Flooring splicer

A floor splicing tool comprising:

• an elongated body having a structure defining a flat bottom surface, a front end and a rear end, and said rear end of said structure has a longitudinally elongated cavity defined therein and said structure of said body has a top and a bottom, both of which are open at said cavity at said rear end of said structure, and said structure has longitudinally extending sides at said rear end thereof oriented perpendicular to said flat bottom surface between which said cavity is located,
• a pair of parallel tracks with longitudinal limits formed on said sides of said rear end, and said tracks extend longitudinally upwardly and forwardly at an inclination relative to said flat bottom surface of said structure towards said front end of said structure between said longitudinal limits, and said tracks are formed as inclined slots in said rear end of said structure and which have closed front and rear extremities, and said slots are oriented and an inclination of between about 1° and about 15° relative to said flat bottom surface of said elongated body, and said closed front and rear extremities of said slots form said longitudinal limits,
• a blade carrier mounted in said cavity of said rear end of said structure for reciprocal movement along said tracks between extreme rearward and extreme forward positions defined by said longitudinal limits,
• a handgrip secured to said blade carrier and projecting upwardly therefrom and said handgrip is freely movable relative to said base so that said blade carrier moves together with said handgrip freely along said inclined slots as controlled by the fore and aft position of said handgrip relative to said body structure, and
• a blade secured to said blade carrier and having a forwardly directed slicing tip and said blade is directed toward said front end of said body structure, whereby said blade is carried by said blade carrier with said front slicing tip changing in elevation relative to said flat bottom surface of said body structure depending upon the position of said blade carrier on said tracks, so that said slicing tip is located beneath said flat bottom surface of said structure when said blade carrier is at said extreme rearward position and above said flat bottom surface of said structure when said blade carrier is at said extreme forward position.