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US 2017/0044708 A1Published application
Cutting Guide With Seam Allowance Recess
AssigneeUSAUS Holdings LLC
InventorsJanna Lee Thomas, Paul Roger Thomas
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Abstract
A cutting guide having a seam allowance recess and methods of cutting a piece of material with such cutting guide.
Claims27
1-34. (canceled)
A cutting guide, comprising:
- a substantially rectangular body having a top surface disposed in opposed relation to a substantially flat bottom surface, said top surface and said bottom surface extending to each of a plurality of sides of said substantially rectangular body, said substantially rectangular body having a thickness sufficient to guide a cutting tool along each of said plurality of sides of said body;
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- a first recess disposed in said bottom surface of said body, said first recess having a pair of opposed sides joined by a cross member which defines a first passage which intersects a first pair of diagonally opposed corners of said substantially rectangular body.
A method of making a cutting guide, comprising:
- providing a substantially rectangular body having a top surface in opposed relation to a substantially flat bottom surface, said top surface and said bottom surface extending to each of a plurality of sides of said substantially rectangular body, said substantially rectangular body having a thickness sufficient to guide a cutting tool along each of said plurality of sides of said body;
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- disposing a first recess in said bottom surface of said body, said first recess having a pair of opposed sides joined by a cross member which defines a first passage which intersects a first pair of diagonally opposed corners of said substantially rectangular body.
A method of cutting a piece of material, comprising,
- providing a piece of material having a seam allowance extending from a seam at which a pair of materials join;
- providing a cutting guide, including
- a substantially rectangular body having a top surface disposed in opposed relation to a substantially flat bottom surface, said top surface and said bottom surface extending to each of a plurality of sides of said substantially rectangular body, said substantially rectangular body having a thickness sufficient to guide a cutting tool along each of said plurality of sides of said body;
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- a first recess disposed in said bottom surface of said body, said first recess having a pair of opposed sides joined by a cross member which defines a first passage which intersects a first pair of diagonally opposed corners of said substantially rectangular body;
- engaging said bottom surface of said cutting guide with said piece of material to receive said seam allowance in said recess;
- guiding a cutting tool along one of said plurality of sides of said cutting guide;
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- cutting said piece of material with said cutting tool guided along said plurality of sides of said cutting guide.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.