Hand-held power working machine

• US 5,987,753 A
• Filed: 05/27/1998
• Issued: 11/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kioritz Corporation (Yamabiko Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kioritz Corporation (Yamabiko Corporation)
• Inventors: Nagashima, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): PAYER, HWEI SIU CHOU
• Application Number:
  US09/085,813
• Time in Patent Office: 545 Days
• Field of Search: 30/208, 30/216, 30/223, 30/224
• US Class Current: 30/216
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 3/053 motor-driven

Abstract

A hand-held power working machine which is capable of reducing the weight of the clipper blades, capable of being suitably heat-treated in the manufacture thereof, and capable of minimizing the stress concentration at the slot portions during the operation thereof. The clipper blades comprise a large number of cutting edges, and a large number of slots formed along a full length of each of the clipper blades; wherein the pitch of array of the cutting edges is substantially the same as the pitch of array of the slots.

Claims

1. A working machine comprising a pair of elongated clipper blades, each clipper blade having a plurality of cutting edges along at least one side, the cutting edges having a pitch, and a plurality of slots formed along the entire length of the blade and having a pitch substantially equal to the pitch of the cutting edges.

2. A working machine according to claim 1, wherein the slots of each blade are aligned in a row extending longitudinally of the blade and wherein each blade has cutting edges along both sides.

3. A working machine according to claim 2 and further comprising a blade-supporting plate having a plurality of threaded holes, the blade-supporting plate being superimposed over the pair of blades and the blades being coupled to the blade-supporting plate by guiding male screws received from below the pair of cutting blades through selected ones of the slots in each blade, a threaded tip end portion of each guiding male screw being threaded through a threaded hole in the blade-supporting plate and protruding above the blade-supporting plate and receiving a lock nut.

4. A working machine according to claim 3 wherein all of the slots of the pair of blades are identical.

5. A working machine according to claim 1 and further comprising a blade-supporting plate having a plurality of threaded holes, the blade-supporting plate being superimposed over the pair of blades and the blades being coupled to the blade-supporting plate by guiding male screws received from below the pair of cutting blades through selected ones of the slots in each blade, a threaded tip end portion of each guiding male screw being threaded through a threaded hole in the blade-supporting plate and protruding above the blade-supporting plate and receiving a lock nut.

6. A working machine according to claim 5, wherein all of the slots of the pair of blades are identical.