Shears, particularly hand-held garden or pruning shears or secateurs

Shears comprising two shear elements pivotable against one another about a pivot axis, the shear elements comprising:

• engaging portions provided for mutual cutting engagement, the shear elements, in an opened state of the shears, forming a shear opening widening from the pivot axis, the shear opening becoming smaller upon closing the shears;
• holding means separate from the shear elements, the holding means adapted such that the holding means apply a holding force for retaining cutting material introduced into the shear opening essentially only until the cutting process is completed,
• wherein the holding means comprise at least one rubber-like holding element being fitted to one of the shear elements.

Shears comprising two shear elements pivotable against one another about a pivot axis, the shear elements comprising:

• engaging portions provided for mutual cutting engagement, the shear elements, in an opened state of the shears, forming a shear opening widening from the pivot axis, the shear opening becoming smaller upon closing the shears;
• holding means separate from the shear elements, the holding means adapted such that the holding means apply a holding force for retaining cutting material introduced into the shear opening essentially only until the cutting process is completed,
• wherein at least one of the shear elements comprises at least one reception opening for receiving at least one rubber-like holding element.

Shears comprising two shear elements pivotable against one another about a pivot axis, the shear elements comprising:

• engaging onions provided for mutual cutting engagement, the shear elements, in an opened state of the shears, forming a shear opening widening from the pivot axis, the shear opening becoming smaller upon closing the shears;
• holding means separate from the shear elements, the holding means adapted such that the holding means apply a holding force for retaining cutting material introduced into the shear opening essentially only until the cutting process is completed,
• wherein the holding means comprise at least one holding element and wherein the holding element is positionable in an associated reception opening of a shear element such that a projecting portion of the holding element forming an elastically flexible holding surface in the vicinity of a mouth of the reception opening located on an engagement surface of the shear element projects slightly beyond the engagement surface of the shear element.

Shears comprising two shear elements pivotable against one another about a pivot axis, the shear elements comprising:

• engaging portions provided for mutual cutting engagement, the shear elements, in an opened state of the shears, forming a shear opening widening from the pivot axis, the shear opening becoming smaller upon closing the shears;
• holding means separate from the shear elements, the holding means adapted such that the holding means apply a holding force for retaining cutting materiel introduced into the shear opening essentially only until the cutting process is completed,
• wherein at least one of the shear elements comprises at least one reception opening for receiving at least one rubber-like holding element and wherein the reception opening is constructed as an opening integral with a body of a shear element.

Shears comprising two shear elements pivotable against one another about a pivot axis, the shear elements comprising:

• engaging portions provided for mutual cutting engagement, the shear elements, in an opened state of the shears, forming a shear opening widening from the pivot axis, the shear opening becoming smaller upon closing the shears;
• and,
• elastically flexible holding means separate from the shear elements, the holding means being adapted such that the holding means apply a holding force for retaining cutting material introduced into the shear opening essentially only until the cutting process is completed.