Abstract: A kitchen tool integrally formed in one piece made of a polyetherimide, having a capacity for withstanding high temperatures and facilitating microwave use.

Abstract: A caulk bead removal tool for removing caulk and beading from a groove between spaced side-by-side concrete building panels and includes a handle. A U-shaped mounting bracket is mounted at one end of the handle. Fasteners secure a center bracket leg of the bracket to one end of the handle, and the bracket has a pair of parallel bracket legs extending from opposite ends of the center bracket leg in a longitudinal direction along a longitudinal axis of the handle but away from the handle. A pair of relatively flat tool steel cutting blades. Fasteners secure the blades to the parallel bracket legs. Each of the blades has four bevel cut edges and four right angle corners where said bevel cut edges meet, with the four bevel cut edges being arranged in two sets with the edges in each set being disposed in parallel relation.

Abstract: A hand scraper for griddles and the like has a support (11) for a blade (12) removably secured by a screw (13) projecting forwardly and downwardly from a handgrip (10), and a guard (14) which is conveniently formed of stainless steel rod, is spaced from the underside of the handgrip to afford protection of the fingers and to serve as a stable base for the scraper when not in use. An upwardly extending shield (33) is provided adjacent the blade support (11), to protect the hand from hot fatty debris pushed up over the blade (12).

Abstract: A ski base flattener uses a base scraping blade of metal or stone to plane or scrape the base of a ski. The blade is removably held in the base flattener by a blade holding wedge. A scraping edge of the blade and a front glide bar contact the base of the ski while guide legs position the base flattener correctly on the ski base.

Abstract: A hand held device is herein provided for selectively scraping a surface layer from the face of a lottery ticket or the like, with this device having a housing member upon which a blade is mounted, with the housing having a central cavity for catching and retaining the scraped material removed from the lottery ticket. My novel device comprises upper and lower, generally triangularly shaped members mounted in a spaced apart relationship, and bounded by sidewalls. These sidewalls serve with the upper and lower members to define the central cavity. The blade for scraping the surface of the lottery ticket is supported at a front corner of my device, and an opening is disposed directly above the blade, and generally parallel therewith. This opening makes it readily possible for material scraped from the lottery ticket to enter my device and be retained in the central cavity.

Abstract: A stripping device for wall coverings such as wallpaper comprising a hand-held casing (1) housing an electric motor, a gearbox (2) driving an output boss (3) on which is mounted a concave cutting blade (4) having a peripheral cutting edge. The gearbox (2) is such as to cause the blade (4) to execute an orbital motion in the general plane of the disc. The device is used by pressing the blade (4) gently against the surface to be stripped whereupon the orbital motion in the plane of the surface causes the covering to be stripped.

Abstract: A shingle stripping tool featuring a frame with a powerhead attached to the lower end of the frame with a handle attached to the upper end of the frame. The power head includes a fulcrum which is integral with the frame and a lift plate mounted for articulating movement about a pivot axis located on the frame. A pneumatically powered drive pivots the lift plate. The pneumatic drive is activated by a switch.

Abstract: The invention relates to a knife insert for tools with an oscillating head, preferably of the type used for cutting open rubber or adhesive beading strips around windscreens and having a cutting face bounded by one or a plurality of cutting edges. When producing such a knife, in order to be able to use less expensive material and in order to be able considerably to reduce the reciprocating movements of the shank when driven by a tool which performs oscillatory rotary movements, it is according to the invention proposed that the knife be angled over in an L-shape at right-angles to its cutting face, the cutting face forming a first leg of the L, and the second leg of the L which extends substantially at a right-angle from the cutting face comprising a connecting element for connection to an actuating tool.

Abstract: The specification discloses a hand held surface shaping tool for shaping hardening filler applied to a work surface. The tool comprises an elongate blade member and an elongate blade holder. The blade member includes a serrated edge extending generally along its length for removing filler from the work surface when the blade is wiped across the hardened filler with the blade oriented generally perpendicular to its direction of movement. The holder has a length approximating the length of the blade member, and is configured to support the blade member substantially along its length in a predetermined fixed configuration. In one embodiment, the holder supports the blade in a bowed configuration so that the blade edge can be brought into engagement along its length with a concave or convex work surface by leaning the tool toward or away from the surface.

Abstract: A tool for scraping ice, frost, and snow from a vehicle's windscreen and windows with very little time and effort comprising of a center handle (28) which acts as a fulcrum, and two lever arms (30R and 30L) which act as levers, which incurve and join each other to form the forearm rest (32) at the rear extermity of the unit. The forearm rest sits on the user's forearm when using the device in a horizontal scraping direction. The levers form contoured arms (26R and 26L) towards the front of the unit, ahead of the center handle. These contoured arms hold the scraping blade (22) and the scraping teeth (20), which are supported by the reinforcing plate (24) between the contoured arms.

Abstract: A scraper may be composed of a front portion, including a guard portion, hingeably connected to a handle portion. The handle portion includes a blade portion for receiving and retaining a cutting blade. The front portion is scored to allow the guard portion to fold against the top face of the handle portion, thereby substantially enclosing the blade and acting to provide protection for various objects and personnel from inadvertent contact with the sharp cutting blade when the scraper is not in use. When use of the scraper is desired, the front portion is folded against the bottom face of the handle portion thereby exposing the cutting edge of the blade.

Abstract: A device for removing putty from a window frame in the form of an L-shaped blade and a support to which the blade is adjustably attached, the support being provided with a handle and guide by means of which the blade can be moved along the window frame adjacent the groove within which the putty is located to remove the putty from the groove.

Abstract: A knife has a snap-on tang interlocked with its blade and clamped between handle halves. Transverse and longitudinal locking between the blade and tang resists relative rotation or translation. Butterfly clips on the blade snap onto webs molded into one of the handle halves for resisting relative deformation therebetween. A further butterfly clip on the tang snaps onto a longitudinal web in a handle half for additional rigidity.

Abstract: A lottery ticket scraper has a body and a resilient scraper element supported in cantilever position on the body. The body and scraper element cooperate to define a ticket receiving slot through which a ticket may pass. A scraping edge on the scraper element and disposed within the slot is movable into scraping engagement with the surface of a lottery ticket inserted into the slot in response to squeezing pressure applied to the body and the scraper element so that a removable coating may be scraped from the surface of the ticket by pulling the ticket through the ticket scraper.

Abstract: There is disclosed a scraper which is intended to replace the use of a coin, a knife or the like to remove the waxy like surface of a scratch coupon, such as a lottery scratch coupon. The scraper includes a blade having a sharp scraping edge at one end and a holding part at the other end. It also comprises a blade holder formed of a slot like chamber to receive and hold the blade like member. The blade holder has a base support to enable the blade holder to stand rearwardly inclined when placed on a horizontal surface. The blade like member is attached to the blade holder.

Abstract: A scraper for removing material, adhered to a surface, in strips. The scraper has a front scraping edge and at least one cutting edge at one end of the scraping edge. The cutting edge extends generally transverse to the scraping edge.

Abstract: A film peeling apparatus for peeling off a film stuck onto a base by raising one end thereof comprises a projection-formed detecting member for detecting the end of said film stuck onto said base and an oscillating device for oscillating said projection-formed detecting member upon detection of the end of film by said detecting member to thereby raise the end of said film.

Abstract: A shingle stripping tool featuring a frame with a powerhead attached to the lower end of the frame with a handle attached to the upper end of the frame. The power head includes a fulcrum which is integral with the frame and a lift plate mounted for articulating movement about a pivot axis located on the frame. A pneumatically powered drive pivots the lift plate. The pneumatic drive is activated by a switch.

Abstract: An industrial-type scraper provided with an elongated handle to one end of which a flat support plate of substantially less length than the handle is connected to the handle at an obtuse angle thereto in side view and also at an additional obtuse angle to the handle in plan view, a flat clamping plate of similar size as the support plate, bolt and wing nut members extending through similar complementary size aligned holes in the support and clamping plates, and a sawtooth edged scraping blade clamped between said plates with its sawtooth edge projecting beyond one of the edges of the aforementioned plates.

Abstract: An ice scraper for vehicle windshields and windows having a scraper blade that is deformable to the curvature of the glass. The scraper blade is mounted on a handle structure between which a flexible rubber or similar material is positioned. The scraper blade is provided with one or more relief openings which permit the blade of the scraper to deform upon pressure being applied to the handle by the user. The deformable plastic blade attains greater efficiency of contact between the windshield and the blade for approved results.

Abstract: A cookery implement having a handle and a spatula blade for contacting food being prepared. A plurality of puncturing prongs are provided at the side edge of the spatula blade near to the end edge remote from the handle, the tips of the puncturing prongs being directed sideways so that food can be punctured or pierced by movement of the blade in a direction generally transverse to the line from the handle to the food contacting end of the blade.

Abstract: A window paint scraper comprising a scraper body having a handle portion and a lower surface adapted to slide along a windowpane from which excess paint is to be removed. The scraper body includes left and right side walls one of which is used as a guide as the scraping operation is performed and the body also includes a sloping front surface to which a razor blade is secured lying at the proper angle to perform an optimum scraping operation. The blade is narrower than the front surface and it lies slightly below the scraper body. In operation of the scraper, one of the side walls is aligned with the putty on the windowpane or the sash and as it is moved along the windowpane, over the excess paint thereon, the razor blade removes excess paint and leaves an esthetically smooth and straight line of paint on the windowpane. With its two wall guides, the scraper can be operated in any direction on a window.

Abstract: A one piece blade holder having a handle portion for serving as a hand grip when the holder is used as a razor blade scraping tool. A plurality of opposed, interdigitated finger members extend from the handle portion and operate to hold a blade having a cutting edge in either a cutting edge exposed or cutting edge protected position. A pivoted locking member is provided for engaging the blade in either of said positions, the locking member has means for releasably engaging the blade and is pivotable between a rest position in which the blade is engaged with a locking pin and a pivoted position in which the blade is released from engagement with the locking pin.

Abstract: A scraper device comprises a carrier presenting a working face and including two slot formations disposed at different angles to the plane of the working face. An elongate scraper blade, such as a conventional hack saw blade, is releasably mountable in either one of the slot formations in either of two operative positions. In each of the operative positions the working edge of the scraper blade protrudes transversely from the working face and portion of the scraper blade can project from the carrier on at least one side of the carrier to permit a projecting portion of the scraper blade to be severed from a portion of the blade which is operatively mounted on the carrier.

Abstract: A portable decal stripping tool particularly adapted for the quick removal of adhesive decals from an automotive surface and comprising a decal stripper attachment for a soldering iron including an elongate shaft with a head portion secured thereto adapted to removably engage and support a razor blade. The decal stripper attachment is constructed of heat conductive material which facilitates elevation of the temperature of the razor blade secured therein so that it will slide under and remove a decal by melting the adhesive securing it to an automobile surface or the like.

Abstract: A paint scraper having a pointed scraper head defined by angled edges of an elongated member which are chamfered at their point of interception. The elongated member is rotatably received by a sheath which functions as a handle in operation, and a means for storing the scraper head when not in operation.

Abstract: A tool having a handle and a blade secured to and extending generally longitudinally from the handle is adapted for removing the contents of and scraping clean a container for liquid, semi-liquid, semi-solid or solid materials. The tool is rigid and inflexible and the blade is provided with a scoop-like member at the end thereof which is remote from the handle. The blade is also provided with separate scrapers edges which are adapted from scraping the bottom and side walls of the container.

Abstract: A scraper is described for removing carpet seaming glue and other debris baked and/or caked in the grooves of carpet seaming irons. The scraper has a serrated scraping edge configured to mate with and scrape a grooved bottom surface of a carpet seaming iron shoe.

Abstract: A device for removing material, preferably roofing material, consisting of a baseplate; a shaft member secured at one end to a guide handle and at the other end to the baseplate; a lifting plate including a blade-like leading section and a trailing section; an opening located in the trailing section of the lifting plate to permit the lower end of the shaft member to pass therethrough; a fulcrum means operatively connected to the baseplate and the lifting plate; an actuating means located on a guide handle and connected to a drive means; and a drive means to depress the trailing section of the lifting plate thereby rotating the lifting plate about the fulcrum means to move the blade-like leading section of the lifting plate into a generally parallel spaced-apart position with respect to the baseplate.

Abstract: A lottery ticket processor accepts a sequence of lottery tickets between two plates, each ticket presenting its number zone at a plate window; and a scraper, which may be carried by the processor body, has an edge to be received in the window to quickly scrape away all the film overlying the number on a ticket.

Abstract: A lottery ticket scraper constructed and arranged so as to scrap opaque coating from only portions of the lottery ticket, including means for supporting the lottery ticket, for aligning the lottery ticket and for scraping the lottery ticket are described.

Abstract: A grinding instrument, especially adapted to permit wearer adjustment of dentures, comprises an S-shaped handle, a straight shaft and a blade, the handle, shaft and blade all being integral sequential members of a unitary, elongated cylindrical wire. In a preferred embodiment the wire is made of a seven and one-half inch length of four millimeter diameter carbon steel wire in a novel process comprising the steps of:cutting a carbon steel wire to a selected straight length,bending about one-half of said length of wire to form a handle,stamping the terminal portion of the unbent half of said length of wire to form a shaft terminating in a blade, andgrinding at least one surface of said blade at a selected angle relative to the longitudinal axis of said shaft to form a grinding edge.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a covering remover, the covering including roofing shingles. Removal of roofing shingles and other coverings presently requires hand tools, such as crow bars, hammers, shovels and nail pullers. This manual method is time and labor-intensive, as roofing needs to be removed in small individual sections. The present invention comprises a cylinder assembly with a rotatable shaft within the cylinder. Strapping is attached to and extends from the cylinder. A lifting force underneath the covering to be removed is accomplished when the cylinder assembly is rotated about its axis. This rotating assembly lifts whole sections of roofing and when removed from the cylinder, leaves the rolled-up section in a bale for convenient disposal.

Abstract: A drywall knife includes a handle providing a hammer head and a blade which can be replaced. The blade has a main body and a projecting shank sandwiched between two separate handle portions. The handle portions are secured together and to the shank by nuts and bolts. The bolt heads are recessed in countersink areas formed in one handle portion, and the nuts are received in recesses formed in the other handle portion. The hammer head is an integral part of one handle portion and provides a hammer face on the butt end of the handle.

Abstract: A hand held scraping device has a rotatable head mounted on a handle; said head rotates about an axis substantially collinear with the elongate axis of said handle, has means to frictionally engage a razor blade, or other scraping spade, and has means for allowing the sharp edge of the razor to be exposed beyond the head; said handle has a razor storage housing mounted on it to provide a storage place for spare razor blades, and a cutout to facilitate the user's gripping of the invention and to conserve materials.

Abstract: A cutting and scraping device is formed of two substantially identical sections which are joined together to form a slot which receives a razor blade having a blade edge and a handle edge. A locking member is provided to lock the blade in place with either its blade edge or handle edge exposed.

Abstract: A heavy duty scraper tool comprises:(a) two steel plates extending in parallel relation to clamp a steel scraper blade therebetween, so that the blade projects forwardly from between the plates to present a forward scraping edge,(b) adjustable fasteners extending between the plates to clamp them toward and against said blade and so that the fasteners can be loosened to permit blade removal and replacement,(c) a connection integral with one plate and forming a pipe thread,(d) an elongated metal pipe having a thread at one end thereof and threadably joined to said connection to extend rearwardly relative to said plates,(e) and a handle carried by the pipe, remotely rearwardly from the plates.

Abstract: Portable apparatus for peeling logs has a powered draw knife mounted on a frame. The draw knife is swivably mounted on a cutter fork attached to a cutter rod, which is slidably mounted in a hydraulically or pneumatically powered cylinder. A cutter cradle attached to a slide bar on the frame allows an operator to optimally position the draw knife for each stroke. The frame is clamped to the log by a hydraulically or pneumatically powered clamp. The controls for operation of the draw knife are interlocked with the clamp controls for safety.

Abstract: A rasp handle has an elongate body portion with a pistol-type grip extending therefrom and rasp retaining structure at its front end. Such structure includes a fixed jaw and a slide jaw constructed and arranged for sliding movement relative to the fixed jaw between a forward closed locking position where a rasp is locked between the jaws and a rearward open rasp receiving and releasing position. A lever is connected to shift the slide jaw between its closed and open positions. A pivot interconnects the lever and the slide jaw so that the lever is free to move between a locked position adjacent the body portion and an unlocked jaw manipulating position away from the body portion.

Abstract: An improved tool head for releasably retaining a blade includes a body and a clamping member pivotally hinged together for relative movement therebetween by rotation of a threaded operating member. The operating member is rotatable to axially move the same into threaded engagement with the body and clamping member and, at a final point in its axial translation, contacts a camming structure on the clamping member. Engagement of the operating member with the camming structure applies a laterally directed force to the clamping member, pivoting the same about its hinged connection to the body and carrying a pair of blade receiving lips on the body and clamping member into relative blade-retaining proximity to firmly secure a blade between the lips.

Abstract: A multi-purpose hand tool applicator is provided for applying coating material to a surface. The tool comprises an elongated handle having a blade-receiving slot longitudinally disposed therein for detachably receiving one of a plurality of applicator blades each having a male portion for insertion into the handle and an applicator portion opposite the male portion, the handle having means for detachably holding the blade against dislodgement during use.

Abstract: An improved scraper hand tool includes upper and lower housing members defining a hollow casing and an operating member axially movable therein to carry a blade between a first interior storage position, a second cutting edge protracted position, and a third blade removal and insertion position. The operating member presents a full beam suspension design wherein a central thumb operating portion projects through a slot in the casing for operative manipulation by a user. Locking detents in the housing interior cooperate with laterally-extending arms on the movable operating member to assure positive positional locking of the blade in each of its respective positions.

Abstract: Cutting tools for shaping or reshaping the airfoil edge of a blade of a gas turbine engine to produce a uniform blade leading edge shape on the operative portion of the blade.

Abstract: An ice scraper and breaker combination comprising a common hand-held blade scraper upon which is mounted, to the back of the body of the scraper, multiple sets of toothed rollers or disks which are used to break up the ice prior to scraping.

Abstract: A low cost scraping implement has a plastic, elongated handle component with a recess in one surface thereof. A square of plate glass is held in the recess between a pair of downwardly extending safety, side surfaces in the handle by a retaining plate provided with a complementary recess. A bolt is received in aligned countersunk openings drilled through the handle member and the retaining plate and a nut threaded onto the shank of the bolt draws the retaining plate towards the handle member to clamp the glass square in place. The glass square can be repositioned within the recess to present eight different scraping edges. A worn or broken glass plate can be readily replaced to renew the scraper.

Abstract: A spatula type hand implement having integrally formed handle and blade portions and a compound curved reinforcing blister molded therein along the longitudinal axis across the transition between the handle and blade portions.

Abstract: A tool for removing paint from sheet metal gutters having a central ogee portion connected to two straight, vertical portions. The scraper includes a flat blade having an edge whose contour matches very closely the shape of the gutter. In particular, it approximates the exterior configuration of the gutter on a transverse cross-sectional view. The contour, however, has a slightly greater height than that displayed by the gutter; this allows the horizontal extensions of the blade to pass over the upper and lower edges of the gutter to effectuate contact with the gutter's vertical face. Cleaning the upper and lower horizontal surfaces of the gutter then merely requires shifting the blade downward to clean the former and upward for the latter. An extended handle on the blade allows its use by a workman located at some distance from the gutter. To further facilitate its use at a distance from the gutter, the handle may pivot relative to the blade.

Abstract: A grinding instrument, especially adapted to permit wearer adjustment of dentures, comprises an S-shaped handle, a straight shaft and a blade, the handle, shaft and blade all being integral sequential members of a unitary, elongated cylindrical wire. In a preferred embodiment the wire is made of a seven and one-half inch length of four millimeter diameter carbon steel wire in a novel process comprising the steps of:cutting a carbon steel wire to a selected straight length,bending about one-half of said length of wire to form a handle,stamping the terminal portion of the unbent half of said length of wire to form a shaft terminating in a blade, andgrinding at least one surface of said blade at a selected angle relative to the longitudinal axis of said shaft to form a grinding edge.

Abstract: A bladed tool wherein the blade has a tang encompassed by a pair of similar handle halves connected by a threaded fastener located in aligned bores in the two handle halves and projecting into the material of the handle halves in the bores, and a projection and hole construction on the handle halves to align the handle halves during assembly.

Abstract: A scraper adapted to be mounted on the bottom of a labeling gun handle is provided. A scraper blade handle preferably faces forward to enable labels to be removed and applied in a two-stroke motion. The blade and/or receptacle for housing removed labels is preferably removable and discardable.