With Means To Rotate Tool Patents (Class 83/489)
  • Patent number: 7905167
    Abstract: A miter saw which prevents deterioration in perpendicularity of a cutting blade to the upper surface of a base part when slide of a pipe is regulated by pressing a pipe. In a miter saw, a pair of pipes support a cutting part, on one end side. On the other end side, the pipes are surrounded and supported slidably by a first slide support part of a support member of a turntable. A virtual plane including the axes of the pair of pipes is substantially parallel to the pivotal direction of a disc saw blade. A first screw is screwed in the first slide support part. An end part of the first screw contacts and presses a pipe. This end part is engaged with the pipe so as to restrict slide of the pipe relative to the first slide support part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeharu Ushiwata, Hideaki Terashima, Ryuichi Imamura, Toshihiko Hayashizaki
  • Patent number: 7481142
    Abstract: A cutting workstation which includes a cutter mounted on an arm type configuration. The arm configuration is slidably moveable relative to a divided work piece support table, the cutter moveable between the divided table. The cutter arm contains a cutter drive assembly exhibiting clutch plates mounted on shafts supported by bearings and driven by gears which in turn are driven by a motor. A gear case with shafts, bearings and internal gears allow the direction of the drive train to be altered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Inventor: William Kelly
  • Patent number: 7481141
    Abstract: A cutting workstation which includes a cutter mounted on an arm type configuration. The arm configuration is slidably moveable relative to a divided work piece support table, the cutter moveable between the divided table. The cutter arm contains a cutter drive assembly exhibiting clutch plates mounted on shafts supported by bearings and driven by gears which in turn are driven by a motor. A gear case with shafts, bearings and internal gears allow the direction of the drive train to be altered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Inventor: William Kelly
  • Patent number: 7444912
    Abstract: A portable sawmill with bi-directional cutting circular saws includes a saw support pivotally mounted to a primary support structure for pivotal movement about a pivot axis which is transverse to the direction of movement. Two circular saws are rotatably mounted one above the other on the saw support. A first one of the two circular saws rotates in a first rotational direction and a second one of the two circular saws rotates in a second rotational direction. The teeth on both of the two circular saws are always moving toward a log resting on the log support as the log is being cut. An actuator is provided for selectively pivoting the saw support to invert the positioning of the two circular saws so that the teeth on both of the two circular saws continue to move toward the log being cut upon a change in direction occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Inventors: David S. Fenton, Lester D. Oilund
  • Patent number: 7036412
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for sizing window coverings slidably extendable from a bay into an aisle of a retail outlet. The method includes the steps of locating the center of the window covering relative to a cutting station utilizing a half scale for removing a portion of the window covering from each of its ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Newell Window Furnishings, Inc.
    Inventor: Joshua Abdollahzadeh
  • Patent number: 6923101
    Abstract: A high-throughput, high-end-product-recovery, lineal log bucking device featuring continuous stem travel during the cutting process by using a simple and efficient machinery design for economy of equipment and monies. The apparatus includes: (1) a saw for cutting stem into logs; and (2) apparatus for accelerating the carrier up to the speed of the stem conveyor(s), maintaining the speed during the cut, decelerating the carrier, and then returning the carrier to its starting point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Mid-South Engineering Co., Inc
    Inventors: T. Mark Culpepper, Wayne A. Horman, John M. Hunnicutt
  • Patent number: 6782783
    Abstract: The miter saw has a base, a table rotatably attached to the base, a support housing connected to the table, a rail slidably connected to the support housing, and a saw assembly pivotally attached to the rail and movable between a front position and a rear position. The saw assembly has a trunnion disposed on the rail, a pivot arm pivotally attached to the trunnion, an upper blade guard connected to the pivot arm, a motor attached to the upper blade guard, and a blade driven by the motor. The miter saw also has a carrying handle provided on the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Steven A. Shull, Brian P. Wattenbach, Warren A. Ceroll
  • Patent number: 6732620
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cutting machine, in particular a tread cutting machine, having at least one cutting blade (8) linearly traversable on a blade carriage (1) for achieving a feed movement and rotationally driven by a motor (2), the motor (2) for the drive of the cutting blade (8) being arranged outside the blade carriage (1), and a torque-transmission means, which comprises a means for transmitting tensile forces, being provided between the motor (2) and the cutting blade (8), and that part of the torque-transmission means which is traversable with the blade carriage (1) having a markedly lower mass than the motor (2). In this case, the motor (2) is provided with a device which is designed as a closed-loop control or an open-loop control and is intended for keeping the rotational speed of the cutting blade (8) at least approximately constant during a feed movement of the cutting blade (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Berstorff GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Brodmann, Uwe Kröger, Harald Hepke
  • Publication number: 20030172788
    Abstract: A table saw securing device includes a post extended from a work table, a cantilever beam attached to the post, a housing rotatably and slidably attached to the cantilever beam, and a saw device selectively secured to the housing. One or more seats are secured on a bottom board of the housing and each includes a channel for adjustably securing a bolt. One or more bars each has one end secured to the bolts, and one or more fasteners threaded to the other end and engaged with the saw device, for detachably securing various kinds of saw device to the bottom board of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventor: Tian Wang Wang
  • Patent number: 6550363
    Abstract: An extendible miter saw is provided having a base (10), an angularly rotatable member (86) attached to a rear end of the base, a saw assembly (40) pivotally mounted to a support block (50), a pair of telescoping arms (70, 72) attached at opposite ends to the rotatable member and the support block, and a wheeled support assembly attached to the support block and movable along an upper surfaces of the base and extension members (26, 28, 30) extending outwardly from the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Inventor: Cai Bai He
  • Patent number: 6467385
    Abstract: One side of an access panel is trimmed while an opposite side of the panel is secured in an opening between skin sheets on the underside of an aircraft wing. The trimming apparatus includes a frame secured to one of the skin sheets with a rail extending along an edge of the opening and a trim saw assembly slideable along the rail. The frame can be secured in position by several vacuum cups, and can include index flanges engageable against an edge of the opening for precise positioning of the rail and the trim saw assembly carried thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: James N. Buttrick, Alan Ray Merkley, Philip Marten Wright
  • Publication number: 20020092393
    Abstract: A traversing circular saw device having a saw blade assembly mounted onto a cradle which can receive a number of logs to be cut into sections. The saw blade assembly includes a circular saw blade mounted onto an extension arm which is contained within an arm sleeve. The width of the cradle is greater than the diameter of the saw blade. The saw blade is extended across the cradle by a piston. One embodiment of the invention includes a charge accumulator for the hydraulic system which can time-delay engagement of the extension means. The system can also include a flow control valve for varying the time delay of the charge accumulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Inventor: Doug Mains
  • Patent number: 6098515
    Abstract: An improved rotary trimmer having a blade biasing member is shown and described. The biasing member biases the blade in an inoperative position in which the blade is retracted inside a housing when not in use. A manual actuating means is used to overcome the bias provided by the biasing member and to move the blade into an operative position in which at least the cutting edge of the blade projects from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Hunt Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Phillip B. Daley, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6016732
    Abstract: A cutting tool including a base having a turntable mounted thereon for rotation about a vertical axis. The base has a surface including a first detent portion at a predetermined position, and a second detent portion mounted on the turntable and being selectively engageable with the first detent portion to releasably secure the turntable in a predetermined position of angular adjustment relative to the base. The cutting tool also includes a spring biasing the second detent portion against the base surface, and a lever movable with the turntable to move the second detent portion to a withdrawn position allowing angular adjustment of the position of the turntable about the predetermined position of angular adjustment of the turntable relative to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Richard P. Brault, Jeffrey S. Holly
  • Patent number: 6006641
    Abstract: In order to precisely form joints in the ends of adjoining molding pieces, a power coping machine includes a molding support surface, a cutting tool, and a cutting tool support. The molding support surface stably supports a piece of molding to be coped with the machine. The molding support surface has a forward edge over which an end of the piece of molding can be made to extend for coping thereof. The cutting tool has a longitudinal axis extending generally transversely of the forward edge of the molding support surface. The cutting tool comprises an electric motor having a shaft extending generally parallel to the forward edge for mounting and driving a circular cutting blade in a plane generally perpendicular to the forward edge. The cutting tool support is disposed in spaced relation to the forward edge of the molding support surface for supporting the cutting tool for controlled movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Inventor: Donald C. Fletcher
  • Patent number: 5967013
    Abstract: A powered circular saw blade on a vertical shaft is supported on a slide which is slideably mounted on a guideway having feet to enable moving the assembly around on a building sub-floor. The feet are adjustable to enable raising or lowering the guideway base and, thereby, the saw blade. A blade guard is affixed to the guideway base and shaped to admit the saw assembly to an inside corner of a building room. The blade is normally retracted behind the blade guard but can be advanced to position ahead of the guard as the guard is braced against a door jamb or the like and the slide is pushed toward the door jamb to advance the blade into cutting position. Immediately upon release of the advancing force manually applied, a return spring returns the blade to retracted protected position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Inventors: Ray W. McKenzie, Andrew N. Hegdahl
  • Patent number: 5848930
    Abstract: Provided is an aircraft trimming device including a guide assembly (24) and a cutting tool (26). The guide assembly (24) includes a rigid plate (25) and a T-shaped track (30) mounted to one side of the plate to serve as a support and a guide for the cutting tool (26). The cutting tool (26) includes a base assembly (32); an air supply assembly (34) that is supported on the base assembly (32); and a cutting assembly (36) in pneumatic communication with the air supply assembly (34). During operation, the cutting tool (26) is pneumatically lifted by the air supply assembly (34) a slight distance off the track (30) in order that a mechanic may translate the cutting tool (26) along the track (30), thereby trimming an aircraft sub-assembly edge along a predetermined path (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Darrell D. Jones
  • Patent number: 5819624
    Abstract: A cutting tool including a base having a turntable mounted thereon for rotation about a vertical axis. The base has a surface including a first detent portion at a predetermined position, and a second detent portion mounted on the turntable and being selectively engageable with the first detent portion to releasably secure the turntable in a predetermined position of angular adjustment relative to the base. The cutting tool also includes a spring biasing the second detent portion against the base surface, and a lever movable with the turntable to move the second detent portion to a withdrawn position allowing angular adjustment of the position of the turntable about the predetermined position of angular adjustment of the turntable relative to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Richard P. Brault, Jeffrey S. Holly
  • Patent number: 5819626
    Abstract: A portable sawmill with lateral and longitudinal stability which includes first and second rectangular end frames, each end frame including two horizontal and two vertical members, longitudinal, horizontal rails slidably connected by brackets to corresponding first and second vertical members, first and second winding assemblies, each winding assembly includes bearings journalling an upper one of the horizontal members, a handle to rotate the upper horizontal frame member, an idler wheel located at a lower end of each of the vertical frame members, and a flexible joining connection for each bracket, the flexible joining connection is engaged about the respective upper frame member and a respective idler wheel and connected at both ends to the respective bracket to move the bracket in both directions up and down the respective vertical frame member to thereby move the rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Inventor: Rex Cameron Lucas
  • Patent number: 5819618
    Abstract: A rotary paper trimmer for cutting sheet material and method of using the trimmer is disclosed. The rotary paper trimmer has a base, a pressure pad, and a blade holder assembly. The pressure pad has a guide rail and a gear track attached to its upper surface. A blade holder assembly has a outer shell slidably attached to the guide rail, a shaft rotatably attached to the shell, a circular blade attached to the shell and adjacent a lateral edge of the base, and a gear attached to the shaft. As the blade holder assembly is slid on the guide rail the gear engages with the gear track and rotates the shaft and circular blade to cut sheet material inserted between the pressure pad and base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: Martin Yale Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Humberto Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 5678314
    Abstract: In connection with a hand-operated power tool (10), in particular a hand-operated circular saw, with a machine housing and a base plate (11, 41) with a guide groove (18, 63) for overlapping a guide rib (17) of a guide rail (16) for the guided displacement of the hand-operated power tool (10) on a workpiece, the object of providing a precisely adjustable position of the guide groove with a small manufacturing outlay is attained in that the guide groove (18, 63) is disposed in a groove holder (21, 51) which is separate in respect to the base plate (11, 41), secured against loss, displaceable in at least one direction in the plane of the base plate (11, 41), particularly transversely to the guide groove (18, 63).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Braunbach, David Matzo
  • Patent number: 5440961
    Abstract: A film cutting apparatus includes a guide having a clip for attachment to a film material container and a cutting device designed to travel along said guide to sever the film material in predetermined lengths. The cutting device includes two pairs of guide wheels designed to travel in a channel in the guide beneath the cutting plane defined by a top surface thereof. The cutting device also includes a housing having disposed therein a star cutter, a star cutter driver assembly and a plate assembly attached to the housing providing rotatable support for the star cutter driver assembly and guide wheels. In use, the housing is gripped by a user and driven along the length of the guide. During housing travel, the star cutter driver assembly rotatably engages the guide top surface to rotate the star cutter and sever the film material lying in the path of the star cutter. The guide has a non-slip top surface so that the film material adheres thereto during cutting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1995
    Assignee: Reynolds Metals Company
    Inventors: Earl S. Lucas, Jr., Jack R. McLean, Donald E. Vaughan
  • Patent number: 5230270
    Abstract: A machine for cutting concrete blocks especially continuously molded, highway dividing barriers of the New Jersey type, in a very fast and easy manner. The machine is mounted on a support base forming part of a powered truck-like vehicle and includes a primary extensible boom that is mounted on the support base so as to extend horizontally laterally thereof and be adjustably tiltable about its longitudinal axis. The machine also includes a secondary extensible boom that is mounted on the extensible end of the primary boom. Both of these booms extend in a same plane, and the secondary boom is downwardly tiltable about an axis transversal to both of the primary and secondary booms. A rotary, concrete-cutting saw assembly is mounted at the bottom end of the secondary boom. This assembly includes a saw blade that extends parallel to the plane in which said primary and secondary booms extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Inventor: Rene Bertrand
  • Patent number: 5179886
    Abstract: The radial beam arm saw table has been designed to be combined with a conventional circular saw so that various types of cuts may be performed on sheets of wood when they are supported on its work platform. The saw table has a portable stand with structure for supporting a vertical post member having a support arm extending from its top end. A radial beam has one of its ends pivotally secured to the front end of the support arm about a vertical axis. A carriage is reciprocally mounted to travel axially along the length of the radial beam and it has a carriage platform pivotally secured thereto about a vertical axis. A bevel platform is pivotally secured to the carriage platform about a horizontal axis. A handle adaptor is pivotally secured to the bevel platform about a horizontal axis and it has a leg portion to which the handle of a circular saw may be detachably secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1993
    Inventor: Marvin E. Rathje, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5136910
    Abstract: Flat multi-layered work pieces, such as panels with a decorative or finish surface coating (5), are prescored and cut through by the same saw blade to avoid damage to the surface coating. For this purpose a circular saw (1) is guided along a guide rail (7) and its saw blade (4) is adjustable to a prescoring depth and to at least one lateral prescoring position to make a first prescoring cut only through the cover layer (5) in a sawing direction in synchronism with the blade rotation direction. If necessary, the blade is adjusted to a second lateral prescoring position to make a second prescoring cut only through the cover layer (5) in a cutting direction in synchronism with the blade rotation. Finally, the saw blade (4) is adjusted to its full cutting depth and to a lateral position between the two prescoring positions and a full cut is made through the entire work piece (6) in a sawing direction counter to the rotation direction of the saw blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1992
    Assignee: Karl M. Reich Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventors: Reiner Kuhn, Michael Weingart
  • Patent number: 5046391
    Abstract: A portable saw mill for cutting timber from rough logs. The saw mill having a frame comprises a pair of beams supported only at the respective ends thereof, each beam including a rail extending longitudinally of the beams, said rails being parallel and located in a common horizontal plane. A motor and saw assembly mounted on the rails for linear movement therealong and including a motor coupled to a circular saw blade to drive same, and the saw blade being adjustable between at least two positions in each of which the axis of rotation of the saw is at right angles to the direction of linear movement of the motor and saw assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Inventors: David J. Lewis, Kevin R. Inkster
  • Patent number: 5044241
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus for wrap film is made of a housing for supporting a roll of paper or plastic film and an apron for supporting the leading edge portion of the film. A cutting assembly is mounted over the apron and is slidingly mounted along the housing to cut the leading edge. The cutting assembly includes a circular cutting wheel and a driving mechanism for rotating the wheel at a peripheral speed greater than the linear speed of the cutting assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Inventor: Normand F. Labrecque
  • Patent number: 5001955
    Abstract: A movement and rotational movement of the movable blade of the paper-cutter of this invention is constructed with a mechanically engaging mechanism such as a screw mechanism or a pinion/rack mechanism, so that there are no technical problems found with the conventional type of the paper-cutters such as slackening and/or cutting-off of the wire and coming-off of the wire from the drum. Moreover, since it is not necessary for an additional means for providing tension force on the wire, a longer-term stable cutting operation can be achieved. Furthermore, since the fluctuation in the manufacturing accuracy and deformation caused during the production process of the screw grooves as well as case body itself can be controlled and minimized by the screw mechanisms to some extent, the strict requirements for components accuracy can be reduced, resulting in an effective cost-down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1991
    Assignee: Sumitsu & Company, Limited
    Inventor: Toshio Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 4979412
    Abstract: A sawing machine comprises a housing (14), an arm (3) pivotable relative to the housing about an axis (2), a member (4) on the arm, said member being arranged for connection to a saw tool and being rotatable about an axis spaced from the pivot axis of the arm and generally parallel thereto, means (19) for rotating the rotatable member and means (38) for pivoting the arm relative to the housing, there being in the housing a member (15) having an end portion (16) extending out of the housing and supporting the arm. The member (15) arranged in the housing is secured against rotation relative to the housing and the arm (3) is pivotably journalled about the end portion (16) of the member secured against rotation and extending out of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Inventor: Johnsen Anders
  • Patent number: 4958544
    Abstract: A radial arm saw, comprising a base having a column mounted thereon with a guide arm supported vertically movably on the column. The guide arm has an inverted U-shape. A saw member slides along the bottom of the guide arm by means of bearings engaging symmetrically arranged longitudinal grooves in the side walls of the arm. The grooves have lower faces inclined downwards towards the centerline. The bearings are similarly inclined and can be adjusted axially. A rectangular U-shaped locking spring is engaged with the saw member support so as to have one of the arm side walls between its arms. When the locking spring is compressed, the saw member is locked along the arm. An integral switch case is fitted within the arm and has an integral bendable cover to cover a recess for a power switch. The switch has an ON-button which can be locked to be inoperative. The back of the switch case and the arm support on the column have corresponding U-shaped grooves for fitting a wire support tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1990
    Assignee: Ryobi Ltd.
    Inventor: Kouichi Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 4909111
    Abstract: A saw table suitable for use with a portable circular saw comprises a bed, and upstanding therefrom adjacent the rear end a pair of walls meeting at an apex including an angle of 90.degree. pointing towards the forward end, forming a miter fence. A pair of axially aligned transversely spaced rails are supported about the bed for engagement of the soleplate of the circular saw for movement along channels provided in the rails. The table is intended for use by pulling the saw through a workpiece to be cut, and the saw is normally parked rearwardly of the miter fence. Supplementary tables to overlay the bed are provided for cross-cutting, and bevelling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1990
    Inventor: Walter E. Noble
  • Patent number: 4888083
    Abstract: A laminator is disclosed in which a cutter unit is provided so that a cutter is moved across the direction of feed of a continuous thin film to cut off the film to a prescribed size and the film cut off by the cutter unit is laminated on a substrate. A shock absorber for absorbing a shock which takes place when the movement of the cutter of the cutter unit is stoped is provided at a prescribed portion near the stopped position of said cutter or near the prescribed portion of the body of said laminator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1989
    Assignee: Somar Corporation
    Inventors: Sigeo Sumi, Fumio Hamamura, Ichio Fukuda
  • Patent number: 4885966
    Abstract: A sawing machine comprises a housing (14), an arm (3) pivotable relative to the housing about an axis (2), a member (4) arranged on the arm, intended for connection to a saw tool and rotatable about an axis spaced from the pivot axis of the arm and parallel thereto, means (19) for rotating the rotatable member, means (38) for pivoting the arm relative to the housing, and an element (53) arranged on the arm, intended for connection to a guard for the saw tool and rotatable for changing the position of the guard relative to the arm depending upon the pivoting position of the arm relative to the housing. A device for automatical rotation of the element (53) comprises a part (30) secured against rotation relative to the housing and located in the area of the pivot axis (2) of the arm as well as means (68) for mechanical force transmission from this part to the rotatable element (53).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1989
    Inventor: Anders Johnsen
  • Patent number: 4873902
    Abstract: A railroad rail cold sawing device for securement about a railroad rail having a central web and flanges connected to opposite ends of the web, includes a sawing section having a sawing blade; a drive section; a spline drive shaft for removably connecting the drive section and the sawing section to cause rotation of the saw blade; and at least one clamping assembly for removably clamping the sawing section and the drive section to the railroad rail, each clamping assembly including a support for supporting a respective section on an upper one of the flanges, a fixed clamping leg fixedly secured to the support for clamping one side of the central web, a pivotal clamping leg pivotally secured to the support for clamping an opposite side of the central web, and a piston-cylinder drive assembly connected to the support and the pivoting clamping leg for pivoting the pivoting clamping leg into clamping relation with the opposite side of the central web to secure the respective section to the railroad rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1989
    Inventor: Adrian H. Krieg
  • Patent number: 4817581
    Abstract: A cutting tool such as a tile saw is pivotally connected to a linear guide rod with a four-bar linkage. The linkage allows the cutting tool to be raised and lowered over a work table to facilitate plunge cutting. One link of the four-bar linkage is mounted over the linear guide rod in a fixed perpendicular relationship with the surface of the work table to ensure that the blade of the cutting tool is maintained in a similar perpendicular orientation throughout plunge cutting. This is achieved by adjusting the links of the four-bar linkage as a parallelogram linkage. A linear bearing is fitted between the fixed perpendicular link and the guide rod to allow the cutting tool and linkage to freely slide along an accurate linear cutting path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Corporation
    Inventor: Frederick Trentadue
  • Patent number: 4771667
    Abstract: A precision power saw assembly which includes a saw table manufactured for exceeding close tolerance cutting of metals by a circular saw blade. The saw blade and its arbor are mounted for horizontal translation from one end of the saw table to the other by means of a servo controlled drive motor which is attached to a ball screw type drive so as to prevent backlash. The arbor is supported on a carriage way positioned vertically below the arbor and is stabilized by a second horizontally positioned carriage way. Each carriage way is attached to a single side of the support frame below the work piece support surface. The saw blade is driven by a constant speed motor having a variable speed transmission and gear box so as to permit selective adjustment of the cutting speed of the saw blade. The work piece is clamped on opposite sides of the cut and a precision work piece positioning apparatus is provided so as to further effectuate the cutting operation within a close tolerance range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Metl-Saw System Inc
    Inventors: Kenneth E. Forman, James Schlachter
  • Patent number: 4519285
    Abstract: A tape (100) is transported by a continuous strip of backing paper (102) along a tape guide (22) into position for the tape (100) to be cut by a blade (12). The tape guide (22) has an essentially flat center portion (24) and opposite side portions (28) that are inclined toward blade (12) relative to center portion (24). Side portions (28) are preferably smoothly curved. Side portions (28) guide the lateral edges of the tape (100) and paper (102) to bend toward blade (12) when a lateral cut is being made. This allows a cut of essentially constant depth to completely sever tape (100), including any fibers (106) that have come loose from the edges of paper (102), without severing paper (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Helmut Dontscheff
  • Patent number: 4517872
    Abstract: Tape (100) being laid by a tape laying machine (2) is transported by a continuous strip of backing paper (102). A rotary cutter (12) is mounted on one arm (36) of a C-shaped frame (34). An anvil (20) is mounted on the other arm (38). Frame (34) moves laterally to move cutter (12) and anvil (20) laterally across tape (100) with tape (100) and paper (102) therebetween. A single point on anvil (20) supports the portion of tape (100) being cut throughout the length of the cut. Therefore, an essentially constant distance between cutter (12) and anvil (20) is maintained to completely sever tape (100) without severing paper (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Helmut Dontscheff
  • Patent number: 4448101
    Abstract: A cutter for sheet materials, packing or cushioning materials, and the like, comprises an elongate, hollow cutter bar or housing having a spring blade pivotally mounted therein, with the upper edge of the blade positioned in a longitudinal slot in the bar. A circular knife is slidably carried on the bar, and includes a cutting edge which engages the blade to shear the sheet therebetween as the circular knife is moved along the bar. The blade is normally biased into a safety position, wherein the upper edge of the blade is retracted into the bar slot. Engagement between the circular knife and the blade automatically shifts the adjacent portion of the blade into a cutting position with the knife, wherein the upper edge of the blade is extended from the retracted, storage position to a cutting position, flush with the upper surface of the cutter bar to cleanly and evenly shear the material between the blade and the knife.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1984
    Assignee: Bulman Products, Inc.
    Inventor: John G. Templeton
  • Patent number: 4230005
    Abstract: A cutting machine particularly for cutting plates of plastic material and non-ferrous metal sheets, having a cutting blade rotating in such a direction that its cutting rim enters into a guard casing at the cutting place, said guard casing having a rim closely adjacent said cutting blade at least near the cutting place, and said rim being pressed against the material to be cut near said cutting place thereby preventing bending, deformation and splitting of said material by the cutting forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1980
    Inventor: Ferenc Varga
  • Patent number: 4197775
    Abstract: An improved, safer, more efficient saw table construction is provided in the present invention by channelled guide tracks which slidably support a tool and plate assembly in any one of two positions at right angles to each other. The tool can be readily moved from one position to another, without remounting the tool on the tool plate, by controllable withdrawal of the tool plate from the ends of the guide tracks, rotation of the entire tool and plate assembly, and reinsertion of the plate into the channelled tracks provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1980
    Assignee: Hirsh Company
    Inventors: Milton E. Handler, Richard Sylvan, Herbert Baisch
  • Patent number: 4073206
    Abstract: A cutter head mounted upon a cloth spreading machine for longitudinal movement widthwise of the cloth spreading machine for transversely cutting cloth laid upon a cutting table. An elongated handle member is swivelly connected to said cutter head for manual movement of the cutter head over the entire width of the cloth spreading machine by an operator standing on one side of the spreading machine.The cutter head may be removed from the spreading machine and the handle member may be rendered rigid with respect to the cutter head, so that the cutter head may be manipulated for cutting cloth independently of the cloth spreading machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1978
    Assignee: Cutters Machine Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack M. Gratsch, Cecil S. Frederick
  • Patent number: 4046044
    Abstract: A paper trimmer is described comprising a base board and a fixed blade set in one edge of the board, the improvement comprising a guide rail mounted above and closely spaced from the cutter blade and a carriage mounted on the guide rail, the carriage containing a cutter wheel abutting the fixed blade and adapted to be turned, as the carriage is slid on the guide, by engagement of a friction drive wheel coaxial with the cutter wheel on the upper surface of the guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Inventors: Donald MacDougal Paterson, deceased, by Alexander Robertson Brackenridge, executor
  • Patent number: 3988125
    Abstract: A device for rigidly supporting a portable power saw and permitting selective vertical movement thereof for cutting lengths of metal, plastic, wood and the like. A base having a horizontal work surface includes a clamping means for clamping the work to be cut in a predetermined position. An upstanding support post slidably carries a saw support arm to which a portable power saw is secured with the cutting element thereof disposed in a vertical plane. Lever means connected with the saw support arm permits the selective vertical movement of the saw through the clamped worked piece. Spring means are provided to return and retain the saw and saw support arm to a raised position above the work piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1976
    Inventor: John R. Ulsh