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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322107 | Manicuring appliance A manicuring appliance comprising a hand held center section with proximal and distal end sections each of which may be detachable from the center section. Each end section may have a lip shaped to bear against the base of the cuticle. The distal end section compris... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7263775 | Illuminating nail clipper An illuminating nail clipper for clipping the nails of an animal such as a dog, cat, bird, or the like which allows for the clipping of an individual nail at the desired length to prevent injury or improper length cutting for the animal. The device includes a hand-a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7210230 | Cuticle cutter A cuticle cutter of the like is described which is of the scissors type. Instruments of this type, especially in beauty salons, require constant cleaning, sharpening and sterilisation. The cutter of the invention facilitates such procedures by permitting the handles... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7131448 | Nail clippers with finger illuminator A nail clipping assembly holds a pair of conventional nail clippers in a holder. The holder can also support a light source which is positioned close enough to a subject's finger tip to illuminate the interior of the finger tip. This exposes the intersection between... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7003882 | Nail clipper A nail clipper 10 includes a fixed blade member 2 and a movable blade member 3. The fixed blade member 2 in a form of a curved plate has a curved face for enabling a finger tip F to be contacted with the curved face, a nail insertion groo... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6827459 | Lighted fastening structure In one embodiment, the invention is directed toward an apparatus that includes a first layer and a second layer attached with one another via sets of fastening elements formed on the layers. The fastening elements may comprise hook-like elements that engage one anot... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6735869 | Nail clipper This present invention relates to a nail clipper. The nail clipper comprises a box-shaped body which has an upper cutting edge, a lower cutting part with a lower cutting edge, a spring piece, a pressing piece, a small movable piece and a cover. This invention is sma... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6705014 | Nail clipper A nail clipper, of which a fixed body is operated with a lever, is folded by a board spring, and unfolding angle between the fixing body and the lever is maintained in certain angle, so that the fingernail can be cut safely, at the same time, when the present invent... | 03/16/2004 |
| 5950316 | Manual cutting tool of the secateurs type The two straight line segments respectively constituting the intersection of the holding plane, on the one hand, the cutting plane, on the other hand, and the plane containing the median axis of the members forming handles and perpendicular to the holding... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5778903 | Acrylic cutter An acrylic cutter, having a distinct proximal segment used as a handle and a distinct distal segment having a flat top portion and a concave bottom portion. A channel recessed through the mid-section of the top portion of the distal segment produces a thi... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5755239 | Pterygium spade manicuring appliance A manicuring apparatus in the form of an elongated spade which serves two distinct functions. One such function is pushing and separating the cuticle and the other such function is removing the pterygium membrane with a scraping action. The pterygium memb... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5524344 | Safety grip A new and improved pair of fingernail clippers with an associated grip have an upper clipper with a first end and a second cutting end, and a lower clipper with a first end and a second cutting end. The first end of the upper clipper is connected to the f... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5392518 | Nail clipper A pair of generally superposed, elongated horizontal upper and lower jaw members are provided including rear ends tightly joined together and vertically divergent front ends equipped with inwardly projecting and opposing cutting edges is provided. A gener... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5357676 | Nail blunt clipper A fingernail clipper for cutting long natural or artificial nails in a single stroke, comprising an upper tine, a lower tine, an actuator handle, and a sliding joint guide member, wherein the upper and lower tines are connected at one end, having aperture... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5226849 | Finger-operated leverage tool A finger-operated leverage tool has first and second lever elements with opposite ends and upper and lower elongated surfaces. A connection joins one end of each of the lever elements and holds the lever elements in a movable angular position with respect... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5123430 | Cutter device for fingernails or toenails A cutter device particularly useful for cutting fingernails and toenails includes a housing grippable by a user for holding and manipulating the device. A slot is formed in a conical end portion of the housing and is elongated in the circumferential direc... | 06/23/1992 |
| 4640011 | Nail clipper The invention contemplates a single-piece clippings retainer having snap-action assembly to a conventional nail clipper, of the variety in which elongate jaw members are connected at one end and diverge toward their other end. The single-piece retainer co... | 02/03/1987 |
