Sheet (tool)

A flat part of a tool or device, often made of metal, is referred to as a sheet of work equipment. It serves, for example, as a carrier for the cutting edge of sawing and splitting tools or as a broad surface for hoes and digging tools.

Definitions and forms

Tool blades can be found on saws, shovels, hoes, hatchets and similar tools.

Cutting tools

Saw blade shape

Saw or scythe

Serrated blade made of hardened steel for cutting hard materials such as wood, stone or metal. For example, there are circular, straight and band saw blades. The blades of saws have different toothings and a varying number of teeth depending on the application. The material from which the blade is made must be matched to the material to be processed and is harder than this, especially in the area of the saw teeth. However, since hard, brittle materials break more easily, saw blades are often made with an elastic body and hard teeth. There are, for example, bimetal blades, blades with hard metal teeth or blades with a hard metal coating. This can extend the service life and thus the usability of the blade.

Turning tools and chisels

Blade shape (turning tool)

The different blades of woodturning are used to create indentations and shaping, especially of wooden components. They have a sharp edge and are often slightly curved or tapered.
The blades of the chisel are used to work on hard materials such as stone or metal. They are made of steel, have a sharp edge and have a wedge-shaped point at one end.

Striking tools

Pickaxe

Hoe
Hoes are tillage implements that carry a pointed or edged blade on a wooden handle. There are different leaves for hoes, beets or weeds, which are mostly used to tear up encrusted surfaces, to loosen clods of earth or for weeding. They can be equipped with a corner or V-shaped tip, for example to create seed furrows, or have a shape that widens at the bottom or rounded leaves. There are also combined hoes that are pointed on one side and a wider blade on the other.

Ax, hatchet
The blade of splitting tools such as hatchet or ax is widened towards the bottom and has a sharp edge for cutting materials, especially wood. Special forms of ax blades were also made as weapons, for example for battle axes or guillotines .

Blade of a thrust ax
narrow sheet
wide sheet
Beard leaf
double-sided sheet
guillotine

Digging or dumping tools

Shovels and spades
There are at shovels and spades different leaf shapes and sizes.

A shovel blade with a straight end is suitable, for example, for digging sand or loose topsoil and for distributing grit. Pointed leaf shapes are suitable for firmer or coarser-grain materials. The blades are preferably made of hardened steel. Shovel blades are usually slightly arched or have a raised lateral edge.
The leaves of smaller hand shovels, for example for portioning food (flour, grain, spices), can be made of wood, plastic or stainless steel. Also dustpans are often made of plastic and can add an additional rubber lip to facilitate Auffegens own.
Spade blades are used for soil cultivation (digging) or the excavation of soil, for example when cutting peat . Pointed spade blades are suitable for stony soils. The lower edge of the sheet is sharpened, while the upper edge, partially reinforced, serves as a step.

Shovel blades
Wooden sheets
Dustpan
Field or folding spade
Spade blades

Other tools

Spatulas and trowels

In spatulas there are the application, different sheets of plastic or stainless steel. The sheets can be used to apply brushable, soft materials to surfaces. To smooth this mass, they usually have a wide, straight surface. The leaves can be serrated ( notched trowel ) for even application . The leaves of painter's spatulas are not only used to apply materials, but are also used, for example, to mix plaster of paris and to scrape off or remove wallpaper. They are made of hardened, elastic or stainless steel and are mostly between 1 and 14 cm wide at the blade.
Trowels are often made of stainless steel and have trapezoidal, tapered, or rectangular blades. The blade of smoothing trowels can also be made of plastic. In the trowels is discriminated with a triangular blade and trowels with a triangular rectangle shape between trowels.