Angular adjustment device in the handle of a handsaw

• US 7,093,367 B1
• Filed: 09/22/2004
• Issued: 08/22/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yin-Hae Huang
• Original Assignee: Yin-Hae Huang
• Inventors: Huang, Yin-Hae
• Primary Examiner(s): PAYER, HWEI SIU CHOU
• Application Number:
  US10/946,001
• Time in Patent Office: 699 Days
• Field of Search: 303/29, 303/30, 303/31, 305/14, 305/17, 305/19, 301/61, D8/97, D8/95
• US Class Current: 30/519
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 51/01 characterised by the handle
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 51/03 with extensible or collapsible frames ; Frames with spare blade storage means
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 51/10 for hand-held or hand-operated devices
• CPC Class Codes: B26B 1/046 with a locking member acting in axial direction parallel to the pivot axis of the blade

Abstract

A handsaw includes a handle combined with a first and a second halves each having a large circular hole in front end wherein the first half has a protrudent ring together with a plurality of positioning grooves in the inner periphery of the large circular hole and an elongate receiving space in inner surface and the second corresponding half has inner threads in the large circular hole, an angular adjustment device disposed in the front end of the handle between the large circular holes and composed of a turning member, a circular clamping plate biased by a spring, a saw blade having an inner end secured to a retaining rod and a rectangular protrusion on the other side of the clamping plate and a cup-shaped fastener stopping against the circular clamping plate and the saw blade through the large circular hole of the second half.

Claims

1. A handsaw comprising:

a handle having a first and a second corresponding halves secured by a plurality of screws, wherein said first corresponding half has a first large circular hole formed in its front end which includes a protrudent ring and at least four positioning grooves spacedly formed in an inner periphery of the protrudent ring, and an elongate receiving space formed in the inner surface of the first corresponding half;

said second corresponding half having a second large circular hole formed in its front end made in registry with the first large circular hole and threads in an inner periphery of the second large circular hole;

an angular adjustment device disposed in the front end of said handle between said first and second large circular holes having a hollow turning member rotatably disposed in the first large circular hole and including a pressing cap on a bottom of the turning member, a circular ring around an outer periphery of the turning member stopped against said protrudent ring and a detent on an outer periphery of the turning member abutting a rim of the turning member for selectively engaging one of said positioning grooves, a spring having a first end anchored into the rim of said turning member and a second end stopped against a circular clamping plate which has a striped circumference, a circular concave in a center of an inner side of the circular clamping plate for receiving the second end of said spring, a circular groove around said circular concave to engage with the rim of the hollow turning member, a diametric groove horizontally formed in an outer side opposite to the circular concave and including a retaining rod and a rectangular protrusion formed spaced apart thereon, a saw blade having a through hole at one end thereof for receiving said retaining rod and an extension beneath said through hole pressed against an underside of said rectangular protrusion, and a cup-shaped fastener having threads on an outer periphery thereof for engaging with the inner threads of said second large circular hole and for pressing against said circular clamping plate and said blade, and a circular groove formed in an inner surface engaged of the cup-shaped fastener for engaging with said retaining rod;

whereby, pressing said pressing cap inward and rotating about said circular clamping plate achieves an angular adjustment for said saw blade.

2. The handsaw as recited in claim 1, wherein said at least four positioning grooves have three of them positioned at a right side in said first large circular hole and a single one of them positioned at a left side thereof.

3. The handsaw as recited in claim 1, wherein said saw blade can be hid into said handle when is rotated for about 180 degrees.