Abstract: A slicer is provided for use in conjunction with a manually manipulated knife for cutting slices off one end of a loaf of a food product, such as a loaf of bread, a loaf of meat, a loaf of cheese, etc. The slicer includes a U-shaped channel in which the food product loaf is contained with one end of the loaf being in engagement with an end wall. The channel is inclined to the horizontal to cause the loaf to self feed down into engagement with the end wall. A knife slot is provided in the channel to allow a slice having a pre-determined thickness to be provided. The entire end wall moves towards or away from the knife slot to adjust the thickness of the cut slice. A tool or implement is inserted into the channel to hold a bagel therein during slicing of the bagel.

Abstract: A cutter for manually cutting club sandwiches into four wedge or triangular sections. The cutter has a flat base and a cutting blade assembly mounted to the base. The cutting blade assembly comprises four blades arranged in cruciform pattern, a handle, and a shaft connecting the blades to the handle. A cover guard preventing direct contact with the blades from above is slidably mounted on the shaft, and urged into proximity with the blades by a spring. The cover guard has holes enabling decorative toothpicks to be inserted into the center of each section of a cut sandwich. A guide constrains the cutting blade assembly to move only vertically and reciprocatably relative to the base, and prevents rotation about the longitudinal axis of the shaft. A resilient member holds the cutting blade assembly in an elevated "ready" position above the base. Stops are selectively mounted on the base to enable centering sandwiches made from different standard bread loaf dimensions on the base.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting includes a blade guide for guiding a cutting instrument and a tray having an adjustable height with respect to the blade guide. The item to be cut rests on the tray in the path of the blade guide. A blade, such as a knife, is passed through the blade guide and the item on the tray. A blade stop positioned adjacent the blade guide stops the passage of the blade at the appropriate position. A cover assists in holding the item in place, and the plane the blade guide is suitably tilted to facilitate a natural cutting motion.

Abstract: The new bread slicing guide includes a base member and a pair of guide members mounted with respect to the base member for pivoting movement about respective pivot axes. The pivot axes are under the base member so that the guide members may be folded toward and substantially against one another for storage. Each guide member is retained in a bread slicing position or a storage position by a position retention mechanism having a cavity and a raised portion generally conforming in shape to the shape of the cavity. A new method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A combination food article positioning device and slicing guide, primarily intended to assist in slicing buns or bagels. The bun or bagel is entrapped between the guide and a table or other horizontal surface and held in position by contact between an inner end face of a pocket formed in the body of the apparatus and a table or the like. The body also includes sidewall surfaces, some of which are circular portions and others of which taper toward an apex, such that the entire pocket has a "teardrop" configuration. The sidewalls are slotted to receive a knife, and the tapered sidewall segments preferably include serrations or teeth. the noncircular shape opposite the knife-receiving slot and the serrations prevent the food product from turning within the guide.

Abstract: A mitre box having a base and a pair of upstanding spaced sidewalls extending upwardly from the base. Each sidewall has an end edge, a slot in each of the sidewalls, the slots being in angular axial alignment with each other with the slot in one of the sidewalls being in axial angular alignment with the slot in the opposite sidewall, ruler marks on said mitre box substantially parallel to the sidewalls. Notch means are also provided between the two end edges of the sidewalls.

Abstract: A bagel holder includes a housing with an open upper end and a bottom wall which arches upwardly in its center. Forward and rearward walls of the housing slant towards one another from their upper edges to their lower edges to form a general wedge shape therebetween. The housing end walls include parallel upper portions and lower portions which slant towards one another as they extend downwardly to their juncture with the bottom wall. Each end wall includes a vertical slot extending downwardly to a lower end spaced above the bottom wall at a point which is a vertical distance approximately the same as the vertical distance to which the bottom wall is arched upwardly. Each end wall includes a thickened portion forming a buttress pad at the lower end of the slots and formed integrally with the end walls.

Abstract: A hand held food holding device to secure articles of food for cutting or slicing which includes a base, a first wall, and a second wall. The first and second walls being connected to the base and extending upward therefrom to create a U-shaped member able to receive and secure articles of food while they are cut or sliced.

Abstract: A food slicing device that holds food, particularly bread, in place while slicing. The bottom of the bread loaf is pierced to hold the loaf in place while slicing. Adjustment plates provide for varying slice width, or duplicating a slice of standard thickness. Adjustment plates may be stored on the back of the slicer. Grooves guide the knife when cutting bread. Cutting channels insure a cut completely through the item being sliced. A removable insert allows the top of the cutting platform to be replaced when it becomes abraded or damaged. The device is easily made by the home craftsman or can be mass produced.

Abstract: An automatic bagel slicer includes a transport mechanism with spring loaded clamping panels for securely holding a bagel in a cutting attitude with respect to a horizontally disposed reciprocating cutting edge. A detent plate, that is mounted for limited vertical movement on the transport mechanism, has a contour that controls the opening and closing of the clamping panels in a coordinated manner as the transport mechanism is driven up and down. The sliced bagel is automatically released when the transport mechanism is at the lower part of its travel. The cutting edge is always concealed, thus precluding any danger to the user.

Abstract: A collapsible slicing guide enabling safe and even slicing comprising a cutting surface base, a pair of collapsible uprights pivotally connected to the base by a collapsible hinge construction in parallel, opposed relation. The uprights are pivotally movable from an operative position which they are in upstanding and face one another, to a storage position in which they are collapsed flat against the base: one upright folded on top of the base and the other upright folded underneath the base. The slicing guide also comprises a plurality of parallel, spaced slits extending vertically in each of the uprights. The slits extend substantially to the base and define therebetween a plurality of columns. The slits are arranged so that a slit of one upright is aligned with a corresponding slit of the other upright so that each such pair of slits is adapted to receive and guide a knife blade.

Abstract: A food cutting holder mounted in conjunction with a toaster for toasting bagels, muffins, bread slices and other similar types of foodstuff. The food cutting holder is to be confinable within the housing of the toaster when in the storage position and removable from the housing when it is intended to be used. The food cutting holder confiningly locates the food item in a precise position facilitating division of the food item into a plurality of separate pieces. It is intended that these separate pieces are then to be toasted within the toaster.

Abstract: The new bread slicing guide includes a base member and a pair of guide members mounted with respect to the base member for pivoting movement about respective pivot axes. The pivot axes are under the base member so that the guide members may be folded toward and substantially against one another for storage. Each guide member is retained in a bread slicing position or a storage position by a position retention mechanism having a cavity and a raised portion generally conforming in shape to the shape of the cavity. A new method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A device for slicing a bagel equally in half, or in thirds, or in quarters without having to make any adjustments for such desired variations. The device is simple in construction and serves to operably guide a knife through a bagel. Other foodstuffs such as buns, rolls and muffins including soft textured foodstuffs can be accommodated without deforming or destroying the foodstuff. The device is comprised of a rectangular base having four side guide rods at right angles to the base and placed so as to hold a foodstuff central to the width of the base. Additionally, a set of paired end cradling rods at each end of the base taper outwardly as they extend upwardly. The end cradle rods accommodate bagels of various diameters thereby preventing end to end movement of a bagel while it is being sliced. The end cradle rods serve to guide a knife blade between the slots formed by the adjoining, paired cradle rods.

Abstract: Disclosed are tools (10, 60, 100, 200) and (300) used to hold a bagel (22) upright while being sliced from edge to edge with a blade (28) of a knife (30). Each tool (10, 60,100, 200, and 300) includes a base (12) having a top surface (12a) adapted to support the bagel (22) by an edge of the bagel (22). An upright support plate (14) is removably mounted to the base (12) and has opposed lateral sides and opposed faces (14a and 14b). A pair of knife blade guides (16 and 18) are attached to the base (12) opposite each other, each guide being positioned near one of the opposed sides of the upright support plate (14) and spaced apart to provide therebetween a cutting zone (24). Tool (300)is adapted to slice both bagels and a loaf of bread, and it has two cutting zones (24 and 302). Positioning elements (102)regulates the thickness of the sliced segments of the bagel (22) and bread.

Abstract: A food slicing rack device includes a base with a top surface and two rows of spaced apart fingers defining knife guide slots extending from the base. A backstop is provided at one end of the device. The top surface of the device slopes downwardly in a direction from an open end of the device toward the backstop. Electric knife rivet recesses are provided for removing the knife after cutting. A snap arrangement is provided to snap the knife to the device for storage. The fingers are provided with alternating colors to facilitate alignment of the guide slots and uniform cutting. A hand slot in the backstop is provided for removing the sliced food item from the device. One construction provides for separate U-shaped members joined together to form the device.

Abstract: A device is provided for facilitating the cutting of an object, such as a food product, into slices. The device includes an indexing assembly having a rotatable indexing disc which may be moved to various positions corresponding to the desired thickness of the slice and having an indexing pin which, when seated in a predetermined notch, prevents rotation of the indexing disc against which the food product is abutted and maintains the indexing disc in position when slicing the food product.

Abstract: A slicer is provided for use in conjunction with a manually manipulated knife for cutting slices off one end of a loaf of a food product, such as a loaf of bread, a loaf of meat, a loaf of cheese, etc. The slicer includes a U-shaped channel in which the food product loaf is contained with one end of the loaf being in engagement with an end wall. The channel is inclined to the horizontal to cause the loaf to self feed down into engagement with the end wall. A knife slot is provided a fixed distance away from the end wall to allow a slice having a first pre-determined thickness to be provided. One or more thickness adjustment plates may be dropped down into the channel to overlie the end wall to decrease the thickness of the slices in pre-determined increments equal to the thickness of the plates. The plates extend above the end wall to be easily removable from the channel.

Abstract: A cove base cutting guide provides a stable guide for holding a cove of soft material, such as rubber or synthetic rubber, achieved in a bottom, top, ends and front and back sides with a cove-shaped chamber within, the integrity of the guide breached only by fully-contained slits on the front side within the front side and by a narrow opening the size and shape of a cove base in the ends for receiving and discharging a cove end piece cut from cove stock in the guide. To maintain the knife in alignment within the slit, the guide includes a chamber groove opposite each slit into which the end of the knife passes. The front slitted side is thin such that a conventional utility knife of length typically only about 1-inch reaches from the front side through the chamber into the guide grooves. In an alternative embodiment, a stabilizing block is attached to the guide back side to maintain guide structural stability when the chamber grooves are extended as slits through the guide back side and stabilizing block.

Abstract: A sausage cutter comprised of a cutting block having two portions. Each of the two portions has an upper surface, a lower surface, an inner surface, and an outer surface. The two portions are hingedly secured together at the lower surface thereof. Each inner surface has a longitudinally oriented concave recess formed therein. When the two portions are closed together each concave recess forms a containment chamber. Each of the two portions has a plurality of transversely oriented slots extending downwardly through the upper surface thereof to a position below the longitudinally oriented concave recess. The two portions serve to contain a sausage within the containment chamber formed by the longitudinally oriented concave recesses as the two portions are closed together.

Abstract: An improved bagel holder is disclosed that includes a rigid base and a pair of upstanding vertical sidewalls attached to the base. A first sidewall is attached such that there is no movement of the wall. A second wall is attached to the base by a piece of resilient material such as nylon such that the second wall is movable toward the first wall. A cavity is defined between the inner surface of each of the two walls. The cavity is operable to hold a bagel therewithin. The inner surfaces of the two walls have depressions and protrusions formed thereon to better hold the bagel therewithin. The movable wall has a slot formed therein beginning at the top surface of the wall and extending down a predetermined distance. The slot facilitates the removal of a bagel from the cavity by inserting the tip of a knife through the slot and through the center hole of a bagel and moving the knife upward, thereby also moving the bagel upward and out of the cavity.

Abstract: A bread slicing guide appliance that supports and holds bread loaves of varying sizes while providing guidance and alignment to the slicing knife as well as collection and retention of the bread crumb debris as it is created during slicing. Debris collection and retention is accomplished by virtue of the open matrix design of the support grid, the filter screen and the downward flow of air created by the aspiration fan and electric motor mounted in the base housing. In addition the base housing shell may be unlatched from the base and pivoted upward and away, allowing easy cleaning of the base housing. When the device is not in use a novel approach for compact storage is incorporated in the fold-down design.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for aiming a tree to be felled including a tool for precisely marking a face notch to be cut into a tree trunk, said tool comprising a main body, an aiming rod on the main body, and two pivoting tree-engaging marking arms mounted pivotably together on the main body for partially encircling the tree trunk and identifying the upper and lower cuts of a generally horizontal portion of a hinging notch when the aiming rod is aimed in the direction of fall. The tool includes angular adjustments to allow marking an aiming notch which compensates for the lean of a tree and/or for trees with trunks of irregular cross section.

Abstract: A device that will allow individuals to uniformly slice bread. The unit will hold a loaf of bread and allow it to be sliced by assuring the positioning of the bread knife. This will be provided for by having corresponding sets of slots located on opposing sides of the device with the loaf of bread held between these slots by a fluidly variable closing mechanism. By engaging the knife in corresponding slots the individual will be allowed to slice the loaf of bread while limiting the range of lateral motion of the knife. This will assure the user of uniform cuts to the loaf of bread whether those slices are made at a ninety degree angle to the sides or at some other angle to the sides. Once a slice is completed the knife will be removed from the device and moved to an adjacent set of corresponding slots. The process will then be repeated over and over until the desired number of slices of bread have been cut. The cut slices of bread will then be removed from the device.

Abstract: A slicer is provided for use in conjunction with a manually manipulated knife for cutting slices off one end of a loaf of a food product, such as a loaf of bread, a loaf of meat, a loaf of cheese, etc. The slicer includes a U-shaped channel in which the food product loaf is contained with one end of the loaf being in engagement with an end wall. The channel is inclined to the horizontal to cause the loaf to self feed down into engagement with the end wall. A knife slot is provided a fixed distance away from the end wall to allow a slice having a first pre-determined thickness to be provided. One or more thickness adjustment plates may be dropped down into the channel to overlie the end wall to decrease the thickness of the slices in pre-determined increments equal to the thickness of the plates. The plates extend above the end wall to be easily removable from the channel.

Abstract: A tool 10, 60, or 100 used to hold a bagel 22 upright while being sliced from edge to edge with a blade 28 of a knife 30. Each tool 10, 60, and 100 includes a base 12 having a top surface 12a adapted to support the bagel 22 by an edge of the bagel 22. An upright support plate 14 is removably mounted to the base 12 and has opposed lateral sides and opposed faces 14a ad 14b. A pair of knife blade guides 16 and 18 are attached to the base 12 opposite each other, each guide being positioned near one of the opposed sides of the upright support plate 14 and spaced apart to provide therebetween a cutting zone 24. A positioning structure regulates the thickness of the sliced segments of the bagel 22, and includes the upright support plate 14.

Abstract: A bread slicing device designed specifically for use with cylindrical shaped loaves produced by home automatic bread baking machines. Consists of two parts: a clear cover with built in knife holder and a bread slicing holder. The bread slicing holder is rigid, monolithic in construction, featuring two opposing parallel slicing guide side walls which extend vertically from the base of the unit along two lateral outside edges. The lower two-thirds of the side walls interior surfaces are concave forming with the concave bottom a tapered sharply textured cylindrical cavity. Bread is inserted into slicing holder by way of a wedged shaped entry chute. The chute momentarily compresses the bread as it is inserted into the top of the bread slicing holder. Bread loaf then expands, firmly securing it into the cylindrical cavity. The slicing guide side walls are divided by a series of evenly spaced parallel vertical slots. These slots guide the cutting implement permitting accurate and consistent slices to be produced.

Abstract: A hand-held jig for confining a bagel, or like object, while it is being sliced by a knife blade and a method of using the jig are disclosed. The jig comprises two identical structures that are joined together by a specialized hinge. The two structures are mirror images of each other and each comprises a circular cage (for loosely surrounding the rim of a bagel) that is attached to the hinge on one side and to a radially extending handle on the opposite side, and clamps in front of the cage for retaining and gripping the bagel and preventing its movement. The hinge is composed of material not injurious to a knife blade when it strikes the hinge, and is so constructed as to be fixed with respect to one of the structures and yet allow rotation of the other structure with respect to the hinge.

Abstract: A device for slicing food for the production of shish kabobs includes an assembly having blades in correspondence with and in alignment with slits in a container that carries layers of food. The assembly is movable in translation to and from the container and angularly in parallel with the slits. The blades successively perform a movement of penetration into the interior of the container, a movement of angular pivoting along an arc of a circle corresponding to the height of the container, and a movement of withdrawal from the container, so as to assure by the combination of these movements the slicing of all of the layers of food.

Abstract: Bulk arrow shafts, of various diameters, obtained from a manufacturer, which are tapered on one end and square cut at the other end, are subsequently securely supported, accurately measured for an arrow length wanted by an archer, and then cut to this measured length by an archer, who uses this portable bulk arrow shaft guide, support, measurement and guided miter-like razor saw cutoff assembly. An elongated planar base of this assembly is made to rest on a work table or on another level surface structure. A top opening central dovetail groove extends throughout the length of this base. A slidably, selectably positioned receiver subassembly, having depending complementary dovetail portions, is removably interfitted with this base, at the measuring end thereof, to hold a tapered end of a bulk arrow shaft at a designated length of the final arrow shaft length.

Abstract: A cutter box for receiving a loaf of bread or the like and guiding slicing of the loaf, including a base having a bottom, a grill with the base having a rim or edge for positioning the grill in the base above the bottom, and a pair of guide plates, with the grill having a plurality of parallel spaced slots for receiving the guide plates, each of the guide plates having a vertical member with a slot for guiding a knife and positionable in the slots of the grill, and a horizontal member positionable in the guide space for holding guide plates in place with the grill is placed in the base, with guide plates being removable from the grill and insertable in different slots.

Abstract: A shipping assembly for a product, such as kebabs, designed to permit the receiver to complete the processing of the product including a generally rectangular outer shipping container, a generally rectangular slotted inner container within the outer container, a plurality of layers of product within the inner container, and a lower tray within the inner container spacing and supporting the plurality of layers of product above the bottom of the inner container. The outer container has a closed bottom, two pairs of opposing vertical sides and at least one end flap for closing the top of the outer container. The inner container has a closed bottom, two pairs of opposing vertical sides, and an open top. Each of the opposing sides includes at least one vertical slot for receiving the blade of a cutting device. At least one slot in each side is aligned with a corresponding slot in the opposing side to permit a cutting device to be inserted through the container through the corresponding slots.

Abstract: An apparatus for the cutting of food includes a uniquely-shaped cavity for positioning and retaining food articles of varying size and a pair of slots for guiding a cutting implement.

Abstract: Disclosed is a mitering gauge for cutting pipe shaped members, the gauge including a console and at least one upright side member having an oblique end face for guiding a cutting tool. The mitering gauge provides both guidance of the cutting tool and guidance of the member to be cut.

Abstract: A shipping assembly for a product, such as kebabs, designed to permit the receiver to complete the processing of the product including a generally rectangular outer shipping container, a generally rectangular slotted inner container within the outer container, a plurality of layers of product within the inner container, and a lower tray within the inner container spacing and supporting the plurality of layers of product above the bottom of the inner container. The outer container has a closed bottom, two pairs of opposing vertical sides and at least one end flap for closing the top of the outer container. The inner container has a closed bottom, two pairs of opposing vertical sides, and an open top. Each of the opposing sides includes at least one vertical slot for receiving the blade of a cutting device. At least one slot in each side is aligned with a corresponding slot in the opposing side to permit a cutting device to be inserted through the container through the corresponding slots.

Abstract: The miter box has a flat rectangular base and a pair of upraised, parallel and spaced-apart longitudinal guide rails. One of the guide rails is rigidly secured to the base, while the other can be laterally adjusted to guide the support plates of different makes of circular saws. A work piece guide bar is provided, being pivotally secured to the base at one of its ends and provided with a bolt-and-nut arrangement engaging an arcuate slot in the base, for releasably locking same in a desired angular position in relation to the path of the saw. A portion of a depression made in the base between the guide rails is occupied by a removable plank for receiving saw-cuts made by the specific saw used with the miter box.

Abstract: A device for storing and slicing foodstuff in the shape of an elongated bar has an elongated housing and a carrier assembly having an elongated and flat base member being slidably receivable within the housing. A cutting utensil housing is mounted on the top wall of the housing and defining an elongated cavity with an aperture. The carrier assembly includes a cover member perpendicularly mounted at one of said ends for cooperatively closing its opening and the apertures of the cutting utensils cavity when the carrier assembly is completely housed within the housing. A plurality of upwardly mounted post members along the lateral edges of the flat base member, by opposing pairs, so that a separation is maintained between adjoining post members to allow a cutting utensil through for cutting the slices form the bar. When the device is being opened, the cutting device is pulled out simultaneously by virtue of an inwardly extending hook member mounted on the cover of the carrier assembly.

Abstract: An apparatus for the cutting of food includes a uniquely-shaped cavity for positioning and retaining food articles of varying size and a pair of slots for guiding a cutting implement.

Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus for slicing bagels or the like and includes: a base; a pair of face-matching blocks mounted vertically on the base, each of the face-matching blocks having a chamber therein facing and matching the other, which together forms a chamber generally the shape of a bagel, as well as providing a slot to receive a knife and to allow the knife to pass completely through the bagel-like bread on its longest dimension; a hinge positioned on the vertical dimension of one of the face-matching blocks, the top portion of which is hinged with respect to its remaining bottom portion to open and allow for insertion and removal of the bagel-like bread to be sliced; a pin extending into the chamber from the chamber surface of the hinged block, which when closed in an operative position causes the pin to penetrate the bagel and thereby restrict the movement of the bagel-like bread during the slicing operation; and a thumb grip formed in the top of each of the face-matching blocks for the purp

Abstract: A true cut bagel and roll slicer is provided and consist of a top hand grip integrally formed onto top of a housing with a pivotable front door to vertically receive a bagel/roll. A knife fits into an elongated vertical slot through the top hand grip and into the housing so as to cut the bagel/roll into two parts.

Abstract: A modelmaker's miter jig has a work support surface and includes, in one aspect, a recessed rule slideable in a channel formed in the work support surface, and a stop member mounted on the rule and protruding above the support surface. A lock secures the rule and stop so as to register a workpiece in a desired relation to a saw guide. In another aspect, the jig includes a base member dependent from the work surface and having a clamp-engaging face for receiving a clamp to removably mount the jig on a table top. A preferred embodiment is formed as an extrusion.

Abstract: A work holder for vertical band saws wherein a moving blade is laterally translated through a work table slot. The work holder includes a fixed reference member mounted on the table transversely disposed to the table slot and intersected by the blade. A clamp mounted upon the work table in alignment with the slot bridges the slot and saw blade path of movement holding the workpiece against the reference member permitting firm retention of the workpiece adjacent the blade to permit small pieces to be accurately severed.

Abstract: A square frame surrounds and extends upwardly from a planar cutting surface to define a dough compartment. A plurality of vertical slots in each side wall extend from the top edge thereof down to the cutting surface to provide a guide for a cutting blade inserted therein. The slots are arranged in such a pattern that three, four, or six equal width slices may be formed in each direction depending on the slots selected for use. The cutter blade is accurately shaped along the bottom from end to end to ensure good contact with the cutting surface. An enlarged end portion at each end of the cutting blade prevents inadvertent dislodgement of the cutting blade during usage. A flour trough is provided on one side wall to facilitate the maintenance of a floured cutting blade during usage.

Abstract: A shearing device which uses an in-line design wherein bearings are aligned with the moving blade so that lever arm forces are not produced between the movable blade and a fixed blade. This provides for highly accurate and clean cuts of printed circuit boards. The fixed lower blade is vertically oriented to provide clearance on both front and back portions for placement of tooling means to hold printed circuit boards in the shear to minimize scrap cut from the boards. Additionally, the clearance provided by the vertically oriented lower blade allows for zero space cutting of the printed circuit boards adjacent components mounted on the printed circuit boards. An optical curtain is also used which is directly aligned with the movable upper blade so that obstructions can be detected directly in the path of movement of the upper blade.

Abstract: A follower guide for a sabre saw blade stabilizes the unsupported end portion of the blade during cutting operations, assuring a clean precision cut through the workpiece. Twisting, bending and other misalignment of the saw blade is eliminated. The follower guide is spring-urged into engagement with the saw blade and is constructed to coact with all standard sabre saw blades without requiring any modification thereof. The follower guide can be installed readily on various types of saw tables or platforms.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for joining fittings, particularly wooden stair rail fittings. The apparatus includes a mitre jig and a double slot jig. The mitre jig has a base with a curved bed for supporting the fitting to be cut. A wall is used with the base that has on it a scale for indicating the angle of incline of the stair being worked with. A recess in the wall accommodates a saw and a slot in the wall receives the saw blade. The fitting is placed on the base with its seam aligned with the particular indication for the stair's angle of incline. A saw is then used to cut the fitting. The double slot jig is used to cut slots into the ends of fittings for joining them. The double slot jig has a base, a tray, a double-bladed cutting apparatus, and a frame. The tray supports the fitting to be cut and is movable on the base. Appropriate stops are used to correctly position the fitting on the base and to limit the movement of the tray on the base. A drill with double circular blades can be used.

Abstract: There is disclosed an assembly of a slicing knife, support board and a holding strap cooperatively arranged for slicing a mass of foods, such as a loaf of bread, into slices of equal thickness. The support board includes a bottom having an upwardly-extending abutment wall at one end and upwardly-extending lateral guides adjacent said abutment wall, each guide having a knife blade-receiving guide slot spaced forwardly of the abutment wall a distance corresponding to the thickness of the slices to be obtained. The guide slots are in transverse registry. The holding strap forms a loop upwardly extending from the bottom and is engageable around the loaf of bread to prevent its deformation during the slicing operation. The knife includes a blade held under tension by a bow frame. The knife blade is co-axial with the knife handle to prevent twisting of the blade during slicing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for the slicing of items or products such as croissants and/or sandwich buns to minimize risk of injury and to assure uniform slicing, even with variations in the dimensions of the product. The apparatus comprises a holder for the item to be sliced on a support stand having a fixed surface and a movable cover. A support member spaced between the fixed surface and movable cover supports the item in alignment with a knife or slicer guide so that a user can slice an item such as a roll or croissant uniformly without risk of injury.

Abstract: In a power actuated hacksaw, a blade guide having a bearing block and roller assembly is disposed within a raceway in order to align the hacksaw blade. The blade guide is mounted on a vise which securely holds a workpiece in place while it is being cut. The hacksaw blade is held by a frame which reciprocates in response to the rotation of a wheel. The wheel may be rotated by either a motor or an electric drill.

Abstract: A mitre box has an integrally formed synthetic resin support member which includes a platform portion, a corner post with right angularly disposed faces, a pair of clamp posts spaced from the corner post and a saw guide post disposed between the clamp posts. The corner post has a transverse channel bisecting the 90.degree. angle defined by its vertical faces, and the saw guide post has a channel aligned therewith so that a saw blade may be guided when seated in these two cooperating channels to effect a 45.degree. cut in a workpiece abutting one of the vertical faces of the corner post. Clamp assemblies are adjustably mounted in the clamp posts and include elongated members which are adjustably moveable therein relative to the cooperating vertical faces of the corner posts.