Hyde Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Eric Wilhelm

Richard M Clemence

Richard M Farland

A cutting apparatus having a pivotable blade holder includes a blade housing with an internal blade cavity with a blade opening to the outside of the housing. A blade holder adapted for removably retaining a cutting blade having a cutting edge is pivotally mounted within the housing for pivotal movement about a lateral pivot axis between a fully retracted position and a cutting position. The fully retracted position is such that the cutting edge of a cutting blade retained by the blade holder does not protrude through the blade opening to the outside of the blade housing. A cutting position is one in which the cutting edge of the cutting blade extends through the blade opening to the outside of the housing. A blade actuator accessible to a user from the exterior of the housing, when depressed, urges the blade holder into a cutting position while a biasing member normally biases the blade holder toward its fully retracted position. A depth adjuster controls the maximum angle by which the blade holder can be pivotally displaced from the fully retracted position in order to control the depth to which the cutting blade can cut a material.

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Marlborough, MA, United States of America

Eric Wilhelm