APPARATUS FOR SKIVING REINFORCED HYDRAULIC HOSE

A portable, self-contained machine for skiving reinforced hose fixedly held in position by a mandrel while a rotary cutting assembly moves longitudinally along the portion of the hose which is to be skived. A pair of cutting members are held in tool blocks in the cutting assembly and are positioned on diametrically opposite sides of the mandrel and are in parallel alignment. The tool blocks can be advanced to a point of contact with a stop member which abuts an outer diameter of a collar portion of the mandrel. A spring system forces the cutting members against the reinforced hose until contact is made with a stop member. The cutting edges of the cutting members are displaced slightly ahead of the plane of the reinforced portion of the hose to permit a heel portion only of said cutting members to ride upon the surface of the reinforced hose when the hose has been skived in order to prevent the cutting edge from damaging the reinforced portion of the hose when an oversized diameter reinforced hose is encountered. Opposite sides of said cutting edges are chamfered to assist the cutting edge in biting radially into the outer resilient covering and to produce a chamfered edge on the resilient outer covering which remains on the unskived portion of the reinforced hose.