starting materials, a distributing unit with branch pipes for feeding the suspension to each work tool, a reservoir for collecting a waste suspension and a unit for cleaning the waste suspension. The distributing unit is formed with a pipe having a variable cross section along the length thereof. The branch pipes are located on the pipe at points of greater cross section.

Abstract: A pocket sized record album opener that is adapted to be held in the hand and contains a recessed cutting edge that slidably engages the cellophane bridge over the open mouth of an album jacket thereby opening the same, all the while, the cutting edge being free of the actual record and the user's hand. In one embodiment, a pair of serrated disk-like cutting wheels are mounted on spaced apart parallel axles such that their lateral surfaces are at different distances from a flat fence-like guide surface. The fence-like guide surface may be moved relative to the position of the pair of serrated disc-like cutting wheels, thereby permitting the apparatus to be utilized in cutting covers, whereby the cuts in the covers to be made vary in distance from the surface on which the fence moves. A cover is pivotably secured to the housing carrying the axle, acting as a cover for the fence-like guiding surface and the exposed portion of the serrated cutting wheels.

Abstract: A combination hand-tool, namely a pocket tool comprising a set of screwdriver blades contained in compartments in a handle forming a magazine therefor, having a cover-forming plate rotatably mounted about the axis of said handle and provided with an aperture capable of registering with anyone of the compartments and having a means for restraining its rotation and a means for locking in translation any tool extracted from its compartment, each tool having a shank of the same shape as each compartment and a notch for cooperating with the edge of said aperture, the cross-section of said aperture being smaller than that of any tool-element shank, whereby a tool element is selected, partially extracted from its compartment and locked with respect to said handle, the loss of any tool element being prevented.

Abstract: A metal casing is provided having flat, parallel front and back sides. A first cylindrical cavity having a bottom wall is formed in the front casing side. A cylindrical metal plug having top and bottom ends is secured by heat shrinking in the first casing cavity, the bottom end having a second, concentric cylindrical cavity formed therein and engaging the bottom wall of the cavity. A cylindrical metal blank having opposite ends and a concentric core formed of a synthetic hard, wear-resistant material, such as polycrystalline aggregate of synthetic or natural diamond or polycrystalline cubic boron nitride, is secured in the second cavity by heat shrinking with one end engaging the bottom thereof and the other end engaging the first casing cavity bottom wall.

Abstract: An unbreakable sledge hammer handle includes a conventional, wood or other rigid lower handle portion and a wire rope connector for mounting the hammer head on the top end of the hammer. A pair of collars are fit on the opposite ends of the wire rope connector and secured thereto by applying extreme pressure to the collar which deforms and cold works the interior diameter to fill in the gaps between the wire segments. The sledge hammer head is provided with a cylindrical mounting aperture which is smaller in diameter than the outside diameter of the collar. The hammer head is subsequently heat shrunk onto the collar. The opposite end of the wire rope connector is secured to the wooden handle portion by a sleeve which extends a substantial length over the exterior of the handle portion. The sleeve is riveted to the wooden handle portion and spot welded to the collar.

Abstract: A hammer has a head having a recessed face. The recess in one modification is formed by having four isosceles triangular slanted sections extending inward from the outer edge of the face. In another modification the face has a curved recess. The hammer head has flat exterior side surfaces and the head is positional close to the center line of the handle. The hammer claw has a rectangular notch between the two claw fingers, making the claw especially adaptable for disengaging tie-wire loops or bolt ends with slots in their outer ends. The hammer is useful for driving objects such as nails, pins, and wedges, and is especially useful in work involving concrete forms.

Abstract: An improved throw-away, or single use, adaptor particularly useful with depressed center grinding wheels is described. The adaptor comprises a hollow mandrel having an internal threaded portion for attaching the adaptor to the shaft of a grinding machine. The hollow mandrel has a saucer-shaped disc portion extending axially from the outer portion of the mandrel. The saucer-shaped disc portion has a concave surface and a convex surface. The concave portion is equipped with a plurality of internal rib members and has a flange around the periphery thereof to contact the side of a grinding wheel. The flange portion has a plurality of protrusions, or bosses, thereon adapted to be received in corresponding orifices in the grinding wheel. In operation, as the grinding wheel contacts a work piece, the torque, or stress, is directly imparted to the adaptor, as the adaptor is threadably attached to the shaft of the grinding wheel.

Abstract: This invention pertains to means for trimming tree branches. Spaced cutting collars with sharp teeth at one end are crimped upon a flexible cable. Lead weights, sand bags, etc., are attached to and carry the flexible cutting cable into position over the branch to be cut. The cable and cutting collars are oscillated to saw the branch.

Abstract: A retractable blade knife 10 comprises an elongate handle 11 which is in two halves 14, 15 clamping therebetween a replaceable blade 12 which can be extended and retracted by means of a cursor 18 and which has "break-lines" 32 for breaking off successive end portions 33. To clamp the blade 12 firmly in use, a screw 27 at the rear end of the handle can be turned to produce relative longitudinal sliding between the two handle halves 14, 15, whereupon an inclined "wedging" surface 17 at the front end of the handle 11 clamps the two halves 14 and 15 together with the blade 12 between them.