Patent ID: 11871831
Assignee: nan
Field: Other consumer goods (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 18:
19. An electrically-powered nail cutting apparatus (300) comprising a housing, an open slot, a vertical translating nail-cutting blade plate, a motor (900) comprising a rotating shaft (902) and an eccentric cam post (904):
a) said housing having a front face (102,1002) and a rear face (316), two sides, a top (302) and a bottom (304,404);
b) the front face (100) of the housing having said open slot (108,322,422) at least 0.5 mm in height and between 0.7 cm and 3 cm in width, the slot having a front-facing opening and a rear-facing opening;
c) within the housing and proximal to the rear-facing opening is said vertically translating nail-cutting blade plate (200,1000,1100) associated with said electric motor (602,702,900) that is configured to translate the nail-cutting blade plate consecutively down and up through the rotational action of an electrical motor having a rotating shaft having an eccentrically positioned cam post (904); and
d) the eccentrically positioned cam post engaging the blade plate in a slot in the blade plate, the blade plate (200,1000,1100) comprising a solid material having an opening therein, wherein the blade plate carries a cutting blade (212,1012,1110) with a cutting edge such that the cutting edge is adjacent the rear-facing opening;
e) wherein the cam has a post engaging a slot in the blade plate relatively below the opening to the blade, so that the blade plate is pulled down and pushed up by the rotating movement of the post extending from the cam, driven by the motor;
f) the cutting blade plate (200) has a structural frame (202), a blade providing opening (210), a cam attending opening (204) to assist in movement of the blade unit (200), a bottom surface (205) of the blade unit (200), and a blade (212) which is moved repeatedly up and down to slice nails inserted into the electrically-powered nail cutting apparatus, wherein said rotating shaft (902) with said eccentrically positioned cam post (904) has the post positioned within the cam attending opening (204) and as the cam post is eccentrically driven, it forces the cutting blade plate (200) up and down to drive the blade (212); and
g) as the cam post (904) is rotated up, the blade unit (200) is elevated to a highest position and as the cam post (904) rotates down, it presses against the lowest interior edge of the cam attending opening (204) to force movement of the cutting blade plate (200) in a downward path, wherein the downward force will press the blade (212) against and through any nail extending into the device.