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US 5,331,743 AGranted
Tile saw apparatus
OwnerCharles A. Lumpinventor
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Abstract
A tile saw is arranged to include a drive motor and output shaft. The tile saw output shaft includes a fluid conduit in a further embodiment directing cooling fluid flow to the associated circular saw employing a drive fluid pump therefore. In a further embodiment, a modified circular sector hood is mounted about the saw directing fluid flow to the periphery of the circular saw in use.
Claims1
A tile saw apparatus, comprising,
- a drive motor housing, having a housing front wall spaced from a housing rear wall in a parallel relationship, with an output shaft housing orthogonally mounted to the housing front wall, with a drive shaft rotatably directed through the output shaft housing, with a rotary circular saw blade orthogonally and fixedly mounted to a free distal end of the drive shaft, and
- a handle, the handle fixedly and orthogonally mounted to the housing rear wall, and
- an on/off switch mounted to the handle, and
- a fluid delivery conduit directed through the handle and through the drive motor housing, and the fluid delivery conduit directed through the housing front wall and extending coextensively with the output shaft housing, and a plurality of mounting plates fixedly mounted to the fluid delivery conduit and the output shaft housing along the output shaft housing, with the fluid delivery conduit having a conduit exit port directing fluid onto the saw blade, and
- the saw blade includes a plurality of saw blade window openings directed in an annular array about the output shaft housing, and the conduit exit port is arranged for selective orientation in adjacency to the window openings, and
- a hood member fixedly mounted to the output shaft housing receiving the saw blade therewithin, with the hood member including a hood socket arranged for reception of the conduit exit port to direct fluid tangentially along the saw blade, and
- a mounting collar fixedly and orthogonally mounted to the hood coaxially aligned relative to the drive shaft, with a mounting collar arranged for adjustable securement along the mounting shaft, with the mounting collar including a leg member fixedly and orthogonally oriented relative to the mounting shaft, with the leg member having a pointed support end arranged for anchoring the leg for a radial cut of the saw blade.
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