Abstract: A portable electric tool, such as, for example, shears or secateurs suitable for pruning and/or harvesting work, comprises at least one moving working component disposed at the front and of a hollow frame one part of which forms the handle of the tool and inside which are housed an electric motor and a speed reducer. The outlet of the speed reducer is connected to the moving working component by means of a transmission system which comprises a moving gear unit. The tool also includes a trigger which protrudes outside the frame and operates an electric control device. The trigger and the electric control device are connected to the moving gear unit of the moving working component and follow the movements of the component. The trigger and the control device can occupy different relative positions, so that each movement made by the trigger from a neutral position, activates the control device, which in turn starts the electric motor to move the whole unit: i.e.

Abstract: A cutting machine for use in agriculture, viticulture and arboriculture has at least one cutting assembly constituted by a plurality of superposed cutting tools, each cutting tool comprising a rotary circular cage provided with peripheral openings, and a member disposed in the cage and taking part in the cutting action, the improvement being that the cage and the member disposed therein are made in a complementary manner and are associated so as to constitute a system of blade and counter blade producing a cut by shearing action.

Abstract: A portable hydraulic tool, such as a hydraulic secateurs, is of the kind having a single acting ram including a driving piston with its piston rod connected to at least one movable operating member such as a cutting element of the tool, the piston being movable in fluid tight manner in a bore under the thrust of hydraulic fluid acting on a working face of the piston, the improvement being that there is provided a return chamber the volume of which decreases when the driving piston is displaced in its working stroke, the return chamber containing a compressible fluid under pressure such that, when the thrust exerted on the piston by the hydraulic fluid becomes less than the thrust exerted on the piston by the compressible fluid, the piston is caused to carry out a return stroke by the expansion of the compressible fluid.

Abstract: A hydraulic secateur or pruning shears includes a device for continuously and smoothly controlling the separation of its cutting blades. This avoids the disadvantage inherent in conventional hydraulic-assisted pruning shears, in which the cutting blades must either be open completely or closed completely, resulting in the entanglement of branches and other undesirable objects with the cutting blades. The controlling device includes a trigger, distribution apparatus for pressurized fluid, an inlet for the fluid and an outlet for the fluid. At least one of the blades is pivotable and activated by hydraulic apparatus. The blades can be set and maintained at any position between the two extreme positions.