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US 2011/0078905 A1Published application
Plastic pipe cutter
AssigneeEmerson Electric Co.
InventorsSteven M. Macsay, Glen R. Chartier
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Abstract
A hand-held cutting tool is described which is used to readily cut or sever flexible pipe or tubing. The tool features one or more openings in the body of the tool sized to accommodate pipe or tubing to be cut. The tool is used to cut tubing by inserting the tubing into one of the apertures. A retractable blade is urged against the tubing and the tool then orbited about the tubing and/or the tubing rotated until the blade severs the tubing.
Claims33
A cutting tool comprising:
- a housing defining (i) an interior region sized and shaped for receiving at least one implement, (ii) a first aperture extending through the housing, the first aperture defined by a first span, and (iii) a second aperture extending through the housing, the second aperture defined by a second span different than the first span;
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- an implement assembly disposed in the housing, the implement assembly including (i) a working implement, (ii) provisions for retracting the working implement into the interior region defined by the housing, and (iii) provisions for extending the working implement into at least one of the first aperture and the second aperture.
A cutting tool comprising:
- a tool housing defining an interior hollow region, the tool housing also defining at least two apertures extending through the tool housing;
- a movable implement defining a cutting edge, the implement positionable between (i) a first position in which the implement is disposed entirely within the interior hollow region defined by the tool housing, and (ii) a second position in which at least a portion of the cutting edge is exposed within at least one of the apertures.
A cutting tool comprising:
- a body defining a first side and a second side oppositely directed from the first side, the body also defining a first aperture extending through the body between the first side and the second side and a second aperture extending through the body between the first side and the second side, the first aperture being larger than the second aperture;
- a first implement selectively positionable between an extended position in which at least a portion of the implement is exposed within the first aperture and a retracted position;
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- a second implement selectively positionable between an extended position in which at least a portion of the implement is exposed within the second aperture and a retracted position.
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