Patent ID: 6419569
Filing Date: 2002-07-16
Classification: B24B

Abstract:
A hand-held belt sander, comprising a housing; an on-off switch and a power supply conductor supported by said housing; a motor and a transmission received in said housing; a sanding belt; a driving roller driven by said motor and driving said sanding band; a sliding shoe provided with a base; a deviating roller arranged so that said sanding belt is guidable over said deviating roller and said base of said sliding shoe; means for centering said sanding band; means for clamping said sanding belt, said deviating roller and said driving roller have different diameters so that said sanding band is guided inclinedly, said housing being elongated and said sanding belt being guided on guiding parts which are introduced in a rear region of said elongated housing having a substantially uniform thickness, while in a front region of said elongated housing a centrally forwardly extending wedge-shaped contour is formed by upper and lower sides which converge starting from upper and lower sides of said rear region forwardly toward one another to a linear tip so that the hand-held belt sander as a whole has a lance-like contour with said elongated uniform-thickness rear region and said wedge-shaped tipped front region extending smoothly from both sides of said rear region.