Abstract: A powered vinyl groover includes a motor attached to a circular blade and a blade housing for covering the circular blade. The blade housing includes a duct to carry cuttings into a collection bag. Near an inlet hole of the duct is a fin, which may be a raised surface on any interior wall of the blade housing extending into the blade housing as close as possible to the blade. The fin causes airflow from the blade to be redirected towards the inlet hole of the duct so that more cuttings enter the duct and are carried by the duct through to an outlet hole to a collection bag mountable over the outlet hole of the duct. The fin may be integral with the blade housing or attached to it, and a fin may also be added to existing groovers.

Abstract: A retaining and cutting device for positioning a leading edge of material at one end of a roll and for puncturing and severing the material a pre-determined distance from the leading edge after removing from the roll, the retaining device comprising elongated jaw members pivotally connected together, a closure member normally urging the jaw members together, and a cutter along one edge of at least one of the jaw members. Extensions of the jaw members are manually grasped to urge the jaw members into an open position for insertion of the next leading edge of material therebetween. The device may also be utilized as a cutting tool for opening sealed boxes and the like.

Abstract: A portable power tool has at least one housing part (10) and a guide channel (12) for carrying chips and/or abrasive particles away from a working area (14). At least one wall region (16) of the guide channel (12) is movable relative to the housing part (10) for cleaning purposes.

Abstract: An improved hand held lawn and garden vacuum trimmer having an elongated vacuum duct in fluid communication with a motor powered vacuum impeller positioned in a body, one end of the vacuum duct being attached to the body, a rotary cutter positioned in the vacuum duct, the rotary cutter attached to the impeller by way of a rotating shaft so that material swept into the distal end of the vacuum duct is cut by the cutter, swept through the impeller and then directed to a collection container. The improvement of this embodiment of the instant invention is positioning the cutter more than one quarter inch and less than three inches from the distal end of the vacuum duct.

Abstract: A plastic package opener having a body with a generally “V” shaped configured is formed from a memory retention material, by angled first and second legs held together by a portion of material. A sharp edge or blade member is held to an interior surface of one of the legs at an angle to the terminal ends of the legs. A movable blade cover may be provided for safety. A plastic package to be opened is inserted between the open ends of the legs and the blade member brought against the plastic package by squeezing the two legs together and directed across the surface of the plastic package to sever the plastic package and open the same for removal of an item or items held therein.

Abstract: A hand-held cutter with automatic blade changer which has a casing, short blades each with an aperture, a pushbutton and a plug, and the casing is composed of an outer casing, a fixed blade holder and a retractable blade holder; and it further has a blade changer which is divided into a blade unloading chamber and a blade loading chamber. The present invention has the advantages of being simple in construction and convenient to use, and allowing the users to change and dispose of the blades without touching them, thereby effectively protecting personal safety.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a pill cutter that has a protected cutting edge. The pill cutter includes a guard, a base, and a cover. The components are arranged such that the guard slides over the cutting edge when the pill cutter is in an open position and the guard exposes the cutting edge when the pill cutter is in a closed position. The invention is also directed at a method for assembling the pill cutter and a method of using the pill cutter to cut a pill or tablet.

Abstract: A tool coupling and dust collection system for collecting dust and debris generated by the use of a reciprocal saw being releasably attached to the reciprocal saw. A planar foot is attached to and extends downwardly the plate. Each of a plurality of attachments is removably attached to the foot. A housing is positioned around the plate. The housing includes a top wall, a bottom wall and a perimeter wall to define a collection space. The bottom wall has an attachment aperture extending therethrough to permit the attachments coupled to the plate to extend from the housing. The top wall of the housing has a vacuum aperture extending therethrough. A vacuum hose is coupled to the top wall of the housing and in fluid communication with the vacuum aperture. A free end of the vacuum hose is mounted to a vacuum to vacuum the dust from the housing.

Abstract: In an electric saw includes a circular saw blade, a guard cover is arranged to surround an upper portion of the circular saw blade and a dust collecting case is arranged at the rear of the guard cover for collecting chips generated during a cutting operation performed by the circular saw blade. An openable lid unit is arranged in a position along a passage through which the chips pass. The guard cover is formed into a curved shape along the circular saw blade and the passage is defined by the guard cover to extend along a peripheral edge of the circular saw blade. The lid unit includes an opening portion formed in the passage and a lid member for closing the opening portion. The lid unit is opened toward the front of the guard cover as the lid member is rotated along a rotating plane of the circular saw blade.

Abstract: A portable cutting apparatus. The apparatus includes a motor and a cutting blade driven by the motor. A protective housing encloses at least a portion of the cutting blade. A vacuum impeller is disposed in a vacuum housing to generate airflow to move dust and debris created by the cutting blade into a removable vacuum bag. At least one vacuum tube directs the airflow from the protective housing to the vacuum housing. The motor operates both the cutting blade and the vacuum impeller. A bellows interconnects the protective housing and a lower platform. The lower platform pivots relative to the cutting blade about a pivot axis that is outwardly spaced from and parallel to a cutting plane defined by the cutting blade.

Abstract: A material trimmer for trimming sheet material having a blade slidingly engageable with the sheet material along a cut line and a cut line projector operable to create a cut line indicator indicative of the approximate location of the cut line. The projector provides for a ready and correct orientation of the sheet material within the material trimmer. The projector includes a light bar mounted to the base of the material trimmer. When activated, the light bar creates an illuminated cut line indicator that is projected onto the material being cut. The illuminated cut line indicator illustrates location where the material trimmer will trim the material placed on the base of the material trimmer.

Abstract: A removably attachable, multifunctional accessory (10) for a utensil such as a kitchen knife is provided comprising a base (15) with at least one cavity (16), one or more magnets (41) inserted and secured within cavity (16), and a wing (30) protruding from the base. The wing is shaped in such a fashion as to have minimal effect on normal cutting behavior, and provides several benefits to the user, such as providing means for more easily and accurately guiding piles of cut food around and off a cutting surface, providing means to quickly and more safely remove food remnants stuck to the blade of the knife, and providing means to hold the knife in an upright position.

Abstract: A nail clipping apparatus for cutting a fingernail, thumbnail, or toenail nail of a user, comprising a base having an upstanding support member and a nail clipper disposed on the support member, wherein the nail clipper has a rotatable cutter head actuated to cut the user's nail by pivoting movement of a lower clipper arm upwardly toward and an upper clipper arm on which the cutter head resides, wherein the upper clipper arm is connected to the support member and wherein the lower clipper arm is connected to an actuating member that extends in front of the cutter head were a nail positioning pad is disposed on the actuating member adjacent the cutter head and where a user pushes downwardly on the actuating member to move the lower clipper arm upwardly toward the upper clipper arm to actuate the cutter head to cut a nail positioned in the cutter head.

Abstract: A self-contained vacuum circular saw is presented. The vacuum saw has a casing around the saw blade that includes an accordion type lower section attached to the lower platform of the saw. A number of vacuum tubes, preferably four, are attached to the side of the circular saw opposite the blade. The armature of the circular saw that turns the blade also turns the vacuum impeller on the side opposite the blade. An impeller vacuum chamber pulls in the dust and debris created by the saw blade and discharges the dust and debris into a disposable and removable vacuum bag. An important aspect of this device is that the motor that turns the saw blade also turns the impeller, thus making the self-contained vacuum saw moveable from site to site.

Abstract: A pill cutting device (1) having a lid (4) moveably attached to a base (5) via an attachment means (6), such as pivot points (7), and a cutting blade (10) secured to the inside of the lid. A holding wall (11), which is preferably V-shaped, extends upward from the base and a slidably adjustable pill retaining means (13) having an adjusting wall (14), which is preferably V-shaped, is moveably attached to the base so that a user may slide the slidably adjustable pill retaining means forwards toward the holding wall and backwards away from the holding wall. A slot (12) extends through the top of the base a predetermined distance to allow room for the cutting blade to pass through when the lid is closed.

Abstract: A system is comprised of a chip catcher and a safety guard for a power tool that generates chips, in particular a hand-guided power tool, having an inlet region for admitting a flow of air containing a chip/air mixture and for detachably connecting a chip ejector and having an inlet region for admitting a flow of air containing a chip/air mixture and for detachably connecting to a chip ejector and having an encompassing housing that is provided for attachment to the safety guard. The housing contains an air outlet spatially separate from a chip-collecting region for chips.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a hand-held circular saw with an integrated dust collection system. Such saw may include an upper blade guard for protecting the user from a saw blade, the upper blade guard configured with a front region and a back region, the front region including a hollow channel to control the pathway of dust and debris and a dust collection system incorporated within the front region of the upper blade guard allowing dust and debris to be directed away from the user.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hand machine tool, particularly to a hand machine tool for sawing, comprising a drive unit (12a) with a drive shaft (14a; 14b), and a vacuum device (16a; 16b) with a suction unit (20a; 20b) and a drive shaft (22a; 22b). According to the invention, the hand machine tool comprises a gearbox unit (24a; 24b), that is connected upstream of the drive shaft (22a; 22b) of the suction unit (20a; 20b).

Abstract: A portable electric cutting device includes housing, a saw blade, a saw cover, a base linked to the housing, and a centrifugal fan. The saw cover has a partition wall formed with a plurality of division walls including front and rear divisional walls. The plurality of division walls have an inclined part that extends at an angle with respect to a radial direction of the rotary axis of the fan such that a radially outer part of the inclined part locates upstream from a radially inner part of the inclined part with respect to the rotary direction of the fan.

Abstract: A device for slicing the tip from an elongated food product having an elongated housing with a longitudinally extending channel open at one end and closed at its second end. The channel is dimensioned to receive the food product through the first open end of the housing. A plunger assembly is slidably mounted to the housing adjacent the second end of the housing and in the direction transverse to the channel axis. The plunger assembly includes a blade moveable between a retracted position in which the blade is retracted from the channel and an extended position in which the blade extends across the channel.

Abstract: A tablet cutter is formed by a cutting edge mounted on the bottom of a hollow column in perpendicular thereto and a transparent top plate mounted on the top of the hollow column to close the top thereof, a convex edge fixing head and an edge bearing head on a concave side surface of the hollow column which conforms to the head so that the contacting area of the head and the edge bearing head to which impact is transferred upon cutting action. The width in a horizontal direction of the edge bearing head and the edge fixing head is larger than that of the edge bearing body and the edge fixing body, and these elements are covered with a cover having an inner diameter equal to the outer diameter of the hollow column.

Abstract: A jigsaw comprising a debris or dust collection system is described. A shroud is arranged to encapsulate a portion of a saw blade such that debris from the blade ejected during cutting of a work-piece is captured in the shroud and entrained in an airflow provided by a vacuum source. The airflow passes along a pipe section from the shroud to the vacuum source, where the debris can be collected. The shroud is generally U-shaped and symmetrical such that it extends around other jigsaw components, such as the orbital action bell crank. As a result, the pipe can be fitted on either side of the jigsaw's shoe or footplate and engage with the shroud. The airflow in the immediate area of the cutting blade is transverse to the cut direction, thereby removing debris from the line-of-sight of the operator. The shroud is arranged such that only a portion of the blade passes through a volume defined by the shroud, footplate and work-piece.

Abstract: A swivelable vacuum hose coupler of a grooming clipper vacuum attachment includes a front attachment member attachable to a suction head of the vacuum attachment, a rear hose attachment member attachable to an end of a vacuum hose, and an annular swivel collar rigidly attached to a rear end portion of the front attachment member and rotatably coupled to a front end portion of the rear attachment member so as to hold the rear end portion of the front attachment member in an abutting relationship with the front end portion of the rear attachment member and the front attachment member in flow communication with the rear attachment member and to form a swivel joint with the rear attachment member such that the front attachment member can rotate at the swivel joint relative to the rear attachment member and thereby allow the rear attachment member to remain in a stationary position relative to the front attachment member.

Abstract: A cutting tool for flexible line, the cutting tool being attached to the package for the flexible line, comprises a base member having a groove adapted to receive the flexible line when the cutting tool is in use and a blade recessed within the groove, the blade being adapted to cut the flexible line when the line is forced into the blade during use of the cutting tool. The cutting tool further includes an arm member in operative relationship with and complementary to the base member, which arm member is capable of producing and applying mechanical advantage in a manner that forces the flexible line received within the groove against the blade to thereby sever the flexible line.

Abstract: To provide a portable dust collecting circular saw capable of making an exhaustion of chips smooth, improving a dust collecting efficiency of a dust bag and a dust collector, and improving workability. Engaging portions of a dust nozzle 6, a saw cover 5, and a nozzle holder 7 are shaped into a spherical shape respectively and engaged mutually. A circumferential groove portion 11 is provided to the saw cover 5 and the nozzle holder 7. Also, a longitudinal groove portion 12 that is coupled to the circumferential groove portion 11 is provided on the rear side. Also, three projection portions 13 fitted into a groove portion 12 having a width are provided to the dust nozzle 6, and the dust nozzle 6 can be inclined to the rear side by a turn.

Abstract: Dispensers are provided for razor blade cartridges used with a handle. The dispensers have a housing structure that defines sections for receiving respective cartridges and retaining the cartridges in predetermined positions that permit connection of a handle connecting structure on the handle to one of the cartridges as the handle is moved toward the cartridge. The dispensers also include a latch for each section. Each latch is shaped and positioned to interact with a corresponding feature on the blade unit of the cartridge.

Abstract: A combination precision knife and blade dispenser having a handle portion configured to receive a blade and a dispenser. The dispenser is configured to support at least one blade in a new blade portion thereof. The dispenser further has a used blade portion configured to support at least one blade therein, where a user, manipulates the handle portion and engages a base of the at least one blade therein, and where in order to dispose of the blade, the user inserts the blade into the dispenser and disengages the base of the blade from the handle portion such that at no time does a user need to touch an edge portion of the blade.

Abstract: A cutting and dust collecting assembly comprises a rotatable, circular saw blade (4) having a first side (20), a second side (21), and a cover device (6) with a terminal member (52). The bottom surface (36) of the cover device extends in a plane. A longitudinal passage (45, 46) for the saw blade extends through the cover device from its top surface to its bottom surface. The terminal member comprises a terminal chamber (60) having an inlet (45a), the mouth of which coincides with the plane of said bottom surface. An outlet (58) can be connected to a vacuum source. The direction of rotation of the operating blade is such that the rear part (4a) of the saw blade which has passed beyond the bottom surface of the cover device will move in a direction upwards-rearwards towards the bottom surface. The invention also concerns the cover device, a sealing body belonging to the cover device and a working machine which is provided with the cutting and dust collecting assembly.

Abstract: A self-contained vacuum circular saw is presented. The vacuum saw has a casing around the saw blade that includes an accordion type lower section attached to the lower platform of the saw. A number of vacuum tubes, preferably four, are attached to the side of the circular saw opposite the blade. The armature of the circular saw that turns the blade also turns the vacuum impeller on the side opposite the blade. An impeller vacuum chamber pulls in the dust and debris created by the saw blade and discharges the dust and debris into a disposable and removable vacuum bag. An important aspect of this device is that the motor that turns the saw blade also turns the impeller, thus making the self-contained vacuum saw moveable from site to site.

Abstract: A quick cropper bag comprises a hollow bag having an opening end; and a sealing clip at an opening end of the bag; the sealing clip including two elastic sheets; each elastic sheet having a protrusion. Each elastic sheet is extended with a knife. The knife extends outwards from the protrusion of the elastic sheet. Each elastic sheet is extended with two projections at two sides of the knife; each projection has an inclined edge near the knives; the inclined edge can assist the knives to a correct position in cutting a fruit. An interior of the protrusion is adhered with a foam protection layer. A plurality of ribs are installed on each elastic sheet. The sealing clip is formed as a V shape. The quick cropper bag can protect a fruit in the growing period of the fruit and is helpful in the picking of the fruit.

Abstract: An improved hand held lawn and garden vacuum trimmer having an elongated vacuum duct in fluid communication with a motor powered vacuum impeller positioned in a body, one end of the vacuum duct being attached to the body, a rotary cutter positioned in the vacuum duct, the rotary cutter attached to the impeller by way of a rotating shaft so that material swept into the distal end of the vacuum duct is cut by the cutter, swept through the impeller and then directed to a collection container. The improvement of this embodiment of the instant invention is positioning the cutter more than one quarter inch and less than three inches from the distal end of the vacuum duct.

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and systems for useful sampling of seed, wherein viability is maintained, are disclosed. Seed from one generation in a plant advancement experiment is individually sampled by removal and collection of tissue from the seed using a hand-held and manually operated tool having one or more cutting edges. The tissue is then processed to derive one or more biochemical, genetic, or phenotypic characteristic of the seed before a decision is made whether to utilize that seed further in a plant advancement experiment or other plant research and development. In some embodiments of the method, the sampling is controlled to remove a useful amount of tissue for analytical purposes without significant effect on viability potential of the sampled seed. In some embodiments, the sampling is controlled to deter contamination of the sample. In some embodiments, the seed is held in pre-determined orientation to facilitate efficient and accurate sampling.

Abstract: A duct mechanism for directing a flow of air onto a working member of a power cutting tool generally includes a housing, a motor in the housing, a working member actuated by means of the motor and a shoe pivotally mounted relative to the working member and adapted to engage a workpiece. The duct mechanism includes an inlet portion mounted to the housing. The inlet portion receives a stream of air from the housing. An outlet portion is connected to the shoe for directing the stream of air onto the working member in a direction transverse to a line of action of the tool. At least one connecting portion connects the inlet portion and the outlet portion. The at least one connecting portion allows the outlet portion to pivot with the shoe relative to the inlet portion.

Abstract: The present invention is a device for cutting solid medications, whether in the form of capsules, tablets or pills. When cutting capsules, the capsules are retained to be divided by a first blade. Tablets and other forms of the medication are retained by pill stabilizers and cut by a second blade. The device also may have a pill crusher and a section to hold whole or divided medications.

Abstract: A self-contained vacuum circular saw is presented. The vacuum saw has a casing around the saw blade that includes an accordion type lower section attached to the lower platform of the saw. A number of vacuum tubes, preferably four, are attached to the side of the circular saw opposite the blade. The armature of the circular saw that turns the blade also turns the vacuum impeller on the side opposite the blade. An impeller vacuum chamber pulls in the dust and debris created by the saw blade and discharges the dust and debris into a disposable and removable vacuum bag. An important aspect of this device is that the motor that turns the saw blade also turns the impeller, thus making the self-contained vacuum Saw moveable from site to site.

Abstract: A suction device (2) for a hand-held power tool and which is releasably connected with the power tool, includes a suction blower wheel (20) for producing a suction air stream in a suction path (S) and located in the device housing (10), a rolling bearing (28) for supporting the suction blower wheel (20) in the device housing (10), a blower shaft (26) for driving the suction blower wheel (20), and a drive coupling (38) for rotatably frictionally connecting the blower shaft (26) with the drive shaft (42) of the hand-held power tool (4) in a connected condition of the drive shaft (42) with the blower shaft (26).

Abstract: The present invention provides a pill splitter designed for cutting pills in a relatively safe manner. The pill splitter includes a main body with a top housing and a bottom housing having a blade mounted thereto. The top housing has a slot defined therein for receipt of the blade. The top housing moves relative to the bottom housing. A lid is hingedly connected to the top housing. A locking mechanism is positioned on the lid for controlling the movement of the top housing relative to the bottom housing and the blade. In the protected position, when the locking mechanism is engaged, the top housing resides in front of the blade to prevent a user from contacting the blade. In the cutting position, when the locking mechanism is disengaged, the blade is routed through the slot in the top housing thereby exposing a cutting edge thereof for cutting a pill.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pill splitter that is designed for cutting pills in a relatively safe and reliable manner. The pill splitter includes a main body with a top housing and a bottom housing having a blade mounted thereto. The top housing has a slot defined therein for receipt of the blade. The top housing moves relative to the bottom housing between a protected position, unexposed blade, and a cutting position, exposed blade. In the protected position, the top housing resides in front of the blade to prevent a user from contacting the blade. In the cutting position, the blade is routed through the slot in the top housing thereby exposing a cutting edge thereof for cutting a pill.

Abstract: A dicing and cutting device comprising a male top housing slideably co-operatively engaging with a female bottom housing, wherein the top housing including downwardly projecting top blades, and the bottom housing including upwardly projecting bottom blades, such that food stuffs located with a cavity defined within the housings are sliced and diced upon rotation of the top housing relative the bottom housing.

Abstract: A pill box having a base, a lid with a blade, and a blade guard. The base has a bottom side to which the blade guard is coupled. The base also has a top side with a pill storage compartment, a pill cutting surface, and a pill grip coupled to the pill cutting surface. The lid has a top side and a bottom side with the bottom side having a blade coupled to it. The lid is coupled to the base by one or more hinges.

Abstract: A hair cutting device with a suction device for drawing off cut pieces of hair is provided. A varier, which may have an adjustable spring loaded movable wall portion, reacts to the circumstances of the hair being cut and adjusts an air flow rate in the area of the suction opening.

Abstract: Fanned air generated by a fan to cool a motor is discharged from a housing through fanned air discharge ports toward an opening formed in a base. The fanned air discharged toward the opening is then introduced into a groove in fluid communication with the opening. The groove is formed in a bottom surface of the base and has an open side at a front side of the base. The fanned air is then discharged from the front side of the base, blowing off saw dust on a cutting object so as to prevent dust from accumulating on a marking line on the cutting object.

Abstract: A suction connection arrangement for a compass saw includes a suction connection element (26) for connecting suction flow producing apparatus with the compass saw, a suction channel (24) for connecting the suction cross-section (18) of the saw with the suction connection element and completely separable from the compass saw (2), and a connection device (30) for releasably connecting the suction connection elements (26) with the saw housing (4).

Abstract: A food chopping or slicing device preferably includes three primary components, including a lid, a blade tray, and a food reservoir. The lid and the food reservoir are pivotally connected to one another, with the blade tray being removably mounted within an upper rim of the reservoir. In some embodiments a reservoir bottom is removable and the device includes orthogonal volumetric markings.

Abstract: A flush cutter of wires located on a patient's teeth has at least one pivotably carried cutting edge. An outer surface of the edge can be positioned adjacent to a surface from which the wire protrudes. An elastic insert or clamp, for griping cut wire ends, is carried adjacent to the edge. The insert has first and second spaced apart ends. A rigid surface is located to pivot toward the edge. The elastic clamp extends, in part, to the inner surface of the edge. As the cutting edge moves toward the rigid surface to cut the wire, the elastic clamp grips the cutoff wire end for removal. The rigid surface can be formed as a second cutting edge that moves toward the one cutting edge.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting an individual's fingernails. The apparatus has a plurality of holes into which a finger nail can be inserted to be clipped. The apparatus also has an internal reservoir for storage of finger nail clippings and also has placements of animal heads and animal body parts to help give the apparatus a more homely feel to it.

Abstract: The invention relates to a powered reciprocating saw. To simplify use of the saw, a clamping mechanism is provided which holds an object in position while it is sawn. The clamping mechanism is mounted at the front of the housing of the saw near the saw blade. The clamping mechanism comprises: a slide element for sliding movement in the cutting direction, a supporting member, and a clamping arm rotatably mounted on the slide element by a one way clutch to clamp an object therebetween in a clamping position below the saw blade. When the saw is in use, it vibrates. Since the clamping arm has a moment of inertia with respect to the axis of rotation of the one way clutch, the oscillating movement is transformed into a progressive rotational movement of the clamping arm to clamp an object.

Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes a housing having a motor provided therein, a cutting accessory coupled to the motor and means for selectively directing a flow of air toward a point of cut of the cutting accessory. The flow of air acts to remove debris at the point of cut to improve visibility of the workpiece.

Abstract: A hand-held power tool inclLldes motor-driven drive shaft (4) for driving a working tool (9) and located in the tool housing (1), and a suction device (2) formed as a modular unit releasably connectable wYith the tool housing (1) and having a suction conduit (5), a receiving chamber (7), a precipitation device (8) located in the receiving chamber (7), and an impeller (6) driven by the drive shaft (4) of the power tool and located between the suction conduit (5) and the precipitation device (8).

Abstract: A combination pastry support and server is provided by a formed polycarbonate sheet having a rectangular intermediate portion, and integral, trapezoidal flanges extending at an angle of 88° in opposite directions from its respective upper and lower edges. The trapezoidal flanges are tapered in opposite directions, making it possible to use the combination support and server on either exposed face of a partially cut circular cake.