A self defense weapon formed as a memo pad and which is easily held by a person's fingers, therefore making it possible to provide protection from a mugger and also to quickly and easily write a record or a message without failure of missing or forgetting significant information under a stressful situation.
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7380342 | Scissors having separated blades and handles A pair of improved scissors is provided herein, which separates the blades and handles of the pair of scissors into individual parts. These parts are joined at the pivot point by a locking mechanism. By adjusting the locking mechanism, the included angle between the... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7363712 | Cutting 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 |
| 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 |
| 7140113 | Ceramic blade and production method therefor A blade of ceramic material is treated to enhance the strength and sharpness of the cutting edge. In one embodiment, ceramic particles along at least one margin of an edge-forming face are fused, such as by a laser treatment. The edge mardin can have a hard ceramic ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7080455 | Handheld kitchen scissor/knife appliance A cutting apparatus includes first and second subassemblies. The first subassembly has a first handle and a blade connected to the first handle, the blade including a proximal end portion attached to the handle, a distal end portion, and a cutting edge intermediate ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7077036 | Timing gear pliers A set of pliers that have a plurality of pins on the forward parts of the plier arms and removable blocks which have apertures that can be placed on selected ones of the pins. The blocks have teeth that can engage the teeth on a timing gear. ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7028359 | Container opener A multifunctional container opener for opening a plurality of different containers, including a body that supports a template defining one or more pockets and a pill splitting tool and one or more compartments or pockets for capturing pieces of the split pill or tab... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6964099 | Gardening shears having two pruning effects A pair of gardening shears include a blade assembly including two blades, and a handle assembly pivotally mounted on the blade assembly and including a first handle and a second handle. Thus, the gardening shears have two blades each having two cutting portions havi... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6915578 | Reversible scissors A reversible scissors comprising a pair of pivotally connected two edge cutting blade members, operating handles and ring members. Ring members are connected pivotally with and movable along the operating handles. ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6742264 | Limb 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 |
| 6530099 | Injection molded pliers with insert molded dual purpose reinforcing and implement structure A composite pliers has crossed levers, each including a non-metallic body with an exposed metal cutter blade. The pliers includes strengthening and/or retaining structure around a pivot joint which does not extend into handle portions of the levers. This ... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6523266 | Shears A pair of shears has a pair of handles, a pair of front connection portions, and a pair of cutting devices. Each front connection portion is disposed on a front portion of the respective handle. Each front connection portion has a through hole and a throu... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6434832 | Hair-cutting tool A manually operable hair-cutting tool is disclosed wherein a plurality of paired cutting blades operate together simultaneously to achieve cutting or thinning of hair. The hair-cutting tool preferably comprises three pairs of elongated cutting blades, the... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6367155 | Heatable cutting instrument, specially scissors, knife, clippers or the like A heatable cutting device has a plastic base body having a recess on one side thereof. A cutting blade, made of metal or ceramic, is inserted into and fixedly connected to the recess. An electric heating element for heating the cutting blade is provided. ... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6367156 | Blades for hand held power operated shears A hand-held power-operated blade-actuating or other work member actuating device, especially useful as shears for processing comestible products such as fowl. A servo mechanism and linkage connected with a movable blade and a finger control causes control... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6327944 | Structure of pliers with variable nose A structure of pliers with variable nose comprising a pliers body, two elongated arms being formed with the plier's body to form large nose pliers, the nose being mountable with a large diameter pliers, a small diameter pliers, a flat board pliers, a soft... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6249976 | Scissors The invention is a scissors in which the direction of blades is changeable with regard to handles. The feature is a pair of cutting implement (5A) and (5B), which is a curved intermediate portion (4) between handles (3) and a pin (6) with a constraint mec... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6226822 | Tool structure A tool structure including two grips and a tool head. By way of an opening of a first pivot section of the grip, the first pivot sections of the grips can be separated, permitting the grips to be folded to two sides of the tool head. This reduces the room... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6154964 | Tube cutting tool A hose cutter tool includes scissor arms joined at a pivot point having opposed jaws, one of which includes a cutter blade and the other of which defines an arcuate support surface to hold tubing material. As the arms are manipulated, the blade descends t... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6108845 | Tool combination having detachable handle A tool includes one or more tool members each having two tool elements pivotally coupled together. One or two handles each includes one end pivotally coupled to the block at a pivot pin and each includes a latch device for securing the handle to one end e... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6038772 | Edging scissors with guides A pivoted hand tool, such as a scissors, includes a pair of blades having non-rectilinear cutting edges to form various cutting patterns on a sheet of paper. The scissors also include at least one guide to control the angular presentation of the paper to ... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5987750 | Tube cutting tool A hose cutter tool includes scissor arms joined at a pivot point having opposed jaws, one of which includes a cutter blade and the other of which defines an arcuate support surface to hold tubing material. As the arms are manipulated, the blade descends t... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5918371 | Blades for hand held power operated shears A hand-held power-operated blade-actuating or other work member actuating device, especially useful as shears for processing comestible products such as fowl. A servo mechanism and linkage connected with a movable blade and a finger control causes control... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5832612 | Edging scissors with guides A pivoted hand tool, such as a scissors, includes a pair of blades having non-rectilinear cutting edges to form various cutting patterns on a sheet of paper. The scissors also include at least one guide to control the angular presentation of the paper to ... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5781999 | Thinning scissors A thinning scissors includes two blade holders holding a respective cutting blade for cutting the hair, a fork member fixedly secured to one end of one blade holder for the resting of the thumb, and a finger ring revolvably coupled to one end of the other... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5758422 | Scissors with interchangeable blades A scissors with interchangeable blades wherein first and second blade holders are pivoted with respect to each other and each has a manual graspable configuration thereon. On the other end of each blade holder is a blade retainer. Individual blades can be... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5722171 | Scissors, particulary hairdresser's scissors In scissors, particularly hairdresser's scissors, with two scissor blades (1, 2), connected to each other in articulated fashion by means of a single pivot (3), and two scissor handles (4, 5), each of which displays two handle sections (28, 29) and (30, 3... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5621974 | Cutting implement A cutting implement such as of the scissors type is disclosed herein, having a pair of elongated shanks pivoted together midway between their opposite ends so that opposing blade cutting edges converge together as the shanks are closed towards one another... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5600891 | Poly-scissors device A poly-scissors device and a scissors connector, both aimed at simultaneously cutting two or more cuts in a medium, which cuts are at a constant distance from one another along their length. The poly-scissors includes two elements, each of which includes ... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5592742 | Cutting edge arrangement A cutting edge arrangement comprising multiple cutting plates, each plate having opposing planar surfaces and a cutting edge along one side, said plates joined together along facing planar surfaces, the cutting edges aligned parallel to each other and sli... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5528833 | Scissors with ceramic coated replaceable cutting blades Scissors having a pair of blades that are pivotally connected to each other, each blade having a handle portion and a cutting portion detachably connected thereto. The cutting portion of each blade has a ceramic coating on a cutting edge thereof to increa... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5517762 | Scissors A pair of blade replacement type scissors in which a shaft portion of a blade portion is engaged with a groove formed in a shaft portion of a grip so that the respective shaft portions can be bolted together and in which said grip can be separated to two ... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5501016 | Scissors A pair of blade replacement type scissors in which a shaft portion of a blade portion is engaged with a groove formed in a shaft portion of a grip so that the respective shaft portions can be bolted together and in which said grip can be separated to two ... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5469624 | Interchangeable thumb ringlets for pivoted cutting and grasping instruments Interchangeable thumb ringlets are described for improving the comfort and control of scissors and pivoted grasping instruments. Flexible thumb ringlets having various sizes are removably attachable to the thumb handle portion of such instruments, thereby... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5430941 | Pair of scissors with replaceable blades A pair of scissors with replaceable blades, comprising a pair of blades, a pair of grips each having a blade-connecting mechanism which permits the blades to be replaceably engaged with the grips includes a pair of locking members, a pair of controlling p... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5355585 | Scissors and replaceable torsion blade inserts for scissors The scissors are provided with replaceable thin insert blades. The blade insert carriers of the scissors are recessed to receive the blade inserts fixed in place by a screw. The edge-to-edge force at the cutting point is controlled by the bend and the twi... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5301430 | Interchangeable ringlets for pivoted grasping instruments Interchangeable finger and thumb ringlets are described for improving the comfort and control of scissors and pivoted grasping instruments. Flexible ringlets having various sizes are removably attached to the handle portions of such instruments, thereby p... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5226236 | Nipper including anvil having locator hooks A nipper for pruning sticks, stems and branches is provided with an anvil having locator hooks which partially block the jaw opening of a nipper to limit the size of sticks, stems and branches to be cut. The locator hooks further position sticks, stems an... | 07/13/1993 |
| 5203084 | Structure for scissors with pincer-clip An improved structure for a pair of scissors with pincer-clip, especially for the control of the scissors' opening angle when it's opened, and the locking of the scissors when it's closed. This pair of scissors with pincer-clip can achieve its function by... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5197194 | Shears with removable blades A hand tool comprising two cooperating members each having a handle and interconnecting arrangement for interconnecting the members in mutually overlapping relationship so as to permit movement of the members relative to one another by the handles. At lea... | 03/30/1993 |