US 12,109,623 B2
Portable pipe threader
Joseph J. Pechstein, West Bend, WI (US); Sean T. Kehoe, Hartland, WI (US); Aaron Grode, Germantown, WI (US); and Timothy Hilger, Waterford, WI (US)
Assigned to MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION, Brookfield, WI (US)
Filed by MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION, Brookfield, WI (US)
Filed on Nov. 2, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/086,755.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/929,462, filed on Nov. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0129228 A1, May 6, 2021
Int. Cl. B23G 1/24 (2006.01); B23B 27/06 (2006.01)
CPC B23B 27/065 (2013.01) [B23G 1/24 (2013.01); B23B 2215/68 (2013.01); B23B 2215/72 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A portable pipe threader comprising:
a stand upon which a pipe is supported;
a carriage supported by the stand;
a plurality of pipe threading tools coupled to the carriage and selectively operable to perform work on the pipe;
a drive assembly mounted to the stand including a brushless direct current motor operable to provide torque to one of the pipe or a selected one of the pipe threading tools to rotate the pipe and the selected one of the pipe threading tools relative to each other;
a housing in which at least a portion of the drive assembly is positioned;
a first set of straight, separate, elongated parallel guide rails upon which the carriage is slidable extending from a first end of the housing in a first direction;
a second set of straight, separate, elongated parallel guide rails extending from an opposite, second end of the housing in a second direction;
a battery receptacle located on the housing within a gap between the first and second sets of guide rails; and
a battery pack removably engaged with the battery receptacle and in selective electrical communication with the motor to provide electrical power to the motor.