Abstract: The cutting appliance of the present invention features a pivotally connected upper (3) and lower casing (2), each having a pair of parallel sidewalls which, in closed position, contact the sidewalls of the other casing and clamp a band, strip, or web (18) or surgical dressing or the like on each side of a desired cutting line, a cutter blade (12) extending longitudinally within the lower casing and having an edge (13) parallel to, but spaced below, the plane (X--X') of contact of the casing sidewalls, and a bifurcated cursor (11) slidable within the upper housing and having a pair of jaws (17, 17') which apply pressure to the clamped band (18) on each side of the blade edge (13), thereby forcing it below the contact plane, onto the cutter blade edge (13).

Abstract: A broom body having artificial boughs simulating natural boughs for sweeping. The body is an assembly of a tubular socket of an elastic plastic, artificial boughs and a cover sleeve also of plastic. The socket has a cylindrical portion and a portion having a frusto-conical configuration and axially spaced collars of equal dimension and thereon axially spaced. The collar outer diameters are greater than that of the socket. The boughs with a lateral ring at one end and artificial twigs axially distributed on the rod and may have connecting twigs between the longest twigs. The broom body is assembled by placing the rings of the boughs axially on the socket and sliding them axially until the individual rings are disposed circumferentially of a respective collar. The collars may each have a radial projection filtering a groove of the corresponding bough rod to preclude on the socket in a circumferential.