Black Decker Inc.

Scott Keenlyside

Roger Thomas

Martyn Riley

Rainer Herting

Paul Ringer

Paul Sargeant

Joanne Rogers

A battery pack comprises a first battery cell and a second battery cell; the first and second battery cells each have a size within a manufacturing tolerance. A housing comprises at least one wall defining a first hole and a second hole, each hole for receiving one of the first or second battery cells, each hole having a size corresponding to a minimum size within the manufacturing tolerance. There is a flexibly resilient portion moveable between a rest position and a clamping position whereby the flexibly resilient portion clamps against at least one of the first and second battery cells when one of the first or second battery cells has a size greater than the minimum size within the manufacturing tolerance.

Battery pack

A power tool comprising a housing displaceably mounted to a foot plate, a blade, a motor, an electric switch and an interlock for controlling movement of the housing with respect to the foot plate. The interlock has a control button mounted to one of the housing or foot plate which cooperates with a channel fixed in relation to the other of the housing or foot plate. The control button can select between a plunge cut mode wherein the blade can protrude below the foot plate, or a blade change mode wherein the blade is prepared for a blade change operation. The channel comprises a major leg in communication with a minor leg. Cooperation between the button and the major leg selects the plunge cut mode. Cooperation between the button and the minor leg selects the blade change mode. The interlock may also comprise a housing lock and a spindle lock.

Power tool

The present invention provides an anti-kickback for arresting movement of a rail accommodated within an elongate channel. The anti-kickback device includes a slide member arranged to slide along a slide surface between an extended position and a retracted position. The device further includes a resilient member, housed in a sleeve, which biases the slide member along the slide surface. The slide member, when in the extended position, is designed to urge the rail into abutment with a wall of the channel to arrest movement of the rail accommodated within the channel.

Anti-kickback device

A footplate for a power tool for guiding the tool along a guide, the footplate having on its lower surface at least one dual-restriction , wherein the first part of the dual-restriction is for engaging a rail extending in a longitudinal direction of a first guide on the upper surface of said first guide and the second part of the dual-restriction is for engaging a rail extending in a longitudinal direction of a second different guide on the upper surface of said second guide, where the first and second parts of the or each dual-restriction each has a fixed side wall, and where the first and second parts of the or each dual-restriction have an adjustable side wall arranged opposite to a respective fixed side wall.

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Auckland Park, United Kingdom

Scott Keenlyside