Sanding apparatus comprises a housing for a motor driving a drive spindle. A sanding disk platen is mounted on one end of the drive spindle through a freely rotatable bearing disposed eccentrically with respect to the drive spindle. A sanding disk is disposed on a front surface of the platen. A resiliently biased brake is mounted in the housing and is adapted to bear against a low friction annular surface of the platen in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of the drive spindle. The d...

A Sanding Fixture for use with a portable electric belt sander to adapt such a hand-held sander into a table sander. Two parallel spaced plates are used with the top plate having a cut-out corner to allow the portable electric belt sander to be placed on the base plate with the sanding belt of the portable electric belt sander adjacent an edge of the top plate and extending above the top plate. Removable pegs are placed in selected openings in the base plate to permit use of sanders of varying m...

The present invention relates to a sanding system which can be configured into many highly-versatile configurations. The present sanding system is arranged and configured to alternatively and selectably accept for use a corner or detail pad, a shutter pad, and a wide variety of profiled pads. Such versatility is found in no other sander.

Accessories for an angle grinder include a disposable rotary sanding disk having quite large shaped ventilating/viewing apertures, for use with a resilient backing plate also having shaped ventilating apertures. The apertures of one or both parts are shaped so that snagging of the apertures on projections from the work surface is minimized and to facilitate air flow across the work surface during use. This air flow helps in cooling the work and ejecting detritus, so minimizing clogging effects. ...

A sanding block for hand held use has a main body with a bottom side providing a surface for pressing a portion of a circular sheet of sandpaper against an article to be sanded. A first hook and loop-type fastener is secured to the top side of the main body for coupling with a corresponding material covering a backside of the sandpaper. A flap member is secured to the main body and is swingable between first and second positions. A second hook and loop-type fastener is secured to the flap member...

A sanding pad particularly useful for simultaneously intersecting surfaces that form sanding inside or outside corners. The pad comprises a stiff rectangular backing sheet having through slits along closely spaced parallel lines, with the slits along each line forming most of the line and being spaced by a plurality of unslit parts of the sheet. A coating of abrasive granules is adhered along a first surface of the sheet, and a layer of resiliently compressible foam is adhered on and coextensive...

A band-type abrasive strip and hand tool holder which utilizes the resilience of the holder to enable the band to be applied to the holder or removed and also the same resilience to maintain tension on the band. Modified holders allow difference size bands and a longitudinally split band allows transverse deformation to reach crevices and contours on a workpiece.

A sanding tool comprises a plurality of saw blades arranged in spaced relation projecting from a planar surface of a rigid plastics supporting member a distance of the order of 1/8 inch. The spacing of the blades is very much wider than the width of the blade to provide a self-cleaning effect and the plastics member provides a shoulder alongside each of the outermost blades so that the shoulders prevent gouging of the blades.

A sanding device having a sanding block wherein sheets of sandpaper can be easily and firmly mounted upon or readily detached from the block merely by inserting inwardly bent end tabs of the paper into slots in opposite end surfaces of the block. The top and bottom surfaces of the block are flat and of isosceles trapezoidal configuration with the opposed end surfaces of the block convergently inclined toward each other at an angle of about 84.degree. to the longitudinal centerline of the block. ...

A sanding shoe attachable to a reciprocable carrier in a hand-held portable sanding machine, the shoe having bulbous ends over which ends of sandpaper applied to a cushioned bottom of the shoe are extended and clamped between a pair of jaws in over-center lever operable clamping mechanisms, the latter having projections for centralizing the lever in its support and abutments cooperable with the lever to restrain it in its actuated condition against vibratory release.