Steel cutting machine
OwnerMario Brcicinventor
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Abstract
A machine for cutting steel stock of various shape such as angle irons, channel, flat bars, eye beams, tubing and pipe, the machine performing the cutting at a very high speed; the machine including a table with a circular saw driven by an electric motor, and the machine also including an adjustable guard with a view opening for observing a cutting operation, a magnetic starter, and adjustable stop, a cover plate for cleaning out chips, and additionally having an angle adjustment member for angular cutting.
Claims1
A steel cutting machine, comprising in combination, a base member supporting an overhead portion, an ultra high speed cutting blade carried by said overhead portion to cut through material held down by the hand of an operator, an angle adjuster member carried by said base for adjusting the angle of said material when directed against said blade, said blade being secured by nut fastener means and washer plate means to a drive of a high speed motor contained within said overhead portion, said high speed motor rotating said blade at ultra high speed, thus effecting a quick cut of said material when placed upon said base member, a fender secured to said overhead portion, said fender carrying a downward shield, said fender and said shield enclosing around a forward edge of said blade, said shield having a viewing opening therethrough for observation of a cutting action by said blade, said angle adjustment member being L-shaped by including a flat horizontal portion and a pair of upwardly vertical lip portions along one edge thereof, said lip portions being straight aligned with each other and having a notch therebetween that communicates with a flaring notch in said horizontal portion of said angle adjustment member, a calibrated, arcuate notch on said horizontal portion receiving a vertical bolt secured to said base member and about which said angle adjustment member is pivotable to change an angle of said lip portion respective to said blade, a straight slot upon said base portion, and in which said blade extends, said vertical bolt being aligned with said base member slot and positioned near one end thereof, said angle adjustment member resting against an arcuately affixed plate upon said base.
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