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US 12,179,386 B2Granted
Power tool debris management
AssigneeBlack & Decker Inc.
InventorsBenjamin Schmidt, Arthur Lauer, Lars Ohde
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Abstract
A power tool including a shroud for restricting the path of debris generated by a rotatable cutting disc and defining a shroud outlet opening through which the debris can be sucked by a vacuum device. The debris enters a sub-volume along a first axis and exits the sub-volume along a second axis in a different plane. A conduit having a curved wall defines the sub-volume such that debris travelling therethough undergoes a change in direction and exits the sub-volume along a direction substantially parallel with the second axis.
Claims16
A power tool comprising:
- a rotatable support arrangement for supporting at least one cutting disc and being configured to be rotatably driven by an electric motor;
- a shroud for restricting the path of debris generated in use and defining a shroud outlet opening through which debris can be sucked by a vacuum device, the shroud having an internal surface;
- a guide part mounted to the internal surface of the shroud, the guide part having a curved wall that projects outwardly therefrom, the curved wall forming a portion of a conduit;
- a sub-volume defined within the shroud, an outlet from the sub-volume in fluid communication with the shroud outlet opening and an inlet thereto distal to the shroud outlet opening in fluid communication with remaining volume in the shroud;
- wherein the inlet to the sub-volume and the outlet from the sub-volume extend along first and second axes in different planes and the conduit, which defines, the sub-volume is configured so debris sucked through the sub-volume undergoes a change in direction by riding along the curved wall providing that debris exits the sub-volume travelling along a direction substantially parallel with the second axis, the curved wall of the conduit having a body that gradually narrows from the inlet to the outlet and defines part of a helix.
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