Patent ID: 7540068

Claim:
A side handle for a hand tool configured to retain a cutting blade for cutting a work piece and having a foot structure with a flat bottom surface for contacting the work piece and controlling the position of the cutting blade during operation of the tool, the foot structure having side portions adjacent to and on opposite sides of a front opening through which the cutting blade extends, said foot structure having a raised horizontal surface portion defining a narrow channel on each side portion oriented generally toward said opening and configured to receive a thin narrow elongated member therein, said surface having a threaded through hole above each of said channels, said handle comprising: a support structure having a base end portion and an outer end portion extending upwardly from the foot structure, said base end portion comprising a mounting portion, wherein said mounting portion comprises a thin narrow elongated metal member extending from said base end portion; a gripable knob member having an enlarged oval shaped main portion that merges with a smaller cylindrical portion that is rotatably attached by a first threaded member to said outer end portion at two or more distinct positions that are determined by a set of holes in one of said outer end portion and said cylindrical portion and a set of protrusions in the other of said outer end portion and said cylindrical portion that fit within said holes; and a second threaded member configured to engage said through hole to contact said elongated member for removably securing said base end portion of the support structure to the foot structure.