Cutting tool
AssigneeMilwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
InventorsDouglas Allen, Richard Hohnl, Jr.
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Abstract
A cutting tool including a body, a blade, a feed shaft, and a locking member. The body defines an axis and is adapted to be received by a spindle of a power tool. The blade is removably supportable on the body and rotatable about the axis for cutting a workpiece. A feed shaft is removably supportable in the body and rotatable about the axis for engaging a workpiece, the feed shaft being mountable in the cutting tool to engage and at least partially restrain the blade. The feed shaft further includes an opening transverse to the axis. The locking member is engageable with the body and with the opening in the feed shaft. Advancement of the locking member into the opening tightens both the blade and the feed shaft to the body.
Claims27
A cutting tool for a power tool, the cutting tool comprising:
- a tool body having a first end and a second end and an axis extending therebetween, the first end defining an aperture and including a plurality of teeth extending along a radially-outermost portion of the first end, the second end being engageable with the power tool;
- a cutting blade supportable in the aperture of the tool body and extending outwardly beyond the first end to engage a workpiece;
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- a threaded feed shaft supportable on the first end of the tool body and extending outwardly along the axis.
A method of assembling a cutting tool for a power tool, the method comprising:
- providing a tool body having a first end and a second end and an axis extending therebetween, the first end including a plurality of teeth extending along a radially-outermost portion of the first end, the second end being engageable with the power tool;
- positioning a cutting blade within an aperture at the first end of the tool body;
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- removably coupling the cutting blade and a threaded feed shaft to the tool body such that the cutting blade extends outwardly beyond the first end to engage a workpiece and the feed shaft extends outwardly along the axis.
A cutting tool for a power tool, the cutting tool comprising:
- a tool body having a first end and a second end and an axis extending therebetween, the first end defining an aperture, the second end being engageable with the power tool;
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- a cutting blade removably supported in the aperture of the tool body for engaging a workpiece, the cutting blade including a cutting edge extending radially across the first end of the tool body from the axis toward a radially-outermost portion;
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- a threaded feed shaft supportable on the first end of the tool body and extending outwardly along the axis,
- wherein the aperture is a slot defined at the radially-outermost portion of the tool body.
A method of assembling a cutting tool for a power tool, the method comprising:
- providing a tool body having a first end and a second end and an axis extending therebetween, the first end defining an aperture, the second end being engageable with the power tool;
- positioning a cutting blade within the aperture;
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- removably coupling a threaded feed shaft to the tool body and the cutting blade within the aperture of the tool body, the cutting blade including a cutting edge extending radially across the first end of the tool body from the axis toward a radially-outermost portion of the tool body,
- wherein the aperture is a slot defined at the radially-outermost portion of the tool body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.