Saw blade

• US 5,094,135 A
• Filed: 12/06/1989
• Issued: 03/10/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Amada Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Amada Company Limited
• Inventors: Okada, Hiroyuki, Nakahara, Katsumi
• Primary Examiner(s): Watts, Douglas D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Jones, Eugenia A.
• Application Number:
  US07/446,786
• Time in Patent Office: 825 Days
• Field of Search: 83/846, 83/847, 83/848, 83/849, 83/850, 83/851, 83/852
• US Class Current: 83/847
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 61/021 Types of set; Variable teeth, e.g. variable in height or gullet depth: Varying pitch; Details of gullet
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 61/121 Types of set; Variable teeth, e.g. variable in height or gullet depth; Varying pitch; Details of gullet
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 61/123 Details of saw blade body
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/9348 Undulating tooth arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/935 Plural tooth groups
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/9358 Series of dissimilar teeth

Abstract

A reduced resistance saw blade. The saw blade of the present invention has at least two or more groups of sawteeth, the groups of the sawteeth include a first group having a plurality of the sawteeth wherein the tips of the sawteeth are substantially situated on a first imaginary curve which changes in a periodic or irregular cycle, and a second group having a plurality of the sawteeth wherein the tips of the sawteeth are substantially situated on a second imaginary curve parallel to the first imaginary curve. Also provided is a saw blade which includes sets of the sawteeth having reversed set patterns, thus providing a saw blade which is capable of restraining deviation of the cut, maintaining the balance of the lateral sets of the overall saw blade. The saw blade of the present invention includes a plurality of sets of teeth, each set comprising unset, right set and left set teeth, wherein reversed set patterns with the same number of teeth are provided alternately.

Claims

1. A saw blade comprising at least two groups of sawteeth, each sawtooth having a tip, said groups of the sawteeth including a first group comprising a plurality of the sawteeth wherein the tips of the sawteeth are situated so as to describe substantially a first imaginary curve which changes in a cycle of varying amplitude, and a second group comprising a plurality of sawteeth wherein the tips of the sawteeth are situated so as to describe substantially a second imaginary curve substantially parallel to the first imaginary curve.

2. The saw blade of claim 1, wherein each sawtooth has a set width, the set width of the sawteeth for which the tips are situated so as to describe substantially the second imaginary curve is greater than the set width of the sawteeth for which the tips are situated so as to describe substantially the first imaginary curve.

3. The saw blade of claim 1, wherein the first group of teeth for which the tips are situated substantially so as to describe the first imaginary curve comprises a plurality of pairs of long sawteeth, each pair of long sawteeth including a left set tooth and a right set tooth having the same amount of set, and the amount of the set of the teeth included in individual pairs of long sawteeth differing from the amount of set of other pairs;

and the second group of teeth for which the tips are situated substantially so as to describe the second imaginary curve comprises a plurality of pairs of short sawteeth, each pair of short sawteeth including a left set tooth and a right set tooth having the same amount of set, and the amount of set of the teeth included in different individual pairs of short sawteeth from one another.

4. The saw blade of claim 1, wherein the teeth in the first group of teeth include long unset teeth.

5. A saw blade comprising:

at least two groups of sawteeth, each sawtooth having a tip, said groups of the sawteeth including a first group comprising a plurality of the sawteeth wherein the tips of the sawteeth are situated so as to describe substantially a first imaginary curve which changes in a cycle of varying amplitude, said first imaginary curve having an apex, and a second group comprising a plurality of the sawteeth wherein the tips of the sawteeth are situated so as to describe substantially a second imaginary curve parallel to the first imaginary curve, wherein each group comprises a plurality of sets of teeth, said second imaginary curve having an apex, each set comprising a pattern of a sequence of unset, right set and left set teeth, and wherein further patterns having the same number of teeth reversed in sequence are provided alternately.

6. The saw blade of claim 5, wherein the width of the set sawteeth for which the tips are situated substantially so as to describe the second imaginary curve is greater than the width of the set sawteeth for which the tips are situated substantially so as to describe the first imaginary curve.

7. The saw blade of claim 5 wherein the first group of teeth for which the tips are situated so as to describe substantially the first imaginary curve comprises a plurality of pairs of long sawteeth, each pair of long sawteeth including a left set tooth and a right set tooth having the same amount of set, the amount of set of the teeth included in individual pairs of long sawteeth differing from the amount of set of other pairs;

and the second group of teeth for which the tips are situated so as to describe substantially the second imaginary curve comprises a plurality of pairs of short sawteeth, each pair of short sawteeth including a left set tooth and a right set tooth having the same amount of set, and the amount of set of the teeth included in different individual pairs of short sawteeth differing from one another.

8. The saw blade of claim 7, wherein the unset teeth in the group of teeth for which the tips are situated so as to describe substantially the first imaginary curve are long teeth positioned close to the respective apices of the first imaginary curve.

9. The saw blade of claim 8, wherein each of the long unset teeth positioned close to respective apices of the first imaginary curve is interposed between a pair of short set teeth for which the tips are situated so as to describe substantially the second imaginary curve parallel to the first imaginary curve, the long unset tooth and said pair of short set teeth being interposed between a pair of long set teeth for which the tips are situated substantially so as to describe the first imaginary curve.

10. The saw blade of claim 9, wherein the width of each of the short set teeth is greater than the width of each of the long set teeth.