| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 451552000 | Stationary | 28 |
| 20090088057 | Sharpening system having multiple abrasive components - An abrasive sharpening system having multiple sharpening stations supported on a base. One of the stations includes ceramic rods having a partial curved outer surface and a pair of flat intersecting surfaces forming a longitudinally extending abrasive edge. The base further supports a flat abrasive stone and a pair of carbide blades for sharpening. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20100159814 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLEANING STATOR SLOTS - A system and method for cleaning receiver slots with hook-fits for stator blade ring segments. A first cleaning tool with an abrasive coating and sideward projection in the shape of the hook is slid through the slot using the hook-fit as a guide. A second cleaning tool with an abrasive coating and a formed/machined hook-fit used as a guide while cleaning the receiver slots as it is pushed through the receiver slots. The tools remove trash, oil rust/oxidation, and other foreign materials from receiving slot. Both tools may attach to a metal rod with two knuckles as part of the handle that connects to and uses the hook-fit as a guide enabling the operator to reach deep into the radius of the compressor case receiver slots and hook-fits located adjacent to and beneath the rotor and rotor blades so that the hook-fit and receiver slot can be thoroughly cleaned. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100311314 | Pool cue shaping device - A pool cue shaping device, comprising: a block comprising a block exterior, one or more block exterior side surfaces, block cross-sections, two block ends and a block length; and at least one recessed elongated concave shaper, wherein the recessed elongated concave shaper comprises an elongated concave channel within the block exterior side surface, the elongated concave channel extending along the entire block length, the elongated concave channel having a channel width corresponding to the width of a pool cue tip such that the concave channel closely cradles the pool cue tip. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110009040 | Knife Sharpening Tool - A sharpening tool includes a handle, a first sharpening unit mounted on a first end of the handle, and a second sharpening unit mounted on a second end of the handle. The first sharpening unit includes a fixed blade mounted on the handle, a first threaded post rotatably mounted on the handle, a first slide having a first toothed portion meshing with the first threaded post, and a movable blade fixed on the first slide. The second sharpening unit includes a second threaded post rotatably mounted on the handle, a second slide having a second toothed portion meshing with the second threaded post, and a flat blade fixed on the second slide. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110237168 | BLADE SHARPENING SYSTEM - A knife sharpening system includes a substantially planar bed defining a first plane, a support base rigidly coupled to the bed and defining a second plane lying at a selected angle with respect to the first plane, first and second end rails are rigidly coupled to respective ends of the bed and extend outward therefrom. A reference surface is provided on an end of the second end rail, defining a plane that lies parallel to the second plane. A bench stone is received on the bed, and supported thereby so that a surface of the bench stone is parallel to the bed, and lies at the selected angle, relative to the second plane. Apertures formed in the first and second end rails form a cradle configured to receive a sharpening steel, and support the sharpening steel at the selected angle, relative to the second plane. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20130231033 | Attachment Type Sharpening Tool - A sharpening tool includes a main base ( | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130237137 | CONTAINER FOR STORING KNIFES, UTENSILS, AND THE LIKE HAVING INTEGRAL BLADE SHARPENER - A container for storing at least one object, such as a knife, utensil, and the like, wherein the object has a blade that is occasionally dressed is disclosed. The container includes a housing presenting an object-receiving opening and a blade-dressing assembly configured to provide selective dressing of the blade. The blade-dressing assembly includes a carrier and a dressing component supported on the carrier. The carrier is shiftably supported on the housing so as to move between a storage position in which the dressing surface is incapable of engaging the blade and an operating position in which the dressing surface is engageable by the blade. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20140057541 | Two Step Abrasive Sharpener - An abrasive sharpener having a housing supporting a pair of sharpening slots having abrasive elements mounted therein. The bottom of the housing is formed with an open V-shaped groove for supporting the housing on the edge of a table, bench and the like. The bottom further includes a pair of flat bottom surfaces separated by the V-shaped groove for supporting the housing on a flat surface. The V-shaped groove is opened ended and extends along an axis generally perpendicular to the direction that a knife edge and the like is pulled through either slot for sharpening. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140120812 | Adjustable Abrasive Sharpener - An adjustable manual abrasive sharpener having a pair of sharpening slots formed in a frame with opposing abrasive arms being pivotally mounted in each of the sharpening slots. A rod is mounted on the frame for rotatable motion and for linear motion long its axis of rotation from a position at which the rod is locked against rotation to a depressed position whereby the rod may be rotated. The bottom end portion of the rod includes a pinion gear which engages a pair of gear racks which are mounted for movement laterally relative to the axis of rotation of the rod. The pair of gear racks respectively engage slots formed on the bottom of the abrasive arms in each sharpening slot. Rotation of the rod causes movement of the gear racks to adjust each pair of abrasive arms with respect to each other to vary the sharpening angle of the abrasive elements. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140154963 | Rotatable Hand-Held Blade-Sharpening Apparatus - A sharpening apparatus is provided. The sharpening apparatus includes a foldable case, a first sharpening tool, and a second sharpening tool. The first and second sharpening tools are associated with the foldable case and are rotatable between a storage position and a sharpening position. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140273779 | Blade Sharpener - In accordance with one embodiment a blade sharpener comprises a rectangular body having channels, slots, and blade sharpening surfaces. The blade sharpener is mountable in a variety of positions and on a variety of planar surfaces. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20150298296 | Knife block with sharpening stones - A knife block with built-in sharpening stones provides a physical structure and appearance which has become conventional for such items, but each knife slot contains a built-in sharpening stone. The stone is set at a slight angle to the side of the slot, such that any knife which is inserted or withdrawn from the slot will be sharpened by the stone. | 10-22-2015 |
| 451553000 | Metal | 2 |
| 20080242204 | METAL SANDING DEVICES - A multi-tasking disk which in one form is used primarily with a powered hand tool to remove measured amounts of material from the surface of a work piece, and, in another form, serving as a buffing tool for removing minute amounts of skin from feet, elbows and the like on a human, or removal of like minute amounts from vegetables. Each disk is formed with an array of either abrading or buffing elements in which each element involves a series of projections having sharpened edges raised above the surface of the disk to accomplish removal of material from the surface upon which it is engaged. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20150031274 | ADJUSTABLE KNIFE HOLDER ADAPTED TO MAINTAIN SHARPNESS OF A KNIFE BLADE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE ADJUSTABLE KNIFE HOLDER - Adjustable knife holder adapted to maintain sharpness of a knife blade and method of manufacturing the knife holder. The knife holder comprises a housing defining an interior volume therein and a sharpener disposed in the interior volume for slightly sharpening the knife blade each time the knife blade is inserted into or withdrawn from the holder, thereby obviating a need to periodically resharpen the knife blade. The sharpening component can be conveniently removed and interchanged with another sharpener for maintaining sharpness of various types, styles and sizes of knives. | 01-29-2015 |
| 451555000 | Work guide | 13 |
| 20090117838 | Precision ceramic whetstone - The aim of the present invention is to provide a ceramic whetstone ( | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090149120 | Combination Of Knife Block And Knife Sharpener With Guard - The combination of a knife storage block and a knife sharpener including a sharpening unit. The combination has a guard extending forwardly from either the knife storage block or the sharpener which in use protects a user's hand while drawing a knife through the sharpening unit. The knife sharpener may be external to the knife block or integral to it. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090325473 | Abrasive sharpener having square abrasive rods - An abrasive sharpener having a body and an integral handle. The body possesses a pair of upper slots for receiving an edge to be sharpened. One of slot has a pair of crossed diamond abrasive rods having a square cross section generally along its length. The other slot includes a pair of abutting ceramic blades having triangular configuration. Two offset slot portions having a ceramic rod is also provided on the body. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100112921 | Sharpening device for knife blades - A sharpening device ( | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100323597 | APPARATUS FOR PRECISION STEELING/CONDITIONING OF KNIFE EDGES - A knife edge enhancing apparatus includes a support having a support surface and knife blade clamping structure mounted to the support and located above the support surface. An object having a knife edge modifying surface which could be abrasive or non-abrasive is mounted to a holder which is freely slidable on the support surface so that the object surface can be manually moved into contact with a knife edge facet. At least one of the clamping structure and the object surface is angularly adjustable to control the angle of contact of the object surface with the knife edge facet. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110053480 | SCRAPER AND SHARPENING TOOL COMBINATION AND SHARPENING METHOD - A scraper in combination with a sharpener provides consistent sharpening of the scraper blade. The scraper has a scraper blade, blade holder, and bearing surface. The sharpener has a sharpening element and a guide generally parallel to the sharpening element. The bearing surface of the scraper fits the guide of the sharpener and the scraper blade contacts the sharpening element. The scraper can be drawn along the guide to draw the blade along the sharpening element. The bearing surface and guide keep the blade in consistent and correct relation to the sharpening element to provide proper sharpening of the scraper blade. Adaptors may be used to sharpen additional types of blades or tools on the sharpener and different types of sharpening elements may be used in the sharpener. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110177769 | Blade Sharpening Assembly - A blade sharpening assembly generally including a pair of clamping members disposable in coextensive relationship, each providing end portions for receiving a blade therebetween with a cutting edge thereof disposed beyond the ends thereof; means interengaging the clamping members functional as a fulcrum in permitting the end portions to displace in clamping a blade therebetween; means interconnecting the clamping members for angularly displacing the clamping members about the fulcrum; a guide member pivotally connected to a second end portion of each of the clamping members, pivotal between a first position disposed coextensively with a connected clamping member, and a second position at an angle relative to the connected clamping member, alignable with the guide member of the other of the clamping members, when the clamping members are disposed in coextensive; means interconnectable between the guide members when the guide members are disposed in alignment for releasably retaining the guide members in alignment; and an elongated member including a honing section and a guide member section cooperable with one of the guide for guiding the honing section along a cutting portion of a blade disposed between the clamping members. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110201261 | Scraper Accommodating Different Sizes of Blades - A scraper has a blade holder that tapers from a wider width to a narrower width. A blade with a scraping edge is mounted on the blade holder with the scraping edge near to the narrower width of the blade holder. The blade is interchangeably mounted and can be replaced with other blades. The blades can have different widths for their scraping edges. The tapered shape of the blade holder allows blades with different widths of scraping edges to be used in the scraper without the blade holder interfering with the use of the scraper. Embodiments of the scraper have handles which may have features such as a hand rest near the blade holder to provide additional pressure and a ring at the end of the handle to provide additional pull. At least one embodiment of the scraper has a bearing surface to fit on a guide on a sharpener. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110217912 | WINDSHIELD WIPER REPAIRING DEVICE - A windshield wiper repairing device comprises of a hollow frame ( | 09-08-2011 |
| 20140038504 | BLADE SHARPENING APPARATUS - A blade sharpening apparatus includes a base member including a front face and a rear face and a blade sharpening member attached to the base member and being adapted to straighten a blade of a knife. The blade sharpening apparatus further includes an edge sharpener disposed within the base member and adapted to sharpen an edge of a knife. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140242895 | KNIFE SHARPENER - A knife sharpener having an angled bolster for providing predetermined sharpening angles with respect to the sharpening surface is provided. The angled bolster of the knife sharpener preferably includes two different angled surfaces for establishing at least two different predetermined sharpening angles for a cutting implement to be sharpened. The angled bolster is configured to set up the knife sharpening angle at predetermined angles with respect to the sharpening surface. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20150321320 | Two Step Abrasive Sharpener - An abrasive sharpener having a housing supporting a pair of sharpening slots having abrasive elements mounted therein. The bottom of the housing is formed with an open V-shaped groove for supporting the housing on the edge of a table, bench and the like. The bottom further includes a pair of flat bottom surfaces separated by the V-shaped groove for supporting the housing on a flat surface. The V-shaped groove is opened ended and extends along an axis generally perpendicular to the direction that a knife edge and the like is pulled through either slot for sharpening. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20160144486 | Knife Sharpening Device - A handheld, portable knife sharpening device is provided. The knife sharpening device includes a body that accommodates at least one knife sharpening member. The body is interconnected to a rotatable leg that is used to selectively alter the lateral footprint of the device to make knife sharpening safer and more effective. | 05-26-2016 |
| 451556000 | Razor hone | 1 |
| 20120276826 | Cutting tool with blade made of fine-crystalline diamond - The present invention relates to a cutting tool, in particular in the form of a razor blade, a scalpel, a knife, a machine knife, scissors etc., which has a synthetic diamond layer with a cutting edge. The diamond layer thereby consists of fine-crystalline diamond. | 11-01-2012 |
