Abstract: A peeling apparatus for at least partially removing an external circumferential surface of an approximately cylindrical body is provided. The peeling apparatus includes: a C-shaped or C-like shaped base body, which has two free ends to form a peripheral opening, the cylindrical body being insertable between the two free ends and positionable concentrically in relation to a center of an incircle defined by the internal face of the base body; at least one external bearing mounted on an external axis positioned at each of the free ends, the external bearing abutting the cylindrical body when the body is positioned concentrically in relation to the center of the incircle; at least one central bearing attached to or positioned on the base body, spaced apart from the free ends and on a central axis; and a blade holder into which a blade is insertable so that the blade extends beyond the incircle.

Abstract: A knife having a double-sided ball slide knife blade locking mechanism includes a blade pivotally attached to a handle, the blade having a pair of large circular indentations formed on opposite lateral sides of the blade, and also having a pair of small circular indentations formed on opposite lateral sides of the blade. The knife handle has handle scales attached to opposite sides of the knife blade. Each of a pair of detent elements are positioned intermediate the handle scales and knife blade on both sides of the blade, and positioned such that the detent elements will mate with the indentations. Each of a pair of spring-loaded sliding detent release shafts are mounted within the handle scales and have a tapered interior side configured to wedge between the detent element and a detent housing cover to temporarily lock the detent elements in place within the indentations.

Abstract: A bottle cutter has a body having two generally arcuate components connected to each other by straight parallel members permitting one component to slide relative to the other component between an open, non-cutting position and a closed, cutting position. Each arcuate component includes a plurality of an inwardly facing rollers that facilitate rotation of a bottle held by the bottle cutter in the closed, cutting position. A cutting wheel disposed on one of the two components cuts, or at least scores, the bottle as the bottle is rotated. If the bottle is only scored, separation of the top and bottom portions of the bottle may be effected using hot and cold water to induce differential thermal stresses in the glass. The edge may be finished or polished using sandpaper or any other suitable abrasive material.

Abstract: A pipe peeler for removing a uniform layer of material from the outer surface of a polyethylene pipe is provided. The device comprises a body, a blade, a chain coupled near a first face of the body, a means for coupling the other end of the chain to the body near a second face of the body, a means for tightening the chain around a pipe, and a grip for rotating the device around the pipe in order to peel the pipe. The chain may define a helix shape when wrapped around the pipe, creating a spiral track on the pipe that the blade will follow when the device is pushed around the pipe, thereby creating a uniform spiral peel.

Abstract: A pipe peeler for removing a uniform layer of material from the outer surface of a polyethylene pipe is provided. The device comprises a cuboid body, a blade with housing for retracting the blade, a chain attached to one end of the cuboid body, a threaded hook for attaching the other end of the chain to the cuboid body and tightening the chain around a pipe, and a push knob for rotating the device around the pipe in order to peel the pipe. The two points on the chain attached to the body are different distances from the end of the pipe when the chain is tightened around the pipe, thereby creating a spiral track on the pipe that the blade will follow when the device is pushed around the pipe, thereby creating a uniform spiral peel.

Abstract: A pipe peeler for removing a uniform layer of material from the outer surface of a polyethylene pipe is provided. The device comprises a cuboid body, a blade with housing for retracting the blade, a chain attached to one end of the cuboid body, a threaded hook for attaching the other end of the chain to the cuboid body and tightening the chain around a pipe, and a push knob for rotating the device around the pipe in order to peel the pipe. The two points on the chain attached to the body are different distances from the end of the pipe when the chain is tightened around the pipe, thereby creating a spiral track on the pipe that the blade will follow when the device is pushed around the pipe, thereby creating a uniform spiral peel.

Abstract: A soil pipe cutting tool is described. The tool includes a telescoping housing assembly, a feedscrew in threaded engagement with the housing assembly, and a cutting chain. The cutting tool can be powered by an impact driver. Also described are rotary powered tools. In certain versions, the tools include torque limiting provisions to prevent transfer of excessively high levels of torque to a working end of the tool. Various methods of use are also described.

Abstract: A lightweight, portable, and relatively small cutting tool is described. The tool engages with a standard press tool and is used for cutting brittle pipe such as cast iron soil pipe. The tool features a cutting chain assembly that is tensioned about the pipe by a movable ram block. The ram block is displaced by a ram or hydraulic cylinder in the press tool.

Abstract: A lightweight, portable, and relatively small cutting tool is described. The tool engages with a standard press tool and is used for cutting brittle pipe such as cast iron soil pipe. The tool features a cutting chain assembly that is tensioned about the pipe by a movable ram block. The ram block is displaced by a ram or hydraulic cylinder in the press tool.

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: Each shank comprises at least a first segment which is close to the pivot axis and which extends substantially in the cutting plane in the same direction as the corresponding tang. Each of the two shanks further comprises at least a second segment extending beyond the first segment in a second direction which extends substantially in a respective shank plane containing said first direction and perpendicular to the cutting plane, the second direction forming a first angle with said first direction in said respective shank plane.

Abstract: Mechanical device capable of moving blades on orthogonal planes. The type of movement, which is due to the particular mechanism, is the most important aspect of the invention. The device is for use mainly in gardening and farming, for mowing and for clipping to the side and above hedges. It may be fitted to a traditional clearing machine, It may be classified in the technical sector of electromechanical devices and in the field of application of working tools.

Abstract: A soil pipe cutting device comprising a pair of pivotally interconnected arm members having jaw ends and actuator ends and a flexible, non-extendable cutter chain adjustably mounted between the jaw ends to circumscribe a pipe to be cut is provided with a screw-type actuating mechanism for displacing the jaw ends in the direction to tension the cutter chain to sever a pipe, and with a handle removably and adjustably mounted on the actuator end of one of the arms for transporting the cutter and for supporting and manipulating the cutter during a pipe cutting operation.

Abstract: A chain pipe cutter has a pair of pivotal handles that carry a non-extendable cutter chain. A first handle has a contact member secured to a lower part of the first handle in a pivotal relationship so as to adapt the contact member to an angle most suitable for contacting a power actuator rod. The second handle has a holder for a power actuator rod and a retainer for retaining the rod in a fixed relationship to the handle when the power is delivered to the rod. An arm retainer allows to temporarily retain the handles in a spaced-apart relationship prior to application of the power. A conversion kit is provided for retrofitting a conventional manual pipe cutter to a power actuated cutter.

Abstract: A device for cutting pipe comprising two sleeves, which sleeves are securely tensionable about a pipe and adjacent to each other. An axial cleft remains exposed between the two sleeves, in which lies the cutting line. A chain type pipe cutter runs upon the sleeves, the cutting disks of the pipe cutter engaging the pipe between the sleeves and severing the pipe. The rollers of the cutting disks are supported by the sleeves, whereby the cutting depth is limited. Further, support bearing rollers support the chain type pipe cutter upon the sleeves. The device is economical and makes possible the cutting of pipes even of minimal form stability without deforming the pipes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a means for continuous production of elongated carbon bodies having a constant or substantially constant cross-section where a casing filled with unbaked paste consisting of carbon and a carbon containing binder is continuously baked to a solid carbon body by heating by means of direct electric current. The first terminal of the direct current source is being slidably connected to the casing through a plurality of vertical ribs extending radially outwards from the casing, said ribs being made from a current conducting material, and the second terminal of the direct current source being connected to the baked part of the carbon body or to a bottom contact in a smelting furnace in which the carbon body is consumed. The casing containing the carbon containing paste is continuously or substantially continuously moved in axial direction by means of slipping- and holding means.

Abstract: A pipe severing device (1) and method utilizing a chain (13) having stress inducing wheels (19) efficiently and safely severs brittle materials including cast iron, vitreous clay, cement and asbestos pipe. The device includes an actuating handle (6) which pivots over a pipe support surface (3). Upon pivoting over the surface, holddown arms (7) attached to the actuating handle frictionally grasp a pipe. The handle may then pivot about a second point or remain rigid, in either case engaging a first limit switch (25) which actuates a hydraulic cylinder (35). The hydraulic cylinder tightens the chain causing the stress inducing wheels to create stress concentration points around the circumference of the pipe. Cracks propagate between stress concentration points, quickly severing the pipe. The pipe support surface includes resilient pads (5a,b) which further frictionally grasp the pipe.

Abstract: A chain tube cutter has two plier-like levers with hand grips on one side of a pivot pin which projects from one lever through a slot in the other and chain-engaging arms on the other side of the pivot pin. A link cutting chain is secured to one arm. The other arm has notches for engaging a selected link of the chain after it is wrapped around the tube to be cut. Squeezing the hand grips together generally keeps the chain adjusted about the tube as it is cut by rotating the cutter relative to the tube, but to provide greater initial and operational adjustment, the pivot pin is variably positionable in the slot.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for cutting the casing on baked carbon electrodes. The device comprises a ring (1) which is freely suspended about the electrode. At least two clamping shoes (7) having vertical extending cutting edges (17) are pivotably suspended to the ring (1). The clamping shoes (7) can be pressed against the casing (3) by means of first hydraulic cylinders (14). On the top of the ring (1) a chain (18) having a plurality of cutting wheels (19) is arranged. One end of the chain (18) is secured to a second hydraulic cylinder (26) and the other end is secured to the piston (27) of the second hydraulic cylinder (26), whereby the chain (18) can be tightened about the periphery of the electrode (2). A third hydraulic cylinder (29) is secured to the ring (1) while the piston (28) of the third hydraulic cylinder (29) is secured to the claim (18), whereby the chain (18) can be moved backwards and forwards along the circumference of the casing (3).

Abstract: An electric can opener comprising an opener body and a body support. The opener body includes a cutter and a toothed wheel adapted to be rotated by an electric motor. A can to be opened is placed on the wheel at its upper projecting edge, and rotated by the wheel as operated by the motor. During rotation the top of can is cut by the cutter. For usual use, the opener support can be placed on the upper surface of an object such as a kitchen table with its bottom in contact with the upper surface. For use in suspension, the support can be secured to the lower surface of a fixed object such as a hanged sideboard by installing its bottom to the lower surface. For usual use, the base of the support is located below the opener body. For use in suspension, the base of the support is located above the body.

Abstract: An apparatus for supporting a pipe and pipe snapping tool having the advantages of ease of assembly and disassembly and portability. The apparatus includes a main support and pair of upwardly opening pipe trays fixedly attached to the main support and aligned with each other along the longitudinal axis of the main support. The pipe trays are separated from each other by a predetermined space adjacent the center of the main support to create a support gap over which the pipe to be cut lies when supported on the pipe trays. Wall supports, attached to each of the pipe trays at the inner and outer ends thereof, extend to the main support to raise the pipe trays above the main support such that the lower jaw of a pipe snapping tool positioned between the wall supports will lie beneath a pipe spanning the support gap when supported by the pipe trays.

Abstract: The wall of a pipe is prepared for a subsequent cutting operation by a double-edged shear plate, by cutting axially spaced circumferential notches in such wall with a flexible strand cutter capable of operating in the limited confines of a housing designed in the rectangular pattern of the shear plate. The flexible strand cutter advantageously employs roller cutters on a power transmission type chain which is tensioned against and moved circumferentially over the wall of the pipeline.

Abstract: The present patent relates to chain pipe-cutters equipped to cut all kind of material. The chain pipe-cutters include: a tensioner which is a deformable system formed by a cylindrical rod fast with a support, a slider slidably mounted on said rod, said support bearing four articulated rockers connected to the slider in pairs by two links and having their lower ends shaped as hooks to permit attachment of the chain thereon; said cylindrical rod cooperating with a handle through the agency of a screw-thread and said handle being formed by two superimposed cylindrical elements and having four superimposed lobes arranged cruciform-fashion.

Abstract: A U-shaped body member has key slots adjacent opposite ends thereof arranged to have removable connection at spaced points in a chain of a chain pipe wrench. A cutter bit projects adjustably beyond the bottom portion of the body member for cutting a pipe peripherally by multiple turns of the wrench around the pipe in a reverse direction from that at which the lever handle has gripping connection on a pipe. Guide and gauge wheels are provided on opposite sides of the cutter bit for guiding it in a cut and for maintaining the depth of the cut as determined by adjustment of the cutter bit.