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US 11,452,263 B2Granted
Disbudding secateurs
AssigneesClaudio Bortolussi, Franco Bortolussi
InventorsLuigi Bonato, Cesare Intrieri
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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.
Claims9
Secateurs for removing buds of tree shoots, comprising:
- a grip portion and a cutting portion both arranged along a longitudinal axis and connected to each other with a joint, the joint having a rotation axis orthogonal to said longitudinal axis, wherein:
- the cutting portion comprises two blades extending along the longitudinal axis symmetrically from the joint, each of the two blades including a first face opposite to a second face;
- the first face has a concavity with a curvature radius along the longitudinal axis in correspondence of a cutting edge between 30 mm and 70 mm;
- the second face has a convexity with a curvature radius transversal to said longitudinal axis between 40 mm and 60 mm;
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- the two blades are non-deformable.
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