Abstract: A ferrule connection interface may have a first composite ferrule having an outwardly threaded portion opposite a pole receiving portion. The interface may have a first pole bonded via an engineered adhesive to the first composite ferrule at the pole receiving portion of the first composite ferrule. The interface may also have a second composite ferrule having an inwardly threaded portion opposite a pole receiving portion, the inwardly threaded portion tightly meshing with the outwardly threaded portion of the first composite ferrule to form a tight connection. The interface may also have a second pole bonded via the engineered adhesive to the second composite ferrule at the pole receiving portion of the second composite ferrule. Both first and second composite ferrules are characterized by a lack of any metallic and/or electrically conductive materials.

Abstract: A blade mounting assembly for coupling a saw blade to a surgical saw. The blade mounting assembly including a blade clamp guard and a blade clamp moveably coupled to a drive hub of the surgical saw. The blade clamp guard defining a recess and a blade clamp at least partially disposed within the recess. The blade clamp further comprising a safety indicator. The blade clamp may be configured to move relative to the blade camp guard, the blade clamp moving between a first position where the safety indicator is exposed and a second position where the safety indicator is concealed by the blade clamp guard. The blade mounting assembly may also comprise a biasing mechanism disposed between the blade clamp guard and the blade clamp. The biasing mechanism configured to urge the blade clamp guard away from the blade clamp.

Abstract: A reciprocating saw blade that includes a longitudinal body having a first end and a second end and a first longitudinal cutting edge parallel to a second longitudinal cutting edge. The blade includes a mounting structure located at the first end which is angled at an acute angle relative to the first longitudinal cutting edge. At least one of the first longitudinal cutting edge and the second longitudinal cutting edge has a plurality of teeth oriented for cutting on the substantially push stroke.

Abstract: Disclosed is a multi-purpose tool having two elongated handles and a head portion pivotably connected about a common pivot joint. A flexible tubular element is connected to one of the two elongated handles. A gripping element is housed within a distal end of the tubular element. The gripping element can be extended or retracted from the distal end of the tubular element. A lighting element is attached to the distal end of the tubular element to illuminate working area.

Abstract: A folding knife that uses a four bar linkage mechanism to open and close. The knife can include a means of one hand opening and closing as well as a means to become latched in, and released from, a fixed position. The four bar linkage knife includes a blade, a handle, and the motion of a four bar linkage to open and close the knife. The four bar knife provides inherent safety because the four bar linkage motion can not fold onto the users hand.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting device comprising a housing (14) and a blade carrier (15) to which a blade (16) is secured. Said blade carrier (15) can be moved by means of a lever element (26) of an actuation device at least between a secure position and a cutting position. In the secure position, said blade (16) is accommodated in the housing (14) so that it is inaccessible to the user and in the cutting position, it protrudes out from the housing (14) through a housing opening (32). The invention is characterized in that an extension (12) is arranged between a first handle (24) and the blade carrier (15).

Abstract: Knife arrangement for use in for example a slicer apparatus for slicing meat, and in particular fish meat, wherein the knife arrangement comprises two reciprocating knives 40, 40?, each knife 40, 40? has a blade 54 with a sharp edge 55 and an opposite edge 56, and blade material between said edges, where adjacent a first end 57 of each knife 40, 40? an engagement member 58 is arranged, which engagement member 58 protrudes perpendicular to the plane of the blade 40, 40?.

Abstract: A reciprocating saw blade that includes an elongated blade body defining an inner end and a distal end, a cutting edge located on one side of the blade body and extending between the inner and distal ends thereof and a tang located at the inner end of the blade body. The tang projects from the blade body at an acute angle of at least about 3° relative to a line tangent to an inner end of the cutting edge. The cutting edge includes a portion defining a substantially curved contour and optionally can include at least one further portion defining a non-curved contour.

Abstract: A saw blade has an elongated body with a first and second end, a cutting edge and an opposing back edge. A plurality of teeth is formed on the cutting edge. The first tooth of the plurality of teeth is immediately adjacent the second end of the blade. The first tooth is raker tooth and has a rake face and a clearance face. The rake face and clearance face intersect to form a cutting edge of the first tooth. The second end defines a plunging nose. The second end includes a nose end surface that extends between the cutting edge and the back edge. The nose end surface is on an angle of about 35° with respect to a line defined by tips of the plurality of teeth. The nose end surface intersects the first tooth relief surface to form an angled cutting edge with a leading sharp point.

Abstract: The handheld power saw includes a drive mechanism with a lifting rod; a saw blade with an elongated recess in a guide region thereof and a retaining region with a T-shaped extension; a coupling device for retaining and driving the saw blade located on the lifting rod, which includes a clamping sleeve configured to receive the T-shaped extension to connect the saw blade to the lifting rod; a guide assembly for guiding oscillatory motion of the saw blade, which includes two lateral bracing devices arranged on opposite sides of the saw blade that shield the coupling device from shear forces; a pressure roller supported on a bolt, which is arranged to bear on an edge of the saw blade and a pressure bolt arranged in the elongated recess to directly guide the saw blade.

Abstract: A surgical sagittal saw for use with a complementary blade assembly that includes a static bar. The saw includes a head over which the blade assembly bar is seated. A clamp rod is able to mounted to the head to move along the longitudinal axis of the rod. The rod has a head that, as result of the longitudinal movement of the rod is moved towards and away from the head. A blade assembly is disposed on the saw head adjacent the rod. The rod can be positioned in a run state so that the rod head abuts the bar of the blade assembly so as to hold the blade assembly to the saw head. Alternatively, the rod can be repositioned in a load state the rod head is spaced from the saw head. This allows the blade assembly to be removed and replaced. A control member mounted to the saw head controls the movement of the rod. When the rod is moved from the load state to the run state, a biasing member places a force on the rod to hold the rod in the run state.

Abstract: A surgical sagittal saw blade with a static blade bar and to which a blade head is mounted. Distal from the proximal end of the blade bar, the sides of the bar taper outwardly. These outer taper sides facilitate the coupling of the blade bar to the complementary saw used to actuate the blade.

Abstract: An identification tag having one or more breakaway tools that may be utilized by uncoupling, or otherwise breaking the tool or tools away from the identification tag to expose a working edge or point for example. Generally includes identification information on the tag along with one or more relatively flat tool including but not limited to one or more knives, saws, screwdrivers, pry bars, can openers, bottle openers, chisels, awls, ice picks, sharpeners or any other relatively flat tool with a working edge or point or any combination thereof.

Abstract: A pole saw head which comprises a cheek plate having an integral downwardly curved arm and an integral upwardly rope setting auxiliary notched hook strategically positioned on an end of the arm. The notched hook will hold a loop of a length of rope tied in a monkey's fist knot thereto. A mechanism is for coupling the cheek plate to a top end of a pole. When the pole is manually manipulated by a person grasping the pole the notched hook can release the loop on the monkey's fist knot, so that the monkey's fist knot will appropriately uncoil when the rope is tossed over a branch of a tree.

Abstract: A power transmission system including a component having a surface and a plurality of micro-defects is provided. The surface has a distribution of asperities has a second resonance frequency distribution that is substantially outside of the resonance frequency distribution.

Abstract: A knife system may comprise a blade, the blade defining a number of voids, and a number of features configured to be removably coupled to the blade, wherein the blade is configured to house the features in the voids defined by the blade. The feature may be coupled to the blade through any means which will allow it to be easily removed, interchanged, and/or replaced.

Abstract: A surgical sagittal saw blade with a static blade bar and to which a blade head is mounted. Distal from the proximal end of the blade bar, the sides of the bar taper outwardly. These outer taper sides facilitate the coupling of the blade bar to the complementary saw used to actuate the blade.

Abstract: An improvement on pruning shears which allows the user to quickly saw off branches and keep debris confined during use of the shears so that clean up operations after pruning are made in a shorter time and with less effort.

Abstract: Disclosed is a saw frame having wheel cutters for cutting glass. In particular, the present invention relates to a saw frame having wheel cutters respectively mounted to both a saw frame and a handle, and with a plurality of glass bending grooves formed at the bottom of the handle for bending glass cut by the wheel cutters to remove the same. According to the present invention, the saw frame can easily cut out glass as well as wood, metal, plastic or the like.

Abstract: A gardening flower scissors with container comprising a container with several slices inside to form at least a knife space, a saw space and a scissors space to store a scissors, a knife and a saw to contains a scissors, a knife blade and a saw blade; the scissors, knife blade and the saw blade can be folded into and stored into the corresponding space or tuned outward for application; a cover can also fold and cover the container or open, when the cover covers the container, it can be a handle for users to grip.

Abstract: This creation is to provide a kind of anvil structure improvement for garden clippers. Such anvil is installed at the end of garden clippers' first handle, allowing the moving blade at the end of the second handle to oscillate into contact against the inner anvil surface of that anvil. The inner side of that anvil is a flat surface, the tip of which is in a position of jutting out from the tip of the moving blade. The anvil features a first cutting edge at the anvil's outer side, and a second cutting edge is further installed at the tip of the anvil. The provision of such first, second cutting edge adds extra functions of cutting, digging and drilling to the garden clippers as their primary applications.

Abstract: A tool assembly includes a handle having a barrel, one ends of one or more tool members or of one or more shanks are engageable into detachably secured to the barrel. A sleeve is engaged onto the shank, an insert and one end of one or more saw blades are engaged into the sleeve, and one or more fasteners may detachably secure the saw blades and the insert and the insert to the shank. The tool members and/or the saw blades may be detachably and changeably secured to the barrel, and the saw blades may be changeably and solidly secured to the handle with the sleeve and the insert.

Abstract: A folding cutting tool which includes a handle having gripping depressions and a plurality of cutting blades. The blades are rotably connected to the ends of the handle to allow them to be folded into the handle or extend from the handle during operation of the tool. At least one blade has at least one depression that aligns with a depression on the handle. Alternatively, the blades of the tool may fold far enough into the handle to not interfere with the depressions in the handle. The depressions allow for the user to adequately grip the handle to perform a cutting operation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a combination utility retractable saw and knife device that comprises a handle member having a predetermined configuration and a knife blade disposed within a cavity formed in the handle member when in a retracted position. The knife blade member has a predetermined configuration. It further includes a saw blade disposed within a radially opposed cavity of such handle member when in a retracted position. Such combination device further includes a means engageable with the saw blade for connecting it with the handle and a means engageable with the knife blade for connecting it with the handle. There is also a means engageable with the saw blade for at least one of slidably moving and pivotably rotating the saw blade to an operable position, the means being at least partially disposed within the handle and a means engageable with the knife blade for slidably moving the knife blade member to an operable position, such means also being at least partially disposed within the handle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a combination utility retractable saw and knife device that comprises a handle member having a predetermined configuration and a knife blade disposed within a cavity formed in the handle member when in a retracted position. The knife blade member has a predetermined configuration. It further includes a saw blade disposed within a radially opposed cavity of such handle member when in a retracted position. Such combination device further includes a means engageable with the saw blade for connecting it with the handle and a means engageable with the knife blade for connecting it with the handle. There is also a means engageable with the saw blade for at least one of slidably moving and pivotably rotating the saw blade to an operable position, the means being at least partially disposed within the handle and a means engageable with the knife blade for slidably moving the knife blade member to an operable position, such means also being at least partially disposed within the handle.

Abstract: The present invention provides a combination utility retractable saw and knife device that comprises a handle member having a predetermined configuration and a knife blade disposed within a cavity formed in the handle member when in a retracted position. The knife blade member has a predetermined configuration. It further includes a saw blade disposed within a radially opposed cavity of such handle member when in a retracted position. Such combination device further includes a means engageable with the saw blade for connecting it with the handle and a means engageable with the knife blade for connecting it with the handle. There is also a means engageable with the saw blade for at least one of slidably moving and pivotably rotating the saw blade to an operable position, the means being at least partially disposed within the handle and a means engageable with the knife blade for slidably moving the knife blade member to an operable position, such means also being at least partially disposed within the handle.

Abstract: A grapefruit knife for use in cutting sections of edible fruit from the less desirable membrane and peel is disclosed. The present invention includes a handle having two opposing ends, a single cutting blade attached to one end of the handle, and a scooping blade attached to the other end of the handle. Each of these blades has two cutting edges. On the cutting blade the two cutting edges are aligned serially, in a plane, to cut in the same direction, while on the scooping blade the cutting edges are opposingly arranged.

Abstract: A hand saw for penetrating and cutting drywall, comprising a handle, an elongated blade having generally opposed blade top and bottom edges, the blade top edge being flat and said blade bottom edge having saw teeth for cutting drywall, the blade having an inner end and an opposed free end area, the inner end being attached to the handle and the free end area having a tapered sharpened cutting edge extending from the blade bottom edge at the saw teeth to the blade top edge. The cutting edge is formed by a pair of inwardly tapered flat surfaces of the blade between the blade top and bottom edges at the free end area that converge at the sharpened cutting edge. A pointed tip is defined by the blade flat top side and the tapered cutting surface and the pair flat surfaces and by the blade flat top side. A hand stop is connected to the top side of the handle. The blade bottom edge is slightly tapered upwardly relative to the blade top edge between the handle and the free end area at the sharpened cutting edge.

Abstract: An easy to hold, safe, single hand operated, foldable, multi-purpose tool, particularly for use during painting for performing a variety of tasks, such as scraping, spreading, cleaning, cutting, sawing and the like, encountered during painting operations. The tool includes an elongate handle having a longitudinal axis, top and bottom longitudinal edges, and first and second opposite ends. A blade is secured to the first end of the handle, with the blade including first and second longitudinal edges and a distal edge extending between the first and second longitudinal edges. The first longitudinal edge of the blade is composed of a plurality of first linear edge sections, with one of the first linear edge sections extending along an axis that does not intersect the handle or any portion of the blade and which extends below the bottom longitudinal edge of the handle at an acute angle relative to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A folding saw includes a double edge saw blade first and second frame members pivotally connected to one end of the blade, and first and second handles pivotally joined to the first and second frame members respectively. Frame members and handles are movable between a closed configuration covering the edges of the blade, and an open configuration in which they together form the saw handle. The first and second handles lock together in both configurations. One handle member includes a retractable knife blade.

Abstract: A tree pruner comprises a support rod and a cutting set. The support rod is provided at the top end thereof with a slide seat fastened thereto. The cutting set has a fastening piece fastened with a slide block capable of sliding on the slide seat. Fastened with the fastening piece is a pull rod which has a bottom end disposed pivotally in a slot of a rocking rod. The rocking rod is provided at one end thereof with a grip and is fastened pivotally at another end thereof with two connection rods which are fastened with the support rod. As the rocking rod is swung up and down, a saw which is fastened wiht the fastening piece is caused to move likewise so as to prune a twig off the tree.

Abstract: A firefighting tool having a flat blade with a pointed leading end for piercing through structural panels, a plurality of stop teeth members for engaging a structural panel that has been pierced to defeat facile withdrawal of the tool, and a plurality of rip teeth members for sawing through the panels when the tool is reciprocated along its longitudinal axis. The stop teeth members are positioned at an angle relative to the rip teeth members and allow the firefighter to easily maintain the tool in an overhead configuration when it is used to remove ceiling panels because the angle of the stop teeth members results in a hooking action so that the ceiling supports the weight of the tool to some extent. Since the stop teeth members defeat inadvertent withdrawal of the blade, the firefighter need not make multiple penetrations of the ceiling panels or other structural member being removed by the tool.

Abstract: A combination handsaw providing one of a plurality of blades. A pair of blade housings are pivoted together at one end, supporting first and second blades of different types for cutting. The blade housings receive each of the blades in a retracted, non-cutting position, and permit deployment of the blades out one end of each respective housing for cutting operations. A utility knife is contained in one end of the housings, permitting yet another cutting blade or a single device.

Abstract: A glass saw includes an elongated body portion having a forward end and a rearward end. A rear handle is provided at the rearward end. The rear handle extends generally transversely in first and second directions from the body portion. A forward handle extends generally transversely from the body portion intermediate the forward and rearward ends thereof. The saw blade has an end removably attached by a chuck to the forward end of the body portion.

Abstract: A shearing device capable of being articulated between open and closed positions for cutting material includes pairs of handle levers and shearing elements rotatably mounted on a pivot mechanism. A clutch assembly comprising plates with complimentary and fixed configurations biased in abutting and intermeshing relationship when in a predetermined rotary alignment is positioned between the pairs of handle levers and switching elements. The clutch assembly is responsible to a predetermined force generated when the handle levers are articulated towards a closed position and the shearing elements encounter cut resistant material for camming the plates out of meshing relationship and operatively disconnecting the handle levers.

Abstract: A cutting tool kit for outdoorsman consisting of a knife, a saw, a hatchet, and an ax. Four handles including two head handles releasably secured to the coupling hub openings in the ax and hatchet having tubular ends adapted to telescope onto the head handles and to a corresponding shaft on the saw. The hubs and head handles have coupling tapered keyways and keys which taper outwardly from the inner end of the hub to the outer end such that the ax coupling forces increase as the ax tends to move from the handle. The handles have slightly different lengths to form different operations. The grip handles have radial pin openings for coupling to spring-loaded pins in the head handles and shaft. A flat carrying case includes individual pockets for storage of the separate parts of the assembly.

Abstract: An electric knife of the kind having an elongated handle that serves as a container for a driving electric motor, a pair of blades projecting in an axial direction from the handle, the blades being releasably secured to a drive connected to the motor in such a manner that the blades are reciprocated so as to move in sliding contact with each other the blades having serrated cutting edges, which is characterized by the feature that the line containing the serrated cutting edge of each of the blades is off set from the axis of the handle in such a manner that if the line is extended in the direction of the handle there is a space between the line and any adjacent portion of the handle.

Abstract: A blade tensioning device for a hacksaw or the like. A generally conventional hacksaw is provided with a plate in one leg of the frame, and the blade receiving pin is on the plate. A toggle joint is arranged to rotate the plate to move the pin and loosen the saw blade or to rotate the plate to move the pin and tension the blade. When the blade is tensioned, the toggle joint locks to hold the blade in tension. The frame has a bezel to fit over the end of the blade when the blade is in tension to prevent lateral movement of the blade. The opposite frame member may include an adjustable link to adjust for saw blade length or slight frame bending.

Abstract: An eviscerating and survival tool having a shaft with a handle at one end, a claw-like hook at the other end, the hook being comprised of at least two arcuately shaped tines defining a slot, and a saw blade disposed longitudinally along the portion of the shaft near the end containing said hook. In its preferred form the shaft is in two approximately equal portions connected by pivotable fastening means to permit the two parts of the shaft to be folded against each other with means to maintain the two parts in rigid end-to-end relationship in use.

Abstract: A compact packsaw is conveniently housed in a casing. The saw includes a flat tapered blade having different teeth on opposite edges with a multiple part collapsible handle, including opposed U-shaped channels, each havng a short mounting leg and a longer handle leg. The channel legs are recessed or slotted. The short legs are pivoted to the wide end of the blade with the bases abutting to define a T-shaped handle. The abutting channel members pivot away from each other, around the end of the blade and to the opposite edges. The recessed handle legs telescope over the blade.

Abstract: A knife including a blade and a handle has a hollow sleeve connector removably positioned over its blade in the area adjacent the handle and a saw blade extends outwardly from the connector at an acute angle relative to the blade and includes a saw-tooth edge facing one edge of said blade. The saw-tooth edge of the saw blade is oriented at 45.degree. relative to the knife blade so that an item to be sawed can be positioned in the angle between the knife blade and the saw blade so as to be sawed by oscillation of the knife handle.

Abstract: An eviscerating and survival tool having a shaft with a handle at one end, a claw-like hook at the other end, the hook being comprised of at least two arcuately shaped tines defining a slot, and as saw blade disposed longitudinally along the portion of the shaft near the end containing said hook. In its preferred form the shaft is in two approximately equal portions connected by pivotable fastening means to permit the two parts of the shaft to be folded against each other with means to maintain the two parts in rigid end-to-end relationship in use.

Abstract: A precision hand-held pipe cutting tool is provided utilizing an elongated body which is hand-gripped and contains an axially aligned motor, and a rotating saw blade parallel and adjacent to an angularly adjustable dial with a variety of depth limiting notches in the circumference thereof such that a pipe may be cut all, or part way, through, or provided with an annular channel. The tool also incorporates an integral reamer which de-burrs the interior edge of the cut pipe.

Abstract: A reciprocating cutter incorporating at least one saw blade and being optionally provided with a cooperating guard. The guard provides a protective cover for the blade or blades of the cutter and, through a spring-loaded biasing thereof, cooperates with the cutter to both stabilize the blade or blades and the workpiece and provide a degree of control for the movement of the cutter through the workpiece. The cutter, which may utilize a single reciprocating blade with which a spring-biased guard cooperates, in most instances will comprise a pair of alternately reciprocating blades, the teeth of which are selectively set to define a single clean kerf in the workpiece. The blade or blades can comprise the sole cutting device in a hand-held motor-driven implement, or alternatively can constitute an attachment, either permanent or removable, for a hand-held motor-driven hedge trimmer incorporating reciprocating trimmer blades to which the saw blades will be operably joined for simultaneous reciprocation therewith.

Abstract: The instrument connected to an ultrasonic oscillations source is provided with a knife to perform longitudinal mechanical oscillations at ultrasonic frequency during tissue separation. The working portion of the knife is essentially a plate made of a titanium alloy and having a pentogonal cross-section, a smooth rounding at the end thereof and two rows of teeth of triangular and wave-like shapes for separating osseous and cartilaginous tissue, respectively. A specific dimensional geometry of the instrument knife is described.

Abstract: A pole type pruner with an enclosed blade type construction whereby the blade is supported from the sides thru the whole cutting cycle so a thinner blade can be used for easier cutting and less distortion to the wood and bark. This distortion is further reduced by a more choke type, more confining type cutting method, and because regardless of tree limb direction or position the cutting angle of the blade can be directed nearly perpendicular to the limb due to the use of a pole section angle changing box. A pruning saw, one end pivoted to the end of the cutter blade handle, sheathed when desired, being used as part of the cutter blade pull system makes the saw always conveniently available to be pivoted to proper angle of saw direction and clamped to the cutter blade in this position for saw pruning and yet eliminates an awkward outward projection when it's not used for saw pruning. The twist type of blade return coil spring used also reduces any awkward projection.