Patent ID: 8978255
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: A01G

Abstract:
1. Garden shears having a pair of overlapping engaging members, an anvil, a blade plate and two operating arms, wherein each engaging member has a plurality of positioning apertures, at least two pivoting apertures, and a containment space formed in an upper opening; each containment space having a closed top providing a resting portion for the anvil; each engaging member further having at least two parallel protruding strips which form a guiding track; the blade plate has a positioning slot, a blade at an upper portion and an extending portion at a lower portion, a plurality of driving teeth formed along sides of the extending portion, and a limiting member mounted onto respective sides of the extending portion and slidably engaging with the guiding track of the engaging member; each operating arm has a connecting aperture at an end, and a driving portion adjacent to the connecting aperture, an arced section with the driving portion provided with corresponding teeth, and another end of the operating arm is provided with a handle; and the two engaging members are overlapped and combined together to form an inner space between the two engaging members, the anvil is in the inner space and makes contact with the resting portion of the two engaging members, the blade plate is also in the inner space of the two engaging members, the limiting member slidably engages with the guiding track of the two engaging members, the positioning slot of the blade plate is respectively secured onto the positioning apertures of both engaging members, such that the blade plate is capable of sliding between the two engaging members, and the connecting aperture of the operating arm is pivoted onto the pivoting aperture of the engaging member, such that the corresponding teeth of the two operating arms engage with the driving teeth on two sides of the blade plate, wherein an upper enlarged portion of the positioning slot of the blade plate is provided with an opening.