Patent ID: 8176636
Filing Date: 2012-05-15
Classification: A01L,B26B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A high pressure, hydraulic hand tool incorporating tool cutting jaws and cutting blades and for use in dense materials cutting applications, said hand tool having a handle, a handle chamber positioned within the handle, a housing integrated at the upper end of the handle, said housing having a piston chamber therein, wherein a piston is slidably located within the piston chamber, and is subject to a high pressure hydraulic fluid motor for urging said piston upwardly and out away from the handle chamber, during a cutting action, but is spring biased downwardly and back toward the handle chamber, for deactivating said blades of the hand tool, after a cut has been made, and wherein a series of links and clevis attached to the upper end of the piston, and are provided for urging the outer back edges of the tool cutting jaws upwardly, and inwardly, for directing the cutting blades into a severing function, and the tool cutting jaws are also pivotally mounted to the upper edge of the housing, to furnish a pivot point about which the jaws pivot, when actuated into a cutting function, said tool cutting jaws are L shaped in configuration, including upwardly extending jaw portions, and integrally laterally extending base portions, the base portions of each tool cutting jaw being pinned together through the usage of a pivot pin, while the lower ends of the upwardly extending law portions are connected by pivot pins to the respective clevis.