Wood Cutting Band Saw Blade Having Reduced Kerf Dust
AssigneeWood-Mizer, LLC
InventorChris Vogel
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Abstract
A wood cutting band saw blade includes band and a plurality of teeth extending upward from a continuous band portion. Each tooth includes a cutting edge and a back angle edge defining a tip, and a gullet. The gullet includes a forward edge extending from the back angle edge to a lowest point of the gullet, and a rearward edge extending upward from the lowest point to a cutting edge of an adjacent tooth. In some embodiments, wherein the lowest point of the gullet is closer to the tip than to a tip of the adjacent tooth.
Claims15
A wood cutting band saw blade, comprising:
- a band having a continuous band portion and having on at least one length-wise edge a plurality of teeth, the plurality of teeth extending upward from the continuous band portion;
- each tooth of the plurality of teeth including a cutting edge and a back angle edge defining a tip, and each tooth including a gullet, the gullet having a forward edge extending from the back angle edge to a lowest point of the gullet, and a rearward edge extending upward from the lowest point to a cutting edge of an adjacent tooth;
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- wherein the lowest point of the gullet is closer to the tip than to a tip of the adjacent tooth.
A wood cutting band saw blade, comprising:
- a band having a continuous band portion and having on at least one length-wise edge a plurality of teeth, the plurality of teeth extending upward from the continuous band portion;
- each tooth of the plurality of teeth including a cutting edge and a back angle edge defining a tip, and each tooth including a gullet having a forward edge and a rearward edge, the forward edge extending from the back angle edge to a lowest point of the gullet, and the rearward edge extending monotonically upward from the lowest point to a cutting edge of an adjacent tooth;
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- wherein the rearward edge of the gullet is longer than the forward edge of the gullet.
A wood cutting band saw blade, comprising:
- a band having a continuous band portion and having on at least one length-wise edge a plurality of teeth, the plurality of teeth extending upward from the continuous band portion;
- each tooth of the plurality of teeth including a cutting edge and a back angle edge defining a tip, and each tooth including a gullet, the gullet including a forward edge extending from the back angle edge to a lowest point of the gullet, and a rearward edge extending upward from the lowest point to a cutting edge of a preceding tooth;
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- wherein a width defined between the cutting edge and the forward edge of the gullet is less than approximately 20% of the width between the tip and a tip of the preceding tooth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.