Patent ID: 7069967

Claim:
A powered planer tool, said planer tool having a cylinder with at least one cutter blade mounted thereon; a motor to cause the cylinder to rotate about an axis of rotation with a portion of the cylinder exposed through an opening in a planing surface of the planer to cause the removal of material from a surface of a workpiece along which the planing surface is moved; said cylinder and motor mounted within a housing and wherein the motor is positioned in the housing above the axis of rotation of the cylinder; and the housing includes a chip and debris removal system, said system, said system has at least one channel that passes from an opening at or adjacent to a blade chamber in which the cylinder is located, said channel leading to at least two passages, each passage having an opening to allow the passage of chips and debris from the housing, with one passage leading to an opening on a first side of the housing to the rear of the blade chamber, and the other passage leading to an opening at a rear or the other side of the housing to the rear of the blade chamber.