Portable pipe cutter
View Patent ↗A pipe cutter comprises a disc knife set and a roller set disposed inside a main body, a driving assembly piercing through the main body and connected to the roller set with a rotating operation component disposed on the exterior of the main body, and a conversion module connecting the main body, driving assembly, and roller set which converts the rotation of the rotating operation component into the linear movement of the roller set to adjust the relative distance between the roller set and the disc knife of the disc knife set and thereby to adapt the pipe cutter to the cutting of metal pipes with different diameters.
1. A portable pipe cutter comprising:
a disc knife set including a disc knife;
a roller set including a roller base and two rotatable rollers disposed in front of the roller base;
a driving assembly including a fixed-rotating shaft lever and a rotating operation component connected to one end of the fixed-rotating shaft lever;
a main body including a pipe receiving space in a middle thereof and an opening connected with the pipe receiving space; wherein the disc knife set and the roller set are disposed with a knife-edge of the disc knife partially protruding into the pipe receiving space; wherein the fixed-rotating shaft lever pierces through a side wall of the main body and connects with the roller base; and wherein the rotating operation component is disposed on an exterior of the main body; and
a conversion module connecting the driving assembly, the main body, and the roller set;
wherein a rotation of the rotating operation component is converted into a linear movement of the roller set;
wherein the disc knife set further includes a knife axle piercing through a center of the disc knife;
wherein inside the main body is disposed a knife axle guiding channel, therein both ends of the knife axle are disposed;
wherein the knife axle guiding channel is an arc-shaped path;
wherein two arc-shaped guide plates are fixed inside the main body one above and one below; and
wherein an inner side wall of the main body and the guide plates form the knife axle guiding channel.
2. The portable pipe cutter as defined in claim 1 , wherein the conversion module includes the roller base bolted with the fixed-rotating shaft lever, and at least one matching set of slot and guide block disposed where the roller set touches the exterior of the main body to restrain the rotation of the roller base.
3. The portable pipe cutter as defined in claim 1 , wherein a flexible component is also disposed with one end thereof fixed inside the main body and the other end thereof extending to touch the knife axle.
4. The portable pipe cutter as defined in claim 1 , wherein an external wall of the main body adjacent to the rotating operation component is disposed at a first positioning slot parallel to a circumference of the external wall of the main body to contain the rotating operation component parallel to the external wall of the main body; and
wherein on the external wall of the main body adjacent to the rotating operation component are disposed a second positioning slot at a right angle to the circumference of the external wall of the main body to contain the rotating operation component at the right angle to the external wall of the main body.