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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2000
Robert G. Clark, West Palm Beach, FL (US);
Wendie R. Clark, West Palm Beach, FL (US);
Other;
Abstract
A glass tapping tool for tapping glass and breaking glass along a score-line that has been previously cut. In one embodiment, the tool comprises a hollow tube with a first end and a second end. A stationary striking member is attached to the first end of the tube for tapping a piece of glass which has been previously cut along a score-line. Mounted inside the tube is a slidable hammer with a first end and a second end. The slidable hammer is mounted so that the second end of the slidable hammer protrudes outside the second end of the hollow tube. Elastically coupled the stationary striking member with the slidable hammer is a spring. When a user pulls the part of slidable hammer protruding from the hollow tube in an axial direction away from the hollow tube, the spring produces a force in opposite direction which causes the slidable hammer through the spring to strike the stationary striking member, when the user releases the slidable hammer, so as to tap the glass along a score line and causing the glass to break along the score line.