Patents Examined by Jason Daniels
  • Patent number: 12382988
    Abstract: A cigar cutter with a positioning mechanism keeping it in an open or closed state includes a rotatable ring, an elastic element, an arresting block and a guide track. Pressing the cigar cutter's cutting blade unit(s) drives the rotatable ring to rotate to compress the elastic element, and the arresting block touches an abutting block and a shoulder in the guide track and is engaged to one end of the guide track, so the cigar cutter is in the closed state. Pressing the cutting blade unit(s) again drives the rotatable ring to rotate to compress the elastic element, the arresting block again touches the abutting block and shoulder and is out of the engaged state, and the elastic element drives the rotatable ring to rotate reversely, which moves the arresting block to the other end of the guide track and allows the cigar cutter to enter the open state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Inventor: Chun-Kai Yang
  • Patent number: 12377477
    Abstract: A collapsible hand saw features an elongated tubular frame member with a hollow interior that runs longitudinally therethrough. First and second arms are removably engaged to the tubular frame near first and second ends of thereof, to span outward from an underside thereof in a common direction. Each arm, near a distal mounting end thereof is configured for selective coupling to a bowsaw blade at a respective mounting hole therein near a respective end thereof. An adjustable tensioner is connectable between the frame member and the first arm, and when tightened, pulls the respective mounting end of said first arm away from the second arm and toward the first end of the frame member to tension the blade. The hollow interior of the frame member accommodates simultaneous storage therein of at least the first and second arms, the adjustable tensioner, and one or multiple blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Inventor: Gordon N. Makowsky
  • Patent number: 12369533
    Abstract: A tree pruner configured to reduce the width of the device to facilitate reduction of shipping costs and store space. The tree pruner includes a leaf spring having a first end mounted onto a first end of a lever, and second end connected to a first end of a stop pin, wherein the stop pin penetrates the lever. When the lever is at a first position in a rest condition at shipping or store front, the leaf spring is in tension to exert force on the stop pin to engage with an outer surface of a back hook to hold the lever at the position. When the lever is pulled to a second position for use, the leaf spring is at rest. The the stop pin penetrates all the way through the lever and engages with an edge of the back hook to serve as an end stop for the lever movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: WOODLAND TOOLS, INC.
    Inventors: Charlton G. A. Foster, James W. Meiller
  • Patent number: 12370707
    Abstract: A razor cartridge has an elongated housing with a guard having spaced-apart ribs; a cap at a respective front and rear region of the housing; and a partition extending between and integrally formed with opposed lateral side walls of the housing. A first razor blade is mounted in a first blade mounting region between the guard and the partition. A second razor blade adjacent the partition, and a third razor blade are mounted in a second blade mounting region between the partition and the cap. A first span between the cutting edge of the first razor blade and the cutting edge of the second razor blade is at least 3.0 mm up to 5.12 mm. Pivotal connecting structure of the housing defines a pivot axis in a region between the cutting edges of the first and second razor blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Edgewell Personal Care Brands, LLC
    Inventors: Alan Blatter, Christopher Fernald
  • Patent number: 12355221
    Abstract: A cable shaving tool including a blade holder having a guide channel extending along the blade holder length. The guide channel includes a cable channel, and a control surface at opposing ends. A removable blade is secured to a blade support surface and the blade edge extends within the guide channel. The blade support and handle are disposed along a central axis. The shaving depth is determined by the differential between: (1) the distance from the cable channel to the bottom surface of the blade holder; and (2) the distance from the control surface to the bottom surface of the blade holder. The handle is secured to the blade holder and extends along the central axis, allowing an operator's hand to be positioned directly over the blade during a cut, apply a downward pressure on the cable to set the blade and then move the tool in a direction parallel to the cable length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: Hubbell Power Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Will Eisele, Mark Fowler, Orelvis Migenes, Brian Bourgoin
  • Patent number: 12350850
    Abstract: A subassembly for a shaving razor cartridge with a base having a front wall with a top surface and a rear wall with a top surface. At least one blade is mounted to the base between the front wall and the rear wall. The at least one blade has a cutting edge positioned at least 0.5 mm below a plane tangent to the top surface of the front wall and the top surface of the rear wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Paul Walker, Jr., Jack Anthony Washington, Tina Marie Hallett, Matthew Frank Murgida, Ulises Hernando Bautista
  • Patent number: 12343809
    Abstract: A reciprocating power tool may include a driving system including a motor and a transmission received in a housing to drive a reciprocating mechanism. A selection mechanism may provide for selection of an operation mode of the reciprocating tool, including a linear mode of operation and at least one orbital mode of operation. Motion of a reciprocating shaft of the reciprocating mechanism may be guided by a guide bracket that is fixed in the housing and an orbit bushing that is movably coupled in the housing. In the linear mode of operation of the tool, the bushing is in a first position relative to the guide bracket. In an orbital mode of operation of the tool, the bushing is moved to a second position relative to the guide bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventor: Yanchao Wang
  • Patent number: 12342953
    Abstract: An L-shaped peeler with first and second legs. The first leg featuring grip protrusions and the second leg including a cutout. A cutting member in the cutout so that the cutting member is outwardly offset from the second leg. The user grasps the first leg and one or more of the grip protrusions and moves the second leg over a piece of fruit or a vegetable to be peeled so that the cutting member peels the fruit or vegetable and a removed portion travels through the cutout adjacent the sharpened linear portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Inventor: Jose Ernesto Bello Ravelo
  • Patent number: 12342753
    Abstract: A rotator includes a supporting case and a bobbin. The supporting case includes a cylindrical portion, a flange portion extended from the cylindrical portion, and a plurality of extension holes provided through the flange portion. An inner peripheral surface of the bobbin is removably abutted onto an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion. A string trimmer line with flexibility is wound around an outer peripheral surface of the bobbin. Both end portions of the string trimmer line wound around the outer peripheral surface of the bobbin are extended radially outward through two extension holes selected from a plurality of extension holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KITAMURA SEISAKUSHO
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Kitamura
  • Patent number: 12330330
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to adjusting and maintaining a position of a cutting surface used to create lines of weakness for rolled products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian Christopher Schwamberger, Gustav André Mellin, Michael Devin Long
  • Patent number: 12330324
    Abstract: The present invention provides a folding knife containing a blade replacement structure, including a handle body (1), a blade holder (2), a blade (3), and a connection pin (4). The blade holder (2) includes a first clamp plate (21), a second clamp plate (22), a spacer (23), and an elastic member (221). The first clamp plate (21), the second clamp plate (22), and the spacer (23) together enclose an embedding slot that allows the blade to be inserted. When the folding knife is completely opened, a first slot (31) on the blade (3) fits with a first locking protrusion (231) on the spacer (23), and a second slot (32) on the blade (3) fits with a second locking protrusion on the elastic member (221). The blade holder (2) and the blade (3) can rotate around the connection pin (4) to be accommodated in the handle body (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Inventor: Huan Zhang
  • Patent number: 12318956
    Abstract: A razor cartridge is provided having a housing and a blade assembly mounted to the housing. The blade assembly has at least one razor blade defined by a substrate having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has first and second outer surfaces. The second portion has first and second sections separated by a split line. The first section has a first facet and an end facet. The second section has an end facet. The end facets of the first and second sections may converge at a tip to define a cutting edge. A shoulder may be positioned between the first facet and the end facet of the first section and define a skin-contacting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Bin Shen, Yongqing Ju, Kenneth James Skrobis, William Owen Jolley, Thorsten Knobloch
  • Patent number: 12310300
    Abstract: A hand tool including a shear assembly is provided, including a first handle, a second handle including a cutting member, and a cutting blade. The cutting blade forms a first opening and a second opening. The first handle is attachable in a first operating mode to the cutting blade at the first opening via a first fastener. The first handle is attachable in a second operating mode to the cutting blade at the second opening via the first fastener. The cutting blade is attached in pivotal arrangement to the second handle via a second fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: TECHTRONIC CORDLESS GP
    Inventors: Rony Chan, Samuel Nelson
  • Patent number: 12280512
    Abstract: A safety razor removes hair from skin using the cutting blade comprising a sharp edge along an elongated side of a planar surface. An outer comb has a row of outer teeth running along the planar surface on an outside of the cutting blade, each outer tooth is substantially perpendicular to the sharp edge and spaced with a gap between the row of the outer teeth and the planar surface of the cutting blade. Ends of the row of outer teeth comprise outer teeth tips. An inner guard runs along the planar surface on an inside of the cutting blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Bakblade Limited
    Inventor: Matthew James Dryfhout
  • Patent number: 12275160
    Abstract: A cutting device for the chipless cutting of a material comprises a cutting part and a supporting part. The cutting part and the supporting part are designed to be rotated with respect to one another about an axis of rotation between an open position and a closed position. A hand lever is articulated to the supporting part for pivoting about a pivot axis. A ratchet mechanism converts a back-and-forth motion of the hand lever into a continuous rotational motion of the cutting part toward the closed position. The ratchet mechanism includes a toothing and a drive pawl, which can be brought into an effective position with respect to the toothing. Furthermore, the cutting device comprises a coupling mechanism, which converts a one-time pivoting motion of the hand lever into a rotational motion of the cutting part. A separate coupling element transmits force from the hand lever to the cutting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: ROTHENBERGER AG
    Inventors: Dennis Hesse, Maximilian Gottschalk, Jonas Schilling
  • Patent number: 12268131
    Abstract: A cutting device includes a jaw with a first jaw member and a second jaw member, a first handle attached to the first jaw member and a second handle rotatably connected to the second jaw member at a second pivot point, a gear including a first set of teeth and a second set of teeth at a first end of the second handle. The second handle is slidably connected to the second jaw member at the second pivot point to allow the second handle and the second set of teeth to move into a disengaged position where the second set of teeth are located at a distance from the first set of teeth. To ensure that the teeth of the gear engage correctly, a slide lock is in an enabling state allowing the second handle and the second set of teeth to slide in a slide direction from the disengaged position to the engaged position only when the first set of teeth and the second set of teeth are aligned into a mutually predetermined position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Fiskars Finland Oy Ab
    Inventor: Mikko Heine
  • Patent number: 12269182
    Abstract: A personal care device drive unit comprises a main body housing a motor and enabling releasable connection to any selected one of a set of different functional units. A controller of the personal care device drive unit generates an output signal associated with the selected one of the functional units connected to the main body in dependence on a sensed motor current and a sensed vibration occurring in the main body. The use of both vibration sensing and current sensing (which detects the electrical motor load resulting from driving the selected one of the functional units connected to the main body) enables multiple different functional units to be identified more reliably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Bernardo Arnoldus Mulder, Joost Willem Frederik Nengerman, Renger Ypenburg, Johan Bron, Peter Sofrides Viet
  • Patent number: 12268132
    Abstract: A reciprocating cutting blade apparatus includes: a pair of reciprocating cutting blades disposed to overlap one another in a thickness direction; an upper support member and a lower support member sandwiching and reciprocably supporting the reciprocating cutting blades; and a transmission case to which the upper and lower support members maintaining a distance therebetween are mounted. The transmission case includes: a grease inlet and an upper grease reservoir provided above the upper support member accumulating grease poured from the grease inlet and; a lower Grease reservoir provided below the lower support member and accumulating the grease poured from the grease inlet. The upper support member includes a through-hole communicating with the upper grease reservoir. The lower support member includes a through-hole communicating with the lower grease reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunio Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12251844
    Abstract: Foldable, multipurpose shears can have a pair of shearing blades, each blade having a sharp side and a blunt side. The blades are connected to handles via a hinge, and the handles have one side that is straighter and another side that is more rounded or irregularly shaped. One of the blades includes a backward facing hook on the blade's blunt side. Additionally, the blunt side may have partially sharpened serrations. The blades can fold about the hinge for easier transport and storage and the shears are configured so that the hook does not extend past the handles when folded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Inventors: Alexander Stephen Swan, Cameron J Nielson
  • Patent number: 12251847
    Abstract: A shaving apparatus is provided with bulges and gaps for a slip proof grip is disclosed. Precise bulges and gaps on the handle of the shaving apparatus contour to the hand and fingers in a variety of reliable positions adjusting to one's personal shaving technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Inventor: York Mueller