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US 12,208,486 B1Granted
Secure grinder blade and tapered tool—side locking hub for flush cutting concrete
OwnerDaniel Nelson, Heather Smith Nelsoninventors
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Abstract
An apparatus may include a grinder blade for flush cutting concrete, the grinder blade comprising: a distal side that defines a flush cutting plane and a proximal side opposite the distal side, and a locking hub receiver section unitarily formed from the grinder blade at a center portion and extending from the grinder blade a proximal direction to receive a locking hub with a plurality of fasteners disposed proximally to the grinder blade to secure the locking hub against the grinder blade.
Claims15
An apparatus comprising:
- a grinder blade with a core material comprising a hard metal or a hard metal alloy for flush cutting concrete, the grinder blade comprising:
- a top side configured to face a grinder to which the grinder blade is attached;
- an outer edge operable to enable the grinder blade to make a perpendicular cut into a surface of a first section of concrete up to a radial depth of the grinder blade that is proximate to a locking hub receiver section on the top side of the grinder blade, wherein the perpendicular cut is perpendicular relative to the surface of the first section of concrete;
- a bottom side opposite of the top side and configured to make flush contact with a second section of concrete that is perpendicularly adjoined to the first section of concrete concurrently with the outer edge making a perpendicular cut into the first section of concrete;
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- the locking hub receiver section being unitarily formed from a center portion of the grinder blade and extending from the top side of the grinder blade in a direction toward the grinder to which the grinder blade attaches, the locking hub receiver section configured to receive a locking hub and comprising a plurality of fastener holes configured to align with threaded fastener engaging bores in a plurality of tapered side portions of the locking hub for receiving a plurality of threaded fasteners from the top side of the grinder blade to tighten the locking hub against the grinder blade.
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A system comprising:
- a grinder;
- a grinder blade with a core material comprising a hard metal or a hard metal alloy for flush cutting concrete, the grinder blade further comprising:
- a top side configured to face the grinder to which the grinder blade is configured to attach;
- an outer edge operable to enable the grinder blade to make a perpendicular cut into a surface of a first section of concrete up to a radial depth of the grinder blade that is proximate to a locking hub receiver section on the top side of the grinder blade, wherein the perpendicular cut is perpendicular relative to the surface of the first section of concrete;
- a bottom side opposite of the top side, and configured to make flush contact with a section of concrete that is perpendicularly adjoined to the first section of concrete concurrently with the outer edge perpendicularly cutting into the first section of concrete;
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- the locking hub receiver section being unitarily formed from the grinder blade at a center portion and angled toward the grinder to which the grinder blade attaches to receive a locking hub and comprising a plurality of holes configured to allow a plurality of fasteners to be inserted from the top side of the grinder blade and tightened by heads of a plurality of threaded fasteners from the top side of the grinder blade to secure the locking hub against the grinder blade:
- the locking hub comprising:
- a solid geometric form that substantially conforms to the locking hub receiver section and comprises one or more angled top side portions extending between a top planar surface of the solid geometric form and a top intersection with a corresponding base;
- a spindle engaging bore extending perpendicularly into the top planar surface of the locking hub configured to engage with a spindle of the grinder to which the grinder blade is configured to attach;
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- two or more threaded fastener engaging bores extending into tapered side portions of the locking hub that are configured to be tightened against the locking hub receiver section of the grinder blade by tightening heads of the plurality of threaded fasteners from the top side of the grinder blade.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.