Abstract: A single hand-held scissors for cutting hair including a first and second member pivotally interconnected intermediate between their ends via a hinge joint. The end of both members having ring-like finger holds formed integrally with handles. The opposite end of the first member is formed as a first jaw containing an integral longitudinal recess for releasably securing a straight-edged razor blade therein. The second member has its opposite end formed into a second jaw containing a longitudinal recess in vertical alignment with the recess in the first jaw. The hinge joint includes cooperating face having laterally extending shoulders which engage to limit the opening and closing of the scissors. The shoulders for limiting the closing of the scissors prevent the razor blade edge from engaging the lower edges or bottom walls forming such recess in the second jaw when smoothly cleaving hair disposed between the jaws.

Abstract: A cutting tool designed to provide a straight line cut through plastic or like material conduit and incorporating pivoted handles respectively including a cutting blade and a positioning anvil formed at the distal ends thereof and in cooperative relation to one another so that the conduit product positioned in the anvil will be maintained in a cutting position to achieve an accurate straight line cut. A return spring, a stop element and a closed end configuration are provided on the remainder of the handles, substantially adjacent to the proximal ends thereof to prevent nesting engagement of the handles during the cutting operation and maintain predetermined spaced relation between the ends of the handle so as to insure their separation and return to a cutting position once gripping pressure is released.

Abstract: A shearing device having one pivoting member formed of two metallic blades having their base ends spaced with one another and their lengths gradually approaching one another until their distal ends which are in engagement with one another and the inner edges of which are beveled to present cutting surfaces. A second cutting member is pivotally secured to said first member and is formed with a pair of cutting edges for cooperation with the two first-mentioned edges wherein a sheet of material placed therebetween is severed along two edges providing an opening rather than a slit.

Abstract: An improved hand operated metal shear that removes a strip of metal in small sections with the lower cutter attached to the upper handle by a cylindrical post of lesser diameter than the strip of metal removed so that the shears may be turned sharply to either side without distortion of the metal being cut and with the upper box-like cutter having a curved bottom to facilitate cutting of corrugated metal.

Abstract: A hair parting and grasping cutter providing means for parting, grasping, lifting and cutting a person's hair conveniently by one hand operation, comprises a frame (20), an upper shear (40), an upper shear casing (60) and a lower shear (70). The elongated upper and lower portions of the frame each comprises in sequence of a front portion (22, 32), an arm portion (24, 34) with a slot (23, 33), a handle portion (26, 36) and a spring portion (28, 38) which is joined to a rear end (30) of the frame, so as to be closed each other to grasp the hair by the squeezing strength of a user's hand onto the handle portions. The sharp ended front portions are inserted to the hair to part the desired section of the hair. The upper shear casing is fixedly attached to the upper arm portion within the upper slot, and the upper shear is pivotably attached to near the front end of the upper shear casing.

Abstract: A material handling and metal shear attachment for a backhoe is mounted on the boom or dipstick of a backhoe for actuation by the hydraulic system of the backhoe. A fixed blade is pivotally secured to the boom or dipstick and a movable cutting blade is pivoted to the fixed blade, a hydraulic piston and cylinder assembly mounted on the fixed blade moves the movable cutting blade in shearing relation to the fixed blade. The fixed and movable blades are shaped and positioned relative to their pivotal engagement to move objects being sheared towards the blades pivotal engagement rather than away therefrom.

Abstract: A tool (15) with pivoted handles (18 and 19) for operating jaws (16 and 17) provides a means for removing unwanted "eyes" (7) from pineapples (6) when such handles are squeezed to close the jaws around and under an eye (7a). A spring (11) exerts opening pressure on handles so as to open the jaws after each use. An anvil blade (16) on one jaw cooperates with an open loop cutter blade (17) on the other jaw. In one preferred embodiment the jaws meet so as to sever the pineapple's fibers, while in another preferred embodiment, the anvil blade passes through the loop jaw so as to push the eyes out after cutting.

Abstract: A pruning shear with offset cutting blade is disclosed which includes in combination a pair of pivotally interacting blades which are capable of closing upon one another to sever a twig or small branch. A first blade is designed as a cutting blade having one side ground to form a gradually sloped first bevel. A more sharply sloped second bevel angularly intersects the first bevel to define an offset cutting edge. The second blade is provided with a pair of laterally spaced support anvils, which anvils define a clearance space to receive therein at least the cutting portions of the cutting blade. The cutting edge of the pruning shear cutting blade is pivotally movable into the clearance space in a manner to always position the cutting edge in spaced relationship to each of the support anvils.

Abstract: A rail breaking attachment for a backhoe, the bucket of which has been removed which enables the backhoe to be used to grasp rail material by pivotally positioning a blade in the form of a hook on the end of a backhoe boom for actuation by a piston and cylinder of the backhoe. A fixed pair of spaced parallel rail engagement members is secured to the boom forming support points on which the rail rests as the movable blade is passed therebetween.

Abstract: A tongs- or pliers-like cutter has one head end of decreased thickness with a pointed, plate-like cutting blade thereon and an opposite forked head end such that the pointed cutting blade may be moved into the space between the two prongs of the fork. As seen from the side, these prongs are furthermore shaped in a manner complementary to the pointed shape of the cutting blade. The two head ends may furthermore have inwardly narrowing holes for chamfering off the ends of cut flexible tube.

Abstract: Hand-held and hand-operated cutting tool particularly well suited for cleanly and quickly cutting plastic pipe or tubing, rubber hose, or the like. The tool has a blade rotatable in increments or steps from a retracted position in which it is enclosed within a housing to a cutoff position in which it cooperates with a stationary anvil so as to sever the article to be cut. A ratchet drive interconnects a movable handle and the blade so as to incrementally drive the blade toward its cutoff position upon manipulation of the handle. A pawl prevents opening of the blade caused by the springiness of the article being cut upon being engaged by the blade. Upon severing of the article, the blade may be readily returned to its retracted position by, for example, releasing a thumb operated locking pawl.

Abstract: A powered pattern cutter particularly adaptable for use in cutting paper is made up of an anvil which is slotted on its outer periphery to receive a blade member, the latter being angled toward the center of the anvil, and the anvil being oscillated in a direction to force the paper between the edges of the slot in the blade so as to shear off a selected width of the paper as the paper is fed across the blade.

Abstract: A cutting tool for cutting flexible plastic conduit, formed by a pair of handled jaws pivotally connected intermediate their ends. One jaw is box shaped in cross-section and forms a handle which supports a knife blade, which has a longitudinal cutting edge. The other jaw is generally channel-shaped in cross-section and forms a handle with a semi-circular concave anvil at one end. The anvil has an axially extending slot therein for receiving the cutting edge of the knife blade when the handles are closed together with the box-shaped handle nested within the channel-shaped handle. A conduit supported in the semi-circular anvil is cut by the knife blade as the handles are squeezed together.

Abstract: A cutting tool includes a pair of pivotally connected handles extending through and defining a pair of coacting U-shaped cutting jaws. Each of the cutting jaws defines a cutting edge extending throughout the base and side legs of the U shape. The jaws have a closed position wherein one of the jaws is an inner jaw disposed within the other of the jaws, which is an outer jaw. The cutting edges are angulated in relation to each other so that each of the cutting edges defined by the legs of the respective jaws are not in coacting relationship before the bases of the corresponding jaws. Additionally, the cutting tool includes a knock-out member pivotally disposed within one of the U-shaped jaws for removing material severed by the jaws from the inside thereof.

Abstract: A tool for sheet metal or the like and for partially cutting blanks from a margin of a workpiece, such as a sheet metal pipe end, and simultaneously and accurately bending the partially cut blank at a substantially right angle to its original position in the plane of the workpiece without distorting the adjacent metal and with one motion of the handles of the tool.

Abstract: An improved tree-pruning tool of the type known as a pole pruner, which features greatly reduced friction in operation. A cutting blade and an anvil are moved toward each other in a linear path. The blade is on top, so that the downward bending of the tree branch will tend to open the cut rather than to pinch the blade. Friction is further reduced by a novel cam-like engagement of the moving parts with a guide pin, which eliminates incidental lateral displacements of the cutting elements due to the geometry of the operating lever. The mechanism is simple, and may be made from stampings.

Abstract: A shearing tool for synthetic resin tubes, in which a lower jaw is connected to the leading end of an upper handle portion, a lower handle portion is pivoted to said lower jaw at its leading end, an opening is provided in forward portion of said upper handle portion extending therefrom to the leading end of said lower jaw, an arcuate tube receiving recess is provided in the upper surface of said lower jaw, said shearing blade is pivoted in an intermediate position of the length to said upper handle portion within said opening, said shearing blade is provided at the rear and lower end with an egaging pawl, a rocking bar having notches in the upper surface is pivoted at one end to the leading end of a lower handle portion, a slot is provided in the rear portion of said shearing blade, a connection link has at one end a pin freely received within said slot and is pivoted at the other end to an intermediate position of the length of said rocking bar, a spring is provided for urging said rocking bar against said e

Abstract: A device for cutting B-X cable has a pair of pivotally interconnected operating members, each of which defines cutting jaws, with one of the operating members having a bifurcated end portion that defines a pair of spaced cutting jaws receiving therebetween the cutting jaw of the other operating member. The lower surface of the bifurcated jaws are notched transversely of their length in a configuration which is adapted to receive one of the convolutions or corrugations of the B-X cable when the single cutting jaw of the other operating member is inserted longitudinally into the end of the B-X cable. This single cutting jaw has a tapered free end portion which enables it to be inserted beneath the metal wrapping of the B-X cable so that the cable can be cut along its length by movement of the handle portions of the operating members towards each other. The notched portions of the bifurcated cutting jaws provide a positive gripping engagement with the curved B-X cable.

Abstract: A shearing tool for synthetic resin tubes, in which a lower jaw is connected to the leading end of an upper handle portion, a lower handle portion is pivoted to said lower jaw at its leading end, an opening is provided in forward portion of said upper handle portion extending therefrom to the leading end of said lower jaw, an arcuate tube receiving recess is provided in the upper surface of said lower jaw, said shearing blade is pivoted in an intermediate position of the length to said upper handle portion within said opening, said shearing blade is provided at the rear and lower end with an engaging pawl, a rocking bar having notches in the upper surface is pivoted at one end to the leading end of a lower handle portion, a slot is provided in the rear portion of said shearing blade, a connection link has at one end a pin freely received within said slot and is pivoted at the other end to an intermediate position of the length of said rocking bar, a spring is provided for urging said rocking bar against said