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US 11,452,262 B1Granted
Manual hand-held clone clutters
OwnerRobert Kaleclinventor
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Abstract
A hand-held device cuts plant stems at a desired angle after a stem is inserted into a stem shaft and a blade is actuated along a blade path at a desired angle.
Claims13
An apparatus, comprising:
- a housing configured with a stem slot to guide a plant stem into a stem channel at a preselected angle, the stem slot having an upper opening and a lower opening;
- a first mechanical grip;
- a second mechanical grip;
- a cutting blade moveably held within the housing in a blade channel configured to move from an open position in which the cutting blade is held within the housing and does not extend into the stem slot to a cutting position in which the cutting blade has extended through the stem slot when a force is applied to at least one of the first and the second mechanical grips;
- and
- a spring configured to cause the cutting blade to return from the closed position to the open position when the force is not applied to at least one of the first and the second mechanical grips;
- wherein the cutting blade cuts a preselected plant stem extending from the upper opening through the lower opening at the preselected angle when the cutting blade moves from the open position to the closed position;
- and
- wherein the preselected angle promotes healthy root growth and is not a perpendicular cut relative to a diameter of the preselected plant stem.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a housing configured with a stem slot to guide a plant stem into a stem channel at a preselected angle, the stem slot having an upper opening and a lower opening;
- an anvil side configured with a first finger grip;
- a blade side configured with a second finger grip;
- a cutting blade moveably held within the housing in a blade channel configured to move from an open position in which the cutting blade is held within the housing and does not extend into the stem slot to a cutting position in which the cutting blade has extended through the stem slot when a force is applied to at least one of the first and the second finger grips;
- wherein the cutting blade cuts a preselected plant stem extending from the upper opening through the lower opening at the preselected angle when the cutting blade moves from the open position to the closed position;
- and
- wherein the preselected angle promotes healthy root growth and is not a perpendicular cut relative to a diameter of the preselected plant stem.
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A method, comprising the steps of:
- inserting a plant stem into a stem channel of a hand-held housing at a preselected angle;
- and
- causing a cutting blade to move within a blade channel within the hand-held housing to cut the plant stem at a preselected angle by pushing a thumb grip and a finger grip toward each other;
- wherein the preselected angle promotes healthy root growth and is not a perpendicular cut relative to a diameter of the plant stem;
- and
- wherein the hand-held housing is configured so that the cutting blade is not accessible to a finger of a hand when the cutting blade moves from an open position to a closed position when the plant stem is cut.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.