Harold S Quinn

US Patent:

45359245, Aug 20, 1985

Filed:

Apr 20, 1984

Appl. No.:

6/602436

Inventors:

Harold F. Quinn - Bloomington MN

International Classification:

B26F 300

US Classification:

225104

Abstract:

An apparatus for supporting a pipe and pipe snapping tool having the advantages of ease of assembly and disassembly and portability. The apparatus includes a main support and pair of upwardly opening pipe trays fixedly attached to the main support and aligned with each other along the longitudinal axis of the main support. The pipe trays are separated from each other by a predetermined space adjacent the center of the main support to create a support gap over which the pipe to be cut lies when supported on the pipe trays. Wall supports, attached to each of the pipe trays at the inner and outer ends thereof, extend to the main support to raise the pipe trays above the main support such that the lower jaw of a pipe snapping tool positioned between the wall supports will lie beneath a pipe spanning the support gap when supported by the pipe trays. A lateral support is releasably attached to and disposed laterally of an substantially perpendicular to the main support, and centered between the support walls, providing a lateral support for one handle of the pipe snapping tool positioned thereon.