Blade guard
CA 2020347 C · Owner: Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company · Inventors: Betterley, Todd R.; Longworth, Fred A.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A guard for teeth on a cutting blade comprising a guard portion having a side part adapted to lay along one side of the teeth and a projecting part adapted to project past the points of the teeth, an anchor portion adapted to be fixed to the blade at a position spaced from the teeth and a hinge portion of resiliently flexible polymeric material joining the guard and anchor portions. The hinge portion affords movement of the guard portion relative to the anchor portion from a normal protecting position along and projecting past the teeth, to a cut position spaced from the teeth so that the teeth can be used to cut material while biasing the guard portion to its normal protecting position.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed July 3, 1990 and granted March 20, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 3, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 3, 2012.
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