Patent ID: 7549910
Filing Date: 2009-06-23
Classification: B24B,B24D

Abstract:
1. A sharpening holder for manually-sharpening a cutting edge to be honed over a honing surface, the holder comprising: a cylindrical body having a first end, a second end and an opening formed through the body between the first end and the second end, the opening having a tool support surface; an adjustable clamping component having a rotatable fastening plate positioned within the opening wherein the fastening plate has a tool engaging surface to hold the tool against the tool support surface at a user-defined rotated skew angle relative to the tool support surface of the cylindrical body; and a plurality of roller members disposed within a longitudinal raceway formed in a lower portion of the body below the opening wherein the plurality of roller members are aligned parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cutting edge to be sharpened and wherein the axis of rotation of the plurality of roller members is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the cutting edge to be sharpened.