Abstract: An automatic nail clipping device including a blade plate replaceably secured within a blade plate holder frame within a covering shell, an electronic motor driving a shaft which in turn rotates an extending cam element. The extending cam element engaging an oblong opening on a backside of the blade plate holder frame, raising and dropping the entire blade plate holder frame, and causing the blade in the blade plate to clip nails in a downward movement and return the blade plate to a ready elevated position.

Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to trimming shears for cutting (or trimming) a claw of a domesticated animal. The trimming shears include a first handle, a second handle, and at least one blade. Pivotal movement of the first handle relative to the second handle urges the blade between a pre-cut position and a cut position. The transition from the pre-cut position to the cut position being configured to cut a claw positioned in the blade path. The trimming shears may further include a guide for receiving a respective claw and guiding the claw to be positioned within the blade path. In one example, the guide may include a single aperture, wherein an effective opening area of the aperture is adjustable to accommodate a respective claw. In another example, the guide may include a plurality of apertures, each sized for receiving a respective claw size.

Abstract: An ambulatory cutting device is provided. The ambulatory cutting device provides a blade mounted, by way of a blade holding assembly, to a wheeled frame. The wheeled frame has handles for a user to push the wheeled frame along a surface supporting a roofing membrane or other cuttable membrane, wherein the blade holding assembly maintains the mounted blade at an elevation just below the supporting surface so that the membrane is cut as a user pushes the wheeled frame.

Abstract: A claw clipper with an LED for a companion animal, includes: a pair of handles connected to each other by an elastic member; a pair of clipper blades each attached to a first side of an end portion of each of the handles, respectively; and an LED module provided in a first surface of the end portion of one of the pair of handles and emitting light in a direction toward the clipper blades.

Abstract: Pet nail clippers contains a fixed grip, a movable grip connected with the fixed grip, a housing, an adjusting bolt, and a cutting assembly. The housing includes a beak portion and a neck portion coupling with the fixed grip which includes a receiving cavity. The cutting assembly includes a movable blade and a fixed blade disposed in the receiving cavity and extending out of the beak portion, and the movable blade contacts with the fixed blade and extends out of the beak portion. The movable blade is coupled with a driving rod connecting with the movable grip, the driving rod includes a second end coupling with a resilient element. The resilient element includes a second end mounted on the fixed grip, the housing also includes a through hole communicating with the movable blade, such that the adjusting bolt inserts through the through hole to abut against the movable blade.

Abstract: A baby safe trimming tool has a first blade and a second blade being curved as to accommodate the curved nature of human nails. The first blade is connected to a first handle opposite a first spring. The second blade is connected to a second handle opposite a second spring, and is pivotally connected to the first blade, wherein a first cutting edge of the first blade is scissionably aligned with a second cutting edge of the second blade. The first spring engages the second spring to provide a restoring force when the first handle and the second handle are squeezed together. The first handle and the second handle can be outfitted in multiple grip configurations in order to provide enhanced comfort and grip for a user, wherein a grooved grip area or a loop may be provided for either the first handle or the second handle.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting toe nails and finger nails includes a plastic frame member. The frame member includes an upper frame member and a lower frame member. The upper and lower frame members are either attached together at a rear thereof or they are formed as a continuous component that generally includes a V-shape or a U-shape at the rear. One of a pair of cutting blades is attached to a front of the upper frame member and a remainder of the pair of cutting blades is attached to a front of the lower frame member so that a cutting edge of each of the pair of cutting blades will be in alignment and face each other. According to certain preferred embodiments, the device is disposable. According to certain other preferred embodiments each of the pair of cutting blades can be replaced with a new replacement blade assembly. A safety bumper prevents injury and provides a means for controlling the finished length of the nail.

Abstract: A nail clipping system comprises two opposed surfaces (relatively flat, curved or ergonomically or functionally non-planar) hinged at one end. The hinge may be a living hinge made from the same or similar structural material as the opposed surfaces, or may be a spring-loaded hinge connecting the two opposed surfaces. Associated with an upper one of the opposed surfaces is at least one (relatively) downward exterior plate, and associated with a lower one of the opposed surfaces is at least one (relatively) upward interior plate directly opposed to a downward exterior plate. The at least one downward exterior plate has a slot therein accessible to finger nails. The slot may be linear or curved (to accommodate the curve of nails). The at least one upward interior plate has a blade element that slides along an interior surface of the downward exterior plate and across the slot therein.

Abstract: Apparatuses disclosed herein aid in shearing animal claws. Specifically, the present invention provides a shearing apparatus having at least one curved blade, but preferably two curved blades, allowing cutting of the animal's claw from opposite sides of the animal's claw, and at least one well for placing the animal's claw therein, wherein said two curved blades are disposed at an aperture located at the bottom of the well. The well and aperture combination stops the animal's claw from being sheared too close to nerve endings and the animal's blood supply, preventing or minimizing the incidence of injury and suffering to the animal. Methods of using the apparatus are further disclosed herein.

Abstract: A nail clipper and light combination assembly includes a clipper that has a first arm with a first end and a second end and a second arm with a first end and a second end. The first ends of the first and second arms are attached together. The clipper includes a pair of blades and each of the second ends has one of the blades attached thereto. The blades extend toward each other. The second ends are biased away from each other. A lever is mechanically coupled to the first and second arms. The lever has a free end that is movable toward the first and second arms to urge the blades together in a cutting motion. A light emitter is attached to the clipper to emit light toward the second ends from above the first arm when the light emitter is turned on.

Abstract: The present invention relates to nail clippers including: a body having a fingernail insertion part formed thereon in such a manner as to insert a fingernail thereinto; and a cutter mounted with respect to the fingernail insertion part on the body in such a manner as to apply a transverse shearing force to the fingernail that has been passed into the fingernail insertion part, the cutter having a fixed plate supportedly fixed to the body and a cutter blade part formed on a partial surface of the fixed plate, the cutter blade part having a blade face adapted to cut the fingernail.

Abstract: A work tool according to the invention is configured in such a manner that when an operator performs a predetermined operation by gripping a gripping section and opening/closing an active section, the opening and closing operation can be achieved smoothly without employing a spring by gripping the gripping section strongly and releasing the same because a repulsive force of magnets urges two pressure-nipping members in the direction in which the gripping section opens.

Abstract: A remotely actuated nail clipping apparatus includes a nail clipper body having upper and lower jaws with opposed cutting surfaces. An actuating lever is remotely disposed from the nail clipper body. A linkage, which operably couples the actuating lever to the nail clipper body, passes through the upper jaw of the nail clipper body and interfaces with the lower jaw and enables the user to pull the lower jaw upward toward the upper jaw into a cutting configuration whereby the opposed cutting surfaces of the two jaws engage one another to thereby clip a nail disposed therebetween. Preferably, a hollow vertical shaft rigidly couples the upper jaw of the nail clipper body to the actuating lever and the linkage extends through the interior of the shaft. A platform is preferably secured to the top end of the shaft and provides a support surface for the actuation lever.

Abstract: An illuminating nail clipper for clipping the nails of an animal such as a dog, cat, bird, or the like which allows for the clipping of an individual nail at the desired length to prevent injury or improper length cutting for the animal. The device includes a hand-actuated clipping blade used in conjunction with an adjustable in size nail holder which includes a cutting hole and which allows the nail to be clipped to be firmly held at a particular position relative to the nail cutting blade. A light source illuminates an animal's nail to make it translucent, allowing the operator to see the capillaries within the nail and thus to avoid cutting to the live portion of the nail.

Abstract: A clipper for clipping nails of an animal such as a dog, or cat, allows for the clipping of an individual nail at the desired length while preventing injury to the animal. The device includes a clipping means and a sensing means which allows the nail to be localized in a desired position relative to the clipping plane of the clipper and the internal structure of the nail. The sensing means includes a signal generation means, a signal reception means, and a quick indicator. The animal mail is positioned near the clipping means and the sensing means produces a sensible signal confirming the position of the clipping plane upon the nail, particularly the quick of the nail. The user then may adjust the position of the clipping means such that the clipping plane avoids the quick. The user then actuates the clipping means and trims the nail.

Abstract: A cuticle cutter of the like is described which is of the scissors type. Instruments of this type, especially in beauty salons, require constant cleaning, sharpening and sterilisation. The cutter of the invention facilitates such procedures by permitting the handles (2, 21) to be separate from the blades (1, 1?). In the preferred embodiment the blades are snap fitted into the handles and the arrangement is such that on opening the cutters to a maximum surfaces on the handles enter into abutment with the blades in the region of the pivot (6) and further opening cams the blades away from the handles, releasing them without any necessity for manual contact. The blades can then be submitted to the above mentioned procedures and stored for further use.

Abstract: An optical source illuminates a portion of an animal nail, and an optical sensor receives light from the illuminated portion. A processor generates a signal level, and differentiates between a “quick” signal level range (arising from illuminated living tissue in the nail) and a “nail” signal level range (arising from illuminating a nail portion with no living tissue). An indicator informs a user when the signal level is in the quick or nail range, determining the location of living tissue within the nail. Source(s) and sensor(s) may be mounted on an animal nail clipper, with illumination by the source and collection of light for receiving by the sensor occurring at a position relative to a blade so that when the signal level is within the nail range and the clipper is actuated to cut the nail, cutting of the living-tissue-containing portion of the animal nail is avoided.

Abstract: A nail clipper for pets has a first semi-spherical or semi-elliptical part which is hollowed-out with a circular or elliptical hole with a blade formed on a rim of the hole, and a second semi-spherical or elliptical part having a shape matching the outside of the first part and a blade formed on a rim thereof. By placing the pet's nail in the hollowed-out hole of the first semi-spherical or elliptical part and rotating the second part along the outside of the first part, the blades of the first and second parts come together to cut the pet's nail, producing smooth nail edges cut in a semi-circular shape in a single cutting action.

Abstract: A nail clipper 10 includes a fixed blade member 2 and a movable blade member 3. The fixed blade member 2 in a form of a curved plate has a curved face for enabling a finger tip F to be contacted with the curved face, a nail insertion groove 23 in an arc shape which is formed in this curved face, and a cutting edge 24 which is provided at a backward lower edge of the nail insertion groove 23. The movable blade member 3 has a curved face 33 so as to slide up and down along a back face of the fixed blade member 2, and a cutting edge 34 which is formed at a lower edge of the curved face 33 in a curved shape in correspondence with the above mentioned cutting edge 24. When the movable blade member 3 has slid downward, the cutting edge 34 is adapted to cut a part of a nail n which is protruded from the nail insertion groove 23.

Abstract: An optical source illuminates a portion of an animal nail, and an optical sensor receives light from the illuminated portion. A processor generates a signal level, and differentiates between a “quick” signal level range (arising from illuminated living tissue in the nail) and a “nail” signal level range (arising from illuminating a nail portion with no living tissue). An indicator informs a user when the signal level is in the quick or nail range, determining the location of living tissue within the nail. Source(s) and sensor(s) may be mounted on an animal nail clipper, with illumination by the source and collection of light for receiving by the sensor occurring at a position relative to a blade so that when the signal level is within the nail range and the clipper is actuated to cut the nail, cutting of the living-tissue-containing portion of the animal nail is avoided.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a cutting device including a first blade portion having a handle and a cutting surface and a second blade portion having a handle and a cutting surface. The first and second blade portions are coupled together and intersect at a pivot point. A rivet is mounted through the pivot point attaching the first and second blade portions, where then rivet further comprises a head elevated with respect to the first blade portion. A cover for covering at least a portion of the first and second blade portions is provided. The cover has a rivet head receiving slot so that when the first and second blade portions are in a closed position and when the cover is positioned over the first and second blade portions, the rivet head frictionally engages the receiving slot so that the cover is frictionally attached to the rivet head.

Abstract: A cuticle cutting instrument has tubes rotatably disposed in each other and forming two working endings, cutting elements provided on the endings, handles fixed on the tubes, a return spring installed between the handles, and a tubing connection for communicating with a vacuum source.

Abstract: A cuticle cutting instrument has tubes rotatably disposed in each other and forming two working endings, cutting elements provided on the endings, handles fixed on the tubes, a return spring installed between the handles, and a tubing connection for communicating with a vacuum source.

Abstract: The board cutter includes a T-square and a knife. The T-square has a head with a board edge contact surface and a board face contact surface. A long leg of the T-square is attached to the head. A board face contact surface on the bottom of the long leg slides along a board face during use. A slider is slideable along a slot in the long leg and is clamped in any position along the slot. The knife is pivotally connected to the slider for pivotal movement about an axis that is parallel to the slot in the long leg. Penetration of the cutter into a board is controlled manually as the T-square is slid along surfaces of the board.

Abstract: A nail clipper of this invention has a somewhat V-shaped handle portion formed of a first upper handle and a second lower handle each of which is pivotally mounted with respect to the other, and movable toward the other. A nail holder, having an arcuate slot for the receipt of an artificial nail, extends forwardly from the lower handle. A cutter assembly having a forwardly disposed arcuate blade edge, is slidably mounted and interconnected to the upper handle's movement whereby it is actuated forwardly over the nail holder to carry out a cutting motion against a nail disposed in the nail holder's slot, upon the application of force to the two handles and moved rearwardly by a release of the grip of the upper portion. The apparatus also includes an elevation setter which may be used for controlling the size of cut of a nail inserted into the nail holder slot. A sizing tool may be employed with the elevation setter to preset the length of the nail to be worn.

Abstract: A nail clipper device with a scissors-like cutting configuration comprises elongated upper and lower operating members each having first ends joined together, and second ends terminating in spaced complimentary shaped cutting edges; a post secured to the lower operating member and movably extending through an aperture in the upper member adjacent the cutting edges; a lever member having first and second ends with the first end begin pivotally secured to the post, the upper operating member having an exterior surface with the lever member being superimposed over the upper operating member in a non-operable position; the lever member having a bent portion adjacent the post so the lever member is first pivoted about the axis of the post, and pivoted in over the post to an operating position, the bent portion of the lever will bear against the upper operating member to move the cutting edge.

Abstract: A nail clipper includes a gauge which determines the length of the nail being cut. The gauge is held by friction against one of the jaws of the clipper, and can slide back and forth to a desired position. The gauge includes a flange against which the fingertip is brought into abutment. In another embodiment, the flange includes a recess which mates with a fingertip. The latter embodiment prevents accidental cutting of the fingertip, and is especially suitable for use in cutting children's fingernails. In still another embodiment, the nail clipper resembles a guillotine, and a U-shaped gauge member slides back and forth in a holding device to determine the length of the nail to be cut. A finger holder connected to the gauge member provides secure contact between the fingertip and the gauge member. The invention substantially improves the efficiency with which artificial nails can be cut precisely to a desired length.

Abstract: The present invention provides a nail clipper having a container for collecting and containing cut finger and toe nails. The container has separable first and second portions to allow for easy disposal of cut material. The first portion has an open bottom wall and the second portion has an open top wall and is removable from the first portion. The open top of the second portion is removably and reengageably attached to the open bottom of the first portion, such that the second portion slidably engages within the first portion of the container. The container includes a utensil or utensils, for example a nail file, in a receptacle in the second portion. The utensil can be used both when the second portion is attached to the first portion and when the second portion is detached from the first portion.

Abstract: A pedicure kit comprises a toe spreader and a toe nail scissor that separates toes of a foot of a user who has difficulty bending without the user having to bend and cuts the toe nails on the toes of the foot of the user who has difficulty bending without the user having to bend. The combination includes an elongated and slender toe spreader, and an elongated and slender toe nail scissor. The elongated and slender toe spreader has a slender handle portion that is releasibly engagable in the palm of a hand of the user, and a toe spreader portion that is remote from the slender handle portion of the elongated and slender toe spreader and releasibly engages and separates the toes of the foot of the user from each other without the user having to bend, so that the toes of the foot of the user who has difficulty bending can be separated from each other without the user having to bend and separate the toes of the foot of the user with another hand of the user.

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: The clipper of the present invention includes a clipper handle with a first component and a second component which are moveable with respect to each other. A nail holder extends from the clipper handle, the nail holder having a curved cross section. A slot for receiving the fingernail to be clipped is defined in the nail holder. A blade is slidably mounted with respect to the nail holder, and has a cross section which corresponds to the curved cross section of the nail holder. The blade terminates in a blade edge. The nail holder and the blade are each mounted to one of the first and second components. Therefore, when relative movement is effected between the handle components, a sliding action takes place between the nail holder and the blade to cut a nail which has been inserted into the slot in the nail holder. The curved cross section of the nail holder and the blade ensures that the nail will be cut in an ideally rounded configuration.

Abstract: A clipper for artificial finger nails includes a substantially planar nail holder having an arcuate opening therethrough for receiving an acrylic finger nail. Such a nail is cut by a blade in sliding face-to-face relation with the nail holder which slides over the opening thereby cutting the nail. A slot in the blade has a post extending therethrough. A screw mounted on one end of the post is received in a threaded insert formed in a nose piece. On the other end of the post, a knurled knob facilitates disassembly for changing a blade. A pair of transverse slots formed in the blade receive a pair of teeth formed on a pivotable clipper handle for converting rotational handle movement into transverse blade movement in rack-and-pinion fashion. Cut tips of the acrylic nails are caught and retained in a nail catcher mounted on the nail holder.

Abstract: A nail clipper designed to trim a portion of the nail of a person's digit without causing injury to the flesh portion of the digit includes a U-shaped body that has a first and second end and includes first and second, spaced-apart handles interconnected by a central arc portion between the handles proximate the first end. The handles are resiliently biased by the central arc portion into a partially extending, normal resting position. The central arc portion serves as a hinge. A first blade is fixedly coupled to the first handle and has a cutting slot defined in the structure thereof. A second blade is operably, pivotally coupled to the first handle and has an actuator for imparting pivotal motion thereto. The actuator is operably coupled to the second handle.

Abstract: A finger/toe nail clipping and catching device 20 comprises a lower arm 74 unitary with vertical side walls 46 and 48. A rear block 96 between the rear ends of the lower and upper arms 74 and 76 provides more space between said arms 74 and 76 than in the conventional nail clipper. The lower and upper arms 74 and 76 are spaced in overlying arrangement, fastened at one end 82 and terminating in spaced facing jaw formations 45 and 47. The jaw formations 45 and 47 comprise upper and lower concave center blade sections 56 and 50 and upper and lower side blade sections 55 and 57 and 52 and 54 that terminate in sharpened cutting edges. When the blade sections are engaged in "cutting" position, the interior chamber of the device 20 is completely enclosed by the interior facing surfaces of the arms 74 and 76, side walls 46 and 48, and blade sections. The invention 20 eliminates the deflection and obstruction problems caused by the conventional mounting pin by providing other mounting means for the actuating lever.

Abstract: A nail clipper includes a clipper body having a front section and a rear section acting as a first handle, the front section including a top plate and a base plate defining a passageway therebetween. The top plate and the base plate each has an aperture substantially aligned to each other and adapted to receive a finger nail therewithin. A blade is slidably positioned in the passageway. The nail clipper further includes a second handle having a front end connected to the blade, and a flexible plate. The first end of the flexible plate is attached to the second handle and the opposing second end of the flexible plate is attached to the first handle. The flexible plate is adapted to normally bias the second handle and the blade in a retracted position rearward from the apertures.

Abstract: A cutting blade actuating link for actuating a cutting blade of a guillotine-type animal nail or artificial nail clipper. The link is in the form of a thin flat body having an integral hook formation at one end adapted for insertion into an aperture in the blade and a blade-release finger tab at the opposite end. The link hook has an inside peripheral edge concave surface to thereby define a hook eye interior surface inclined generally at an acute angle relative to the longitudinal axis of said body. The link has a dumb bell shaped through-opening for receiving both a pivot pin for mounting the blade to the clipper handle and the hook end of the clipper handle spring. Progressive die stamping method, apparatus and punch and die tooling are also disclosed for making the link.

Abstract: A cutter device particularly useful for cutting fingernails and toenails includes a housing grippable by a user for holding and manipulating the device. A slot is formed in a conical end portion of the housing and is elongated in the circumferential direction for receiving a nail to be cut. A rotatable head having an outer conical surface is rotatably mounted within the conical end portion of the housing. A blade is fixed to the rotatable head and has a cutting edge extending substantially radially of the conical surface of the head and perpendicularly to the slot. A motor within the housing and coupled to the head rotates the head, and the blade fixed thereto, such that the cutting edge of the blade is rotated substantially perpendicularly to the direction of elongation of the slot and the nail received therein.

Abstract: A nail clipper is provided including a pair of crossed and pivotally connected levers defining handle ends and blade ends. A bowed spring is disposed between the handle ends and includes split sleeve portions engaged with and extending at least partially about and anchored relative to the handle ends against longitudinal displacement relative thereto and a locking sleeve is removably telescoped over the handle ends to releasably retain the latter against swinging movement away from each other. Further, the blade ends of the levers include opposing arcuate cutting edges abuttingly engaged with each other when the blade ends are in their closed positions and which, together, open laterally outwardly of the clipper in one direction along the axis of relative pivotal movement of levers.

Abstract: An artificial fingernail clipper is provided which includes a stationary nail holder with an aperture therein for receiving the fingernail, a cutting blade slidably disposed against and above the nail holder, and a blade mounting member which extends past the cutting blade and secured in the nail holder. An operating handle is disposed rearwardly of the cutting end having a pivotable member pivotally mounted with respect to and in direct contact with the cutting blade. The pivotable member thus causes the cutting blade to be slid forwardly to effect cutting of the nail. Pivoting of the pivotable member tends to exert an upward force on the rear end of the cutting blade, thereby ensuring that the forward edge of the cutting blade is in close contact with the nail holder, to ensure a clean cut.

Abstract: A clipper retains an artificial nail within a crescent shaped aperture while a blade reciprocates past the aperture to sever the artificial nail with a desired curvature precisely controlled by suitable orientation of the clippers. One cut is required to bring the nail to its final shape thereby eliminating or greatly reducing subsequent shaping procedures.

Abstract: A claw clipper is provided with a pair of cutters having cooperating shearing edges. A first cutter has a concave cylindrically shaped surface the bottom edge of which is generally circular. The second cutter has a U-shaped member with the base portion provided at the center with an upwardly extending post having a flat upper surface. There are safety members on each side of the post at a predetermined distance from the post to prevent a claw inserted there between from being cut so deep as to cut a blood vessel in the inner part of the claw. The shearing edges provide the claw with a smooth contoured surface in the plane of clawing.

Abstract: A nail clipper for clipping the nails of an animal such as a dog, cat or the like which allows for the clipping of an individual nail at the desired length to prevent injury or improper length cutting for the animal. The device includes a hand-actuated clipping blade used in conjunction with an adjustable in size nail holder which allows the nail to be clipped to be firmly held at a particular position relative to the nail cutting blade. The nail holder and positioner includes a disc having a plurality of apertures of different diameters which is moveable to position a desired aperture of a particular size adjacent the cutting blade. With the varying diameter apertures, the animal nail may be inserted in each aperture until an aperture is found that permits the nail to penetrate a particular distance based on the diameter size of the nail, which is tapered. The proper aperture is determined which allows only penetration to the point equal to the desired length of the nail portion to be cut.