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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 1996
Filed:
May. 18, 1995
Leo Martinez, Hawaiian Gardens, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A tool is provided for cutting linoleum cove strips. The tool includes a pair of cooperating first and second levers joined between their extremities at a fulcrum. Handles are provided on the levers on one side of the fulcrum while a flat anvil oriented parallel to the axis of lever rotation is carried by one of the levers on the opposite side of the fulcrum. The other lever carries a cutting blade oriented perpendicular to the flat anvil on the opposite of the fulcrum. A jig is mounted atop the anvil and defines a concave cove seat thereon that extends parallel to the flat anvil. The jig is coupled to the anvil by a jig mounting post that carries the jig atop the anvil for rotation about a jig axis that is perpendicular to the jig anvil. A plurality of linear blade receiving slots are defined within the jig and extend across the cove seat at different angles relative thereto. These slots lie in separate planes all intersecting each other at the jig axis. A linoleum installer can thereby achieve quick, precise, mitered cuts of cove strips utilizing the tool of the invention.