US 5,341,711 AGranted

Fingersaver

OwnerFrancis E. Stay, Jr., Robert A. Hoytinventors

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Abstract

A transparent safety device and pushing tool with an adjustable and reversible shoe member for depth and angle used to push, hold down, and guide work pieces through or over cutting devices. The adjustable and reversible shoe member can be removed and reassembled for use by either a right or left handed user, while keeping the user's hands, extremities, and clothing up and away in a much safer position with respect to the cutting device. The safety device and pushing tool has an elongated slot in the main member's lower front section that allows the main member to be rotated to the rear while still allowing the shoe member to remain flat on the rip fence, straight edge or guide bar at all times while being used. Also, should the tool receive minimal damage, it could be repaired by the user, eliminating constant replacement costs.

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Dependent claims

An adjustable and reversible safety tool and pushing device used to push, hold down, and guide work pieces through a cutting device comprising;

(a) a transparent main member including a handle, a heel piece, two vertically elongated slots and one angled slot extending through the main member, said angled slot connected to and extending at an acute angle with respect to one of said vertically elongated slots;
(b) a transparent shoe member including two mounting holes extending through said shoe member;
(c) means for attaching the shoe member to the main member, said attaching means extending through two of said slots in said main member and through said holes in said shoe member;
(d) said angled slot allowing the shoe member to be positioned at an acute angle with respect to a direction of longitudinal extension of the main member, wherein, even when the shoe member is attached to the main member through the angled slot, said shoe member lays flat on top of a rip fence mounted to a table and the main member contacts a work piece during use of the pushing device.

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Facts

Application: 08/021,568Filed 24 Feb 1993
Granted: 30 Aug 1994
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

B27B 25/10
Feeding devices for timber in saw mills or sawing machines; Feeding devices for trees: manually-operated feeding or pressing accessories, e.g. pushers
Y10T 83/6584
With means to convey work relative to tool station: cut made parallel to direction of and during work movement
Y10T 83/6614
By rectilinearly moving work carriage: pusher engaging rear surface of work
Y10T 83/6638
Cut made parallel to direction of and during work movement: unattached manual work pusher

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