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US 2012/0246941 A1Published application
Garden shears
OwnerMei-Yu Nieninventor
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Abstract
Garden shears has a cutting member with an inverted U-shaped opening for accepting the target object. When the driving member is pushed towards the handle, the target object A in the opening is and pushed and cut off by the cutting edge portion of the blade. Therefore, the target object can be securely limited by the garden shears without sliding off.
Claims6
Garden shears comprising:
- a cutting member having at least two casings, one end forming a handle and another end having an inverted U-shaped opening;
- a driving member pivoted onto and sandwiched by the casings, having a griping section at one end and a central axis aperture at a predetermined position provided with a corresponding pivoting shaft, for pivoting onto a corresponding aperture between the handle and the opening of the cutting member;
- a driving portion extending above the griping section, and a plurality of the first engaging teeth formed along an upper edge of the driving portion;
- an elastic member having a circular section formed at a middle position and pivoted onto the central axis aperture with the pivoting shaft, free ends of the elastic member respectively pushing against the handle and the griping section such that the driving member is pushed in a direction opposite that of the handle by the elastic member;
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- a blade disposed at a predetermined position of the cutting member and having a cutting edge portion on one side, and a plurality of second engaging teeth formed on a bottom side of the blade for engaging with the first engaging teeth of the driving member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.