Cutting tool
OwnerFred J. Meyerinventor
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Abstract
A cutting tool designed to provide a straight line cut through plastic or like material conduit and incorporating pivoted handles respectively including a cutting blade and a positioning anvil formed at the distal ends thereof and in cooperative relation to one another so that the conduit product positioned in the anvil will be maintained in a cutting position to achieve an accurate straight line cut. A return spring, a stop element and a closed end configuration are provided on the remainder of the handles, substantially adjacent to the proximal ends thereof to prevent nesting engagement of the handles during the cutting operation and maintain predetermined spaced relation between the ends of the handle so as to insure their separation and return to a cutting position once gripping pressure is released.
Claims11
A hand held cutter assembly primarily designed to provide a straight line cut through a range of varying diameter plastic or like material tubular conduit, said assembly comprising:
- a. an anvil handle having an elongated configuration and comprising and orienting anvil secured to a distal end thereof and being configured to transversely receive a conduit having a range of different sizes therein,
- b. a blade handle having an elongated configuration and pivotally connected to said anvil handle and comprising a cutting blade secured to a distal end thereof in cooperative relation to said anvil,
- c. said cutting blade having a straight line cutting edge extending along a length thereof and said cutting blade pivotally positionable into and out of cooperative relation to said anvil along a cutting path being substantially perpendicular to the transversely received conduit within said anvil,
- d. said anvil comprising an orienting means integrally formed thereon for orienting and maintaining the conduit in substantially perpendicular relation to said cutting blade prior to and during a cutting stroke of the cutting blade and passage therethrough,
- e. said orienting means defined by a structural configuration of said anvil comprising a V-shaped base portion and two spaced apart sides each disposed at an opposite end of said base portion,
- f. said V-shaped base portion comprising two base sides each extending from a correspondingly positioned one of said two sides at an angular, convergent, straight line orientation to a common junction,
- g. said common junction disposed at a substantial center of said V-shaped base portion and at a low point thereof,
- h. said base portion further including a sufficient transverse dimension at said common junction to facilitate said orientation and maintenance of the conduit in substantially perpendicular relation to said cutting blade during the cutting stroke,
- i. at least one of said handles including a stop element formed thereon in spaced relation to a proximal end of said one handle and disposed to extend into at least contiguous relation to an inner longitudinal boundary of said one handle, and
- j. said stop element disposed for interruptive engagement with the other of said handles and structured to prevent nesting engagement of said handles into one another when proximal ends thereof are pivoted towards one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.