Patent ID: 7424778

Claim:
Scissors comprising in combination: a first shaft having a handle portion and a cutting portion separated by a first pivot location; an adjustable, substantially circular thumb ringlet having an open portion and a connecting portion opposite the open portion, wherein the connecting portion includes a passage extending from the inner surface to the outside surface of the thumb ringlet, and is enlarged adjacent the inside surface to defined a cavity; means for rotatably connecting said thumb ringlet to said first shaft, wherein the means for rotatably connecting said thumb ringlet to said first shaft is adapted to be inserted into the connecting portion, and is constructed and shaped to fit into the cavity such that it is flush with the inner surface of the thumb ringlet; a second shaft having a handle portion and a cutting portion separated by a second pivot location; and means for pivotably connecting said second shaft to said first shaft in the region of the first pivot location and the second pivot location in such a manner that the cutting portion of said first shaft and the cutting portion of said second shaft cooperate as opposing cutting portions of said scissors.