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US 6,796,755 B2Granted
Guide for rotary cutter
OwnerJoseph J. Angeloniinventor
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Abstract
A guide apparatus for a hand-held rotary cutting machine to allow the operator to accurately and uniformly remove material from a work-piece and to shield the operator from exposure to the cutting tool. The apparatus employs a stepped guide to limit and control the depth of cut.
Claims6
In a hand-held rotary cutting machine having a motor and an elongate cutting head driven by the motor, the cutting head being adapted to remove material from a work-piece, a guide apparatus comprising:
- (a) an enclosure adapted to partially enclose the cutting head;
- and
- (b) a planar guide surface adapted to contact the work-piece, comprising:
- (1) an in-feed surface adjacent and parallel to the cutting head;
- and
- (2) an out-feed surface opposite the in-feed surface and adjacent and parallel to the cutting head and offset below and non-coplanar with and parallel to the in-feed surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.