Saw blade

• US 7,661,347 B2
• Filed: 10/09/2003
• Issued: 02/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amada Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Amada Company Limited
• Inventors: Kamiyama, Iwao, Nagano, Yuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Choi; Stephen
• Application Number:
  US10/530,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20060162526A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,322 Days
• Field of Search: 83835-855, 303/55
• US Class Current: 83/835
• 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: Y10T 83/9319 Toothed blade or tooth therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/9346 Uniformly varying teeth or tooth spacing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/935 Plural tooth groups

Abstract

A saw blade includes left and right set teeth which are set in a lateral direction, as viewed in a cuffing direction of cutting teeth. The left and right set teeth include dovetail shaped set teeth, each having a tooth tip formed into a dovetail shape gradually enlarged in the lateral direction, respectively; and a straight tooth, which is not set. The straight tooth includes a dovetail shaped straight tooth having a tooth tip formed into a dovetail shape gradually enlarged in the lateral direction. In the straight tooth, inclinations are formed on both of left and right ends at the tooth tip, which is formed into the dovetail shape gradually enlarged in the lateral direction.

Claims

1. A saw blade provided with numerous cutting teeth for cutting a workpiece at appropriate pitches, the saw blade comprising:

left and right set teeth, which are set in a lateral direction, as viewed in a cutting direction of the cutting teeth;

wherein each of the left and right set teeth is a dovetail shaped set tooth having a tooth tip which is gradually enlarged in the lateral direction in addition to being set, each of the left teeth having a left side surface at the dovetail shaped portion and each of the right teeth having a right side surface at the dovetail shaped portion, so that each inclination angle of the left side surface and the right side surface is increased as a result of both the dovetail shape and set of the tooth tip; and

a straight tooth, which is not set in the lateral direction, as viewed in the cutting direction of the cutting teeth,

wherein the straight tooth including a dovetail shaped straight tooth having a tooth tip which is gradually enlarged in the lateral direction, and

wherein an upper surface of each tooth, including the tooth tip, defines a planar inclined surface.

2. A saw blade according to claim 1, wherein a height of each of the left and right set teeth is smaller than or substantially equal to that of the straight tooth.

3. A saw blade according to claim 1, wherein an inclination is formed at an inside corner on a tooth tip side of each of the left and right set teeth.

4. A saw blade according to claim 1, wherein the cutting teeth are configured by joining a dovetail shaped chip to the tip end of the tooth in a blade base;

and

wherein the thickness of the chip at the joint portion is made to be smaller than that of the tip end of the tooth.

5. A saw blade provided with numerous cutting teeth for cutting a workpiece at appropriate pitches, the saw blade comprising:

left and right set teeth, which are set in a lateral direction, as viewed in a cutting direction of the cutting teeth;

wherein each of the left and right set teeth is a dovetail shaped set tooth having a tooth tip which is gradually enlarged in the lateral direction in addition to being set, each of the left teeth having a left side surface at the dovetail shaped portion and each of the right teeth having a right side surface at the dovetail shaped portion, so that each inclination angle of the left side surface and the right side surface is increased as a result of both the dovetail shape and set of the tooth tip; and

a straight tooth, which is not set in the lateral direction, as viewed in the cutting direction of the cutting teeth,

wherein the straight tooth including a bevel-dovetail shaped straight tooth having inclinations at both of left and right ends of a tooth tip which is gradually enlarged in the lateral direction, and

wherein an upper surface of each tooth, including the tooth tip, defines a planar inclined surface.

6. A saw blade according to claim 5, wherein a height of each of the left and right set teeth is smaller than or substantially equal to that of the straight tooth.

7. A saw blade according to claim 5, wherein the inclination is formed at an inside corner on a tooth tip side of each of the left and right set teeth.

8. A saw blade according to claim 5, wherein the cutting teeth are configured by joining a dovetail shaped chip to the tip end of the tooth in a blade base;

and

wherein the thickness of the chip at the joint portion is made to be smaller than that of the tip end of the tooth.