US3303563A - Power operated knife with adjustable blades - Google Patents

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US3303563A
US3303563A US46695465A US3303563A US 3303563 A US3303563 A US 3303563A US 46695465 A US46695465 A US 46695465A US 3303563 A US3303563 A US 3303563A
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Priority to GB997266A priority patent/GB1084841A/en
Priority to SE325966A priority patent/SE305296B/xx
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26BHAND-HELD CUTTING TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B26B7/00Hand knives with reciprocating motor-driven blades
    • B26B7/005Counter reciprocating blades
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23DPLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; LIKE OPERATIONS FOR WORKING METAL BY REMOVING MATERIAL, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23D49/00Machines or devices for sawing with straight reciprocating saw blades, e.g. hacksaws
    • B23D49/003Machines or devices for sawing with straight reciprocating saw blades, e.g. hacksaws having a plurality of saw blades or saw blades having plural cutting zones
    • B23D49/006Machines or devices for sawing with straight reciprocating saw blades, e.g. hacksaws having a plurality of saw blades or saw blades having plural cutting zones with contiguous, oppositely reciprocating saw blades
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23DPLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; LIKE OPERATIONS FOR WORKING METAL BY REMOVING MATERIAL, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23D49/00Machines or devices for sawing with straight reciprocating saw blades, e.g. hacksaws
    • B23D49/10Hand-held or hand-operated sawing devices with straight saw blades
    • B23D49/16Hand-held or hand-operated sawing devices with straight saw blades actuated by electric or magnetic power or prime movers
    • B23D49/162Pad sawing devices
    • B23D49/167Pad sawing devices with means to adjust the guide plate or with means to adjust the plane in which the saw blade moves
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B23MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23DPLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; LIKE OPERATIONS FOR WORKING METAL BY REMOVING MATERIAL, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B23D51/00Sawing machines or sawing devices working with straight blades, characterised only by constructional features of particular parts; Carrying or attaching means for tools, covered by this subclass, which are connected to a carrier at both ends
    • B23D51/08Sawing machines or sawing devices working with straight blades, characterised only by constructional features of particular parts; Carrying or attaching means for tools, covered by this subclass, which are connected to a carrier at both ends of devices for mounting straight saw blades or other tools
    • B23D51/10Sawing machines or sawing devices working with straight blades, characterised only by constructional features of particular parts; Carrying or attaching means for tools, covered by this subclass, which are connected to a carrier at both ends of devices for mounting straight saw blades or other tools for hand-held or hand-operated devices
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00Cutting
    • Y10T83/687By tool reciprocable along elongated edge

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  • This invention relates to power operated slicing knives, and particularly to a knife adapted for slicing meat and other foods or materials by blades disposed in either vertical or horizontal cutting positions while the user holds the knife in a predetermined position without rotating the body of the knife as a whole about its longitudinal axis in order to change the cutting position of the blades.
  • Power operated knives on the market commonly are provided with elongated generally cylindrical housings shaped to be gripped in the hand of a user in a predetermined position wherein the blade are disposed in vertical planes and are adapted for slicing by cutting in vertical planes. If the user of such a knife desires to slice in a horizontal plane, it is necessary to turn or rotate the knife bodily about its longitudinal axis in order to place the blades at the desired angle. This rotation of the knife body from its initially designed position deprives the user of the benefit of the shape or configuration of the knife body which was originally provided to aid the user in grasping and holding the knife with the blades in vertical planes.
  • the main object of my invention is to provide means for rotating the knife blades 90 degrees from their normal vertical planes without turning the body of the knife as a whole, thereby permitting the user to perform the slicing in either vertical or horizontal planes while holding the knife by its handle or by gripping the body of the knife in the manner intended for vertical slicing.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide means for preventing release or removal of the blades except when the blades are in the vertical position relatively to their housing and parallel to the release means.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a turret mounted on the forward end of the knife, rotatable about the longitudinal axis of the knife housing, for quick manual adjustment of the blade positions in either vertical or horizontal positions.
  • FIG. 1 is an elevational side view of one form of power operated knife embodying my invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the same.
  • FIG. 3 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view, on an enlarged scale, in the plane of the line 33 of FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 4 is a top plan view of the lower housing member and the parts mounted therein, the upper housing and handle being omitted for clarity.
  • FIG. 5 is a transverse vertical sectional view in the plane of the line 55 of FIG. 4, showing blade carriers and the blades in vertical cutting positions.
  • FIG. 6 is a view similar to FIG. 5, showing the same parts when the blades are in horizontal cutting positions.
  • FIG. 7 is a transverse vertical sectional view in the plane of the line 7--7 of FIG. 4, showing the carriers and the blades in their vertical cutting positions.
  • FIG. 8 is a view similar to FIG. 7 showing the same parts when the blades are in horizontal cutting positions.
  • FIG. 9 is an elevational side view of one of the blade retaining levers and carrier.
  • FIG. 10 is a sectional view in the plane of the line 10-10 of FIG. 9.
  • the knife 10 as a whole comprises a lower housing 11, upper housing 12 with integral handle 13, and reciprocated blades 14 mounted in the forward ends of the housing members.
  • a switch button 15 is mounted in the upper housing and a blade release button 16 in the lower housing.
  • a turret 17 is rotatably mounted on the forward end of the knife body. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the turret is cup-shaped, with its open face directed forwardly, and its inner face provided with an opening 18 shaped to receive the tangs 19 of the blades 14 and projections 20 on the tangs, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6.
  • the blades 14 are provided with grease guards 21 each attached to the outer side of a blade adjacent the tangs 19, said guards 21 partially entering the turret 17 as shown in FIG. 4.
  • the motor 22 as a whole has a shaft 23.
  • a worm 24 on the end of the shaft 23 engages a worm gear 25 fixed on shaft 26.
  • a pair of cams 27 are eccentrically fixed on the shaft 26 to rotate with the shaft, their working faces being 180 apart.
  • the shaft is journaled in bearings 28 mounted in the gear housing 29.
  • the cams 27 are located between the flanged downturned arms 30 which are integral parts of the driver bars 31 and transmit reciprocatory motion to the blade carriers to be described hereinafter.
  • the driver bars 31 are generally flat and vertically disposed in their rearward portions which engage the cams 27.
  • the forward portion 32 of each driver bar is semicylindrical in transverse vertical section as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8.
  • One of the driver bars 32 is provided with a slot 33 and the other with a slot 34 between its ends.
  • the driver bar members 31 and 32 are connected together as indicated at 35.
  • the slot 33 extends arcuately more than degrees in the left hand driver member 32 from above a horizontal plane to the right of a vertical plane, and the slot 34 extends more than 90 degrees in the right hand driver 32 from left of the vertical plane to below a horizontal plane.
  • Reinforcing ribs 36 are located in the driver members 32 at opposite sides of the slots 33, 34.
  • Two blade carriers 41 are generally semi-cylindrical on their outer surfaces, in transverse vertical section, and are located between the driver bar members 32for rotative movement relatively to said bars.
  • Each of the carriers 40 is provided with a centrally bored boss 41 which projects laterally from the carrier body 40.
  • One boss 41 extends through the slot 33 of a driver bar 32 and the other boss 41 extends through the slot 34 of the other driver bar 32.
  • Each carrier 40 is retained rotatably relatively to a driver bar by a retainer ring 42 mounted on the outwardly projecting portion of the boss 41, said retainer ring 42 being held in place by a spring 43 mounted in a groove 44 near the outer end of the boss 41.
  • a retainer stud 45 in the central bore of each boss 41 has a head 46 on its inner end.
  • the stud 45 has pivotally mounted thereon a blade retainer 47in the form of a fiat lever, best shown in FIGS. 3 and 10.
  • The'lever is retained by the head 46 between the head and the inner surface of the carrier 40.
  • the retainer lever 47 has a hook 48 formed on its free end to provide a curved edge 49 which engages the projection 20 on a blade tang 19.
  • a retainer spring 51 has one end 52 hooked through an aperture in the lever 47 and its other end attached to a part of the carrier 40, as shown in FIGS. 9 and 10*, to normally hold the lever 47 in position wherein the hook -48 and edge 49 engage the projection 20 on the tang 19 of a blade 14.
  • the blade release button 16 shown in FIGS. 3, and 6, is mounted in the bottom wall of the lower housing 11 in position to contact the arms 50' of the levers 47 of the two carriers 40 .when the carriers are in the vertical positions shown in 'FIG. 5. When the blades are in the I horizontal position of FIGS. 6, the button 16 cannot contact the arms 50 of lever 47.
  • the button comprises a face 53, side walls 54 terminating in a flanged edge 55 which prevents the button from moving downwardly out of the housing, springs 55 which bear on the face 53 and housing wall 57, and normally urge the button in a downward direction, out of contact with the blade release lever arm 50.
  • the upright actuating members 58 are located between the side walls 54 and springs 56 in positions to contact and lift the blade release lever arms 5-0.
  • the switch button 15 and switch actuating mechanism are the subject of a co-pending application Serial No.
  • the turret 17 is turned manually to move the blades 14 into vertical or horizontal cutting positions. This movement rotates the carriers 40 relatively to the driver members 32in arcuate paths limited by the movement of the bosses 4-1 in the driver slots 33 and 34, respectively.
  • the blades are retained in their carriers by the engagement of hooks 48 and edges 49' with the projections 20 of the blade t-angs 19.
  • the levers 47 cannot be disengaged from the tangs 19.
  • the blades are in the vertical cutting positions of FIGS. 5'
  • a power operated knife comprising (a) ahousing
  • the blade driving means comprise a pair of driver rods which are arcuate in transverse section and generally .complemental to the adjacent blade carriers.
  • the blade driving means comprise a pair of driver rods each having a generaliy flat rearward portion engaging the power transmission means and an arcuate forward portion generally complemental to the carriers.
  • V which the blade driving means comprise a pair of driver levers 47, causing the lever to pivot about the stud and to raise the hook 48 and edge 49 out of engagement with the projections 20 on the tangs -19 of the blades.
  • the button 16 returns to undepressed position under influence rods which are arcuate in transverse section adjacent the carriers and each provided with a slot, and in which each carrier is provided with a radially extending boss slidable in the slot in one of the driver rods, whereby the rotative movement of the carrier'relatively to the driver rod is limited.
  • a power operated knife having a housing, power transmission means in the housing, a knife blade, and blade driving means deta-chably connecting said knife blade to said transmission means, means for adjusting the position of the blade. relatively to the housing for cutting material in planes at an angle to each other comprising (a) a. turret rotatably mounted on one end of the housing having an opening therethrough for passage of the blade tang into the housing, (b) a blade carrier rotatably mounted adjacent the blade driving means in axial alignment with the turret, and (c) cooperating means on the carrier and driving means limiting the rotatable movement of the carrier in opposite directions.
  • the power operated knife defined by claim" 1, in which the opening in the turret is defined by edges which 9. -A power operated knife comprising (a) a housing,
  • a blade release button depressibly mounted in the housing for contacting the blade retaining lever and releasing the blade for removal when the blade is in its vertical plane position.
  • a power operated knife comprising (a) a housing,
  • a blade release button depressibly mounted in the housing for contacting the blade retaining levers and releasing the blades for removal when the blades are in their vertical plane positions relatively to the housing.

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US466954D USB466954I5 (de) 1965-06-25
US46695465 US3303563A (en) 1965-06-25 1965-06-25 Power operated knife with adjustable blades
FR43626A FR1461285A (fr) 1965-06-25 1965-12-24 Couteau à découper électrique
BE676877D BE676877A (de) 1965-06-25 1966-02-22
GB997266A GB1084841A (en) 1965-06-25 1966-03-07 Improvements in or relating to a power operated knife
SE325966A SE305296B (de) 1965-06-25 1966-03-11
DE19661529269 DE1529269B1 (de) 1965-06-25 1966-03-22 Elektrisch betaetigbares Messer
ES0324661A ES324661A1 (es) 1965-06-25 1966-03-25 Un dispositivo de cuchillo mecanicamente operado.
NL6607085A NL6607085A (de) 1965-06-25 1966-05-24
DK323666A DK122437B (da) 1965-06-25 1966-06-23 Motordrevet kniv.
CH918066A CH449192A (fr) 1965-06-25 1966-06-24 Couteau à découper électrique

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US3670364A (en) * 1970-05-21 1972-06-20 George M Bradley Electrical fish scaler
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US3367026A (en) * 1965-07-22 1968-02-06 Levine Sol Power operated knife with reciprocating slicing blade and electric motor located remotely of the blade
US3670364A (en) * 1970-05-21 1972-06-20 George M Bradley Electrical fish scaler
US3861039A (en) * 1973-12-03 1975-01-21 Earl S Truax Electric knife
US4107819A (en) * 1977-01-03 1978-08-22 Saizon Floyd S Hand-held, electrically operated fish scaler
US4631827A (en) * 1985-01-09 1986-12-30 Black & Decker, Inc. Electric knife drive mechanism
US4891884A (en) * 1987-07-21 1990-01-09 Philip Torbet Hand holdable automatic bladed appliance for slicing, peeling and the like
US6434836B1 (en) * 1999-11-05 2002-08-20 Hector Olivares Interchangeable blade cordless electric knife
US20050097759A1 (en) * 2003-10-03 2005-05-12 Hiroshi Igarashi Knife with movable handle
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US20100199501A1 (en) * 2009-02-11 2010-08-12 Alltrade Tools Llc Power assisted utility knife
US20150135927A1 (en) * 2013-11-18 2015-05-21 Lifeng Zhou Reciprocating Saw Blade Assembly
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US20150336189A1 (en) * 2013-11-18 2015-11-26 Ningbo Gemay Industry Co., Ltd. Reciprocating saw blade assembly
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FR1461285A (fr) 1966-12-10
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