Crain Cutter Company, Inc.

Darwin D Spencer, Jr

Tan Dinh Nguyen

Lance D Crain

Gregory Joseph Chambers

Donald W Suwyn

An angle tapping block allows for lifting a flooring plank from a subfloor surface and tapping the flooring plank. The angle tapping block includes a beating block that has multiple surfaces, including a beating block beating surface for beating with a hammer and a beating block tapping surface for tapping the side of the flooring plank. The angle tapping block also includes a lifter plate attached to the beating block and positioned below the beating block. The lifter plate can be placed beneath a flooring plank and lift from the subfloor surface for tapping.

Angle tapping block

A cushion back cutter is formed from a first side plate, a second side plate, and a center plate between the first and second side plates. The center plate includes a slot that forms a blade holding pocket with a bottom opening to receive one or more blades. A blade clamp is inserted into the blade clamp opening of the first side plate, and a blade clamp fastener tightens to cause the blade clamp to press the blades against the second side plate to hold the blades in position. The center side plate forms a row guide for guiding the blades of the cutter between adjacent rows of carpet tufts. The row guide may include a region having continuous notches, which tend to move the carpet tufts out of the path of the blades to avoid shearing them.

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Centennial, CO, United States of America

Darwin D Spencer, Jr