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Saw blade

  • US 5,361,665 A
  • Filed: 05/10/1993
  • Issued: 11/08/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/06/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Saw blade for sawing wood, said blade having right and left sides and comprising:

  • a plurality of teeth consisting of scratcher teeth and shaving teeth,said scratcher teeth arranged in groups, each group comprising an even number of scratcher teeth, each scratcher tooth having a narrow point and leading and trailing lateral edges defined, respectively, by leading and trailing chamfer surfaces which converge toward a side of the blade to form said point, said leading and trailing chamfer surfaces of a given scratcher tooth being chamfered on the same side of the blade, some of said scratcher teeth being chamfered on the left side, others of said scratcher teeth being chamfered on the right side, whereby some of said points are disposed at said left side, and others of said points are disposed at said right side, said scratcher teeth not being set and being of equal height,said shaving teeth each having leading and trailing lateral edges defined, respectively, by leading and trailing chamfer surfaces which converge toward a side of the blade, said leading and trailing chamfer surfaces of a given shaving tooth being chamfered on the same side of the blade, some of said shaving teeth being chamfered on the left side, others of said shaving teeth being chamfered on the right side, each shaving tooth being truncated to form an oblique top surface intersecting said leading and trailing chamfer surfaces, said shaving teeth being set alternately to the right side and to the left side and being of equal height and shorter than said scratcher teeth,successive ones of said teeth being separated by gullets and being chamfered alternately on opposite sides of the blade,said groups of scratcher teeth being separated by a single one of said shaving teeth, the total number of said shaving teeth amounting to no more than substantially one third of the total number of teeth of said saw blade.

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