Abstract: A cutting tool has two active members pivotally mounted around a common transverse axis. The rear portion of each active member has a cross-section of height greater than its width. The corresponding intermediate element is made by being overmolded around the rear portion. The rear portion and the corresponding intermediate element are pierced by at least two through holes for passing respective fasteners such as screws for fixing the corresponding tubular handle in place.

Abstract: 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 plane define between them a lateral inclination angle. Further, the projection of a median axis of the cutting edges onto the holding plane defines with the median axis of the members forming handles an angle of inclination in the holding plane.

Abstract: A bolt-cutter type cutting tool has two blade supports each mounted to pivot about a respective pin carried by at least one spacer member of the tool and each having at the free end of its inside edge a removable cutting blade. Each blade support comprises two parallel support members fastened to each other and between which is disposed a central spacer member carrying the pivot pins.

Abstract: A device for assembling and locking two tubes has a radially symmetrical central member having a cylindrical screwthread on a front part and a cylindrical peg at the rear. The latter is inserted in a first tube. The front part is covered by two half-shells with a cylindrical outside wall, bearing on each other along a rectilinear ramp surface. One of the half-shells is unable to move in translation. The other is entrained in translation by the screwthread when the tube is rotated, which tends to move the two half-shells away from the central member, although they remain parallel to each other, until they come into contact with the inside wall of the second tube. The contact surface is cylindrical. The invention is useful, for example, in manufacture of telescopic rods.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mixing apparatus and method for mixing fluent material such as paint or the like in a container. The apparatus includes a main frame and a subframe movably connected to the main frame. A drive motor is mounted on the main frame, and a container receiving and securing support is mounted on the subframe. A transmission mounted on the main frame operably connects the motor and the subframe, and converts the rotary output of the motor to a circular motion of the subframe. In operation, the circular motion agitates the fluent material in the container to mix it in a short period without producing the destructive forces leading to mechanical breakdowns associated with other mixers.