US 12,471,539 B2
Hand tool with shear assembly
Rony Chan, Simpsonville, SC (US); and Samuel Nelson, Greenville, SC (US)
Assigned to TECHTRONIC CORDLESS GP, Anderson, SC (US)
Filed by TECHTRONIC CORDLESS GP, Anderson, SC (US)
Filed on Apr. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/723,836.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/181,575, filed on Apr. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0346326 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. A01G 3/025 (2006.01); A01G 3/02 (2006.01); A01G 3/047 (2006.01)
CPC A01G 3/0251 (2013.01) [A01G 3/021 (2013.01); A01G 3/0475 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hand tool, the hand tool comprising:
a first handle forming a channel;
a second handle comprising a cutting member; and
a cutting blade forming a first opening and a second opening, wherein a linkage is attached, via a first fastener, in pivotal arrangement to the first handle at the channel and to the cutting blade at the second opening, and wherein the cutting blade is attached, via a second fastener, in pivotal arrangement to the second handle at the first opening, wherein the cutting blade and the linkage are pivotally attached via a third fastener, and wherein the first handle is pivotally attached to the second handle via a fourth fastener,
wherein the first handle forms at the channel a first channel end distal to a second channel end, wherein the first channel end is separated along a first reference axis at the first handle from the second channel end, the first reference axis corresponding to an extension between the fourth fastener and the first fastener at the second channel end, wherein the first handle is attachable to the cutting blade in a first operating mode via the first fastener positioned at the first channel end, and wherein the first handle is attachable to the cutting blade in a second operating mode via the first fastener positioned at the second channel end,
wherein the first handle comprises a first portion and a second portion, wherein a handle grip is positioned onto the first handle at the second portion, wherein the first portion extends substantially along the first reference axis, and wherein the second portion extends substantially along a second reference axis corresponding to an extension between the first fastener at the second channel end and the handle grip, and wherein the first reference axis and the second reference axis extend at an acute angle relative to one another, and wherein the channel extends straight along the first reference axis at the first portion.