Hand-held gardening machine
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1. A hand-held gardening machine comprising:
- upper and lower clipper blades including cutting teeth extending horizontally from at least one side thereof, said clipper blades being constructed and arranged to reciprocate in opposite phases with each other in the longitudinal direction thereof; and
a safety plate including spaced apart protrusions extending horizontally from at least one side thereof, said safety plate being mounted relative to said upper and lower clipper blades such that tips of said protrusions extend beyond tips of said teeth,said safety plate including at least one pair of spaced apart mounting holes such that a distance between said mounting holes is generally equal to one-half of a stroke of the reciprocating motion of the cutting teeth, whereby the relative mounted and operating positions between said safety plate and said upper and lower clipper blades can be adjusted by selectively mounting said upper and lower clipper blades to said safety plate via one of said mounting holes.
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Abstract
A hand-held gardening machine includes a pair of upper and lower clipper blades each formed with clipper teeth. The clipper blades are caused to slidably reciprocate in a longitudinal direction thereof by means of output from a power source. A comb-like safety plate is formed with protrusions protruding beyond the tips of the teeth. The positions at which the protrusions of the safety plate are located are selectable from overlapping positions of the teeth of the clipper blades and positions shifted from the overlapping positions.
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1. A hand-held gardening machine comprising:
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upper and lower clipper blades including cutting teeth extending horizontally from at least one side thereof, said clipper blades being constructed and arranged to reciprocate in opposite phases with each other in the longitudinal direction thereof; and a safety plate including spaced apart protrusions extending horizontally from at least one side thereof, said safety plate being mounted relative to said upper and lower clipper blades such that tips of said protrusions extend beyond tips of said teeth, said safety plate including at least one pair of spaced apart mounting holes such that a distance between said mounting holes is generally equal to one-half of a stroke of the reciprocating motion of the cutting teeth, whereby the relative mounted and operating positions between said safety plate and said upper and lower clipper blades can be adjusted by selectively mounting said upper and lower clipper blades to said safety plate via one of said mounting holes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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