Abstract: A clamp, including a first clamp body and a second clamp body. The first clamp body includes a first clamp jaw and a first handle, movably connected to each other. The first clamp jaw is rotatably connected to the second clamp body at a first connecting position, and the first handle is rotatably connected to the second clamp body at a second connecting position. When the relative position of the first clamp jaw and the first handle is changed, a force occurs between the first clamp jaw and the first handle. A moment formed by the force with the first connecting position as a fulcrum is greater than a moment formed by the force with the second connecting position as a fulcrum.

Abstract: A cutting board assembly for slicing a food item includes a food slicer that may be manipulated thereby facilitating the food slicer to slice a food item into a plurality of slices. A plate is provided and the plate is selectively positioned on a support surface. A plurality of pegs is provided and each of the pegs is coupled to and extends upwardly from the plate. A food item is selectively placed on each of the pegs. Moreover, the plurality of pegs space the food item from the plate thereby facilitating the food slicer to slice fully through the food item.

Abstract: A device to strip the external coating layer off of a coated optical fiber is provided. The optical fiber coating removal device includes a one piece molded body having a first body portion connected to a second body portion by a flexible region and a blade secured in one of the first body portion and the second body portion wherein the blade includes a U-shaped slot having cutting edges on the inside of the slot, wherein the flexible portion allows the first and second body portions to move between an open state and a closed state for stripping an optical fiber.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a food slicer comprising an upper portion having at least one pushing head with at least one pusher. The pushing head is located at a distal end of the upper portion. A lower portion having at least one slicing head with at least one blade and one opening is located at a distal end of the lower portion. The slicing head has a plurality of deflectable elements arranged therein. A connection portion coupled to a proximal end of the upper portion and a proximal end of the distal portion. The at least one pusher extends past the blade and through the opening of the slicing head when the food slicer is moved from an open position to a closed position.

Abstract: A selectively bendable remote access gripping tool, includes a jaw portion having a pair of jaws or nets movable relative to each other between clamped and opened positions thereof, a handle portion spaced apart from the jaw portion by a bendable central portion that has a hollow, corrugated member that is bendable, and a cord extending through the hollow bendable member that connects the jaw portion and the handle portion.

Abstract: A device for maintaining a lock of hair such as a dreadlock is provided. The device comprises a housing encasing a motor activated by a controller. A grooming element for encasing the dreadlock is rotatably situated within the housing. The housing comprises a clamping mechanism for securing the device to the dreadlock. Once the dreadlock is secured by the clamping mechanism, the grooming element rotates around the dreadlock to integrate new hair growth into the dreadlock. The grooming element comprises a plurality of trimming components for removing any excess hair that did not integrate into the dreadlock.

Abstract: An adhesive substance removing tool is provided with a cracking tool and a scrapping assembly which are removably coupled to a base. The cracking tool is used to crack the adhesive substance by forming breaking lines on the surface of the adhesive substance, and then the scrapping assembly is used to scrape off the adhesive substance by starting from the breaking lines. The combination of the cracking tool and the scraping assembly allows the user to remove adhesive substance easily and completely. Besides, the cutting assembly of the cracking tool is able to move freely both in straight-line or circular fashion, and the cracking tool can be prevented from rotating or disengaging once it is positioned in place on the base. Hence, convenience and safety of use can both be assured.

Abstract: A multi-tool apparatus includes a frame having at least one opening and at least one gate element partially bounding the at least one opening. The at least one gate element is movable relative to the frame to permit access to the opening. The apparatus includes at least one cutting element partially bounding the at least one opening. The at least one gate element is movable into the opening so that the at least one gate element and at least one cutting element come into contact for wire stripping, crimping, and cutting operations.

Abstract: Hand tool and method of manufacturing and using same. The hand tool includes a tool mount including at least one heim joint that removably receives thereon a tool head assembly. The heim joint and tool head assembly cooperate to provide the hand tool with a multi-directional, variable angle of attack on a work piece in a manner that accommodates aged, arthritic and otherwise handicapped people having a limited range of arm, wrist and hand movement.

Abstract: A cutting accessory detachably mounted on an oscillating power tool is disclosed. The oscillating power tool includes a head housing and an output shaft extending from the head housing. The output shaft rotates oscillatingly about a longitudinal axis thereof. The cutting accessory includes a housing adapted to the head housing, two movable blades partly received in the housing, and a driving element adapted to the output shaft. The driving element is configured to oscillate by the actuation of the output shaft and simultaneously drives the two movable blades to move in the opposite directions to cut a workpiece.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ergonomically designed tool for the intensive cutting of flowers and fruit, configured such that it can be gripped with the whole hand. According to the invention, the handles occupy a position in which they are perpendicular or almost perpendicular to the cutting blades, thereby minimizing the risk of injury to the upper limbs.

Abstract: A method for contacting a lighting device is provided, wherein the lighting device has a circuit board which is covered at least partly by a sealing compound layer; wherein the lighting device can be separated at a separating point into two lighting device sections and each of the lighting device sections has at least one electrical contact.

Abstract: A cutting tool utilizing a replaceable blade has a body which defines a blade-accepting pocket having an interior within which the body of the blade is nestingly accepted when inserted within the pocket and for releasable securement of the blade within the blade-accepting pocket. Furthermore, the blade-accepting pocket includes an abutment surface against which a surface of the blade body bears against when the cutting edge of the blade is moved into cutting engagement with an item being cut with the tool.

Abstract: A tissue cutting device is described, a representative one of which includes: a handle part; a head unit including comprising a plurality of blades arranged so as to extend substantially parallel with a longitudinal direction of the handle part at intervals and a blade holding portion for holding the plurality of blades; and a head holding part located at the distal end of the handle part, for holding the head.

Abstract: A cutter head (100) for use with a hand-held rotary food processor, including a hub portion (101) in which a plurality of axially extending cutting blades (103) are mounted in recesses (102) in the hub each cutting blade having a longitudinal slot formed therein and being so positioned in the respective recess in the hub that one edge (302) of the slot is superimposed above the centre line of the recess so as to form the cutting edge of the cutting blade.

Abstract: An exemplary cutting device includes a first main body and a second main body pivotally mounted on the first main body. The first main body includes a cutting portion arranged at one end thereof. The cutting portion includes two spaced blades disposed at one end thereof. Each blade has a cutting edge. The second main body includes a supporting portion, and the supporting portion faces the cutting edges of the blades. The supporting portion is movable in a direction towards the blades or away from the blades.

Abstract: A multi-bladed cutting apparatus for slicing objects, such as food items, into slices. The blades of the apparatus may be operable between a cutting position and a release position. In the cutting position, the blades are able to efficiently cut objects into smaller sizes. In the release position, any matter lodged between the blades falls out of its own accord. In this manner, the need for a user to manually removed matter lodged between the blades is eliminated. One or more levers responsive to an input force from a user may be utilized to move the blades from the cutting position to the release position. A flexible member may provide restoring force to return the blades to the cutting position.

Abstract: The apparatus provides a cutting device, particularly adapted for cutting a moving length of zipper material in the manufacture of reclosable packages. Upper and lower opposed stationary blades are provided thereby providing opposed cutting edges. A reciprocating blade, with upper and lower cutting surfaces, reciprocates within a slot immediately adjacent to the stationary blades, thereby allowing the reciprocating blade to cut on both its upward and downward reciprocating strokes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hunting knife for assisting a hunter in field dressing an animal, particularly for assistance with breaking the pelvic bone of the animal. The knife includes a handle, a single blade and an extended element. The longitudinal axis of the knife and the longitudinal axis of the extended element are disposed generally parallel and co-planar, as defined herein. A forward-receiving slot is formed between the blade and the extended element for receiving a portion of the pelvic bone of the animal. The present invention includes sheaths for containing the knife of the present invention. A method for using the knife of the present invention includes the steps of contacting the knife to the portion of the pelvic bone desired to be broken and pulling up on the knife so as to break the bone.

Abstract: A film wrapper (99) comprises a tear tape (30) and at least one weakening line (10, 12) next to the tear tape (30), the longitudinal axis of the at least one weakening line (10, 12) being substantially perpendicular to the tear tape (30) (perpendicular weakening lines (10, 12)). An article is wrapped into the film wrapper. A multi-bladed knife (100) used for producing the film wrapper comprises a U-shaped or V-shaped first blade (110) and a second linear blade (112) parallel to the longitudinal axis of said first blade (110) and a third linear blade (111) perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the first blade (110).

Abstract: A trimming machine according to the present invention has a pair of blades each of which has a plurality of cutting edges along a longitudinal direction of the blades and which are reciprocated along the longitudinal direction relative to each other by a rotary power unit. The trimming machine further has a substantially cylindrical eccentric cam eccentrically rotated by the rotary power unit, and a connecting rod having an annular larger end part slidably fitted around the eccentric cam, a smaller end part pivotally attached to one of the blades, and a connecting rod axis passing through a central axis of the smaller end part and a central axis of the larger end part. The larger end part has a bearing portion for bearing load from the blade, and the bearing portion is located on the connecting rod axis when the connecting rod axis is aligned with the longitudinal direction, and is deformable along the connecting rod axis when the bearing portion is subjected to a load.

Abstract: An edge trimmer for an uncured elastomer strip being conveyed in the longitudinal direction of the strip is disclosed. In the uncured elastomer strip, cords laid parallel with each other along the longitudinal direction of the strip, are embedded. The edge trimmer comprises a cutter head comprising a blade for trimming an edge portion of the uncured elastomer strip. The cutter head is freely movable in the transverse direction of the uncured elastomer strip being conveyed. The blade has a pair of v-shaped cutting edges opening towards the upper stream of the conveyed direction of the uncured elastomer strip. Preferably, the thickness of the blade is 1.0 to 2.0 mm, the opening angle of the V-shaped cutting edges is 30 to 70 degrees, an angle of each of the cutting edges is 35 to 65 degrees, and the cutting edges are formed on the thickness center plane of the blade.

Abstract: A hair clipper includes a comb-like fixed blade and movable blade having a plurality of blade pieces arranged in parallel. The fixed blade and the movable blade is overlapped with each other and the movable blade is reciprocatively slid with respect to the fixed blade in an arrangement direction of the blade pieces. Each blade piece of the movable blade has blade edges formed at both sides thereof, each blade edge being formed with a leading rectilinear part and a basal rectilinear part; the leading rectilinear part and the basal rectilinear part are inclined with respect to the blade edges formed at both sides of each blade piece of the fixed blade by an acute included angle ?; and each blade edge of the movable blade has a rake surface facing an opposite side to the fixed blade.

Abstract: 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 first part and a blade formed on a rim thereof. By placing the pet's nail in the hollowed-out hole of the first semi-spherical or elliptical part and rotating the second part along the outside of the first part, the blades of the first and second parts come together to cut the pet's nail, producing smooth nail edges cut in a semi-circular shape in a single cutting action.

Abstract: A cutting implement having a pair of cutting blades and a coating is provided. The coating has titanium chromium nitride and provides the cutting blades with a satin silver appearance. In some embodiments, the titanium chromium nitride coating has a thickness in a range between about 0.3 microns and 0.5 microns, a surface roughness in a range of about 15 to 25 10−6 inch/inch, and a hardness in a range of about 5.7 to about 9.1 gegapascals.

Abstract: A pelvic bone splitting tool provides a number of features to assist a hunter in field dressing game, such as deer. The tool or splitter may include a lower or grip handle formed as a unitary piece with an upper jaw. The grip handle includes finger-receiving indentations, and the upper jaw may include a cutting blade. The tool may further include an upper or palm handle formed as a unitary piece with a lower jaw, and the palm handle and the lower jaw may be joined together by an angled connecting piece, and the handles pivot relative to once another about a central pivot. The lower jaw includes a splitting blade, which may be removable from the tool. Alternatively, the upper handle/lower jaw combination and lower handle/upper jaw combination may be nearly mirror images of one another. These combinations are joined together at a rotating pivot which preferably forms a smoothly rotating bearing.

Abstract: A mowing machine for cutting plants with radially protruding blades of upper and lower blade disks which are coaxially disposed and rotated under the hood that is disposed at the end of a handle. The upper blade disk has a ring gear, the lower blade disk has a sun gear, and a transmission gear is provided between the ring gear and the sun gear and meshes these gears so as to rotate the ring and sun gears in the opposite directions, thus rotating the upper and lower blade disks in the opposite directions for producing a shearing force that cuts the plants.

Abstract: The cigar cutter (1) has a housing (2), an opening (3) adapted for insertion of a cigar or the end of a cigar, at least three blades (5), and a squeeze bar (6). When the cigar cutter (1) is squeezed, for example by the pressure of a single hand on the squeeze bar (6) and the side of the housing (2) opposite the squeeze bar (6), a mechanism translates the squeezing force into an irising movement of the blades (5). The mechanism includes rings (11), squeeze bar pins (15), and blade pins (21). The inside diameters of the rings (11) are less than that of the opening (3). Part of the end of the squeeze bar (6) protrudes into the housing (2) and is forked so as to sandwich the rings (11). Squeeze bar pins (15) extend from the rings (11) and pass through slots (17) in the forked end of the squeeze bar (6). By means of this arrangement, an inward movement of the squeeze bar (6) causes the rings (11) to rotate.

Abstract: A hand-held device for picking fruit which includes an elongated grip member and a head member connected to the elongated grip member which includes a pair of fixed immovable blades. Each blade has a cutting edge. The blades are positioned in the head in opposed planar relationship to one another so that at least a portion of each respective cutting edge is in spaced opposed relationship to the cutting edge of the other blade at a distance less than the thickness of the stem of the fruit to be picked. Picking is accomplished by a thrusting motion in which the device is held in one of the laborers hands while the fruit to be picked is grasped in the other. The device is thrust at the stem of the fruit to be picked. The pair of fixed blades guides the stem into the cutting region where the stem is severed. The fruit can be removed by the hand holding it during the cutting operation.

Abstract: A hand tool for end cutting and edge trimming of edgebanding, veneer and the like comprising a handle, a first generally L-shaped cutting blade mounted on said handle and having a curved cutting surface at the intersection of the legs thereof, together with a second blade extending obliquely across the axis of the tool and having the cutting edge of the second blade facing oppositely to the cutting edge of the first blade.

Abstract: A seafood dressing tool includes a pair of pivotally interconnected lever members, the lever members forming a pair of grips or handles on one of their ends and a pair of curved, slender blades on their other ends. One lever member forms the lower grip or handle and the upper blade, and the other or second lever member forms the upper grip or handle and the lower blade. The blades curve downwardly with respect to the longitudinal centerline of the tool when oriented for normal use. The lower blade has a relatively sharp upper knife edge, and the upper blade has a lower edge cooperable with the upper knife edge of the lower blade for effecting scissors-like cutting action when the handles or grips are squeezed closed toward one another. The lower blade is adapted for insertion longitudinally into the body of a headless shrimp at its proximal end when the blades are in an open position, with the upper blade then being superposed along the shrimp's back.

Abstract: A de-hiding tool for use in slaughter houses in which a spring biases the reciprocating cutting blades into intimate facial contact to prevent debris from entering the driving mechanism, but achieves long life and low maintenance by interposing a low-friction element between the biasing spring and the nearest cutting-blade face, such element and the spring being carried in one cover of the tool coaxially with the cutting blades, the low-friction element being movable towards the nearest cutting-blade face under pressure from said spring, the tool being capable of adjustment to optimum operational speed by reason of an adjustable needle valve carried in the air channel to the tool.

Abstract: Method and Tool for removing a swaged collar from a pin member of a lockbolt type fastener by using a tool having a housing with an opening therein having opposite wall, one wall having a pair of fixed spaced blades extending longitudinally of the collar and the other opposite wall having a piston operated ram, whereby said ram forces said collar against said blades to cut through and spread said collar to separate the collar from the pin member.

Abstract: A folding knife having a blade and a pair of folding handles. The handles are channel shaped and bifurcated at one end for receiving one end of the blade. The bifurcated ends of the handles are attached to the blades by adjacent pivot pins. Rotation of the handles to the closed position encloses the blade inside the opposing channels of the handles. The ends of the handles are coupled by meshing gears pivoted on the same pins so that the handles must rotate together in opposite directions through 180.degree. between closed and open positions.