Cutlery – Cutting tools – Scrapers
Patent
1994-04-05
1995-05-30
Watts, Douglas D.
Cutlery
Cutting tools
Scrapers
1523607, B08B 104, B26B 300
Patent
active
054190460
ABSTRACT:
The present invention is designed to easily and quickly remove chrome plating from the end of a copper or brass tube to prepare the tube for soldering. The device resembles a conventional tubing cutter with a special angled peeling blade in the position normally occupied by the disc cutter of such a tool. Basically it comprises a hand-held C-shaped, rigid frame having a pair of tubing-supporting wheels or rollers positioned in a rigid support block vertically adjustable within such frame. Mounted at the top of the frame and angled downwardly therein is a spring-loaded flat tungsten carbide peeling blade. When the tubing end to be treated is inserted in the frame with the tube riding on the wheels or rollers and the block supporting such rollers is moved up to engage the tubing end with the peeling blade, rotation of the tubing in a clockwise direction initiates a slicing cut in the chrome plating on such tube end. Continued rotation with increasing height adjustment of such rollers causes the plating to be shaved off the tube metal until such tube metal is exposed free of such plating. A chip slot in the upper portion of such frame permits the peeled chrome plate to exit the device. The peeling blade is usually about 1/2 inch in width giving a chrome-free end of the same dimension.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2410420 (1946-11-01), Bennett
patent: 3089237 (1963-05-01), Norton
patent: 3486183 (1969-12-01), Caprioli
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