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Handheld glass breaker with a built-in seatbelt cutter.. A glass breaker is a hand tool designed to break through a window glass in an emergency. It is a common safety device found in vehicles to aid in the emergency extrication of occupants from a vehicle, as well as in some buildings.
A glass cutter may use a diamond to create the split, but more commonly a small cutting wheel made of hardened steel or tungsten carbide 4–6 mm in diameter with a V-shaped profile called a "hone angle" is used. The greater the hone angle of the wheel, the sharper the angle of the V and the thicker the piece of glass it is designed to cut.
Hydraulic cutter in use during a demonstration at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City. Hydraulic rescue tools, also known as jaws of life, are used by emergency rescue personnel to assist in the extrication of victims involved in vehicle accidents, as well as other rescues in small spaces.
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The WSPS developed by Bristol, which is typical of most cable cutters today, consists of a roof-mounted cutter, a lower cutter fitted to the fuselage, [b] and a deflector fitted to the middle of the windshield to guide the cable into the cutters. [1]: 9 [7] Sometimes a windshield wiper protector frame is used to stop the cables from catching on ...
Metro Detroit business owners say shopping small is the way to go this holiday season. Shoppers have no shortage of options for places in and around Detroit to buy gifts, take a window shopping ...
The Window Glass Cutters' League of America (WCGLA) was a labor union representing workers involved in making flat glass in the United States. The union was founded in on December 6, 1917, in Charleston, West Virginia, as the Cutters' League. It soon renamed itself as the WCGLA, and relocated its headquarters to Columbus, Ohio. [1]
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