Patent ID: 7267125

Claim:
A device for sanding, buffing or grinding elongate objects, the device comprising: a housing having opposite first and second ends, said first end of said housing including a collar defining a cavity a motor mounted in said housing a driveshaft mounted to said motor for rotation of said driveshaft about an axis of rotation upon actuation of said motor, a distal end of said driveshaft and said axis of rotation extending into said cavity, a cup mounted into said collar and onto said distal end of said driveshaft for rotation of said cup within, and relative to, said collar upon said actuation of said motor, wherein said cup has an annular inner surface and an abrasive for sanding, buffing or grinding is mounted to said inner surface, and wherein said cup has an inner rear surface contiguous to said annular inner surface, and wherein said inner rear surface is substantially continuously planar across all of said inner rear surface and said driveshaft does not protrude into said cup so that a finger-tip receiving space in said cup is unobstructed, and wherein said second end of said housing provides a handle for manual grasping and lifting by one hand of a user of said housing by said user using only the one hand of the user, wherein said cup is lined around said annular inner surface with a resilient liner and said abrasive is mounted to an innermost surface of said liner so as to sandwich said resilient liner between said cup and said abrasive.