TILE CUTTERS

摘要

1481135 A glass cutter BRANDON ENTERPRISES Ltd 10 May 1976 [20 May 1975] 21387/75 Heading ClM [Also in Division B5] A cutter for glass or ceramic tiles 15 comprises a longitudinally extending base member 10 having an upstanding ridge 17, an arm 11 hingedly connected at one end to the base member and having a slot 20 extending from the region of the end for guiding a tool for scoring a tile to be cut, and a pair of shoulders 18 depending from the arm one each side of the slot for engaging the tile on each side of the ridge. The base member 10 is T-shaped and has a first portion 13 to which the arm 11 is hinged by a nut and bolt 12 and a second portion 14 having a shoulder 16 for abutment by the tile 15 to be cut, scales 26, 27 being provided on the portion 14 to assist in positioning of the tile. The ridge 17 extends for a part of the length of the portion 13. The arm is formed with the slot 20 for guiding of a tungsten carbide tipped tool (89, Fig. 2, not shown) for scoring the tile. A spigot 21 on the arm is locatable in a recess 22 in the base member to retain the arm parallel to the portion 13 during scoring of the tile and breaking of the tile when the arm is pressed downwardly to engage the projections 18 on the underside of the arm one each side of the score line. The cutter has two pairs of projections 18, 19 on the lower side of the arm and two positions for the nut and bolt 12 so as to accommodate tiles of two different sizes. In another embodiment, the base member 40 has an inverted T-shaped cross-section along which an abutment member 68 for the tile is adjustable The arm 50 is mounted on a pivot which is vertically adjustable by a wing nut 47 relative to the base member to accommodate different thicknesses of tiles. A spring 60 on a bolt 57, which is screw-threaded into the end of the arm and has a head engaged with the sides of a slot in the base member, urges the arm to a position disengaged from the tile.