Abstract: A marble and granite nipping tool that includes a pair of blade support plates as blade mounting ends whereto nipping blades having opposing nipping edges are releasably mounted and provides for setting a selected opposing nipping edge spacing to allow a use of the tool on different widths or thicknesses of marble and granite slabs, for removing or nipping off edge sections thereof. The tool includes a linkage consisting of lever arms secured at lever arm ends to the blade support plates undersurfaces that connect, in turn, through a pivot coupling to scissoring arms that and operated to provide a mechanical advantage to multiply a closure force directed through the scissoring arms and linkage and into the blade support plates for facilitating the removal of marble and granite edge sections. Which scissoring arms can, in one embodiment, be manually closed by an operator moving ends of the arms together, and, in another embodiment, by operation of a an automated scissoring arm closure arrangement.

Abstract: A marble and granite nipping tool that includes a pair of blade support plates as blade mounting ends whereto nipping blades having opposing nipping edges are releasably mounted and provides for setting a selected opposing nipping edge spacing to allow a use of the tool on different widths or thicknesses of marble and granite slabs, for removing or nipping off edge sections thereof. The tool includes a linkage consisting of lever arms secured at lever arm ends to the blade support plates undersurfaces that connect, in turn, through a pivot coupling to scissoring arms that and operated to provide a mechanical advantage to multiply a closure force directed through the scissoring arms and linkage and into the blade support plates for facilitating the removal of marble and granite edge sections. Which scissoring arms can, in one embodiment, be manually closed by an operator moving ends of the arms together, and, in another embodiment, by operation of a an automated scissoring arm closure arrangement.