US 5,038,478 AGranted

Paring knife

AssigneeC. & E. Fein GmbH

InventorsDieter Mezger, Georg Harsch

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Abstract

To so improve a paring knife for paring off the remainders of a bead of adhesive with which a motor vehicle pane was fixed on a motor vehicle body, comprising an attachment part for fixing the paring knife to a pivotally oscillating drive and a cutting part having a cutting edge and extending in a longitudinal direction away from the attachment part, that the paring efficiency to be achieved with it is better, it is proposed that the cutting part comprise as first cutting edge a side edge arranged on a side of the cutting part and extending in the longitudinal direction in a first cutting surface, and that the cutting part comprise at a front end opposite the attachment part a supporting surface extending substantially perpendicularly to the first cutting surface at the front end and transversely to the longitudinal direction and protruding in the longitudinal direction beyond the cutting part.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A paring knife for paring off the remainder of a bead of adhesive with which a motor vehicle pane was fixed on a motor vehicle body comprising:

an attachment part for fixing said paring knife on a pivotally oscillating drive;
a cutting part extending in a longitudinal direction away from said attachment part, said cutting part having a first cutting edge arranged on a side of said cutting part as a side edge extending in said longitudinal direction in a first cutting surface;
and
a supporting surface in a front end of said cutting part opposite said attachment part, for supporting said paring knife on a flange wall of said motor vehicle body during a paring off operation and functioning to prevent damage to said flange wall while in engagement therewith when said paring knife is oscillating back and forth parallel to said flange wall;
said supporting surface extending substantially perpendicularly to said first cutting surface at said front end and transversely to said longitudinal direction and protruding in said longitudinal direction beyond said cutting part.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.