Saw blade with sanding surface
AssigneeVaporless Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorsGregory E. Young, Penrod C. Geisinger
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Abstract
A saw blade includes a very shallow cone shaped side for supporting an abrasive surface to sand smooth a cut surface of a work piece while the surface is being cut by the saw blade. To maintain the finished sanded surface of the cut perpendicular to a specified axis of the work piece, the axis of rotation of the saw blade is tilted to place a radial of the cone shaped abrasive surface orthogonal in three axis to the direction of saw cut being made.
Claims20
Apparatus for cutting and finishing a surface of a work piece, having a longitudinal axis which surface is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the work piece, said apparatus comprising in combination:
- (a) a rotary saw blade having teeth disposed along its perimeter for making a cut in the work piece to form the surface on the work piece, said rotary saw including one and an other side and a cone shaped surface defining a shallow cone angle and disposed on the one side;
- (b) abrasive material disposed upon the cone shaped surface of the one side for finishing the surface formed on the work piece;
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- (c) an arbor for supporting said rotary saw blade, said arbor having an axis of rotation offset from the longitudinal axis of the work piece by the cone angle.
Apparatus for cutting and finishing a surface of a work piece which surface is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the work piece, said apparatus comprising in combination:
- (a) a rotary saw blade having teeth disposed along its perimeter for making a cut in the work piece to form the surface on the work piece, said rotary saw including one and an other side and a cone shaped surface defining a shallow cone angle and disposed on the one side, the other side of said rotary saw blade being planar;
- (b) abrasive material disposed upon the cone shaped surface of the one side for finishing the surface formed on the work piece;
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- (c) an arbor for supporting said rotary saw blade, said arbor having an axis of rotation offset from the longitudinal axis of the work piece by the cone angle.
Apparatus for cutting and finishing a surface of a work piece, said apparatus comprising in combination:
- (a) a rotary saw blade having teeth disposed along its perimeter for making a cut in the work piece to develop the surface of the work piece, said rotary saw blade having an aperture at its center and including one side and another side;
- (b) abrasive material for finishing the surface cut in the work piece by said teeth, said abrasive material being disposed upon the one side to define a shallow cone shaped surface extending radially inwardly for a substantial distance from a location radially inwardly from said teeth and defining a shallow cone angle with respect to a plane extending radially from the axis of rotation of said saw blade;
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- (c) an arbor engaging the aperture of said rotary saw blade for supporting said rotary saw blade and having an axis of rotation offset from perpendicular to a plane defined by the other side of said rotary saw blade by the cone angle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.