Hand power tool

• Main Authors: BUTZ; DIETER, KLEIDER; ALBERT
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 28.10.1997
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: BROACHING; COMBINATION OR MULTI-PURPOSE TOOLS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; DETAILS OR COMPONENTS OF PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS NOTPARTICULARLY RELATED TO THE OPERATIONS PERFORMED AND NOTOTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DRESSING OR CONDITIONING OF ABRADING SURFACES; FEEDING OF GRINDING, POLISHING, OR LAPPING AGENTS; FILING; GRINDING; HAND TOOLS; LIKE OPERATIONS FOR WORKING METAL BY REMOVING MATERIAL, NOTOTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MACHINE TOOLS; MACHINES, DEVICES, OR PROCESSES FOR GRINDING OR POLISHING; MANIPULATORS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PLANING; POLISHING; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; SAWING; SCRAPING; SHEARING; SLOTTING; TRANSPORTING; WORKING CEMENT, CLAY, OR STONE; WORKING STONE OR STONE-LIKE MATERIALS

A hand power tool formed as a hand-guided angular grinder has a tool, and an electric-motor drive for the tool, a housing accommodating the drive and carrying a central bearing pin, a handle composed of two semi-shells, rotatably arranged on the bearing pin, overlapping an end side of the motor housing and having a switch strip, an electrical switch actuated by the switch strip and connected with the drive, and a fixing device for fixing the handle in at least two different positions in a relative rotation to the motor housing and having a manual actuating member arranged on the handle, each of the handle shells being provided with a bearing semi-shell formed on the handle shell and rotatably arranged on the bearing pin, the bearing pin being provided at an end side with a blind hole, and a sleeve is inserted in the blind hole, provided with a radial flange overlapping concentric ends of the bearing pin and the bearing semi-shells, and having a snapping hook located at an end which is remote from the flange and arrested in radial recesses in the bearing pin.