Faucet seat refinisher
OwnerRichard W. Klein, Sr.inventor
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Abstract
Disclosed is an electric tool particularly adapted for the grinding and refinishing of different sized and shaped faucet seats. The tool comprises an electric motor having a rotary output shaft, an adapter in the form of a double-ended chuck one end of which is sized to receive the rotary output shaft of the electric motor, and a plurality of mandrels each one of which comprises a stem sized to be received in the other end of the adapter and a working shaft sized and shaped to receive different sizes and/or shaped faucet seats. The electric motor may be either hand-held or bench mounted.
Claims10
An electric tool for grinding and refinishing faucet seats, said tool comprising:
- (a) an electric motor having a rotary output shaft;
- (b) an adapter in the form of a double-ended chuck, said chuck having a first internal bore having a first diameter at one end and a second internal bore having a second diameter at the other end, said chuck releasably receiving the rotary output shaft of said electric motor in said first internal bore;
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- (c) a plurality of mandrels which are selectively releasably mountable in said adapter one at a time, each of said mandrels comprising a stem sized to be received in said second internal bore and a working shaft sized and shaped to receive different sized and/or shaped faucet seats, the working shaft of at least one of said mandrels being axially stepped to accommodate different sized faucet seats,
- whereby a large variety of different sized and shaped faucet seats can be mounted on and rotated by the tool during grinding and refinishing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.