Dust-collecting devices and cutting devices with the dust-collecting devices

• US 7,559,268 B2
• Filed: 07/14/2005
• Issued: 07/14/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Makita Corporation
• Original Assignee: Makita Corporation
• Inventors: Aoyama, Syuji, Kani, Toshiyuki, Hirabayashi, Shinji, Tokunaga, Manabu, Sasaki, Katsuhiko, Ono, Masahiko, Tsuboi, Taiju
• Primary Examiner(s): Peterson; Kenneth E.
• Application Number:
  US11/180,562
• Publication Number:
  US 20060185484A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,461 Days
• Field of Search: 831/00, 834/73, 834/772, 834/90, 834/713, 153/47, 153/49, 153/52
• US Class Current: 83/100
• CPC Class Codes: B23D 59/006 for removing or collecting chips
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 11/005 by blowing
• CPC Class Codes: B23Q 11/0071 dust collectors for hand tools
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/207 By suction means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/2103 Mover surrounds axis of tool rotation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/222 With receptacle or support for cut product
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/7697 Tool angularly adjustable relative to work-support
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/7705 Adjustable angular relationship
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/7772 Angular relative to previous path
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/7788 Tool carrier oscillated or rotated

Abstract

A dust-collecting device for collecting cutting chips produced by a cutting device has a separator for separating the cutting chips from the carrier air by utilizing the force of gravity upon the cutting chips. A dust container collects the cutting chips separated by the separator. The separator includes a separator body having a cutting chip discharge pipe and an air discharge pipe. After separation the carrier air is discharged upward from the separator body via the air discharge pipe. The separated cutting chips are discharge downward from the separator body via the cutting chip discharge pipe. The dust container is connected to the cutting chip discharge pipe.

Claims

1. A table saw comprising:

a table defining a surface for placing thereon a workpiece;

a saw unit vertically pivotally and laterally pivotally mounted to the table and comprising a rotary circular saw blade and a cover for covering the saw blade; and

a dust-collecting device mounted to the saw unit and comprising a first dust-collector, a cyclone unit, and a second dust-collector assembled to each other;

wherein the first dust-collector defining a first dust-collecting chamber and connected to the cover, so that cutting chips produced by the saw blade during a cutting operation are fed into the first dust-collecting chamber together with a flow of a carrier air and at least a portion of the cutting chips are collected within the first dust-collecting chamber by at least a force of gravity;

wherein the cyclone unit is arranged and constructed to receive remaining cutting chips carried by the carrier air, which were not collected within the first dust-collecting chamber;

wherein the cyclone unit comprises a cyclone body, a cutting chip discharge pipe, and an air discharge pipe;

wherein the cyclone body has an inner wall and is arranged and constructed to cause a circulation of the remaining cutting chips together with the carrier air along a circumference of the inner wall, while the cutting chips drop downward by at least the force of gravity;

wherein after separation the carrier air is discharged from the cyclone body via the air discharge pipe;

wherein separated remaining cutting chips are discharge from the cyclone body via the cutting chip discharge pipe; and

wherein the position of the cyclone unit is determined such that the cyclone unit moves to an upper side of the first dust-collecting chamber as the saw unit pivots laterally in one direction together with the dust-collecting device.

2. The table saw as in claim 1,

wherein the cyclone unit is positioned on one side of the first dust-collector opposite to the lateral pivotal direction of the saw unit.

3. The table saw as in claim 1,

wherein the first dust-collecting chamber comprises:

an inlet;

a terminal end opposing the inlet in a direction of flow of the cutting chips entering the inlet, so that the cutting chips collide with the terminal end; and

an outlet disposed on a lateral side of the first dust-collecting chamber and positioned to be spaced from the terminal end by a predetermined distance in a direction toward the inlet, so that a space is defined between the outlet and the terminal end in order to prevent the cutting chips from directly entering the outlet due to rebounding after collision with the terminal end.

4. The table saw as in claim 1,

wherein the first dust-collecting chamber has a buffer region for buffering a flow of the remaining cutting chips before entering the cyclone unit.

5. The table saw as in claim 1,

wherein the first dust-collecting chamber has a cross-sectional area that gradually increase in a direction of flow of the cutting chips within the first dust-collecting chamber.

6. The table saw as in claim 5, wherein the first dust-collecting chamber has a streamlined configuration.

7. A circular saw comprising:

a saw unit comprising a rotary circular saw blade and a cover for covering the saw blade, the saw unit being mounted for pivotal movement; and

a dust-collecting device connected to the saw unit and comprising a first dust-collector, a cyclone unit, and a second dust-collector, assembled to each other, the dust-collecting device being mounted for pivotal movement with the saw unit;

wherein the first dust-collector defines a first dust-collecting chamber and is connected to the cover, so that cutting chips produced by the saw blade during a cutting operation are fed into the first dust-collecting chamber together with a flow of a carrier air and at least a portion of the cutting chips are collected within the first dust-collecting chamber by at least a force of gravity;

wherein the cyclone unit is arranged and constructed to receive remaining cutting chips carried by the air, which were not collected within the first dust-collecting chamber;

wherein the cyclone unit comprises a cyclone body, a remaining cutting chip discharge pipe, and an air discharge pipe;

wherein the cyclone body has an inner wall and is arranged and constructed to cause circulation of the remaining cutting chips together with the carrier air along a circumference of the inner wall, while separated remaining cutting chips drop downward by at least the force of gravity;

wherein after separation the carrier air is discharged from the cyclone body via the air discharge pipe;

wherein the separated remaining cutting chips are discharged from the cyclone body via the cutting chip discharge pipe; and

wherein the first dust-collecting chamber comprises;

an inlet;

a terminal end opposing to the inlet in a direction of flow of the cutting chips entering the inlet, so that the cutting chips collide with the terminal end; and

an outlet disposed on a lateral side of the collecting chamber and positioned to be spaced apart from the terminal end by a predetermined distance in a direction toward the inlet, so that a space is defined between the outlet and the terminal end in order to prevent the cutting chips from entering the outlet due to rebounding after collision with the terminal end.