Plastic pipe cutter

A pipe cutter comprising:

• an elongated housing having a forward end and a rearward end;
• a front recess adjacent and rearwardly of said forward end and adapted for clamping a workpiece;
• a front chamber rearwardly of said recess;
• a rear chamber rearwardly of and spaced from and in communication with said front chamber;
• an elongate, rod-shaped cutting device including a front blade, a rear enlarged head, and a shank coupled between said blade and said enlarged head, said shank being extended through said front chamber and said rear chamber to project beyond said elongated housing, said shank having a perimeter;
• a first assembly in said front chamber, said first assembly including a stop plate having a hole with said shank passing therethrough, an activation member having a hole larger than said perimeter of said shank with said shank passing therethrough, a first resilient member located between said stop plate and said activation member and encompassing a forward portion of said shank;
• a trigger pivotably secured to said housing by a pin adjacent said activation member, said trigger being engaged with said activation member spaced from said pin;
• a second assembly in said rear chamber, said second assembly including an engagement member and a second resilient member and located between said engagement member and an inner wall of said rear chamber and encompassing a rearward portion of said shank, said engagement member having a hole larger than said perimeter of said shank with said shank passing therethrough and a pin pivotably secured to said housing, a lower portion of said engagement member projecting downwardly from said housing, said engagement member being obliquely disposed such that said engagement member is in contact with said shank in a storage position about the hole of said engagement member;
• a third resilient member located between said enlarged head and said rearward end of said housing and encompassing said shank thereat;
• and
• whereby continually squeezing said trigger and subsequently releasing said trigger, causes said blade to operably push towards said recess to cut a workpiece.