Patent ID: 8037795

Claim:
A trimmer for trimming brochures, comprising: a top cutter and a bottom cutter, each cutter having a lower blade holder and an upper blade holder operatively connected to the lower blade holder, said top cutter having top cutting blades and said bottom cutter having bottom cutting blades; said top and bottom cutting blades disposed on said upper and lower blade holders and across from each other, each of the top and bottom cutting blades having an elongated cutting edge to top trim and bottom trim a brochure, respectively; a guide rail configuration extending generally orthogonally to said cutting edges; said top and bottom cutters each having a tensioner for locking said lower blade holders in a selected position on said guide rail configuration, said tensioners being actuated from one and the same side of the trimmer by an actuator, wherein said actuator is mechanically connected to said tensioners to actuate said tensioners; each said tensioner including: a displaceable tensioning cam formed as a slotted guide, a cam follower interacting with said tensioning cam, and a tensioning device connected to said cam follower that provides said locking of said lower blade holders with said guide rail configuration.