Abstract: A heatable cutting device has a plastic base body having a recess on one side thereof. A cutting blade, made of metal or ceramic, is inserted into and fixedly connected to the recess. An electric heating element for heating the cutting blade is provided. The electrical heating element is fixedly and permanently connected to a side of the cutting blade facing the base body. The electrical heating element is attached to the cutting blade by printing, sintering or gluing. An electric connection for connecting the cutting device to an electric voltage supply device for operating the electrical heating element is provided. A temperature sensor is connected to an upper side of the cutting blade in the area of the cutting blade that is heated by the heating element.

Abstract: A handheld candle wick cutting device enables an individual to trim the excess long candle wick on any flat-top candles, but especially on candles positioned deep in a narrow candle jar/holder or the like. The wick cutting device includes a main outer tube and an inner tube which has an outer diameter slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the outer tube. The inner tube is rotatably installed within the outer tube and being longer than the outer tube. A pair of cutting blades are mounted to the outer and inner tubes perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, at an operable location to cause a cutting action when one of the tubes is rotated. Each blade has an off-center cutting aperture which when superimposed create a through opening in the cutting device, where a candle wick may be partially inserted therein and perpendicular to the two cutting blades.

Abstract: Shears for making angular cuts in curved metal trim, comprising a pair of opposed griping handles, upper and lower pivotally interconnected scissor action shearing jaws having curved cutting edges and attached to the handles for operation thereby, and at least one miter guide attached to one of the shearing jaws and having a straight edge angularly disposed with respect to the plane occupied by the shearing jaws.

Abstract: A multipurpose tool may have several tool elements which pivot into storage positions in profiled handles attached to one of a pair of pliers jaws. A wire-cutter portion of each pliers jaw includes a sharp edge and a notch located at the throat of the pair of jaws, adjacent the sharp edge. The notches face toward each other to support and shear wire, but the bottoms of the notches are prevented from passing each other so that bulging material at the bottoms of the notches does not cause the jaws to bind against each other.

Abstract: A grooming device including a stem, a first and a second arm extending from one end of the stem, the first arm having a first flat surface and the second arm having a second flat surface arranged substantially parallel to the first flat surface. An angled surface is located adjacent to the first flat surface and a blade is located adjacent to the second flat surface such that when a force is exerted on the first and second arms, the first and second flat surfaces come in contact with each other and the blade slides past the angled surface. A housing case member in the general shape of a rectangle and having an opening, configured such that the stem and first and second arm fit inside the opening, encases the tweezer-scissor member when the grooming device is in the folded position. The tweezer-scissor member rotates around a pin which affixes the tweezer-scissor member to the housing case member.

Abstract: A combination hand tool for cutting flexible duct and the like, which tool has both (i) a blade-holding mechanism which enables safe, quick and convenient replacement of a utility knife blade for cutting material requiring relatively low cutting pressure (e.g., the insulated portion of flexible duct) and (ii) a replaceable cutting tool having a cutting edge moveable against a cutting surface to enable the user to generate relatively high cutting force on a piece requiring such high cutting force (e.g., the metal or plastic wire component of flexible duct). In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the aforementioned blade-holding mechanism includes two similarly-shaped, overlying plates which are both pivotably moveable to enable separation of the plates and replacement of the utility knife blade positioned therebetween. Also, the aforementioned replaceable cutting tool is held in its operating position by a holding mechanism for releasably securing the cutting tool.

Abstract: A pizza cutting scissor comprising: a first scissor blade having a front segment and a rear segment, the front segment formed in a planar rectangular configuration with a sharp inboard edge and a dull outboard edge, the blade including a screw aperture, the rear segment being formed in a planar circular configuration with a large aperture extending therethrough, the rear segment being coupled upon the rearward extent of the front segment, a second scissor blade having a front segment and a rear segment, the front segment formed in a planar rectangular configuration with a sharp inboard edge and a dull outboard edge, the front segment being slanted forming an angle of between about one hundred and one hundred and fifty degrees, the blade having a screw aperture extending therethrough, the rear segment being formed in a planar circular configuration with a large aperture extending therethrough, the rear segment being coupled upon the rearward extent of the front segment, a planar circular cutter with a sharp ou

Abstract: A nail clipping and catching implement includes a nail clipper having a forward end portion operable for severing nail fragments from a fingernail and a collector assembly fitted over the forward end portion of the nail clipper for catching and retaining the severed nail fragments. The collector assembly includes a collection receptacle defining an interior collection chamber extending outwardly from cutting edges of the forward end portion of the nail clipper in opposite directions above, below, forwardly, rearwardly and laterally thereof for catching and retaining the severed nail fragments and an elongated rod attached to and extending between opposite sides of the collection receptacle and coupled to the forward end portion of the nail clipper.

Abstract: A pair of garden shears is provided with a debris catcher that is attached to the back edge of each blade. Each debris catcher is transversely curved to extend over the blade and terminate in an upper edge that faces the upper edge of the other catcher. The catcher upper edges abut with one another to grip plant material therebetween and hold such plant material after it is cut by the blades. In addition, the transversely curved body of the catcher forms an upwardly facing, upwardly curved trough that is effective to catch small amounts of plant debris when the shears are being used in a vertically inclined position. The catchers are preferably molded from a plastic material and are flexible relative to one another to accommodate larger amounts of plant material.

Abstract: Synthetic fiber safety cutting scissors comprising a pair of first and second elongated scissor blades, each having an inner side and an outer side and a continuous cutting edge, a plurality of non-cutting protrusions part of the blade, and a gripping means; and a means for pivotally securing said first and second scissor blades to each other with said inner sides facing towards each other such that the said cutting edges cooperate with each other to cut strands of synthetic fiber. It has been found that with the protrusions that foreign objects such as fingers may be prevented from being intersected at the cutting edge.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting hair, which includes a comb assembly attached to the blades of a pair of scissors. The handles of the apparatus are identical so that the comb-shears may be reversed to conveniently enable the use of combs with different sized teeth on the two shear blades. The invention also provides for rubber grommets to be placed within the middle finger/thumb loops and for the placement of a rubber pad between the handle pivot stops for increased user comfort.

Abstract: A hair clipper includes, in addition to a cutter head, a hair entrapping member and a hair pressing member which are both movable relative to a cutting edge of the cutter head. The cutter head comprises a toothed stationary blade and a toothed movable blade. The movable blade is driven to reciprocate in shearing engagement with the stationary blade for shearing hairs therebetween. The hair entrapping member is movable between an open position and a closed position. In the open position the hair entrapping member is spaced away from the cutting edge of the cutter head, thus permitting hairs to enter between the hair entrapping member and the cutting edge. In the closed position, the hair entrapping member is held close to the cutting edge to thereby seize the hairs therebetween for shearing the hairs.

Abstract: A heavy duty shear attachable to the boom of a mobile machine, such as a backhoe, comprises a support structure of welded steel plate construction, and a shear head of steel plate construction mounted on the support structure and having pivotally interconnected upper and lower jaw members. The upper and lower jaw members carry removable shearing blade inserts which are dimensionally identical, and the jaw members are pivotally interconnected by a joint assembly which facilitates disassembly thereof for maintenance purposes.

Abstract: A nipper for pruning sticks, stems and branches is provided with an anvil having locator hooks which partially block the jaw opening of a nipper to limit the size of sticks, stems and branches to be cut. The locator hooks further position sticks, stems and branches for cutting such that larger sizes are subjected to higher cutting forces, and are shaped to enhance retention of sticks, stems and branches for cutting.

Abstract: Hook scissors end effectors are provided for a laparoscopic instrument. The hook scissors end effectors generally comprise first and second blades, with at least one of the blades pivotally engaging the laparoscopic instrument. Each blade comprises an elongate straight blade member with an integral transverse hook element at the distal end of the blade member. The hook elements each extend towards the other blade member and each hook element is offset from its blade member so that a narrow recess is provided between opposing first and second hook members upon closing of the first and second blade members. The elongate straight blade members provide a straight scissors cutting action therebetween so that the contiguously adjacent portions of the blade members gradually come together in a continuous bearing contact to effect a cutting action.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting an article into sheets includes an upper jaw pivotally mounted to a lower jaw. The lower jaw includes three coplanar cutting edges, and the upper jaw includes three cutting edges which cooperate with those of the lower jaw. Longitudinal cutting edges of the upper jaw are curved along their lengths, and the end element of the upper jaw is slanted with respect to the end element of the lower jaw. The apparatus may be attached to existing mounting points of a backhoe.

Abstract: An improved hand tool for cutting flex-duct material comprising a plier-type wire cutter having retaining member mounted on the outside of the jaws of the wire cutter for releasably retaining a disposable razor-type blade.

Abstract: A tool of the type having two handles and a pivot axis, and two extension members longitudinal axially aligned with the pivot axis and each attached at one end to one of the handles and having at the other end working tool members positioned for opposed operation so that the handles operate in one plane and the working tool members operate in a parallel offset plane.

Abstract: A key-cutting device includes a holder which holds the key blank. The holder is movable between initial and cutting positions. When the holder is in a cutting position, a cutter is moved to cut one or more notches in the key blank. An actuator is connected with the base to move the holder from the initial position to the cutting position. The actuator includes an improved saddle assembly in which a leaf spring is connected with a force transmitting member. A body of polymeric material is disposed between the leaf spring and the force transmitting member. Force is applied to a free end of the leaf spring to move the holder from the initial position to the cutting position. Upon continued operation of the actuator, the leaf spring is deflected about a fulcrum which is at least partially formed by the body of polymeric material. As the leaf spring is deflected, the body of polymeric material is resiliently compressed.

Abstract: A device for affixing strings to a musical instrument includes a blade or blades for trimming excess string from the end of a string so that when a string mounting operation is performed by means of the device, the string is trimmed to a length that is appropriate for the instrument.

Abstract: A hand carried, hand operated portable apparatus for destroying hypodermic needles is disclosed herein comprising a housing having a lever arm pivotably mounted on the housing engaging a shearing blade which travels through an internal channel through the top of the housing. A removable container having a longitudinal groove formed by inwardly disposed wall members is press fitted into the housing. A needle from a hypodermic syringe is placed in the longitudinal groove and pressed into the interior of the container in such a manner that the needle remains inside the container after it is cut from the hypodermic syringe.

Abstract: The forceps comprises clamping jaws which may be actuated clampwise by means of grips. One side edge of a first clamping jaw is in form of a cutting edge. On the side of the other clamping jaw lies a cutting blade which may cooperate with the cutting edge of the first clamping jaw for cutting the tissue clamped between the clamping jaws. The rest position of the cutting blade is determined by a catching device. The cutting blade engages below a protecting ramp in this catching device when the forceps is open. The forceps permits an easy, rational and proper working whereby injuries by uncontrollable and inadvertent motion of the cutting blade are excluded.

Abstract: An adjustable depth gauge assembly for a key cutting device includes a rotatable gauge or cam member carried by a vertically and transversely movable key blank support that sequentially positions a key blank in selected cutting relationship to a cutting punch or die. The gauge or cam member includes a continuous uninterrupted cam surface which is sequentially engageable with a finger or pin disposed in the path of movement of the gauge member to selectively limit vertical movement of the key blank support. The gauge assembly also includes an indicator arm for rotating the gauge member to a desired position so that the depth of cuts in a key blank may be varied in accordance with a pre-established code pattern.

Abstract: A key cutting device (20), for replacement keys, having a key blank support member (30), a lever-actuated shearing punch (25) for the key blank, and a depth-gauging stop (33) for the support member (30); the shearing punch (25) is formed to provide an optional two-step (44, 46) cut on the key with a control stop (49) for limiting the stroke of the punch to one step or two steps, as desired, for creating different cuts on the key blank; a locking device (63) automatically moves into locking position with respect to the yieldably-actuated support member (30) to prevent its displacement when the operating lever (37) is manipulated for the key cutting operation.

Abstract: A surgical instrument is provided which has independent capabilities of operating as a surgical needleholder for suturing operations, and as a surgical cutting device for severing the suture thread. The instrument of the invention may be operated as a conventional needleholder and, to that end, it has a pair of jaws in which a suture needle may be securely held for the suturing operation, and it also has a usual clasp mechanism for locking the jaws in their closed position. However, in accordance with the concepts of the invention, one of the arms of the instrument is split into two co-extensive elongated sections, both being pivoted at the pivot point of the instrument. The distal end of the first section is formed into one of the jaws of the instrument, and that arm functions with the other arm of the instrument to perform the conventional needle holding function.

Abstract: A fabric repairing tool is provided with a cylindrical sheet metal cutter having a helically extending sharp cutting edge. The cutter is affixed to an arbor which moves the cutter into a die mounted within a stationary sleeve wherein the arbor is slidably supported to cut out a piece from fabric held in the path of the cutter.

Abstract: A container of clear material is provided in a bundling tie applying tool for deflecting and collecting severed tie portions expelled from the tool through a port of egress. The container comprises a first enclosure portion attached to the housing and including a deflecting surface positioned to be in the path of tie discharge. A second enclosure portion is removably attached to the first portion to provide for disposal of accumulated severed tie portions therein. The tie container further includes means communicating with the port of egress for permitting passage therethrough while preventing feedback of discharged or deflected tie portions to the port of egress to thereby prevent clogging or jamming of the tool during operation.

Abstract: A suture cutter comprising a member and a blade, said blade having a knife edge and a back remote from said edge, said blade being adapted to shearingly contact said member,said member having a depth and comprising an arm, an element, and a slot therebetween, said slot having a portion adapted to receive a suture but being too small to permit a knot in said suture to pass therethrough, whereby shearing contact between said member and said blade cuts said suture leaving a stub on the side of said suture away from the tissue in which said suture is tied substantially equal in length to said depth.Variations of the foregoing device are also disclosed, including forms in which the motion between the member and the blade is obtained by a scissor-like action as well as by a tweezer-like action; in addition, an embodiment wherein the handles or gripping area of the device is in a different plane from the working end. There is also disclosed a combination of the present invention with a surgical needle holder.

Abstract: Gardening shears having holding members and cutting blades extending therefrom crossing at the location of a driving means with cutting blades having lines thereon, respectively, and the repelling member located adjacent to the cutting lines of blades whereby upon operation of the blades in opening and closing, the repelling member reciprocally swings from side to side between the cutting blades through the intermediary of the driving means.

Abstract: A hand tool for opening the tapered plastic dispensing tip on material dispensing cartridges which includes first and second lever members pivotally interconnected at one end and each having a handle with finger receiving openings at the other end to enable operation of the tool with one hand, one lever member having a blade portion intermediate its ends formed with a plurality of openings of relatively different size corresponding to the external cross-section of the tapered tip at different locations therealong, and the other of the lever members having a sharpened blade adapted to shear off a portion of the tapered dispensing tip when it is inserted through one of the openings. A probe is provided on the tool adapted for insertion through the dispensing tip to rupture the seal in the cartridge.

Abstract: A compact, hand operated syringe destroyer for severing the needle and its hub from the barrel of an associated syringe and a cannister for collecting a quantity of such severed needles. When filled, the cannister is easily closed and discarded.