Tool for cutting tiles in earthenware or similar materials

Claim 1

In a tool for cutting slabs of earthenware or similar materials, such as earthenware tiles, the combination of an elongated body member including first and second opposite end portions, first and second identical cutting tool points fixed in and extending outwardly from said corresponding first and second end portions of said body member, first and second external screw threads formed on said body member and adjacent said corresponding first and second end portions of said body member, and first and second gripping protective handle members each including internal screw threads engaged with the corresponding first and second screw threads to power and form a protective cover for the corresponding first and second cutting tool points, said first and second handle members being selectively removable from either of said first and second external screw threads on said body member so that the other of said handle members can form a protective cover for the corresponding cutting tool point while leaving the other cutting tool point uncovered and available for use and wherein one of said gripping protective handle members comprises a gripping nose including an outer free end with a perpendicular groove therein, and wherein said perpendicular groove in the outer free end portions of one of said gripping protective handle members is adapted to grip the edge of an earthenware tile while said one gripping protective handle member serves to cover one of said cutting tool points.