Abstract: The invention provides a hand held planer (1) for planing a work piece surface comprising a planing tool (41) disposed between a first base (20) and a second base (30,31), the planer (1) being configurable so that it can be moved by hand along the work piece surface with the first base (20) leading and the first (20) and second (30,31) bases guiding the planer (1) along the work piece surface and the planing tool planing off a thickness of the work piece, wherein at least one (30,31) of the bases is an adjustable base such that at least a portion (31) thereof is removable or movable between a position that provides an operable lengthened configuration and a position that provides an operable shortened configuration such that a length of the adjustable base in guiding contact with the work piece surface is reduced or eliminated in the shortened configuration compared to the lengthened configuration.

Abstract: The improved hand plane of the present invention is used for planing wood, and includes interchangeable frog and blade assemblies. The plane includes a base with a sole and a throat, and a rear handle on the base adjacent the rear end. The frog is mounted in the base and extends upwardly and forwardly from the throat in a reverse angle so as to avoid interference with the handle. A blade is mounted to the frog with attachment screws accessible through the mouth of the throat in the sole of the plane. A pair of screws allows for depth and lateral positioning of the blade.

Abstract: A block plane uses a standard utility knife blade mounted at about a 40° angle so the edge of the blade runs parallel to the side of the main body. The blade is set angled to the longitudinal axis of the plane. A snap on plastic grip holds extra blades inside. Cuts of ten thousands of an inch are made, and buying different thicknesses of the disposable blades varies the cut slightly. Most utility knife blades are about 0.025 inches thick.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a hand tool for cutting shavings from the surface of a workpiece of wood (or other workable material) to shape and make smooth any three-dimensional surface having concave, flat, and/or convex contours. The thickness of the shavings is modulated by the angular relationship and distance between a blade and a regulating post. An embodiment comprises a combination body and handle holding a protruding cutting blade at an angle of about 30° to the surface of the workpiece, and an adjustable protruding post in front of the cutting edge to limit the effective exposure of the cutting edge as the tool is moved into contact with the workpiece. The embodiments provide a full view of the cutting zone and unrestricted one-hand use on surfaces of any contour.

Abstract: A carpenter's combination plane comprised of a basic holder and a blade holder, adapted with various holder accessories depending on the size of the work surface and the distance of reciprocal planing; other auxiliary accessories may be provided to the holder accessories to define the width, depth, inclined surface of the work surface or the polishing work surface.

Abstract: A cabinet scraper that protects the scraper blade from damage due to contact with the body of the scraper and that protects the user from contact with the upper end of the blade, preferably by including a portion of the body that extends beyond the upper end of the blade. The blade is held in place by a clamp bar, and the shape of the blade may be modified using an adjustment screw. Preferably, the clamp bar includes a chamfer along an edge, so that shavings produced during scraping do not bunch up between the blade and body of the scraper.

Abstract: A carpenter's combination plane comprised of a basic holder and a blade holder, adapted with various holder accessories depending on the size of the work surface and the distance of reciprocal planing; other auxiliary accessories may be provided to the holder accessories to define the width, depth, inclined surface of the work surface or the polishing work surface.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for a blade clamping mechanism in a woodworking plane that allows a plane iron as wide as the plane body itself to be clamped in a wedge shaped slot in the plane body. The slot begins at a point tangent to a waste ejection hole proximate a front area of the plane running diagonally towards the spine of the plane body before looping back short of the spine to return diagonally through the sole forming the mouth together with the waste hole. The loop forms the widest point of the slot, while the tangent forms the narrowest point of the slot. The rear surface of the slot serves as the ramp for the plane iron. The plane iron is clamped by a floating pin mounted in a hole drilled longitudinally through the spine, perpendicular to the ramp, and terminating at an inspection hole. The floating pin is retained between the under side of the plane iron and a conical shaped point of a screw threaded from a back of the plane body diagonally to the floating pin.

Abstract: A protective cover for peeler includes a bottom plate, two sidewalls extended along two longitudinal edges of the bottom plate, an end wall provided at a transverse edge of the bottom plate with two outer ends connected to two ends of the two sidewalls, and a plurality of locating lugs spaced along and horizontally inward extended from upper edges of the two sidewalls. The bottom plate has length and width slightly larger than that of the peeler, and the end wall is profiled according to a lower neck portion of a handle provided at a front end of the peeler. The peeler sheathed in the protective cover is held in place by the locating lugs.

Abstract: A bench plane jointer fence having a fence body secured to the side of any conventional ferromagnetic bench plane by two rare earth magnets mounted in the fence body and by the cooperation between a fence registration surface that bears against the sole of the plane and a repositionable stop screw. The fence is usable to facilitate planing of a workpiece edge square to an adjacent workpiece reference surface and may utilize a one-piece fence body. Planing of a workpiece edge at angles other than square to an adjacent workpiece reference surface is possible by pivoting a lower portion of the fence relative to an upper portion or, in the case of a one-piece fence body, by attachment of an auxiliary fence having a wedge-shaped cross section.

Abstract: A manual skiver for conveyor belts and the like includes a base with a flat bearing surface for engaging an associated belt face, and a blade receiving opening through the bearing surface. A handle is connected with the base to facilitate drawing the skiver across the belt face. A thin cutting blade is mounted in the base at a predetermined angle, and includes a U-shaped cutting edge defined by a flat central area and upstanding side areas at opposite sides of the central area. The U-shaped cutting edge extends through the blade opening, and is positioned a predetermined distance below the bearing surface to cut a groove in the belt face having a uniform depth.

Abstract: A plane having an easily removable blade positionable in use flush against the work surface. A magnet attached to the underside of the handle of the plane secures the blade to the handle. The blade may be positioned on the handle with the cutting edge exposed or simply reversed to store the cutting edge of the blade under the handle.

Abstract: A protective cover for a carpenter's plane includes a base plate having an upper surface and a width which is substantially similar to a width of the carpenter's plane and opposing side walls having a lower portion attached to opposing edges of the base plate and which extend away from the opposing edges of the base plate to an upper portion of the side walls, the side walls tapering inwardly, toward each other, as they extend away from the base plate. The cover is constructed such that when the cover is in an installed position on the plane, the upper portions of the side walls are flexed outwardly by the plane, resulting in an inward force being applied to the plane by the upper portions of the side walls, the inward force thereby holding the cover in place on the plane. When the cover is in the installed position on the plane, the base plate is operative for covering a cutting iron of the plane.

Abstract: A low weight, high stability, disassemblable low metal content planing tool is set forth. The overall length of removeable handles is approximately equal to the longitudinal length of the tool. In narrow workspaces the tool can be operated with such handles removed.

Abstract: The specification discloses a hand held portable facing device to be used primarily for facing polystyrene building panels after installation. The facing device is constructed of a frame, a wire planing element, and tension arms which mount on the frame for keeping the planing element taut. The facing device incorporates an electrical power system which conducts electrical current from an external source, through an electrical power unit, through a safety switch, through the wire planing element, to the frame and earth ground which are electrically interconnected. The current flow heats the wire planing element and enables it to shear a flat polystyrene panel. Guide arms capable of resting on and following the flat panel are incorporated into the frame, and the tension arms and wire planing element are so attached to the guide arms that the wire planing element follows the path of the guide arms leaving a flat smooth surface.

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 manual planing or milling tool having a rotary driven cutter is displaceable longitudinally along a fixedly arranged guide rail. The tool is connected with a holder which carries a running part sliding on the guide rail. The holder may be guided pivotingly or nonpivotingly with respect to the guide rail. The guide rail may be fastened to a workpiece support bar rotatable by 180.degree. so that the processing tool may be used in two different positions. The workpiece support bar may have two different surfaces, one being smooth for the working of large workpieces, while the other having grooves to receive smaller workpieces.

Abstract: A planing tool has a rotary planer head driven rotatably by an electric motor. The planer head is removably connected to a drive shaft which comprises a plurality of elements which can be axially disengaged to enable the planer head to be easily replaced.

Abstract: A plane with an interchangeable iron that can be displaced at an angle to the contact surface of the plane frame, along the direction in which the plane travels. The iron is also displaceable on each side of a midposition parallel to the contact surface of the plane and transversely with respect to the direction in which the plane travels. The iron is secured in a predetermined position by a support that has a holder against which the iron rests. A support component can be displaced transversely on a frame. The holder is mounted on the support component, so that it can be displaced longitudinally and transversely with respect to the bottom contact surface of the plane.

Abstract: A hand-held planing tool has a housing with a chamber adapted to receive a rotary driven planer head. The chamber is sized to receive either a small planer head and blade which makes a shallow flat planar cut in a workpiece, or a larger planer head and blade which makes a profiling cut (e.g., an irregular cut) in a workpiece. The housing carries support members which extend downwardly to different depths to contact the portions of the profiling cut which are of corresponding depths, and thereby adapt the tool to travel along the profile.