Drive cleat notcher with bender
OwnerRodney James Harmaninventor
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Abstract
A hand-held drive cleat tool for the forming of sheet material such as drive cleats. The tool has a first handle; a second handle pivotably coupled to the first handle at a handle pivot; the handle pivot having a handle pivot axis; an inner jaw coupled to the first handle; the inner jaw having an inner jaw cutting edge substantially triangular in cross section in an inner jaw plane parallel to the handle pivot axis; an outer jaw coupled to the second handle, the outer jaw having an insert surface beveled in a cutting plane orthogonal to the inner jaw plane; the outer jaw having a surface defining an outer jaw cutting edge adjacent which the inner jaw cutting edge passes; and wherein rotation of the second handle relative to the first handle rotates the inner jaw relative to the outer jaw.
Claims9
A hand-held notching tool comprising:
- a first handle;
- a second handle pivotably coupled to the first handle at a handle pivot;
- the handle pivot comprising a handle pivot axis;
- an inner jaw coupled to the first handle;
- the inner jaw comprising an inner jaw cutting edge substantially triangular in cross section in an inner jaw plane plane parallel to the handle pivot axis;
- an outer jaw coupled to the second handle, the outer jaw having an insert surface beveled in a cutting plane orthogonal to the inner jaw plane;
- the outer jaw having a surface defining an outer jaw cutting edge adjacent which the inner jaw cutting edge passes;
- wherein rotation of the second handle relative to the first handle rotates the inner jaw relative to the outer jaw, passing the inner jaw cutting edge past the outer jaw cutting edge;
- a bending jaw coupled to the second handle;
- wherein the bending jaw extends offset and parallel to the outer jaw;
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- wherein the bending jaw comprising a bending edge offset from a lower edge of the outer jaw.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.