None.
1. Technical Field
The invention relates generally to the trimming of wood plugs that are used in carpentry for the construction of furniture and cabinets and the like that are assembled utilizing a hand held grinder.
2. Background Art
Carpenters utilize wood plugs to cover screws in assembled furniture. After a piece of furniture is created the wood plug is glued into a countersunk hole in order to cover the screw head. The wood plug is generally inserted so that it extends past the wood surface of the furniture's surface. The shape and diameter of the plugs vary and the location of the plugs can be in difficult to reach areas, i.e. joints or corners. Presently carpenters and furniture builders utilize handsaws to trim the plugs down and then to sand the area so that they are flush with the wood surfaces. This process is labor intensive and great care has to be taken so as not to mar the wood surface. The present art does not disclose any devises that can be used to trim wood plugs on assembled wood furniture or cabinets, in particularly those plugs located in areas that abut other surface that form an angle. The present invention is utilized with hand held grinders that are portable and can fit into tight places on furniture.
One object of the invention is to provide a devise to easily trim wood plugs that are used in filling of countersunk screw holes created in the construction of wood furniture and cabinets that will also protect against injuring or scaring the surface of the wood product. Another object of the invention is to provide a hand held devise that will permit easy access to areas that cannot otherwise be reached by other plug trimming devises. Another object of the invention is to fulfill the need in the furniture industry for a hand held devise that would trim wooden plugs flush without marring the wood surface.
A wood plug trimmer, in accord with the invention, comprising a cylindrical element of a fixed diameter and length to attach to a hand held grinder. The length and the diameter of the cylindrical element will be dependent upon the size circumference and depth of the shank area of a particular hand held grinder it is to be used in conjunction with. The interior circumference of the cylindrical element will be of slightly smaller diameter than the outer circumference of the shank of the hand held grinder. The length of the cylindrical element will be slightly shorter than length of the end of the base of the shank to the end of the grinding die attached thereto. The cylindrical element will be cut along the length of the cylindrical element so that it will permit the cylindrical element to expand to slide over the shank. The bottom end of the cylindrical element will fit around the shank and will have a means to secure the element to the shank so that the cylindrical element will extend from the hand held grinder at a plurality of positions. The end of the cylindrical element that is opposite to the hand held grinder will have two or more openings that will act as pilot guides in order to move over the wood plugs and waste disposal ports for the wood material trimmed from the plugs. The wood plugs will be able to pass through the pilot/waste ports and the waste material created from the removal of the wood plug will come out the ports. Each of the openings will be large enough to permit the wood plug to go through them. The distance the element shall extend from the die hand held grinder will be able to be adjusted so that the grinding end of the die hand held grinder will run flush against the wood surface so that the wood plug will be cut down to the wood surface. (Claim 1)
In accord with one aspect of the invention, the cylindrical element will be held in place on the die hand held grinder by a fastener element that will fit around the exterior of the cylindrical element and hold the cylindrical element in place. (Claim 2)
In accord with one aspect of the invention, the fastener element will be a hose clamp. (Claim 3)
In accord with one aspect of the invention, the fastener element will be a ring spring fastener. (Claim 4)
In accord with one aspect of the invention, the fastener element will be cable ties. (Claim 5)
Preferably the cylindrical element will be manufactured using PVC tube (Claim 6).
In accord with one aspect of the invention, the cylindrical element will be manufactured using polymer. (Claim 7)
In accord with one aspect of the invention, the cylindrical element will be manufactured out of wood (Claim 8)
In accord with one aspect of the invention, the cylindrical element will be manufactured out of metal (Claim 9).
Referring to the drawings,
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2350247 | Newell | May 1944 | A |
2491035 | Deacon | Dec 1949 | A |
3902042 | Goldfarb et al. | Aug 1975 | A |
4290717 | Aslen | Sep 1981 | A |
5368424 | Bettenhausen | Nov 1994 | A |
5988954 | Gaskin et al. | Nov 1999 | A |
Number | Date | Country |
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2341344 | Mar 2000 | DE |
Number | Date | Country | |
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20040250896 A1 | Dec 2004 | US |