Patent ID: 8435097

Claim:
A quarter sheet sander, comprising: a. a housing having first and second halves mated together, an upper portion of the housing providing a handle; b. an electric motor disposed in the housing having a stator and an armature, the stator having field coils and the armature having an armature shaft on which a commutator is affixed; c. a pair of brush boxes disposed in the housing on opposite sides of the commutator, the brush boxes lying in a horizontal elevation when the sander is upright; d. a switch disposed in a handle of the housing and a cordset that enters the housing, the switch and the area where the cordset enters the housing lying generally in the same horizontal elevation as the horizontal elevation of the brush boxes; e. an orbit mechanism coupled to the armature shaft; f. a platen coupled to the orbit mechanism; g. the sander having a vertical height that does not exceed 135 mm; h. wherein edges of the halves of the housing define a vertical plane when the halves are mated together and the vertical plane intersects a front and rear of the sander; and i. wherein the field coils comprise a first field coil facing the front of the sander and a second field coil facing the rear of the sander, the brush boxes being rotationally offset from the field coils with respect to a vertical axis of the sander.