US 11,465,310 B2Granted

Configurable feedstock measurement device

AssigneeReekon Tools, Inc.

InventorsChristian Reed, Konstantinos Oikonomopoulos

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Abstract

In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a device for measuring length of feedstock being fed to a tool operated directly by a user. The device includes a body, configured to be removably attached to the tool. The device also includes a display, mounted in the body, and visually accessible to the user. The device also includes a measurement wheel mechanically mounted to the body and configured to be mechanically biased to the feedstock under a condition wherein the body is attached to the tool. The device also includes an encoder coupled to the measurement wheel and configured to generate a signal indicative of angular position of the wheel. The device further includes a processor, disposed in the body, coupled to the encoder and the display and configured to cause the display to show a measure indicative of a length of the feedstock that has been fed to the tool.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A device for measuring length of feedstock being fed along a path to a cutting tool operated by a user, the cutting tool having a blade configured to cut the feedstock in a direction transverse to the path, the device comprising:

a body, configured to be removably attached to the cutting tool;
a display, mounted in the body, and visually accessible to the user;
a measurement wheel mechanically mounted to the body and configured to be mechanically biased to the feedstock under a condition wherein the body is attached to the cutting tool;
an encoder coupled to the measurement wheel and configured to generate a signal indicative of angular position of the wheel;
and
a processor, disposed in the body, coupled to the encoder and the display and configured to cause the display to indicate a measure corresponding to a length of the feedstock that has been fed along the path to reach the blade of the cutting tool so as to be subject to cutting, at the indicated measure, by the user's operation of the cutting tool.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/859,098Filed 27 Apr 2020
Published: US 2021/0331345 A128 Oct 2021
Granted: 11 Oct 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B26D 7/28
Means for performing other operations combined with cutting: for counting the number of cuts or measuring cut lenghts
B26D 5/24
Having the cutting member and work feed mechanically connected: including a metering device
G01B 3/12
Measuring instruments characterised by the use of mechanical techniques: measuring wheels
G01B 5/02
Measuring arrangements characterised by the use of mechanical techniques: for measuring length, width or thickness