Hand-held power tool with a rotary driven tool

• US 5,094,000 A
• Filed: 03/01/1991
• Issued: 03/10/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Black & Decker Incorporated (Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Black & Decker Incorporated (Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.)
• Inventors: Thielmann, Tayfun S., Becht, Reimund, Kriegel, Hans-Jurgen
• Primary Examiner(s): Watts, Douglas D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HEYRANA, PAUL
• Application Number:
  US07/663,384
• Time in Patent Office: 375 Days
• Field of Search: 30/475, 30/476, 30/477, 30/381, 30/382, 30/383, 188/71.1, 188/74, 188/75, 188/77.2
• US Class Current: 30/475
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 11/0092 actuating braking or stopping means
• CPC Class Codes: B27B 5/38 Devices for braking the circular saw blade or the saw spindle; Devices for damping vibrations of the circular saw blade, e.g. silencing B23D47/005 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B27G 21/00 Safety guards or devices specially designed for other wood-working machines auxiliary devices facilitating proper operation of said wood-working machines

Abstract

A hand-held power tool with a rotary driven tool, in particular a planer or a circular saw, is arranged so that on switching off the drive, which can be switched on and off by means of a trigger (15), a brake element (34), which is ineffective when the drive is switched on, is brought into braking engagement with a brake part (51) rotatingly driven by the drive. The tool comprises a safety element (21) which co-operates with the trigger (15) and which can be displaced between a safety position in which the trigger (15) cannot be moved to switch on the drive, and a release position in which the trigger (15) can be moved into the position to switch on the drive. The safety element (21) is urged by spring pressure towards the safety position and is held in the release position when the trigger (15)L is in the switch-on position. The safety element (21) is coupled mechanically with the brake element (34) so that in the release position of the safety element the brake element is not in the braking engagement, and in the safety position it is in braking engagement.

Claims

1. A hand held power tool, comprising:

a rotary working tool;

a motor for driving the working tool;

a trigger for switching the motor on and off;

a safety element mounted for movement between a safety position, in which the trigger cannot be moved to switch on the motor, and a release position, in which the trigger can be moved to switch on the motor;

spring means for urging the safety element towards said safety position to normally block the trigger from being movable to switch on the motor;

interconnecting means for interconnecting the safety element and the trigger so that when the safety element has been moved to said release position and then the trigger moved to switch on the motor, the trigger then holds the safety element in said release position until the trigger is moved to switch off the motor, movement of the trigger to switch the motor off releasing the safety element and allowing the safety element to return to said safety position;

brake means for braking the rotary working tool by said brake means being brought into braking engagement with a rotary braking part driven by the motor; and

the safety element being mechanically coupled to the brake means so that the brake means is in braking engagement when the safety element is in said safety position and said brake means is moved out of braking engagement when the safety element is in said release position.

2. A hand held power tool according to claim 1 wherein the safety element is mounted for movement between its safety position and its release position in a direction perpendicular to that of movement of the trigger between its on and its off position.

3. A hand held power tool according to claim 1 comprising additional spring means for urging the brake means towards braking engagement.

4. A hand held power tool according to claim 3 wherein the rotary braking part comprises a rotary member comprising a circumferential braking surface, and the brake means comprises a braking member which can be urged into braking engagement with said surface.

5. A hand held power tool according to claim 4 wherein the rotary member comprises an annular groove with converging side walls the surface of which provides the braking surface.

6. A hand held power tool according to claim 5 comprising a shaft on which the rotary working tool is secured and on which the rotary member is fixed.

7. A hand held power tool according to claim 6 wherein the rotary member is a pulley through which said shaft is driven.

8. A hand held power tool according to claim 4 wherein the braking member comprises an elongated rigid body having one end portion pivotally mounted and the other end portion mechanically connected with the safety element, said member extending transversely of the axis of rotation of the rotary member.

9. A hand held power tool according to claim 8 wherein the braking member comprises a surface which is curved to match and engage the circumferential braking surface of the rotary member.

10. A power planer, comprising:

a housing containing a motor;

a drive pulley rotatably driven by said motor;

a cutter shaft of a cutter head;

a driven pulley mounted on said cutter shaft;

said driven pulley being driven from said drive pulley via an endless belt;

a brake element biased to engage with one of said pulleys to brake said one pulley;

an on/off switch for controlling said motor, said switch having an activator manually movable between on and off positions to energize and de-energize, respectively, said motor;

a safety element interconnected with said switch activator and biased to a blocking position to block operation of said switch activator to said on position when said switch activator is in said off position;

said safety element being manually movable from said blocking position to a permitting position to allow movement of said switch activator from said off position to said on position;

said safety element being connected to said brake element, in said blocking position said safety element allowing said brake element to engage said one pulley, in said permitting position said safety element disengaging said brake element from said one pulley; and

said safety element being biased towards said blocking position to automatically effect engagement of said brake element with said one pulley when said switch activator is moved to said off position.

11. The power planer of claim 10, wherein:

said safety element is connected to said brake element via a plurality of pivotally connected link-levers;

a first spring directly biases said safety element; and

a second and separate spring directly biases said brake element.

12. The power planer of claim 10, wherein said on/off switch is a trigger switch and said switch activator is a trigger.

13. The power planer of claim 12, wherein said trigger and said safety element have interengageable projections and cutouts.

14. The power planer of claim 13, wherein said projections and cutouts only align for interengagement in said permitting position of said safety element, sand said projections are engaged through said cutouts when said switch activator is in said on position.

15. A hand held power tool, comprising:

a motor;

a rotary working tool connected to be rotatably driven by said motor;

an on/off switch having a switch activator movable between on and off positions to energize and de-energize, respectively, said motor;

a brake biased to a braking position to brake rotation of said rotary working tool;

a manually actuated safety element connected to said brake and also interconnected with said switch activator;

said safety element being movable between a safety position and a release position and being biased towards said safety position;

said safety element in said safety position effecting application of said brake to said braking position and simultaneously preventing movement of said switch activator from said off position to said on position;

said safety element when manually held in said release position disengaging said brake to free said rotary working tool for rotation, and simultaneously allowing said switch activator to be moved from said off position to said on position; and

said switch activator when in said on position locking said safety element in said release position to retain said brake disengaged as long as said switch activator is in said on position.

16. The hand held power tool of claim 15, wherein said safety element and said switch activator have mechanically interengageable portions, said portions interengaging in said release position of said safety element and said on position of said switch activator, but said portions being blocked from interengagement when said safety element is in said safety position.

17. The hand held power tool of claim 16, wherein said portions comprise at least one projection on said switch activator and at least one cutout in said safety element.

18. The hand held power tool of claim 15, wherein said safety element pivotally depends from a pivotally mounted safety switch member.

19. The hand held power tool of claim 18, wherein said safety switch member is mechanically connected by a linkage mechanism to a movable brake element of said brake.

20. The hand held power tool of claim 19, wherein said brake element in said braking position engages a pulley mounted on a shaft of said rotary working tool.