Tile cutting pliers
OwnerChin-Yung Yuinventor
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Abstract
A tile cutting pliers including two horizontal cutting plates on two pivoted blades at one end and acted against each other to trim tiles, a first mounting frame and a second mounting frame respectively raised from either cutting plate, a circular cutter fastened to the first mounting frame at an outer side for cutting a scratch on tiles, and a jaw plate turned about a pivot on the second mounting frame, the jaw plate having a recessed portion on a front chucking face thereof transversely disposed in the middle, and wherein the jaw plate is turned inwards and moved to act against the first upright mounting frame to clamp a tile being placed therebetween or turned outwards from the first mounting frame for permitting the cutting plates to be acted against each other to cut a tile.
Claims1
Tile cutting pliers comprising:
- a) a pair of elements pivotally attached together, the elements forming a pair of handles on one side of the pivot attachment and a pair of jaws on an opposite side of the pivot attachment;
- b) a cutting plate formed on each jaw such that the cutting plates will cut a tile interposed between the cutting plates when the cutting plates are moved toward each other;
- c) a mounting frame extending from each cutting plate;
- d) a circular cutter rotatably attached to one mounting frame;
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- e) a jaw plate pivotally attached to the other mounting frame, the jaw plate having a recessed middle portion and movable between a first position wherein the recessed middle portion faces toward the one mounting frame and a second position wherein the recessed middle portion faces away from the one mounting frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.