# US 5,341,711 A · Fingersaver

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- Number: US 5,341,711 A
- Document ID: US5341711A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 08/021,568
- Filed: 1993-02-24
- Granted: 1994-08-30
- Earliest claimed: 1993-02-24
- Inventors: Francis E. Stay, Jr.; Robert A. Hoyt
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US5341711A

## CPC

- B27B 25/10: Manually-operated feeding or pressing accessories, e.g. pushers
- Y10T 83/6584: Cut made parallel to direction of and during work movement
- Y10T 83/6614: Pusher engaging rear surface of work
- Y10T 83/6638: Unattached manual work pusher
- Y10T 83/727: With means to guide moving work
- Y10T 83/773: Work-support includes passageway for tool [e.g., slotted table]
- B27B: SAWS FOR WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL; COMPONENTS OR ACCESSORIES THEREFOR (saws specially adapted for pruning or debranching A01G3/08; sawing apparatus specially adapted for felling trees A01G23/091; features not restricted to a particular type of wood saw B23D, e.g. attaching saw blades B23D51/00; machine tool frames, beds, pillars or like members, in general B23Q1/01)
- Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION

## 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.

## Claims

### Claim 1

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.