B27B19/00

ACCESSORIES FOR OSCILLATING POWER TOOLS
20180200812 · 2018-07-19 ·

An accessory for coupling to an oscillating power tool includes a working end portion and an attachment portion. The working end portion defines and extends along a working axis. The attachment portion is coupled to the working end portion and includes a top wall, a bottom wall spaced apart from the top wall, and a peripheral wall extending from the top wall to the bottom wall at least partially around the top wall to form at least a portion of a polygonal shape. A generally U-shaped opening is defined in the top wall, extends along an attachment axis at an angle to the working axis, has a central portion at a center of the attachment portion, and is open to a gap in the peripheral wall. A plurality of radial openings is defined in the top wall and arranged between the U-shaped opening and the peripheral wall. The peripheral wall, the U-shaped opening, and the plurality of radial openings are configured to couple the attachment portion to at least two different configurations of accessory attachment mechanisms on different oscillating power tools.

MASSAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE

A massage device that includes a housing, an electrical input, a motor, a switch in electrical communication with the electrical input and the motor and configured to selectively provide power from the electrical input to the motor, an actuated output operatively connected to the motor and configured to reciprocate in response to activation of the motor, and a treatment structure operatively connected to a distal end of the actuated output. The actuated output is configured to reciprocate the treatment structure at a frequency of between about 15 Hz and about 100 Hz, and at an amplitude of between about 0.15 and about 1.0 inches. The combination of amplitude and frequency provides efficient reciprocation of the treatment structure such that the treatment structure provides therapeutically beneficial treatment to a targeted muscle of a user.

Guide blades for oscillating and reciprocating power tools
10016904 · 2018-07-10 ·

Guide blades for use with oscillating and reciprocating power tools and provide improved speed and safety, as well as protection against the cutting blades protruding outside of a desired area or beyond a specified surface depth are disclosed. The guide blades include a blade portion with a cutting edge, an adapter corresponding to a particular type oscillating power tool, an attachment base for attaching the guide blade to the oscillating power tool, the attachment base including an offset portion for attachment of the blade portion to the attachment base, and an accessory attachment portion with an opening for securing the adapter to the attachment base, and a rounded guide affixed to the blade portion between the cutting edge and the offset portion, the rounded guide extending from side-to-side and curved away from the offset portion and toward the cutting edge, wherein the rounded guide provides for variable cutting depth.

Guide foot for an oscillating power tool

A guide member for an oscillating power tool includes an attachment portion configured to be removably attached to a housing of the power tool and a guide portion that extends from the attachment portion. The guide portion includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a guide surface. When the attachment portion is attached to the housing of the power tool, the guide portion is configured to extend beyond the housing in a first direction to position the leading edge portion a predetermined distance apart from the oscillation axis, the predetermined distance being greater than a distance that an accessory tool attached to the power tool extends.

Blade and blade attachment system for an oscillating tool

A blade attachment system includes a tool mount, a blade holder plate attached to the tool mount adapter; and a clamping assembly attached to the blade holder plate. The clamping assembly includes a plurality of fixed clamping positioned adjacent to at least one of the lateral edges of the blade when the blade is placed on the blade holder plate and including tapered surfaces configured to overlap the lateral edges of the blade and at least one movable clamping pin that is movably mounted to the blade holder plate, the movable clamping pin being configured to move with respect to the blade to move the lateral edges of the blade into engagement with the tapered surfaces of the clamping pins.

Oscillatory drive
09975191 · 2018-05-22 · ·

An oscillatory drive is specified, having a housing in which there are accommodated a drive motor for driving a motor shaft in rotation and a tool spindle, and a first coupling drive mechanism which is coupled to the motor shaft and to the tool spindle for the purpose of driving the tool spindle in oscillatory fashion about its longitudinal axis, wherein a second coupling drive mechanism is coupled to the tool spindle such that the tool spindle performs a superposed movement composed of a rotary oscillating movement and a movement directed perpendicular to its longitudinal axis.

OSCILLATING ELECTRIC POWER TOOL WITH BALANCED ARMATURE SHAFT

An oscillating power tool with an electric motor is provided, including an armature shaft with an armature and a fan wheel, including an eccentric arranged on the armature shaft at one end thereof, a first balancing mass for balancing an unbalance of the eccentric and possibly an eccentric bearing, being arranged in the proximity of the eccentric or the eccentric bearing, respectively, however, at an axial distance, further including a second balancing mass for balancing a couple unbalance caused by the axial distance between the eccentric and the eccentric bearing, respectively, and the first balancing weight, wherein the second balancing mass is arranged on the armature shaft at the side facing away from the eccentric or the eccentric bearing. Also a method for balancing such an electric motor is provided.

Surgical Reciprocating Blade Assembly Including A Static Guide Bar, Teeth That Project From A Side Of The Guide Bar And A Drive Rod That Reciprocates The Teeth
20180070959 · 2018-03-15 · ·

A reciprocating blade assembly for use with a surgical saw comprises a reciprocating member, the reciprocating member including a proximal end feature for engaging a drive member of the of the saw that, when actuated, reciprocates the reciprocating member. The reciprocating blade assembly further comprises teeth that extend outwardly from a side of the reciprocating member, the teeth adapted to form a kerf in tissue against which the teeth are pressed. The reciprocating member is contained in a guide bar assembly that includes features for engaging with a complementary fastening assembly that holds the guide bar assembly static to the saw and an opening located in a side of the guide bar assembly wherein the reciprocating member is mounted in the guide bar assembly so the teeth extend out of the side opening, wherein said guide bar assembly is dimensioned to fit into the kerf formed in the tissue cut by the teeth.

OSCILLATING INTERFACE FOR AN OSCILLATING POWER TOOL
20180056414 · 2018-03-01 ·

An oscillating interface for an oscillating too includes a post, a pin which extends through the post, a flange slidably positioned on the post between the pin and a distal end of the post. The flange includes a drive side and a mounting side. The drive side includes a drive structure configured to interlock with a drive structure of an accessory tool. The mounting side is arranged facing the pin and defines at least one notch configured to receive the pin. A clamping member is configured to be threaded onto the post and to clamp the flange against the pin with the pin received in the notch.

PALLET DISMANTLING WITH GUIDED ALIGNMENT
20180043565 · 2018-02-15 ·

The present disclosure illustrates pallet dismantling systems and methods. The disclosure provides pallet dismantling systems that use alignment forks, guides, and cutting tools to simplify the dismantling of pallets. The alignment fork comprising cantilevers with contact surfaces that abut a deckboard surface coupled to one or more stringers of the received pallet causing a junction between the deckboard surface and the one or more stringers to be in-line with the contact surfaces. Further, the dismantling system may comprise a cutting tool positioned planar to the contact surfaces of the cantilevers at a point along the alignment fork, the cutting tool to separate the one or more deckboards abutting the contact surfaces from the one or more stringers.