Patent ID: 7370424

Claim:
A cutting string for a plant cutting appliance that includes a rotating cutting head powered by an engine and that can retain the string; said string being profiled in a uniform manner along its length, and presenting a uniform section along its length, and wherein the string comprises a main body having in cross section an outer periphery whose ratio between the width, measured in a cutting direction, and the height is constant along the whole length of said string and is greater than about 1.35 and less than about 2, wherein said main body is of a first material, and at least one cutting appendage of a second material that is different from the first material, and in that the ratio between the width and the height of the string is measured on the main body, and wherein the main body has at least one end face which mounts the at least one cutting appendage, and wherein the at least one cutting appendage is of generally triangular cross section, with successive teeth formed at the leading edge of the appendage which are separated by rounded craters.