Patent ID: 7640666

Claim:
A pair of gardening shears, comprising: two cutting blades pivotally connected with each other; two movable members each having a first side mounted on a respective cutting blade; two fixing members each mounted on a second side of a respective movable member; two locking bolts each extended through the fixing members, the movable members and the cutting blades; two locking nuts each screwed onto a respective locking bolt so that the fixing members, the movable members and the cutting blades are locked between the locking bolts and the locking nuts; wherein: each of the cutting blades has a pivot portion formed with a pivot hole and an elongated guide slot; each of the movable members is formed with a pivot bore aligning with the pivot hole of the respective cutting blade and an elongated slide slot aligning with the guide slot of the respective cutting blade; each of the fixing members is formed with a fixing hole aligning with the pivot bore of the respective movable member and a fixing bore aligning with the slide slot of the respective movable member; a first one of the locking bolts is in turn extended through the fixing hole of a first one of the fixing members, the pivot bore of a first one of the movable members, the pivot hole of a first one of the cutting blades, the guide slot of a second one of the cutting blades, the slide slot of a second one of the movable members and the fixing bore of a second one of the fixing members; a second one of the locking bolts is in turn extended through the fixing bore of the first one of the fixing members, the slide slot of the first one of the movable members, the guide slot of the first one of the cutting blades, the pivot hole of the second one of the cutting blades, the pivot bore of second one of the movable members and the fixing hole of the second one of the fixing members.