Abstract: A kit for sharpening scrapers includes a burnisher, a block, a file and a clamp. The block has a plurality of bores for receiving the burnisher that are aligned at different angles relative to each other. The block is held in place by the clamp with the block below an upper surface of the clamp and the burnisher extending above the clamp. The block also includes a recess for holding the file during preparation of the scraper for sharpening. The scraper can have a linear or curved scraping edge.

Abstract: An apparatus for abrading and shaping a pool cue tip comprises: i) a block having an upper side portion having a concave contour therein said contour having an abrasive surface so that a pool cue tip can be abraded and shaped therewith; and, ii) a block holder adapted to closely surround a lower portion of the block. In a preferred aspect of this invention a side portion of the block opposite the side portion thereof having the concave indentation therein further comprises i) a circular void dimensioned to receive a chalk insert; ii) a replaceable chalk insert dimensioned to be closely received, and positioned in the circular void; and, iii) a removed semi-round upper portion in an upright side portion of the block holder to accommodate access to the chalk insert in the block thereunder and therein.

Abstract: A knife maintenance apparatus has a substantially rectangular hone body, a length with an open end and a base end, a width, a top surface covered with an abrasive material, and a bottom surface. There is a first hone edge extending along the length of the hone body and has a first radius. The opposite edge has a second radius and is parallel to and approximately the length of the first hone edge. The first hone edge and the second hone edge are approximately the hone body width apart. There is also a rectangular base portion that has a base top surface, a base bottom surface, a base width approximate the width of the hone body. The base portion has a sliding portion adjacent to and parallel to the base top surface. The base portion is hingably attached to the hone body along the base end and has at least one adjustment hole disposed through both the base portion and the sliding portion. There is at least one adjustment pin that extends through the adjustment hole.

Abstract: A hybrid burnishing head for processing of surfaces of hard disk media comprises a solid body including a first major surface and a second, opposed major surface comprising a burnishing surface including first and second surface portions, wherein the first surface portion is configured for providing air bearing stability and flyability of the head over the media surface, the second surface portion is configured for providing burnishing of a media surface, and the first and second surface portions are operatively decoupled for simultaneously providing optimized air bearing stability/flyability and burnishing aggressiveness for a particular application.

Abstract: A knife sharpener has a housing, a base, a sharpening device and an adjustable device. The housing has a case, a cavity and a slot. The cavity is defined in the case and the slot is defined in the case and communicates with the cavity. The base is mounted on the housing and has a base board and two side walls formed on the base board. The sharpening device is movable mounted on the base and is received inside the housing. The sharpening device has two sharpening arms with sharpening rods. The adjustable device is mounted on the sharpening device mounted between the two sharpening arms. When the knife sharpener is used, the adjustable device is rotated to change the cross-position of the sharpening device. Therefore, a knife may be sharpened at a different site on the sharpening rods for prolonging the life span of the knife sharpener.

Abstract: A cutting tool having a crystalline tip is pressed with a uniform pressure against the outboard surface of a vehicle wheel as the wheel is rotated. The smoothed wheel surface is then chrome plated to provide a cosmetic finish to the wheel face.

Abstract: A hand-held pipe beveling tool makes the job of manually beveling the ends of plastic pipe very simple and easy to perform. The pipe beveling tool includes a frame that defines an opening for receiving the end of a pipe. One or more pipe forming members are coupled to the frame to contact the end of the pipe when the pipe beveling tool is used. A user uses the pipe beveling tool of the preferred embodiments by placing the opening of the pipe beveling tool over the end of a pipe, grasping one or more handles on the pipe beveling tool, and rotating the pipe beveling tool while pushing the pipe beveling tool against the end of the pipe. As a result, the end of the pipe is beveled, making the installation of a splice on the end of the pipe much easier to perform.

Abstract: A manual sharpener for sharpening either right or left-handed blades of scissors or shears comprises a support structure with an attached hand holding arrangement. A magnetic device holds at least one adhesive pad on the supporting structure. One or more precision angle blade guides are mountable on the structure.

Abstract: A cutting tool having a crystalline tip is pressed with a uniform pressure against the outboard surface of a vehicle wheel as the wheel is rotated. The smoothed wheel surface is then chrome plated to provide a cosmetic finish to the wheel face.

Abstract: Presented is a blade sharpener, resurfacer, and planer, for sharpening flat or beveled blades of a linear edged tool, such as a drywall finishing tool and other tools edges, such as concrete trowel blades. The device of the invention makes using a file for such tasks much more precise, and much safer.

Abstract: An abrasive article is described. The article is suitable for the deposition and mechanical polishing of a conductive material, and comprises: a polishing layer having a textured surface comprising a binder and a second surface opposite the textured surface, the polishing layer further comprising a first channel extending therethrough; a backing having a first backing surface and a second backing surface, the first backing surface associated with the second surface of the polishing layer, the backing comprising a second channel coextensive with the first channel and extending through the backing from the first backing surface to the second backing surface; the first channel and the second channel dimensioned with respect to one another so that the textured surface of the polishing layer is outside of a line of sight.

Abstract: A super abrasive tool comprises scattered super abrasive grains fixed on a working surface with a bond layer. The bond layer has a flat surface and protrusions. Each protrusion has one grain and the average height from the flat surface to the top of the grain is in a specific range. A process for producing a super abrasive tool comprises forming in a spacer holes having a cylindrical portion having a diameter smaller than the average diameter of grains at the lower face and a portion having a diameter increasing to a specific value at the upper face; placing one grain in each hole; fixing the grains by forming a bond layer on the upper face of the spacer; and removing the spacer. The super abrasive tool maintains sufficient protrusion of super abrasive grains, causes no releasing of the grains nor loading and has excellent cutting ability.

Abstract: A multi-layered polishing pad for modifying a surface of a workpiece, such as a semiconductor wafer, that reduces the effort, time and cost involved with pad replacement. The polishing pad includes a polishing layer, at least one sub-pad layer adjacent the polishing layer, and an attachment layer interposed between and releasably joining the polishing layer and at least a portion of the at least one sub-pad layer. The at least one sub-pad layer may include a plurality of layers, such as at least one resilient layer, at least one rigid layer, and/or at least one layer that has both rigid and resilient characteristics. The release layer may be interposed between the polishing layer and the sub-pad or between adjacent layers of the sub-pad. Multiple release layers may be included that are interposed between the polishing layer and layers of the sub-pad, as desired.

Abstract: A manual knife sharpener is provided with angle control structure. The structure includes a guide member having a guide surface which forms an angle with the abrasive surface of the sharpening member. When the blade is inserted into the space between the abrasive surface and the guide surface the blade presses against the guide surface to displace the guide surface linearly in a direction perpendicular to the guide surface so that the movement is a lateral movement in the same plane without any pivoting or twisting of the guide member. Thus, the angle between the guide surface and the abrasive surface remains constant regardless of the extent of displacement of the guide member.

Abstract: A sanding tool having a plate with opposite sanding and supporting sides, a handle mounted onto the supporting side of the plate, and at least one fastening device operatively connected to the supporting side of the plate for fastening a sandpaper onto the sanding tool in such a manner that most of the sandpaper rests against the sanding side of the plate. Each fastening device has a clamping device and a guiding device. The clamping device is movable with respect to the supporting side of the plate between a first position where the clamping device is away from the supporting side and a second position where the clamping device rests operatively against the supporting side. The guiding device is used for guiding movement of the clamping device along a predetermined path between the first and second positions. In operation, a portion of the sandpaper is removably clamped between the supporting side of the plate and the clamping device when the latter is in the second position.

Abstract: A cutting board for food products which is composed of a plurality of abrasive conical inserts arranged in parallel rows on a support so that a knife blade may be drawn along the channel formed between adjacent rows to sharpen the knife blade on both sides by contact with the inserts. The inserts are separately fabricated and mounted in tapered openings formed through the support.

Abstract: A system and method for cleaning probe pins on a probe card used in testing a semiconductor device during fabrication thereof. A ceramic cleaning wafer is utilized to clean the probe pins without having to remove the probe card from a production line. The same apparatus used to test production wafers also handles the cleaning wafer during a probe cleaning cycle. During operation of the cleaning cycle, the cleaning wafer is placed in a manual load tray, which inserts the cleaning wafer into a prober machine. The cleaning wafer is transported by a robotic trolley to a prealign stage area where the cleaning wafer is aligned and centered. The cleaning wafer is then placed on a support device. The support device and cleaning wafer are positioned under a pneumatic sensor and profiled to determine wafer planarity. The support device and cleaning wafer are then positioned underneath the probe pins on the probe card to be cleaned.

Abstract: An abrasive article includes a fixed abrasive element, a resilient element, a rigid element disposed between the resilient element and the fixed abrasive element, and a plurality of microstructures disposed between the rigid element and the fixed abrasive element.

Abstract: A pool cue tip sharpening device includes a cue tip dimpler within a block. The tip dimpler includes a recess having a dimpling wheel rotatably mounted on a first axis. The dimpling wheel has protrusions. The device also includes a tip shaper, wherein the tip shaper includes a concave recess within the block. A cue tip trimmer/burnisher is also within the block.

Abstract: A cutting tool with a synthetic diamond layer 2 having a cutting edge 5 is described, wherein the cutting edge 5 has a profile structured by etching of decreasing layer thickness. Furthermore, a process is described for producing such a cutting tool.

Abstract: A drive arrangement for a grinding, lapping or polishing tool body (1, 2) comprising a drive rod (3) for the tool body (1, 2) wherein a substantially cylindrical groove (6, 10) is provided in the tool body (1, 2) for a substantially positive-fit, articulated connection between the tool body (1, 2) and the drive rod (3), the drive rod (3) engaging in this groove with a rounded, flattened end (4) thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for sharpening knives, scissors or other cutting tools with at least on abrasive grinding element which is arranged in a housing pushing against a resilient force. The aim of the invention is to provide a device that is simple in its design and that is characterized by its versatility. To this end, the grinding element is configured as a strip structure and is arranged on blade-shaped support which in turn is resiliently guided along the housing.

Abstract: A sanding device for use with abrasive sheet material. The device has a body with a rounded side for sanding concave recesses, sharp corner edges for use in sanding ninety-degree corners, and flat surfaces for sanding planar areas. Abrasive sheet material is attached to the body by an anchor strip which fits into a groove in the body to cause a friction fit.

Abstract: An apparatus for maintaining culinary knifes, the apparatus having a handle assembly formed of a handle portion and a knife guide. An elongated tubular burnishing member is connected to the bottom end of the knife guide portion. A rubber friction tip is inserted into the bottom end of the tubular burnishing member. An elongated honing member is also coupled to the bottom end of the handle assembly and mounted in the interior of the tubular burnishing member. The burnishing member therefore performs a second function, that of being a protective sheath for the honing member.

Abstract: A honing head for microburnishing surface of a recording/reproducing disc to a smoothness at which asperities are limited to submicron heights including a hardened contact bearing surface having an array of depressions with abrupt trailing edges interconnected by recessed channels leading outwardly from the honing head. The array of channels span a band in which an asperity may be present, and the sharp edges shear off the asperities within the band which extend above the chosen submicroinch height, with the separated particulates being passed through the recesses and channel system to the outer edge of the honing head. The trailing edges act to shear off the unwanted heights of the asperities, while the recesses enable pressure differentials and air flows to direct the separated particulates outwardly relative to the disc, centripetal forces of rotation bearing the particulates from the disc.

Abstract: A knife sharpening system for sharpening blade edges of knives. The knife sharpening system includes a base portion having an elongate guide rail having a top surface at a first level, a knife support for maintaining a blade of a knife being sharpened with its blade edge spaced apart by a horizontal distance from the guide rail and for elevating the blade on a plane at a second level which is higher than the top surface of the guide rail. A sharpening implement that is longer than the distance between the guide rail and the blade edge is provided, and placed on the blade's edge and the guide rail, and is moved thereacross to sharpen the knife edge.

Abstract: A first dart tool 110 having a hollow first housing 112. The first dart tool 110 has a flight straightener 114 securely attached to the first housing 112. The flight straightener 114 has a flight straightener top 114T which has a flight straightener top front 114TA having a flight straightener top front right corner 114TAR and a flight straightener top front left corner 114TAL. The flight straightener 114 further has a flight straightener bottom 114B which has a flight straightener bottom front 114BA having a flight straightener bottom front right corner 114BAR and a flight straightener bottom front left corner 114BAL. A first sharpener 116 is securely positioned within the first housing 112. An alternative embodiment of the dart tool includes a unique combination of flight straighteners, tip sharpener and wrench-type devices for removal of metal and plastic types of several sizes, as well as a device for removal of broken plastic shafts and tips.

Abstract: A burnishing head configured to provide extremely close control of the burnishing height, to minimize stiction between the burnishing head and a disc being burnished, and to optimize the tribological relationship between the burnishing head and a disc being burnished. The burnishing head includes one or more spacer pads, associated with selected ones of the burnishing pads on the burnishing head, which remain in contact with the surface of a disc being burnished. The height from the contact surface of the spacer pad to the contact surface of the burnishing pad determines the effective burnishing height. The burnishing head also includes moats, or recessed areas, surrounding the burnishing pads to minimize the stiction caused by generation of a liquid meniscus between the disc and contacting elements of the burnishing head, and which act as collection points for particulates generated by the burnishing process.

Abstract: A honing head for microburnishing surface of a recording/reproducing disc to a smoothness at which asperities are limited to submicron heights including a hardened contact bearing surface having an array of depressions with abrupt trailing edges interconnected by recessed channels leading outwardly from the honing head. The array of channels span a band in which an asperity may be present, and the sharp edges shear off the asperities within the band which extend above the chosen submicroinch height, with the separated particulates being passed through the recesses and channel system to the outer edge of the honing head. The trailing edges act to shear off the unwanted heights of the asperities, while the recesses enable pressure differentials and air flows to direct the separated particulates outwardly relative to the disc, centripetal forces of rotation bearing the particulates from the disc.

Abstract: A system and method for cleaning probe pins on a probe card used in testing a semiconductor device during fabrication thereof. A ceramic cleaning wafer is utilized to clean the probe pins without having to remove the probe card from a production line. The same apparatus used to test production wafers also handles the cleaning wafer during a probe cleaning cycle. During operation of the cleaning cycle, the cleaning wafer is placed in a manual load tray, which inserts the cleaning wafer into a prober machine. The cleaning wafer is transported by a robotic trolley to a prealign stage area where the cleaning wafer is aligned and centered. The cleaning wafer is then placed on a support device. The support device and cleaning wafer are positioned under a pneumatic sensor and profiled to determine wafer planarity. The support device and cleaning wafer are then positioned underneath the probe pins on the probe card to be cleaned.

Abstract: A hand-held sharpening device for sharpening a blade including an elongated sharpening polygon having a plurality of substantially planar sharpening surfaces for receiving the edge of a blade, opposite ends on the elongated sharpening polygon, a plastic cap covering each of the ends, a graspable extension extending outwardly from one of the caps, and a tie in the form of a chain secured to the graspable extension.

Abstract: A multi-function pool cue tool is shown. The tool has a three sided open channel design. One side of the tool has an abrasive material attached for flattening tips. The center piece has two different sized indentations for contouring different sized tips on cues. The center piece also has a contour gauge associated with each of the indentations for checking the roundness of the tips after dressing of the tip in the indentations. The second side of the tool has a knurled surface for knurling the surface of the flat tip. A pair of wheels interconnect the first and second sides of the tool and have a diameter that varies to a minimum midway between the sides, the wheels for knurling the rounded tips on cues.

Abstract: The present invention provides a composite bond wheel that has both excellent wear resistance and self-edging properties. The composite bond wheel of the invention includes: a grain layer including abrasive grains and a bonding phase; wherein the bonding phase includes a metal bonding phase and a resin bonding phase, wherein said metal bonding phase includes a metal having the abrasive grains and outside-opening pores dispersed therein, and wherein at least a portion of the outside-opening pores are filled with a resin of the resin bonding phase.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing reclosable bags having slide zippers on a form-fill-seal machine is provided. In a first embodiment the sliders are preapplied to the zipper and the bags are made using conventional form-fill-seal techniques. In a second embodiment a coil of sliders is fed into the form-fill-seal machine where the sliders are applied to the zippers by an insertor mechanism. In a third embodiment a magazine of individual or connected sliders is used to feed a slider insertor mechanism which then applies the sliders to the interlocked zippers. In a fourth embodiment bulk sliders are introduced into a vibratory feeding bowl which then orients and feeds the sliders to the slider insertor mechanism.

Abstract: A knife sharpener having a clamp system held by a frame in such a way that the knife to be sharpened may move in any direction freely but is otherwise held so that it does not rotate about any axis through the knife in order to maintain its orientation with respect to sharpening stones held by the frame. The knife can therefore be sharpened by moving it toward the user and down, first against one of two stones and then against the other, opposing stone, to sharpen both sides of the blade. The sharpener can be attached to a base or to the underside of cabinetry and may be used with various sharpening stones. In particular, a triangular, pivoting stone with rounded corners is preferred because it offers different facets and curves for use in sharpening flat-bladed and serrated knives and fully engages the knife blade through to the tip as the blade is drawn across its surface.

Abstract: A hand-held sharpening device for sharpening a blade including an elongated sharpening polygon having a plurality of substantially planar sharpening surfaces for receiving the edge of a blade, opposite ends on the elongated sharpening polygon, a plastic cap covering each of the ends, a graspable extension extending outwardly from one of the caps, and a tie in the form of a chain secured to the graspable extension.

Abstract: An abrasive construction for modifying a surface of a workpiece, such as a semiconductor wafer. The abrasive construction comprises: a three-dimensional, textured, fixed abrasive element; at least one resilient element generally coextensive with the fixed abrasive element; and at least one rigid element generally coextensive with and interposed between the resilient element and the fixed abrasive element, wherein the rigid element has a Young's Modulus greater than that of the resilient element.

Abstract: Midspan access to selected optical fibers which are encapsulated in an optical ribbon or tube is achieved by placing the desired span of the encapsulated fibers to be accessed between opposing abrasive layers and controllably urging at least one of the abrasive layers in the direction of the opposing abrasive layer to cause both abrasive layers to contact the encapsulant which covers the fibers. The amount of force applied to the at least one abrasive layer is limited by the structure of a resilient element which is coupled to the abrasive surface. Stress concentrators are created in the encapsulant and the encapsulant is removed from the span portion by relative movement of the encapsulated fibers and the abrasive layers. A minimum separation distance between the opposing abrasive layers can be defined, according to the thickness of the specific encapsulated fiber medium undergoing fiber separation, to avoid contact between the abrasive surfaces and the fibers within the medium.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a tool used in cutting, grinding and machining operations, is provided. The method is used to deposit a mixture comprising an abrasive material and a bonding material on a tool surface. The materials are propelled toward the receiving surface of the tool substrate using a thermal spray process. The thermal spray process melts the bonding material portion of the mixture, but not the abrasive material. Upon impacting the tool surface, the mixture or composition solidifies to form a hard abrasive tool coating.

Abstract: A knife sharpener is provided including a base. A plurality of sharpening members are positioned on the base and situated in side-by-side relationship. Also included is a biasing assembly for urging the sharpening members into abutment.

Abstract: An abrasive plate having an abrasive surface for performing abrading applications is provided. The plate includes a base member having a substantially smooth surface with a plurality of holes formed therethrough. A plurality of pairs of spaced apart slots radiate outwardly from each of the holes to define tab members. The tab members may be selectively raised or deformed to protrude from the smooth surface to collectively form an abrasive surface. The number of tabs raised may be selected to control the coarseness of the surface.

Abstract: A cutting board for cutting food products which is composed of a plurality of abrasive inserts arranged in parallel rows. In use, the knife blade is drawn along the channel formed between the adjacent rows, and the contact between the knife blade and the abrasive inserts acts to sharpen the knife blade on both of its sides.

Abstract: A resurfacer for resurfacing a working surface of a foam pad used for polishing auto finishes, in particular, includes a base having a support surface for supporting a polishing pad while it is being driven by a polisher power unit with which the polishing pad is used for the actual polishing operation. The base surface has an abrading section made of, preferably, partially perforated thin steel so that sharp corners protrude a selected height above the base surface and a guide fence for guiding the polishing pad as it is moved across the abrading pad so that it is held true and square, until the polishing pad is provided with a new flat and square working surface. The support surface is of size so that it will support the entire polishing pad while the abrading pad has a width slightly more than one-half the diameter of the polishing pad so that the polishing pad is stably held and can be made true and flat.

Abstract: A burnisher for disassociating undesirable material from a work piece includes a wire and a burnishing medium operably associated with the wire. The flexibility of the burnisher permits forces to be generated to disassociate the burnishing medium.

Abstract: An abrasive construction for modifying a surface of a workpiece, such as a semiconductor wafer. The abrasive construction comprises: a three-dimensional, textured, fixed abrasive element; at least one resilient element generally coextensive with the fixed abrasive element; and at least one rigid element generally coextensive with and interposed between the resilient element and the fixed abrasive element, wherein the rigid element has a Young's Modulus greater than that of the resilient element.

Abstract: An abrasive plate for use with a power sanding device having an abrasive surface for performing abrading applications. The plate includes at least two rows of protrusions. The protrusions in each row have an orientation substantially the same as the other protrusions in the respective row. The protrusions in each row have a bottom edge portion oriented at an angle of from about 45.degree. to about 135.degree. with respect to the bottom edge portions of the protrusions in each adjacent row. By providing an abrasive plate having protrusions with the above-noted orientations, the forces transmitted through the plate between a surface being treated and a power sander will be substantially balanced.

Abstract: In order to achieve precision in sharpening, particularly for dental instruments, a sharpening device includes a base having a generally upwardly extending hand grip portion wherein the base is adapted to be position on a generally horizontal supporting surface. The sharpening device also includes a sharpening stone or the like operatively associated with the base together with a retainer for removably retaining the sharpening stone in at least one angular position relative to the generally horizontal supporting surface.

Abstract: A burnish head comprising a slider body having a single crystal diamond attached to a rear portion flies above the disk surface at a relatively low flying height when the disk is rotated at a high angular velocity. The diamond produces acoustic waves that cut or crack disk asperities, resulting in a highly-smooth disk surface suitable for near-contact or in-contact magnetic recording.

Abstract: A device for rounding the ends of plastic bristles on rotationally symmetrical circular brushes has a tool in the form of a rotationally symmetrical hollow body with an abrasive inner surface, which has an inner contour with an at least zonally smaller cross-section than the circular brush corresponding to the outer contour of the latter and between the circular brush and the tool there is a relative rotary movement and a reversible relative axial movement.

Abstract: Grinding tools are provided having a composite working surface with a metal bonding material coated with a modulated composition of transition metal compounds. Titanium nitride and zirconium nitride are suitable compounds. A manufacturing method for such grinding tools is also provided, employing cathodic arc deposition with transition metal compounds being formed from arcs of transition metal cathodes and a reactive gas.