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Class 30/244 - Pivoted blade


Subclass of Class 30 - Cutlery
Definition: Shears in which the blades are pivoted together.
No. of patents: 23
Last issue date: 04/19/2011


NumberTitleIssue Date
7926186Releasable pike pole
A pike pole has a cutting-piercing member connected to one end of the pole. The cutting member normally extends outwardly from the pike pole. The cutting member can be released by a controlling member and be pivotally moveable to a position extending generally along...
04/19/2011
7681318Power-saving scissors
A power-saving scissors comprises a first handle having a first knife set; the first handle being formed with a receiving space; an inner wall of the receiving space being formed with teeth; a second handle pivotally installed to the first handle by a planet gear se...
03/23/2010
7540093Gardening shears
A pair of gardening shears include a handle, a drive member, a control lever, a transmission device, and two cutting blades. The transmission device includes a housing, a pivot plate, a catch plate, a link, a catch flange, a restoring member. Thus, the restoring mem...
06/02/2009
7530172Labor-saving long-arm gardening shears
A pair of long-arm gardening shears include a hollow mounting seat, an extension tube, a cutting tool, a link, a toothed rack, two spaced driven gears, and two elongated handles. Each of the elongated handles is provided with a toothed drive portion meshing with a r...
05/12/2009
7392587Handle for scissors
A handle for scissors including an embedded joint portion that is embedded in the finger support of the first handle portion as a joint portion of the first blade and expose from the intermediate section. The first section and the second section extend from the inte...
07/01/2008
7377043Shearing apparatus
A shearing apparatus includes a pair of scissors including a first blade, a second blade, a first slide on the first blade and a second slide on the second blade. A first handle defines a groove for receiving the first slide, a first portion through which the pair o...
05/27/2008
7363712Cutting tool having detachable grips
A cutting tool includes two metal handles each having a first end formed with a mounting portion and a second end formed with a blade portion, and two plastic grips each having an inside formed with a mounting hole mounted on the mounting portion of the respective m...
04/29/2008
7346991Hand tool providing double compound leverage to the jaws
A hand tool for use by one hand provides double compound leverage of the force exerted on the handles to the jaws. This is achieved by adding additional pivots and lever arms between the handles and the jaws. The jaws may take the form of a sheet metal snip or a pru...
03/25/2008
7275323Long-handled grass shears with a detachable connecting device
A long-handled shears with a detachable connecting device has an operational grip stick with an elongated tube and a wire, a grass shears, and a connecting device attached between the grip stick and the grass shears. The ball is attached to the wire of the grip stic...
10/02/2007
7055245Nail clipper for pets having semi-spherical shape
A nail clipper for pets has a first semi-spherical or semi-elliptical part which is hollowed-out with a circular or elliptical hole with a blade formed on a rim of the hole, and a second semi-spherical or elliptical part having a shape matching the outside of the fi...
06/06/2006
7003885Wire nipper
A wire cutter having a handle, a fixed cutting blade mounted on the handle, a lever pivotally connected to the handle, and a stop on the lever for engagement with the fixed cutting blade is disclosed. ...
02/28/2006
6869000Apparatus for cutting bodies having a non-circular cross section
Bodies with non-circular cross-sections are cut using a tool, by applying a torsional cutting process. ...
03/22/2005
6785969Tree pruner
A tree pruner includes a base member that has a connector connected to a shaft and a main plate longitudinally securely connected to the connector. A first groove is defined in the main plate and downward extends to a periphery of the main plate. A second groove is ...
09/07/2004
6751866Cuticle cutting instrument
A cuticle cutting instrument has tubes rotatably disposed in each other and forming two working endings, cutting elements provided on the endings, handles fixed on the tubes, a return spring installed between the handles, and a tubing connection for communicating wi...
06/22/2004
6742264Limb trimmer apparatus
A limb trimmer apparatus is provided comprising a blade releasably secured to a housing assembly. The housing assembly comprises a housing having first and second flat sides for alternatively securing the blade to the housing assembly in desired extended or storage ...
06/01/2004
6625888Pruning device
A pruning device includes a blade mounting jaw and an opposing jaw. A blade is removably mounted on a blade mounting portion of the blade mounting jaw to cut vegetation positioned between the jaws as the jaws are closed. A blade retainer is movable betwee...
09/30/2003
6581293Device in connection to hole punching pliers arranged to punch holes in a skin protection plate for stoma bag
A pair of hole punching pliers, so-called stoma pliers, is arranged to punch a hole in a skin protection plate for a stoma bag. The hole punching remedies of the pliers consist of a hole socket (16) and a holding-up plate (18) for the same. During the pun...
06/24/2003
5950314Step-separating shearing tool
A step-separating shearing tool includes a first handle and a second handle. A first blade portion is connected to the first handle, and a second blade portion, which includes an L-shaped slot, is hinge-connected to the first blade portion and to the firs...
09/14/1999
5255438Combination knife and shears apparatus
A composite knife and shears apparatus provides a larger knife blade and a smaller knife blade that closely conform in a closed position so that the smaller knife is contained within the periphery of the larger knife. A pair of handle members form handles...
10/26/1993
5060382High leverage shears
A cutting tool including a pair of jaws wherein each jaw has a first and second end. The jaws are pivotally coupled to each other such that the first ends engage with one another when the jaws are in a closed position. The tool further includes a pair of ...
10/29/1991
5005291Livestock dehorner
Method and apparatus for removing horns from livestock. The apparatus comprises first and second generally U-shaped cutting blades pivotally secured to each other. At least one, and preferably both, of the cutting blades has a convexly curved leading edge...
04/09/1991
4958435Ripping scissors
A device for ripping fabric includes two blades which act together in a scissor like fashion. A handle is rigidly attached to one of the blades. The movement of the handle back and forth causes a scissor like action between the blades. After the cut has b...
09/25/1990
 
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