Portable wood splitter
CA 2525495 C · Owner: Lessard, Martin · Inventors: Lessard, Martin
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
The present invention concerns a compact portable, lightweight, easily transportable quickly operating wood splitting apparatus using a knife which cuts a log or piece of wood that is deposed on a platform. This compact and portable wood splitter is actuated by a hydraulic cylinder transmitting a pendulum movement to a knife and onto an upright piece of wood. The apparatus may be attached to a truck box to a trailer or to a wall by means of a vertical horizontal, fixed or mobile fixture. The splitter apparatus is compact and portable and it can easily be stored in a car trunk or in a shed.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed November 14, 2005 and granted September 25, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 14, 2025.
- Certificates of supplementary protection extend only drug patents, and it isn't classified as one.
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