Scaling device for cylindrical objects and the like

• US 3,214,824 A
• Filed: 03/06/1964
• Issued: 11/02/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Otho O. Brown
• Original Assignee: Otho O. Brown
• Inventors: Brown, Otho O.
• Application Number:
  US04/349,814
• Time in Patent Office: 606 Days
• US Class Current: 29/81.02
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 57/023 hand-held or hand-operated
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 61/185 Saw wires; Saw cables; Twisted saw strips
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 79/00 Methods, machines, or devices not covered elsewhere, for working metal by removal of material by combined operations B23D81/00; cutting by electron-beam B23K15/00, by laser beam B23K26/00; by electro-erosion B23H; tool holders for machine tools B23Q3/00; handles for hand implements B25G
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/4506 for hollow workpiece
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/4556 Chainer

Claims

1. A SCALING OR CLEANING DEVICE FOR THE EXTERIOR SURFACE OF AN ELONGATED SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL WORKPIECE, SAID DEVICE COMPRISING AN ELONGATED LENGTH OF CHAIN INCLUDING A SERIES OF KNURLED SPHERES, A PLURALITY OF LINKS, EACH OF SAID SPHERES HAVING DIAMETRICALL-OPPOSED OPENINGS FORMED THEREIN TO RECEIVE, RESPECTIVELY, ONE OF THE ENDS OF A PAIR OF SAID LINKS THERETHROUGH, SAID LINKS EXTENDING THROUGH ADJACENT OPENINGS FORMED IN EACH PAIR OF ADJACENT SPHERES, THE INTERNAL ENDS OF EACH OF SAID LINKS BEING DISPOSED WITHIN EACH OF SAID SPHERES AND TERMINATING INTERIORLY OF SAID SPHERES IN ENLARGED BALL PORTIONS, THE DAMETER OF SAID OPENINGS IN SAID SPHERES BEING LESS THAN THE OUTSIDE DIAMETER OF SAID ENLARGED BALL PORTIONS, EACH OF SAID SPHERES BEING MOUNTED ON ITS RESPECTIVE LINKS FOR AXIAL AND ROTATABLE MOVEMENT THEREON RELATIVE TO AN AXIS THEREOF, AND HANDLE MEANS CONNECTED WITH THE REMOTELYDISPOSED ONES OF SAID SPHERES.