Patent ID: 9717185
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: A01G,B27B,B27G

Claim:
1. A vegetation pruning device comprising: a pair of arms adapted to pivot relative to each other about an axis to adjust the angle between said arms, wherein each arm has a handle portion adapted to be gripped by a user and a guard portion; a motor having a rotary output drive; an endless flexible cutting element mounted to a support and adapted to be driven relative to said support by said rotary output drive to cut vegetation presented thereto; a first guard portion adapted to be moved relative to said cutting element by pivoting said arms relative to each other to grip vegetation between said first guard portion and said cutting element; an actuator provided on both handles portion for actuating said motor, wherein said actuator comprises an elongate actuator member moveably mounted to said handle portion and adapted to be urged towards said handle portion by application of manual pressure at substantially any location along the length of said actuator member to actuate said motor; and wherein said actuator member on each said handle portion must be actuated in order to actuate the motor.