Chain saw protector

• US 3,129,731 A
• Filed: 10/17/1960
• Issued: 04/21/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Vincent C. Tyrrell
• Original Assignee: Vincent C. Tyrrell
• Inventors: Tyrrell, Vincent C.
• Application Number:
  US04/063,186
• Time in Patent Office: 1,282 Days
• US Class Current: 30/151
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 13/00 Equipment for use with tools or cutters when not in operation, e.g. protectors for storage B26B29/00 takes precedence

Claims

1. A CHAIN SAW GUARD COMPRISING:

(A) AN ELONGATED, RESILIENT BODY HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY SEMICIRCULAR END PORTION AND TWO SPACED ELONGATED PORTIONS EXTENDING FROM SAID SEMICIRCULAR END PORTION;

(B) EACH OF SAID ELONGATED PORTIONS HAVING AN OUTER PERIPHERAL PORTION FROM WHICH EXTENDS A PAIR OF OPPOSITE, FACING DEPENDING SIDE WALL PORTIONS;

(C) EACH OF SAID SIDE WALL PORTIONS BEING SPACED FROM EACH OTHER SO THAT A SAW CHAIN ON A CHAIN SAW WILL FIT SNUGLY THEREBETWEEN, (D) SAID SIDE WALL PORTIONS HAVING PARTS THEREOF CONVERGING AND RESILIENTLY BIASED TOWARD EACH OTHER TO FRICTIONALLY ENGAGE A SAW CHAIN AND BAR UPON WHICH THE CHAIN TRAVELS;

AND (E) FLANGE PORTIONS EXTENDING ANGULARLY LATERALLY OUTWARDLY FROM SAID CONVERGING PARTS TO FORM AN APPROXIMATE V IN CROSS SECTION, (F) SAID FLANGE PORTIONS HAVING INWARDLY FACING SIDES, (G) THE INWARDLY FACING SIDES OF SAID FLANGE PORTIONS BEING SPACED FROM EACH OTHER AT THE WIDEST PART OF THE V A DISTANCE APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO THAT OF THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID SIDE WALL PORTIONS AND AT LEAST EQUAL TO THE WIDTH OF THE SAW CHAIN.