Patent ID: 8272136
Filing Date: 2012-09-25
Classification: B26B,B26D,B26F,B43L

Abstract:
1. A wallboard cutting tool, comprising: a horizontally disposed and elongated support beam means having first and second ends; said support beam means comprising a base end portion, a first elongated upper beam member, having first and second ends, extending horizontally from said base end portion, and a second elongated lower beam member, having first and second ends, extending horizontally from said base end portion; said upper and lower beam members having their said first ends joined to said base end portion so as to be vertically spaced-apart and disposed parallel to one another; a first cutting member at said second end of said first beam member which extends downwardly therefrom; a second cutting member at said second end of said second beam member which extends upwardly therefrom in the same plane as said first cutting member; at least one of said beam members having measurement indicia thereon; an elongated horizontally disposed wallboard engagement member having an upper end, a lower end, a first side, a second side, a first end and a second end; said wallboard engagement member being selectively movably mounted on said beam members in a transversely disposed manner with respect to the longitudinal axes of said beam members with said second side thereof facing said second ends of said beam members; said second side of said wallboard engagement member having an elongated wallboard receiving channel formed therein which is adapted to receive an edge of a wallboard so that side first and second cutting members will be in cutting engagement with opposite sides of a wallboard.