Patent ID: 8925985
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: A01B

Abstract:
1. A garden tool comprising: a plurality of members; a first member comprising a first lever, a pivot point, and a first jaw having a distal end and a proximal end; a second member comprising a second lever and a second jaw respectively; the first jaw comprising; a left side and a right side joined at the distal end, a gripping zone comprising a distributed force gripping zone, a gripping surface having a continuous outer perimeter that defines the gripping zone and, a first inner perimeter that defines a first opening in the gripping zone wherein the first opening is proximally-distally longer than it is wide and has a minimal area that is between 20% and 90% of a maximal area of the gripping zone and through which debris can internally exit the gripping zone and the jaw itself; and wherein the first and second levers operate the first and second jaw respectively, the first jaw rotates at the pivot point about a first pivot between an open and a closed position relative to the second jaw and the opening and closing defines a plane of motion, the first pivot has a pivot axis, the first jaw has a jaw axis that is perpendicular to and between the pivot axis and the distal end of the first jaw when at the closed position, the first and second jaw are substantially on opposite sides of a shared plane of the jaw axis and the pivot axis when at the closed position, the continuous outer perimeter starts and ends at the pivot plane perpendicular to the shared plane, the inner perimeter is on a plane substantially parallel to the shared plane, and the first member when divided into 20 equally spaced lateral cross sectional slices perpendicular to the shared plane from the distal end to the pivot point has a majority of cross sections that show left and right sides that are not connected laterally in the cross sectional slice.