Electric motor operated hand circular saw

• US 5,381,602 A
• Filed: 10/08/1993
• Issued: 01/17/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Gansel, Eduard, Matzo, David, Schramm, Heribert
• Primary Examiner(s): Seidel, Richard K.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PAYER, HWEI SIU CHOU
• Application Number:
  US08/134,176
• Time in Patent Office: 466 Days
• Field of Search: 30/373, 30/374, 30/375, 30/376, 30/377
• US Class Current: 30/377
• CPC Class Codes: B27B 9/02 Arrangements for adjusting the cutting depth or the amount of tilting
• CPC Class Codes: B27G 19/10 Measures preventing splintering of sawn portions of wood

Abstract

An electric motor operated hand circular saw has a base plate, a motor housing turnable relative to the base plate, an electric motor accommodated in the motor housing and having a drive shaft, a circular saw blade arranged on the drive shaft of the electric motor, and a pre-slitting abutment for adjusting a pre-slitting position of the saw blade in which the saw blade penetrates into a surface of a workpiece to be sawed by a limited pre-slitting depth. The pre-slitting abutment has two fixed abutment positions in which two different turning positions of the motor housing relative to the base plate are adjusted, so that in a first of the abutment positions during guiding the base plate over a guiding rail on a workpiece surface and in a second of the abutment positions during guiding the base plate along a strip clamped on the workpiece surface or with a parallel abutment held on the base plate on the workpiece edge on the workpiece surface, the saw blade penetrates correspondingly into the workpiece surface with a pro-slitting depth.

Claims

1. An electric motor operated hand circular saw, comprising a base plate;

a motor housing turnable relative to said base plate;

an electric motor accommodated in said motor housing and having a drive shaft;

a circular saw blade arranged on said drive shaft of said electric motor; and

a pre-slitting abutment for adjusting a pre-slitting position of said saw blade in which said saw blade penetrates into a surface of a workpiece to be sawed by a limited pre-slitting depth, said pre-slitting abutment having two fixed abutment positions in which two different turning positions of said motor housing relative to said base plate are adjusted, so that in a first of said abutment positions during guiding said base plate over a guiding rail on a workpiece surface and in a second of said abutment positions during guiding said base plate along a strip clamped on the workpiece surface or with a parallel abutment held on said base plate on the workpiece edge on the workpiece surface, said saw blade penetrates correspondingly into the workpiece surface with a pre-slitting depth, said pre-slitting abutment has a cutting depth ruler mounted on said base plate and provided with a guiding slot extending over a turning region of said motor housing, and a clamping element fixed on said motor housing so that said clamping element extends through said guiding slot and is clampable on said cutting depth ruler, said clamping element having two abutment projections formed so that a first one of said abutment projections in said first abutment position of said pre-slitting abutment and a second one of said abutment projections in said second abutment position of said pre-slitting abutment abuts correspondingly against an end of said guiding slot which faces away from said base plate, and said first abutment projection is liftable from said guiding slot.

2. A saw as defined in claim 1, wherein said clamping element has a guiding sleeve inserted in said guiding slot of said cutting depth ruler, a clamping screw which clamps said guiding sleeve releasably on said cutting depth ruler, and a beam which is at least axially displaceable on said guiding sleeve and extending from the latter in a longitudinal direction of said cutting depth ruler and also selectively insertable in and liftable from said guiding slot, said beam having a free end which forms said first abutment projection, said guiding sleeve having an insertion end which forms said second abutment projection.

3. A saw as defined in claim 2;

and further comprising a displacing sleeve arranged on said guiding sleeve; and

a pressure spring, said beam being formed on said displacing sleeve, and said displacing sleeve being supported through said pressure spring on said guiding sleeve near an end of said guiding sleeve facing away from said insertion end.

4. A saw as defined in claim 3, wherein said guiding sleeve has a sleeve end facing away from said insertion end and having a radially projecting ring collar, said ring collar having a lower ring surface which faces said insertion end and forms a supporting surface for said pressure spring.

5. A saw as defined in claim 4, wherein said clamping screw has a screw shaft fixed on said motor housing and having a threaded portion arranged at least at a free end of said screw shaft, a wing nut screwed on said threaded portion, said guiding sleeve being arranged on said screw shaft;

and further comprising a second pressure spring through which said wing nut abuts against said guiding sleeve.

6. A saw as defined in claim 5, wherein said guiding sleeve has a stepped opening with an opening portion provided in the region of said ring collar and having a greater diameter;

and further comprising a further pressure spring which is located in said opening portion and coaxially surrounds said screw shaft.

7. A saw as defined in claim 5, wherein said screw shaft has an end which carries a flat head and also has a shaft portion following said flat head and having a rectangular cross-section;

and further comprising a protective hood provided on said motor housing so as to cover at least partially said circular saw blade and having a housing wall with an opening provided with a rectangular cross-section corresponding to said rectangular cross-section of said shaft portion, so that said screw shaft extends with said shaft portion through said opening.

12. A saw as defined in claim 1, wherein said pre-slitting abutment has a cutting depth ruler mounted on said base plate and provided with a guiding slot extending over a turning region of said motor housing, and a clamping element fixed on said motor housing so that said clamping element extends through said guiding slot and is clampable on said cutting depth ruler.

13. A saw as defined in claim 12;

and further comprising a scale arranged along said guiding slot of said cutting depth ruler for a cutting depth adjustment of said saw blade.

8. An electric motor operated hand circular saw, comprising a base plate;

a motor housing turnable relative to said base plate;

an electric motor accommodated in said motor housing and having a drive shaft;

a circular saw blade arranged on said drive shaft of said electric motor;

a pre-slitting abutment for adjusting a pre-slitting position of said saw blade in which said saw blade penetrates into a surface of a workpiece to be sawed by a limited pre-slitting depth, said pre-slitting abutment having two fixed abutment positions in which two different turning positions of said motor housing relative to said base plate are adjusted, so that in a first of said abutment positions during guiding said base plate over a guiding rail on a workpiece surface and in a second of said abutment positions during guiding said base plate along a strip clamped on the workpiece surface or with a parallel abutment held on said base plate on the workpiece edge on the workpiece surface, said saw blade penetrates correspondingly into the workpiece surface with a pre-slitting depth, said pre-slitting abutment having a cutting depth ruler mounted on said base plate and provided with a guiding slot extending over a turning region of said motor housing, and a clamping element fixed on said motor housing so that said clamping element extends through said guiding slot and is clampable on said cutting depth ruler; and

a scale arranged along said guiding slot of said cutting depth ruler for a cutting depth adjustment of said saw blade, said clamping element having a beam provided with an adjusting mark cooperating with said scale.

9. A saw as defined in claim 8, wherein said clamping element has a guiding sleeve provided with a displacing sleeve on which said beam is formed.

10. An electric motor operated hand circular saw, comprising a base plate;

a motor housing turnable relative to said base plate;

an electric motor accommodated in said motor housing and having a drive shaft;

a circular saw blade arranged on said drive shaft of said electric motor; and

a pre-slitting abutment for adjusting a pre-slitting position of said saw blade in which said saw blade penetrates into a surface of a workpiece to be sawed by a limited minimum pre-slitting depth, said pre-slitting abutment having two abutment projections each defining a fixed abutment positions in which two fixed different turning positions of said motor housing relative to said base plate are adjusted, so that in a first of said abutment positions during guiding said base plate over a guiding rail on a workpiece surface and in a second of said abutment positions during guiding said base plate along a strip clamped on the workpiece surface or with a parallel abutment held on said base plate on the workpiece edge on the workpiece surface, said saw blade penetrates correspondingly into the workpiece surface with a pre-slitting depth.

11. An electric motor operated hand circular saw, comprising a base plate;

a motor housing turnable relative to said base plate;

an electric motor accommodated in said motor housing and having a drive shaft;

a circular saw blade arranged on said drive shaft of said electric motor; and

a pre-slitting abutment for adjusting a pre-slitting position of said saw blade in which said saw blade penetrates into a surface of a workpiece to be sawed by a limited pre-slitting depth, said pre-slitting abutment having two abutment projections which define two fixed abutment positions in which two different turning positions of said motor housing relative to said base plate are adjusted, so that in a first of said abutment positions during guiding said base plate over a guiding rail on a workpiece surface and in a second of said abutment positions during guiding said base plate along a strip clamped on the workpiece surface or with a parallel abutment held on said base plate on the workpiece edge on the workpiece surface, said saw blade penetrates correspondingly into the workpiece surface with a pre-slitting depth.