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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7370423 | Long-arm gardening shears having angle adjustable function A pair of long-arm gardening shears include a main body, a first casing, a second casing, a cutting blade assembly, a retaining member, a push button, and a spring. Thus, the angle between the cutting blade assembly and the main body is adjusted so that the length o... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7322111 | Brush cutting device A lever actuated cutting tool that allows ground level cutting of shrubs and small trees from a standing position. The design of the cutting tool takes advantage of the principles of leverage and resistive force, and also incorporates a pendulum swing, to provide a ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7246442 | Hair-trimming tool A hair-trimming tool including a tool body having a pair of hair-bunch supporting pieces whose tip ends can open and close, a connecting portion which connects base ends of the hair-bunch supporting pieces, a protruding portion protruding from the connecting portion... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7124508 | Scissor cap and scissors A pair of scissors including a pair of scissor pieces, each having a handle and a blade, and a pin, which connects the two scissor pieces so that they may be opened and closed. The cutting edges of the two blades intersect each other at an intersecting point that mo... | 10/24/2006 |
| 6681491 | Paperboard carton cutting tool A carton cutting tool for cutting and opening a sealed peaked top of a paperboard carton comprises a first blade attached to a first handle and a second blade attached to a second handle. The first and second blades are pivotally coupled at respective dis... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6637116 | Decorative fruit cutting apparatus A decorative fruit cutting apparatus is provided formed from two semicircular sections and having an inner diameter the size of the fruit or vegetable to be cut up. A plurality of evenly spaced cutting blades line the periphery of the inner diameter of th... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6532669 | Cutting device A cutting device comprising a base, a pivot thruster, and a cutting blade is disclosed. The cutting device allows for safe cutting, and, unlike other cutting devices, may not be used as a weapon. The cutting device is lightweight, inexpensive, portable, a... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6317987 | Scissor Disclosed is a scissor. The scissor comprises a pair of gripping sections integrally coupled with each other at one ends thereof; a pair of blade sections formed at the other ends of the pair of gripping sections, respectively; and a pair of safety plates... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6058820 | Rod cutter A rod cutter having two force-applying members pivotally attached together. A cutter is pivotally mounted on each of the members in a mechanical advantage arrangement. The cutters both have extending ends which are pivotally connected together and have ro... | 05/09/2000 |
| 5964033 | Soft tissue nipper with unitarily formed plastic support for nipper blades A tissue nipper is provided to permit efficient trimming of tissue, such as cuticles. The nipper includes a base, arms projecting unitarily from the base and cutting blades at the ends of the arms remote from the base. Portions of the arms near the cuttin... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5711075 | Unitarily formed plastic soft tissue nipper A tissue nipper is provided to permit efficient trimming of tissue, such as cuticles. The nipper is unitarily molded from plastic and includes a base, arms projecting unitarily from the base and cutting blades at the ends of the arms remote from the base.... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5590470 | Cable cutting tool having an improved cutting blade A cable cutting tool provides an improved blade configuration. The tool includes a pair of pivotally connected cutting blade members having facing curved cutting edges. Each curved cutting edge is in the shape of a spiral. Progressive movement of the cutt... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5561904 | Rose stem stripper A rose stem stripper according to the present invention is accomplished by two metal arms including a base, a handle with looped gripping projections and a pair of jaws laterally offset from the handle. The metal arms are pivotally attached to each other ... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5526570 | Hand Actuated scissors for cutting cables, profiles, branches or the like A hand actuated scissors for cutting work pieces such as cables, profiles, branches or the like, having two hand levers (1, 2) coupled to each other, the first of which merges into a fixed cutting jaw (6) having a movable cutting jaw (10) pivotally suppor... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5452514 | Fruit cutting apparatus A fruit cutting apparatus comprises a handle having a hollow bore, a two-part blade assembly supported at the end of the handle and a plunger axially supported in the bore of the handle for axial sliding movement at the end of the handle opposite to that ... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5438759 | Button removal device A button removal device including a straight torsion spring separating a pair of gripping members wherein the gripping members have a cooperative set of jaws affixed thereon. A first gripping member has a split pointed jaw which engages a singular jaw loc... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5377411 | Hair cutting appliance A haircutting appliance comprises an enclosed housing having a hollow handle connecting the housing to a vacuum source to carry away cut hairs from a subject's head. A manually operated or finger depressible member is pivotally mounted on the handle in a ... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5353505 | Grip scissors A pair of grip scissors comprises a generally U-shaped spring member integrally made of a resin and a pair of blade members attached to the respective free ends of the spring member. The respective free ends of the spring member are provided with an oppos... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5290186 | Poultry processing tool A poultry processing device having a pair of substantially flat cooperating side-by-side thin blade-mounting members with a pair of cooperating blades mounted upon and extending forwardly in angled relation from the forward portions thereof, and secured a... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5218768 | Ratchet cutter The present invention relates to a manually-operated ratchet cutter having a moveable and a fixed handle part, the fixed handle part forming a first fixed cutting edge which is developed substantially in the shape of a circular segment and a moveable cutt... | 06/15/1993 |
| 5093996 | Ergonomic scissors A scissors which may be utilized by persons having weakened hand muscles is disclosed. The scissors comprises first and second blade elements. Each of the blade elements includes a front portion having a sharp cutting edge, a middle portion and a rear por... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5058471 | Rod shearing machine A scissors action shearing machine for sectioning reinforcing rod is equipped with replaceable, hardened steel shear blocks affixed to each scissors mounting blade with each such block and blade pierced to provide a communicating aperture through the enti... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5038477 | Universal siding cutting An apparatus for cutting aluminum siding or like articles includes a movable blade and a pair of fixed blades between which the movable blade is mounted to pivot. The fixed blades are each mounted on a rail that is rigidly connected to a flexible base mem... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5005291 | Livestock 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 |
| 4947554 | Cloth cutting apparatus A cloth cutting apparatus comprising a first arm rotatably attached to a pillar arranged movably along a table, a second arm rotatably connected to the top end of the first arm and a cutter attached to the top end of the second arm. The second arm compris... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4924572 | Thread snips The thread snips include two metal blades connected together, adjacent their rounded, rear ends, so that their pointed, front ends may be moved or pivoted relative to each other, in planes generally parallel with the planes of the metal blades, between op... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4744145 | Hair parting and grasping cutter A hair parting and grasping cutter providing means for parting, grasping, lifting and cutting a person's hair conveniently by one hand operation, comprises a frame (20), an upper shear (40), an upper shear casing (60) and a lower shear (70). The elongated... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4742616 | Cutting device A device for cutting open a discharge nozzle on a capsule containing a plastic mastic has a pair of elongated levers pivotally connected together adjacent first ends of the levers so that the levers are pivotally movable between an open position and a cut... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4715121 | Grip scissors A pair of grip scissors is provided which comprises a grip scissor body having a pair of mutually open/close-able scissor segments, a housing case capable of housing therein the grip scissor body movably in the lengthwise direction thereof and of projecti... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4507864 | Cutting shears Cutting shears or scissors have pivotally connected blades and shank portions extending at an acute angle with respect to the cutting edges of the blades wherein handles of the shears connected to the shank portions lie forward of the pivot connection bet... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4412380 | Hose cutoff device or tool A hose cutoff device or tool is disclosed which is especially adapted for cutting lengths of hose for use in hose assemblies for automotive air-conditioning systems. The device or tool comprises a base which is provided with axially-spaced, axially aligne... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4400877 | Thread nip A thread nip having a removable sheath and cooperating handles which are pivotably connected through a pivot assembly for yieldably retaining the thread nip handles to support sharpened blades on said handles in cutting relationship with the handles being... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4223439 | Manually operated cutting pliers for cables, wires, profiles or the like Manually operated cutting pliers in which two hinged plier grips are spread apart by spring action. One of the plier grips has a fixture, whereas the other grip actuates a jaw movable relative to the fixed jaw by a sliding drive. At least one of the two j... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4153992 | Cutting scissors particularly for the cutting of yarns A cutting scissors particularly for cutting yarns, having cutting edges provided on rigid scissors blades, whereby the cutting edge or edges respectively is (are) set in a connecting frame secured to the relative scissors blade at the side thereof remote ... | 05/15/1979 |
| 4092776 | Cutting tool A cutting tool comprising a one-piece plastic tongs having flat cutting blades disposed at the free ends thereof, the U-shaped portion of the tongs acting as a torsion spring to urge the blades into the proper cutting relationship as the legs of the tongs... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4089113 | Thread snip A thread snip comprising a pair of handle members formed of a resiliently deformable material and defining interlocking flange portions cooperating to support the handle members for swinging movements between open and closed positions and mounting a pair ... | 05/16/1978 |
| 4060892 | Cutter for semicylindrically curled paper A cutter, simple in construction but having good cutting quality and durability, for cutting paper in a semicylindrically curled state. With radii equal to or approximate to the radius of curvature of the paper to be cut, a stationary blade having a semic... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4021998 | Self propelled lawn edging shears Self-propelled lawn edging shears are disclosed comprising shears mounted at the bottom of a first shaft, a second shaft being mounted parallel to the first shaft for operatively engaging the shears and for driving a wheel positioned at the bottom of the ... | 05/10/1977 |
| 4020846 | Splinter puller An instrument for removing splinters embedded in skin has a pair of pincers that extend generally in a first direction and are mutually spaced apart in a second direction transverse to the first direction. Each pincer is substantially broader in a third d... | 05/03/1977 |
