PIPE CUTTING AND BEVELING TOOL

A simplified device for cutting and beveling the end of a section of pipe is disclosed. The device includes a flexible strip of smooth hard surfaced material which is circumferentially wrapped around the outer periphery of the pipe for more than one turn with the edges of the wrappings aligned. A mount is positioned on the outer periphery of the pipe so that it straddles the strip and a cutting torch is adjustably held on an inclined surface of the mount. The mount is securely coupled to the pipe by taking up the slack of a cord loop on the front end of the mount which is linked to a cord loop on the back end of the mount. Such an arrangement provides for the mount to be easily manually pushed or pulled about the pipe by providing for the loops of cord to slip along the smooth hard surface of the strip while the mount is being guided along the circumferential path formed by the sides of the wrappings of the strip.