Intermediate Pivot Patents (Class 30/254)
  • Patent number: 11865734
    Abstract: A pair of slide cutting shears that have identical cutting angles of approximately 53 degrees on the thumb and finger blades, and where the thumb blade has approximately only 40% of the top end of the blade sharpened and the remaining section of the working blade is radiused and cannot cut. The shears have a four finger grip, and adjustable bump stop and a tightenable pivot pin assembly to draw the blades closer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Inventor: Chao Wei
  • Patent number: 11759916
    Abstract: Pliers include a first and a second plier limb which are rotatably held relative to one another about an axis of rotation in an articulation region and which form handle regions on one side of the articulation region and a jaw of the pliers on the other side, the plier limbs being designed to cut a threaded bolt in an overlap region, using first and second cavities that can be superposed in alignment. A thread is formed in each first cavity in order to cut a threaded bolt. The thread is provided over only part of the height of the first cavity and over only part of the inner circumference of the first cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: KNIPEX-Werk C. Gustav Putsch KG
    Inventor: Tim Liedtke
  • Patent number: 11597106
    Abstract: A terminal cutter includes a tool frame having a first cutting member coupled to an upper handle having a first cutting surface for cutting a terminal from a carrier strip and a second cutting member coupled to a lower handle having a second cutting surface for cutting the terminal from the carrier strip. A terminal strip guide assembly is coupled to the upper handle and/or the lower handle offset from the first and second cutting members. The terminal strip guide assembly includes a strip guide having a slot receiving the carrier strip and having a guide surface adjacent the slot. The guide surface is configured to engage the terminal to locate the terminal relative to the terminal strip guide assembly and to control a depth of the carrier strip received in the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventors: Chadwick Alan Kerstetter, Richard Lloyd Schaeffer, Caleb Andrew Moyer
  • Patent number: 11485032
    Abstract: Hair-cutting shears, comprising a first grip handle (100) and a second grip handle (200) that are hinged to each other, and further comprising a sharp edge (10) and a support table (20), the sharp edge being disposed at the other end of the second grip handle. The support table is disposed at the other end of the first grip handle, the support table is provided thereon with a cutter table (23) made of a gum material; and when abutting, the sharp edge and the support table are side by side and abut on the cutter table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Inventor: Nelson Chan
  • Patent number: 11452263
    Abstract: A method wherein secateurs provide shaped blades suitable for cutting the buds on the shoots of fruiting plants. In particular, the method is relative to secateurs with blades shaped for cutting the mother bud and the secondary buds of the shoots of grapevines in a simple and effective manner. The blades of the secateurs have in fact been designed so as to adapt them to the curvature of the cross section of the shoots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Inventors: Claudio Bortolussi, Franco Bortolussi
  • Patent number: 10843352
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein related to a hand operated cutting tool. The hand operated cutting tool may include a first cutting member; a first handle coupled to the first cutting member; a second handle having a second cutting member; and a pivot connection pivotably coupling the first handle to the second handle. The first cutting member may include a cutting device that defines a bow-shaped cutting profile, wherein the bow-shaped cutting profile facilitates an acceleration of a cut-point position defined by an interaction of the first and second cutting members as the first and second handles move from a fully open position to a fully closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Fiskars Finland Oy Ab
    Inventor: Daniel Cunningham
  • Patent number: 9949496
    Abstract: A crab cracking tool. The crab cracking tool includes a first member having a first handle connected to a first head portion and a second member having a second handle connected to a second head portion. The first head portion includes a first recess, a second recess, and a first gripping portion and the second head portion includes a third recess, a fourth recess, and a second gripping portion. A cutting tool disposed on the second member extends outwardly from a first end of the second head portion. The cutting tool includes an inner edge having a blade thereon. The inner edge is oriented inwardly toward an outer side of the second member defining an opening therebetween. The first member is pivotally secured to the second member, such that the first second members are configured to pivot between a closed position and an open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Inventor: Theodore Anderson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9743945
    Abstract: A laparoscopic scissor instrument can include a scissor assembly pivotally coupled to an elongate shaft. The scissor assembly can be formed of scissor blades having pivot posts thereon. The pivot posts can engage apertures on the elongate shaft, thus eliminating the need for a through-pinned pivot connection of the scissor blades. The scissor blades can also include actuation posts thereon. An actuation mechanism can include a slot to engage the actuation posts and open or close the blades of the scissor assembly. The scissor assemblies described herein can have a relatively low operational height such that they do not extend beyond a diameter of the elongate shaft during opening and closing of the scissor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Applied Medical Resources Corporation
    Inventor: Steven C. Kessler
  • Patent number: 9717518
    Abstract: A medical device including an elongate member having a proximal end and a distal end and an end-effector disposed at the distal end of the elongate member is disclosed. The end-effector further includes a plurality of arms, which may pivot or move relative to one another. Further, each arm includes an inner edge defining a cutting edge, and an outer edge having at least one geometric feature for manipulating tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary S. Kappel, Sean P. Fleury, Paul Smith, Brandon M. Zalewski, Laurie A. Soderbom, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9393704
    Abstract: Scissors include two scissor members. The two scissor members are pivotably connected with a joint member. The each scissor member includes a blade portion linked to a connecting portion. The blade portion includes a curved blade and an intermediate portion width between a tip and a base portion is made widest. The curved blade includes a receding portion between an end portion of the base portion side and a side edge of the connecting portion and is formed such that a curvature is larger at a base portion side than a tip side. An arc-shaped surface groove is formed on a rear surface of the blade portion along the curved blade. The blade portion is formed such that the rear surface thereof is formed in a concave shape so as to form the arc-shaped surface groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoya Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9003667
    Abstract: A pair of garden scissors with an adjustable cutting angle is provided with first and second scissor members. A positioning protrusion of the first scissor member cooperates with a positioning end of the angle-restricting member of the second scissor member to restrict the maximum cutting angle of the first scissor member, and an adjust member is able to adjust the cutting angle by adjusting the position of the angle-restricting member, so that the cutting angle can be freely adjusted within the movement range of the angle-restricting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Ho Cheng Garden Tools Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yao-Chung Huang
  • Publication number: 20140360025
    Abstract: A scissors including a first member formed from a first material, the first member including a first cutting edge and a first loop. The scissors further including a second member, the second member pivotally coupled to the first member at a pivot joint, the second member including a second cutting edge adjacent the first cutting edge and a second loop adjacent the first loop. A first grip is formed from a second material that surrounds a portion of the first loop, the first grip including an aperture that exposes a portion of the first loop formed from the first material. A second grip surrounds at least a portion of the second loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Steven W. Hyma, Michael S. Steele, Matthew W. Naiva, Justin Ferrante
  • Publication number: 20140360024
    Abstract: A shears that includes a first cutting blade including a first aperture and a second cutting blade including a second aperture, the second cutting blade pivotally coupled to the first cutting blade at a pivot joint. The shears further includes a first handle operable to pivot the first cutting blade about the pivot joint and a second handle operable to pivot the second cutting blade about the pivot joint. The pivot joint includes a bolt that extends through the first aperture and the second aperture. The bolt includes a head, a shank that extends from the head, and a longitudinal axis that extends centrally through the head and the shank along a length of the shank. The head includes a concave outer surface that extends around the longitudinal axis of the bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventor: Daniel H. Schneider
  • Publication number: 20140338201
    Abstract: Clipper for lemons and other fruits. The clipper can have a pair of operating arms, a pivot assembly for the operating arms, a lower central open-position abutment mechanism, hand grips with adjustable and alternative left and right-hand strap mounting, and an out-of-the-way abutment arrangement to define a clipper open position. The pivot assembly can include a dust-free rotation structure and an out-of-the-way torsion spring. Gripping handles for clippers and the like are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventor: RICARDO ROMERO
  • Publication number: 20140290071
    Abstract: Scissors include two scissor members. The two scissor members are pivotably connected with a joint member. The each scissor member includes a blade portion linked to a connecting portion. The blade portion includes a curved blade and an intermediate portion width between a tip and a base portion is made widest. The curved blade includes a receding portion between an end portion of the base portion side and a side edge of the connecting portion and is formed such that a curvature is larger at a base portion side than a tip side. An arc-shaped surface groove is formed on a rear surface of the blade portion along the curved blade. The blade portion is formed such that the rear surface thereof is formed in a concave shape so as to form the arc-shaped surface groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoya YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 8832945
    Abstract: Tin snips includes two cutting blades intersecting each other for cutting and two handles for activating the cutting of the two cutting blades. A safety device is disposed in the tin snips for preventing the two cutting blades from opening. The safety device includes a protrusion extending from an edge of one of the handles, a recess provided in an edge of the handle having the protrusion, and a buckling element connected to the other of the handles. The buckling element includes two movable portions rotatable to cover a position where the two handles are drawn to a closed position, an engaging portion disposed between the two movable portions to cross the protrusion to engage into the recess when the movable portions rotate, and a restricting portion connected between the two movable portions and the engaging portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Inventor: Ching-Chen Yang
  • Patent number: 8826545
    Abstract: A lopper includes a first metal plate including a first gear structure and a first elongate extension, a second metal plate including a second gear structure in meshing engagement with said first gear structure and a second elongate extension, a first handle coupled to said first elongate extension, a second handle coupled to said second elongate extension, a link to which each of said first body and said second body is pivotably connected so that said first gear structure and said second gear structure are retained in meshing engagement, a first metal blade member having a first arm portion, a first cutting portion, and a first intermediate portion interposed between said first arm portion and said first cutting portion, and a second metal blade member having a second arm portion, a second cutting portion, and a second intermediate portion interposed between said second arm portion and said second cutting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Henry Goetz, David Wayne Miller
  • Publication number: 20140202007
    Abstract: A pair of garden scissors with an adjustable cutting angle is provided with first and second scissor members. A positioning protrusion of the first scissor member cooperates with a positioning end of the angle-restricting member of the second scissor member to restrict the maximum cutting angle of the first scissor member, and an adjust member is able to adjust the cutting angle by adjusting the position of the angle-restricting member, so that the cutting angle can be freely adjusted within the movement range of the angle-restricting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: HO CHENG GARDEN TOOLS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: YAO-CHUNG HUANG
  • Publication number: 20140190015
    Abstract: A shearing apparatus comprising an index portion and a thumb portion that are pivotable relative to one another about a pivot mechanism. One of the thumb blade and index blade is provided with a serrated portion, while the other of the index blade and the thumb blade is provided with a cutting edge, such that the serrated portion and the cutting edge cooperate with one another during the relative pivoting movement of the index portion and the thumb portion to carry out a shearing or severing action. The shearing apparatus can alternatively comprise a single blade portion, pulled by a handle, and provided with a serrated portion. In both embodiments, the serrated portion has a configuration that presents a compound angle, which comprises a cutting edge angle and an angle relative to the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Emvolution, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Forman
  • Publication number: 20140182141
    Abstract: A pair of scissors and a manufacturing method therefor involves forming an overmold comprising ABS material over a pair of blade members. TPR material is injection molded over the overmolds in limited amounts so that substantial portions of the overmolds remain exposed. The produced workpieces are pivotally joined to form a pair of scissors. One or more caps of ABS material or TPR material may be affixed to the overmolds to cover the pivot fastener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: Stuart D. Farnworth, Man For Ma, Sarah A. Albano
  • Publication number: 20140173913
    Abstract: A gardening shears comprises a first blade (10) and a second blade (20) which are provided with respective hand grips (12, 22), respectively, and are rotatably connected to one another via a pivot connection (13, 23, 30, 41). The pivot connection comprises a pivot bolt (32) passing through respective bores (13, 23) of the first and second blade (10, 20), respectively and secures the blades (10, 20) in axial direction of the pivot bolt (32) to one another. The pivot bolt (32) comprises in its axial direction successive first and second peripheral sections (34, 35), the first peripheral section (34) being rotatably mounted over a limited angular region within the bore (13) of the first blade (10) whereas the second peripheral section being non-rotatably secured within the bore (21) of the second blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: MTD Products Inc.
    Inventors: Ingo Kubik, Markus Lissmann
  • Patent number: 8756818
    Abstract: A shear tension device comprising an adjustment screw and a lock wherein the lock is configured to engage with the adjustment screw and maintain tension properly set by the factory in the shears until service of the shears is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Fitrakis-Souyias Meriol, Paula Sophia
    Inventor: Dino Fitraki
  • Patent number: 8713804
    Abstract: Gardening scissors include two blades facing each other, two connecting blocks, two covers and two handles, wherein each blade is equipped with a perforation at a middle section, and a locking board is extended from one side of rear end of two blades. The connecting blocks have a (half) shell body facing the cover, and a receiving slot with half-oval shape extending from rear end of the shell body. Front end of the receiving slot has a stopping edge, one side of which has a side wing extending therefrom. The cover is symmetrically disposed to face the shell body, so that a second receiving slot, a second stopping edge, a second side wing and a second locking hole are formed on the cover. One end of the handle has an anti-slippery sleeve and the other end has a through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Jiin Haur Industrial Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Shih-Piao Wu
  • Patent number: 8701294
    Abstract: A cutting implement with blades that can be replaced or interchanged without using tools. The cutting implement has shock absorbing handles and may also have at least one bumper to reduce the forces transmitted to the user's hands and arms. The cutting implement may be a saw, pruners, lopper, grass shears, hedge shears, or garden shears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Acme United Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Bruce, Richard Constantine, Yani Deros, Matthew Ibarra, Man For Ma
  • Publication number: 20140101944
    Abstract: The apparatus of the present invention is a hand operated seam ripping or cutting instrument. It comprises a pair of metal blades pivoted so that the sharpened edges slide toward or away from each other when the handles opposite to the pivot are brought close to or separate from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventor: Hyarlien Moultrie
  • Patent number: 8677631
    Abstract: A pair of scissors includes a pair of plate-shaped blades respectively formed by press working. Each of the blades pairing up with each other includes an edge line portion for sliding against the other blade and a recessed portion which is formed at a portion adjacent to the edge line portion with a difference in level from the edge line portion, which is away from a blade back face of the other blade in a thickness direction, and which has a bottom face substantially parallel to a blade back face of the edge line portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Youichi Hanakawa
  • Patent number: 8661691
    Abstract: Garden shears includes two corresponding cutting members, two opposing applying arms and two assembling members. Each cutting member has a main pivot aperture at a middle section thereof, a blade portion above the main pivot aperture, a pushing arc and a sliding arc continuously disposed below the main pivot aperture and a protrusion disposed between the pushing arc and the sliding arc, and an adjustable slot at a lower section. Each applying arm has a driving pivot aperture at a middle section, an eccentric pivot aperture at a top section, a rotation portion corresponding to the sliding arc formed at a top edge, a pushing edge formed at a side of the rotation portion, an indentation formed between the rotation portion and the pushing edge, and a handle at a lower section; wherein the assembling member is a flat member and has at least one securing aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Ho Cheng Garden Tools Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yao-Chung Huang
  • Patent number: 8661690
    Abstract: The invention relates to scissors and a sharpening device. The scissors include two blades, each blade having a cutting edge and a back edge which respectively form opposite longitudinal edges of the blade. A pivot connects the two blades for relative movement of the blades between an open condition in which the cutting edge of each blade are apart and a closed condition in which each blade are substantially adjacent and the back edge of each blade projects beyond the cutting edge of the other blade. The blades also include a sharpening condition in which the cutting edge of each of the blades can be sharpened. A biasing means is included for biasing the blades away from the sharpening condition towards the closed condition and/or the open condition. The sharpening device is for scissors including two blades having a cutting edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: McPherson's Limited
    Inventors: Rosemary Murphy, Clive Solari
  • Publication number: 20140033542
    Abstract: A cutting tool is provided which may include a first blade and a second blade rotatably coupled to the first blade. The cutting tool may include a first handle rotatably coupled to the first blade, the first handle rotatable between a deployed position and a folded position, and a second handle rotatably coupled to the second blade, the second handle rotatable between a deployed position and a folded position. The cutting tool may also include a first rotation lock configured to hold the first handle fixed relative to the first blade. The first handle may be configured to be rotatable relative to the first blade in response to the first rotation lock being disengaged. The first rotation lock may be configured to be held in the disengaged position in response to the first handle being disposed between the deployed position and the folded position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: LEATHERMAN TOOL GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Melissa L. Covel, Tony Steven Peterson
  • Publication number: 20140026426
    Abstract: Scissors, especially surgical scissors, having first and second elongate members each having a handle portion and a blade portion and being connected by a pivot between the handle portions and the blade portions for relative pivotal movement generally in a cutting plane during a cutting stroke. At least one of the handle portions supports a channel member having a length that extends toward, embraces and extends beyond the handle portion of the other elongate member to restrain movement of the handle portions out of the cutting plane and thus to resist relative lateral movement of the blade portions away from each other during the cutting stroke. The scissors are robust and are able to cleanly, effectively and accurately cut tough or slippery items which might otherwise cause the blades to splay away from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventors: Samuel George, Hani Musleh
  • Patent number: 8621754
    Abstract: The invention provides a pair of hairdressing scissors having a joint structure for joining a blade body of the hairdressing scissors. The joint structure enables a blade member and a finger ring member constituting the blade body to be easily assembled and separated from each other. The joint structure provides satisfactorily stable, firm and accurate joint performance and excellent design features. A blade member is formed with an engagement concave portion as an open plane in the base portion thereof and a finger ring member is formed with an engagement-protruding piece in the base portion thereof. When they are engaged and brought into close contact with each other, the engagement-protruding piece and the engagement concave portion are positioned and oriented properly as viewed in a width direction thereof. Thus, the blade member and the finger ring member can be stably assembled in a separable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Adachi Industry Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hidemi Adachi
  • Publication number: 20130333227
    Abstract: The invention provides a safety device for tin snips. The tin snips includes two cutting knifes intersecting each other for snipping and two handles for activating the snipping of the two cutting knifes. The safety device is disposed in the tin snips for preventing the two cutting knifes from opening. The safety device includes: a protrusion protruding from an edge of one of the handles, a recess provided in an edge of the handle having the protrusion, and a buckling element connected to the other of the handles. The buckling element includes: two movable portions rotatable to cover a position where the two handles are drawn close, an engaging portion disposed between the two movable portions to cross the protrusion to be engaged into the recess when the movable portions rotate, and a restricting portion connected between the two movable portions and the engaging portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventor: CHING-CHEN YANG
  • Publication number: 20130305543
    Abstract: Scissors are provided wherein in a curved shape of cutting blades, assuming that when the scissors are opened, a distance between an intersection point where the left and right cutting blades intersect and a rotational center is Y, a line connecting the intersection point where the left and right cutting blades intersect and the rotational center is a rotation reference line B, a distance from the rotational center of the scissors to fixed points A on the left and right cutting blades is R (mm), an angle at which a line connecting the fixed point A on one of the cutting blades and the rotational center intersects the rotation reference line B is ? (rad), and an angle which is formed by tangents touching the fixed points A on the left and right cutting blades is X (rad), the shape of the cutting blades is expressed by a polar equation: R=Y*exp(?*Cot(X/2)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke YONETSU, Naoya YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 8584368
    Abstract: A position restriction structure of scissors includes a main body, a second body, a driving handle, a connecting piece, a restricting piece and a plurality of hinged units, wherein a main hinge hole and a second hinge hole provided for the second body and the driving handle are through and passing through a center portion of the main body, and the second body and the driving handle have a gearing teeth portion and a activating teeth portion engaged with each other. The restricting piece attaches to one side of the second body and driving handle and the hinge unit passes therethrough. The restricting piece clamps the second body and the driving handle through a screw and screw nut of the hinge unit to restrict axial position of the gearing teeth portion and activating teeth portion to prevent the second body from shear forces and to improve durability of the product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Ho Cheng Garden Tool Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Yao-Chung Huang
  • Patent number: 8555512
    Abstract: Each of handles of a pair of scissors includes a hard core member and a soft member softer than the core member and including a contact face portion with which a finger of a user comes in contact, a bottomed recessed hole portion adjacent to the contact face portion and thinner than portions around it, and a through hole portion continuous with the bottomed recessed hole portion. When the user inserts and removes his/her fingers into and from finger rings, the contact face portions escape while compressing the through hole portions and the contact face portions tilt by using the bottomed recessed hole portions as fulcrums. Moreover, the bottomed recessed hole portions and the through hole portions continuous with each other are molded, which allows an elastic deformation property and a shape retaining property of the contact face portions to go together and also contributes to durability of the soft members including the contact face portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Youichi Hanakawa
  • Patent number: 8549757
    Abstract: A branch scissors structure with an adjustable structure includes a main body and an adjustable structure. One handle of the main body has a wedging opening at a front end near a blade, and a slot is recessedly formed at a bottom wall of the wedging opening. The adjustable structure located corresponding to the wedging opening has a connecting block, a restricting block, a pressing unit and a restricting unit. The position of the restricting block can be adjusted, so that the restricting block can protrude and lean against the outer periphery of the blade through the opening of the connecting block and forms a secure positioning when the restricting unit engages with the restricting slot. The blade can be restricted by the restricting block, and the angle between the handle and blade cab be further limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Jrin Haur Industrial Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Shih-Piao Wu
  • Publication number: 20130239417
    Abstract: A hand held cable cutter has a first cutter half having a first cutting head with a first jaw having a first cutting blade formed on a first edge of the first jaw. A first pivot portion is formed in the head. A second cutter half has a second cutting head with a second jaw having a second cutting blade formed on a first edge of the second cutting blade. A second pivot portion is formed in the second head. The first and second cutting blades each has a cutting profile formed between the pivot portion and the first cutting edge and a root formed between a second cutting edge and the first pivot portion. The root and profile of the first and second cutting blades each form an overlap between the first and second cutter blades when the cutter is in a closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: The National Telephone Supply Company
    Inventor: Raymond Disantis
  • Patent number: 8511208
    Abstract: An assisted opening multitool handle comprising a handle housing having a longitudinal axis and a lateral axis, the handle housing having first and second longitudinal regions, the handle housing having an interior surface defining a channel region. The assisted opening multitool handle further comprises a tool member pivotally attached to the handle housing and operatively configured to be positioned in a closed orientation within the channel region and configured to rotate in an opening direction to an open orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: SOG Specialty Knives and Tools, LLC
    Inventor: Spencer Frazer
  • Publication number: 20130199048
    Abstract: A shear tension device comprising an adjustment screw and a lock wherein the lock is configured to engage with the adjustment screw and maintain tension properly set by the factory in the shears until service of the shears is required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventor: Dino Fitraki
  • Publication number: 20130118311
    Abstract: A device, and a method of making the device, having a blank having a rigid handle at a proximal end and a flexible operative end at a distal end are described. The rigid handle and the flexible operative end are joined to each other such that the flexible operative end is configured to be in an arced position when at rest and unopposed, and to resiliently flex to a substantially straight position when opposed. The rigid handle and the flexible operative end may be joined to each other between a pivot point and a proximal end of the device. The device may form hybrid scissors or hybrid forceps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: TRI-MEDICS
    Inventors: Bradley BENDER, Michael SCHULER, Jeffrey I. LASNER
  • Patent number: 8438739
    Abstract: A scissors includes a pair of scissors constitution bodies which have a cutting portion and a holding portion formed continuously from the cutting portion. The cutting portion has cutter blades formed on both sides in a width direction. The pair of scissors constitution bodies are rotatably joined by a shaft portion in a base end portion of the cutting portion. The pair of scissors constitution bodies cross and rotate in both directions through the shaft portion. The holding portion includes a handle portion mounted therein so as to be visually unrecognized from the outside, the handle portion projected only in one width direction. A slider provided in the holding portion is operated to form a handle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Raymay Fujii Corporation
    Inventor: Akio Fujii
  • Patent number: 8424211
    Abstract: A pivoting hand tool is provided including handle structures which control the relative angular position of pivotable arms to allow disassembly and reassembly and to prevent accidental disassembly during use. Handle structures includes an elastic interference portion which provides a first interference between the first arm and second arm at the predetermined angle to prevent angular displacement of the arms from exceeding a first predetermined angle until a disassembly pivoting force is applied to the first arm and the second arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Helen of Troy Limited
    Inventors: Lucas O Nene, Thomas William Hartman, Evan Mark Abel, Frank J. Clementi
  • Publication number: 20130091713
    Abstract: A branch scissors structure with an adjustable structure includes a main body and an adjustable structure. One handle of the main body has a wedging opening at a front end near a blade, and a slot is recessedly formed at a bottom wall of the wedging opening. The adjustable structure located corresponding to the wedging opening has a connecting block, a restricting block, a pressing unit and a restricting unit. The position of the restricting block can be adjusted, so that the restricting block can protrude and lean against the outer periphery of the blade through the opening of the connecting block and forms a secure positioning when the restricting unit engages with the restricting slot. The blade can be restricted by the restricting block, and the angle between the handle and blade cab be further limited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: JIIN HAUR INDUSTRIAL CO.,LTD.
    Inventor: Shih-Piao Wu
  • Patent number: 8393084
    Abstract: An adjustment device for manual cutting tools is provided. The cutting tool for which the device is intended takes the form of pruning shears having two arms with the respective cutting blades thereof hinged to one another by a transverse bolt forming the main element of the device. A tightened nut for locking the bolt is provided with a transverse hole into which a lateral locking screw is screwed, thereby enabling the hinge to be adjusted. The nut and the locking screw are positioned in a recess in the cutting blade such that the nut cannot rotate when the bolt is being manipulated using a protrusion of the nut housed in a cavity in the cutting blade. The through-hole provided in the cutting blade for the bolt includes a bushing which enables the bolt to be better adjusted in the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Bellota Herramientas, S.A.
    Inventor: José María Azpeitia Urrestarazu
  • Patent number: 8365418
    Abstract: A cable tie removal tool for cutting a cable tie off of an underlying structure with which the cable tie is engaged. The tool has an opposed pair of cutting members each having a cutting edge, the cutting members movable between an open position in which the cutting edges are spaced from one another and a cutting position in which the cutting edges are close together or touching. The tool also has a mechanical structure that holds at least one cutting member off of the underlying structure as the cutting members are moved from the open to the cutting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Inventors: Kenneth Tomasetti, David A. Hewes
  • Patent number: 8365417
    Abstract: A combined scissors and tape dispenser configured as a unitary construction. The combined scissors and tape dispenser apparatus includes a pair of blades. A first blade includes a first elongated cutting member integrated with a first looped handle portion. A second blade is pivotally connected to the first blade. The second blade includes a second elongated cutting member integrated with a second looped handle portion. A dispenser reel including a cutting implement is integrated as part of at least one of the first looped handle portion and the second looped handle portion. The dispenser reel includes a through-hole adapted to be gripped by at least one of the user's fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Edison Nation, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Scott Bland
  • Patent number: 8327548
    Abstract: A multi-function blade-and-anvil type cutting tool that uses standard type razor blades includes a blade-and-anvil section connected to a first handle portion and a non-tool blade holder and a blade clamp assembly connected to a second handle portion. The standard blades are able to be changed with out tools when the first and second handle portions are moved from a first open position to a second open position to allow the blade holder and the clamp assembly to pivot with one another causing a screw and O-ring latch to move away from a latching slot in the second handle portion. This movement positions the razor blade between the screw and O-ring latch and a blade clamp guide element for easy removal. Each handle portion having a gripping cover disposed thereon. One of the handle portions has a sliding storage tray disposed therein for storing replacement razor blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Inventor: John S. Ronan
  • Patent number: 8266804
    Abstract: A garden shears includes a pressing member, a holding member, a cutting member and a ratchet. An aperture of the cutting member combines with an aperture of the pressing member for a pivot. The holding member and the ratchet are assembled together at an assembling portion of the pressing member, and teeth of the ratchet engage with a pawl of the cutting member such that the pressing member, the holding member and the ratchet have different pivot points. An opening between the blade and the anvil is smaller than an opening formed between the handle and the holding member. Since the opening formed between the handle and the holding member is larger than the cutting opening between the blade and the anvil, a stronger cutting torque is applied to increase the clipping strength derived from the anvil and the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Ho Cheng Garden Tools Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yao-Chung Huang
  • Patent number: 8225513
    Abstract: A pair of gardening shears include a main cutter, a secondary cutter pivotally connected with the main cutter, a force arm pivotally connected with the main cutter and engaged with the secondary cutter to drive the secondary cutter to pivot relative to the main cutter, and a connecting plate mounted on the secondary cutter and the force arm. Thus, the secondary cutter and the force arm are sandwiched between the main cutter and the connecting plate so that the secondary cutter and the force arm are moved smoothly and stably by limit of the main cutter and the connecting plate so as to facilitate the user performing the pruning action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ho Cheng Garden Tools Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yao-Chung Huang
  • Patent number: 8176638
    Abstract: Ergonomic scissors are adjustable with respect to thumb offset, thumb ring rotation, and thumb/finger ring diameter, so as to enable effective control, in conjunction with unstrained wrist movements, of scissor roll, yaw and pitch. A set of interchangeable thumb rings of various inner diameters accommodate a range of anatomical thumb sizes. Each of the interchangeable thumb rings is rotatably attachable to the lower shank through multiple discrete placement openings in the bottom face of the lower shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Inventors: Abbe J. Hann, Ronald B. Hann