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But now, an ageing peace activist is trying to give the young people in these gangs hope and a way forward. She has built a haven for the gangs called Barrio de Paz, 'Neighbourhood of Peace', and has become a grandmotherly figure to the gang members, helping to guide them into a life of non-violence.
By John Dickie and Ioan Grillo
Seven-a-side football is a tough workout at the best of times. But the game we play on a sweaty street in Ecuador's biggest city, Guayaquil, is particularly testing.
Our goalkeeper, Pablo, bears six bullet wounds from various shootings - although to be fair, he is in surprisingly good shape and still seems to have all his reactions intact for catching the incoming footballs.
The striker we are trying to stop from breaking through our defence lines is a boss of the Latin Kings, the biggest street gang in Ecuador, which also has thousands of members in Spain, Italy and the US. Recently, some Latin Kings broke into a Spanish prison to try to murder a rival. We think about doing some dirty British sliding tackles to stop the striker, then we decide it would be unwise.
But despite the fact that we are two paunchy British journalists playing some of the hardest gang members in Ecuador, it is a surprisingly good-natured game.
Following house rules, the teams are awarded points for clean play, points when they celebrate goals in creative ways - salsa dances, overhead summersaults - and extra points if women players score a goal. Street football between rival gangs can become quite a carnival.
Curiously, the brains behind this novel version of the beautiful game has never kicked a football around in her life. Nelsa Curbelo is a bespectacled 70-year-old who spent decades as a nun before helping broker peace processes in Latin America's bloody civil wars.
But the concept of this street football fits in perfectly with the philosophy of all of Curbelo's work - promoting peace and believing in the essential goodness of human beings.
"These people you see are no different from you and I," Curbelo says. "We have just had different opportunities. They need a chance to transform themselves and an environment that will allow them to do it."'Being peace'
The idea of peace processes for gang members, gangsters and street thugs is an important concept in Latin America today.
Across the continent, from Mexico's border cities to Brazil's favelas, criminal violence is overwhelming communities and leaving never-ending piles of corpses.
Most governments have opted for military approaches, sending soldiers onto the streets to shoot the gangs into submission. In many cases, the troops have also shot dead bystanders and inflamed the violence further.
Curbelo has a very different approach. Her foundation Ser Paz - which literally means 'Being Peace' - tries to give gangsters a chance to lay down their guns and escape the street war.
Furthermore, rather than getting the bosses to leave their gangs, she encourages them to use their organisations and structures in a positive way.
"The [gang] organisations can be used for good. When a member is sick they will often get support from other members," Curbelo says. "But the organisations can also be used for bad and create problems that are very hard to deal with. It is better to work with them than against them."
Ecuador currently has less severe gang-related violence than Colombia or Mexico, but it has similar root problems to these countries - including millions of poor, marginalised young people and weak government institutions.
In Guayaquil, which has a population of 2.3 million, there are an estimated 60,000 gang members, in groups including the Latin Kings, Masters and Iron Nation.
Gang members were involved in many of the city's 600 homicides last year.'War on the streets'
Curbelo said that after decades of fighting the repression of military dictators and insurgent guerrilla groups, she saw that there was a new problem right outside her front door.
"There is real war on the streets. And it is between young people, who are fighting and dying," she says.
Curbelo went into the cities' worst slums and talked directly with the toughest crime bosses.
After gaining their trust, she brokered peace processes between gangs and the government. Gang members handed hundreds of weapons in to the army and, in return, the government helped them set up businesses, including a printing shop and a barbers.
Many gang bosses made the deal because they were looking for a way out of their violent lifestyles - lifestyles in which they were constantly watching their backs, fearing that rivals might be trying to kill them.
But they also trusted the elderly former nun because of her particular human qualities.
"She came to visit me while I was in prison. She listens and understands and offers advice. She is a great human being," says Jorge Arosemena, the scarred boss of the Iron Nation gang.
Giving gang bosses a ticket out of jail and money to start a business is controversial. Many politicians say that street thugs need punishment not amnesty.
But Curbelo's programmes have had concrete results - reducing violence in certain neighbourhoods, at least in the short-term.
As we watch rival gangs play football into the night, neighbours tell us that they are normally scared to come out onto these streets, but the crowds and lights at the tournament make them feel secure.
On this evening, at least, the gangsters are only shooting footballs.
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A hedge shears having pivotal shearing and work holding blades. A pivot mounted tensioning spring resilient biases the blades together for pressured, adherent action from the pivot to the tips. Resilient stop means are rigidly supported on the blades and to compressively engage upon their closing fully together. Work holding notches are formed in the holding blade, shaped or oriented to receive varying size work and firmly hold that in compressing and slicing by the shearing blade.
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United States Patent [191 Eads et al. Sept. Zfi, 1973 1 HEDGE SHEARS 773,743 11/1904 nonmamh. 30/267 x 1 2,130,539 9/1938 Feather 30/268 [75] Inventors: Ham'd Eads, parkefsburg 2,600,036 6/1952 Wertepny 30/268 -i James Rflblsom 2,798,291 7/1957 Smith 30/271 x Belpre, Ohio 3,196,540 7/1965 Porzky 30/271 X [73] Assignee: Ames Division of McDonough Company Primary Examinerl-larold D. Whitehead Assistant ExaminerJ. C. Peters [2 W J y 18, 1972 Att0rneyChittick, Pfund, Birch, Samuels & Gauthier [2l] Appl. No.: 272,955 [57] ABSTRACT 62 Related Application Data A hedge shears having pivotal shearing and work holdof 55 1691 July 1970 ing blades. A pivot mounted tensioning spring resilient biases the blades together for pressured, adherent action from the pivot to the tips. Resilient stop means are 122] $15.51. gigs/(1)2253 rigidly Supported on the blades and to compressive), d 6 267 268 engage upon their closing fully together. Work holding 0 l b 27 notches are formed in the holding blade, shaped or oril ented to receive varying size work and firmly hold that References Cited in compressing and slicing by the shearing blade.
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' sum 1 or 2 HEDGE SHEARS This application is a division of parent application Ser. No. 055691 filed July 17, 1970 now US. Pat. No.
3,676,930 dated July 18, 1972.
' ismore particularly directed to shears for trimming hedges, tree limbs and the like, and which may be em ployed as well for edging and trimming grass along the edges of sidewalks, driveways and curbs.
Such. hedge shears conventionally comprise two blades pivoted in overlapping relationship for scissorslike engagement of their opposite edges and faces, and with at least one of their said working edges sharpened, to effect a cutting or shearing of the work.
Conventional hedge shears of the straight blade type have as one problem the tendency during cutting for the stems or limbs to slide away from the pivot before the cutting edges penetrate sufficiently to hold the work firmly enough to effect a full cut. Such slippage decreases the mechahical advantageachieved by a pivoted blade construction, the further the work proceeds from the pivot, thus requiring more effort by the opera tor; work held at the position of its initial contact with the blades being that which would require the least effort.
Heretofore known shears, of which one example is Porzky U.S. Pat. No. 3,196,540, have used a serrated edge, and/or a single half-round notch in the holding blade, or have depended on the cutting edge entering the work, to prevent the slippage.
The mere serrating offers nothing but an opposing notch surface that parallels the cutting edge, and yields a too great risk of slippage even when the out has commended. Further, 'with the non-encompassing serrations, the work tends to be deformed or flattened as the blades close,,making the work appreciably harder to cut. Still further, the merely serrated edge will allow the work to twist or rotate toward the shearing plane of the tool, which rotating renders cutting difficult by requiring greater force to sever the work.
The half-round holding notch has limited success in obviating twisting of work having a diameter close to its diameter, but does not effectively hold work of lesser diameter, in the desired position generally perpendicular to the shearingplane of the tool. And if both blades, or the serrations or half-round notches, are sharpened, the tendency of the work to twist is enhanced, and there results mismatched or offset cuts from both sides, producing an uneven severing of the limb.
Moreover, when the shears are provided with only asingle holding notch the user is required to align and sever only one limb at a time in that notch. In commercial applications, such as in the trimming of Christmas trees, this procedure has provded to be intolerably slow.-
It is thus highly desirable to provide a holding means capable of firmly holding limbs of various diameters in position generally perpendicular to the shearing plane of the tool, and being capable of so holding a plurality of limbs simultaneously that several limbs may be severed in the same cutting stroke.
it is also desirable to provide an effective tension controlling means, to insure proper or firm contact between the blades during the cutting-stroke, along their entire length from pivot to tip. There should be firm,
cutting contact, but the blades should not be held so tightly that the shear cannot be operated without difficulty, or without excessive wear of the cutting edges.
Various arrangements have been proposed previously, for achieving this desired, effective tension control.
The first and simplest of such prior arrangements is that of making the pivot bolt and nut adjustable. This has proven unsuccessful, by reason of the difficulty, with the same simple pivot means, of retaining both proper tension and proper pivot action.
Another prior arrangement has involved the use of a spring type washer on the pivot bolt. This also has proven unsatisfactory, through the same dependency on merely pivot structure for accomplishing the distinct purposes of holding the blades together and providing the desired blade tension. The washer method simply does not give dependable tension under continuous use.
There has also been proposed the arrangement of Smith U.S. Pat. No. 2,798,291, in which would be employed at the adjustable pivot a tensioning strip larger than, or somewhat elongated as against, the aforementioned washer, but also subject to deficiencies, in particular that the use of it also as a bumper means requires accompanying resort to an anti-rotation, topblade-notch and tension-strip-detent arrangement. The Smith arrangement, then, has the obvious shortcoming of necessitating a notching of the underlying blade, which in turn has the unwanted effect of weakening that. Further, the Smith strip, even with the retention cality of tight pivot and/or blade pitch.
Hedge shears have heretofore been provided also with means effective, after the cutting stroke is complete and the blades are closed, to stop the blades, or prevent them from overlapping in an awkward manner, and similarly the users left hand from coming into contact with the right hand, in grasping and cosing the handles.
The prior stop means have most commonly comprised offsets in the steel blades so juxtaposed as to come into contact at the completion of the stroke. These steel stops are unsatisfactory in that, being non-resilient, they produce shock to the user, and in that they produce an annoying clicking" sound in continuous use.
Another prior arrangement has been the use of spring-loaded metal pistons such as of Porzky U.S Pat. No. 3,262,202. These have not met the economy and dependability requirements of commercial practice, due totheir relatively high cost of manufacture, relatively high risk of failure in extensive use, and unpleasantly noisy operation.
In the prior practise the stop means have also comprised resilient bumpers, such as that of Hart US. Pat. No. 2,373,757. The prior resilient bumper stops have also been deficient, in that, as with l-lart, the bumpers have engaged against round or other non-flat surfaces, or have otherwise undergone excessive deformation, such as occasioning their too rapid wear in continuous use, and the resulting, unwanted metal-to-metal contact.
Thus it is desirable to provide stop" means that reduce the impact shock, that lower the noise level, and that remain effective under continuous use.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In the herein disclosed preferred embodiment of the invention, a hedge shears is provided with the combination of: a plurality of slide preventing, work holding notches securing and easing the cutting action by firm engaging of limbs of various diameter in position for the shearing stroke, a tension controlling device that accomplishes firm but smooth blade contact without requiring tight pivot, and with which, therefore, the blade pitch is not nearly as critical as with any other method; and a stop means employing a resilient bumper and presenting a stop having a flat surface, and which is arranged for compression only of the bumper, whereby the bumper does not excessively deform, and there is practically no wear in use.
More particularly: the holding notches are formed with flarent sides that form acute, and preferably equal, angles with the cutting blade. A bevel is formed on the engaging face of the holding blade to quiet the action by preventing direct contact of the corners of the holding notches with the cutting blade.
The tension controlling device comprises an elongated metal strip medially apertured for reception on the blade pivot, and adapted for shifting axially of the pivot bolt. Thestrip is formed as a tensioning spring by down-turning of its opposite arms to biasing engagement with the holding blade, one to the rear or handle side of the pivot, and the other or forward arm at an appreciable distance from the pivot, and without modification of the blade thereat.
The stop means comprises a pair of L-shaped rigid members secured to the handle portions of the blades as by rivets inserted through attaching portions thereof, and which members also have mounting portions disposed in transverse, facing relationship.
A resilient bumper is secured as by an axial screw to one of the mounting portions, and normal to the facing mounting portion, so as to be subjected only to direct or axial compression, upon impacting said facing mounting portion at the end of a cutting stroke.
The objects, advantages, features and operation of the invention shears will be clear from the foregoing and following description taken with the accompanying drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a plan view of an open hedge shear in accordance with the preferred embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a side elevation of the FIG. 1 shears shown in closed position.
FIG. 3 is a fragmentary plan view of the shear blades showing their work holding and cutting action.
FIG. 4 is a sectional view of the holding and cutting blades taken along line 44 of FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 is a sectional view of the blades taken along line 55 of FIG. 1.
FIG. 6 is a view of the blade stop means taken along line 6-6 of FIG. 1.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT With reference to the drawings, and initially to FIGS. 1 and 2, in which like reference numerals denote corresponding elements in the several views, a hedge shears 10 has two elongated blades, namely, a shearing blade 12 and a holding blade 14, with rearwardly extending handle portions 16 and 18, respectively, to which appropriate handles 20 and 22 are secured. The blades 12 and 14 are suitably apertured to receive a pivot bolt 24 about which the blades may be manually swung in overlapping relationship over their opposed flat engaging faces 26 and 28 by the handles 20 and 22 for cutting in a shearing plane, indicated at 30.
At least one, and preferably a plurality, of holding notches 32 are formed in the work engaging edge 33 of the holding blade 14, which notches are shown in FIG. 3 as being defined by two generally straight flarent or divergent sides 34 and 36 and a rounded or radiused bottom 38. The sides 34, 36 are seen as tangent to the bottom radius, with the back of the notch, or the side 34 furthest from the pivot 24, substantially perpendicular to the work engaging edge 33, while the front side 36 nearest the pivot 24 forms an acute angle, which may be an approximate 45 angle, with said edge 33.
The workholding notches 32 further comprise vertical work engaging faces 39 comprehending the sides 34, 36 and bottom 38 and extending for the full thickness of the holding blade 14 thereat.
This described formation of their sides, bottoms, and faces provides wedging holding notches 32 in which limbs, twigs, and the like of various diameters may be securely held in abutting relationship to the cutting blade. As shown in FIG. 3, when the cutting edge 40 of the shearing blade 12 passes over the notch 32, the sides 34 and 36 form acute angles 0 and (1) respectively, with the cutting edge 40. This construction enables the notches 32 to cooperate with the cutting edge 40 by presenting converging bearing surfaces against which limbs L of various diameters, as represented by dotted circles 42, 42' and 42", may be pressed at two points by the sweeping action of the shearing blade 12. Since the sides 34 and 36 and the bottom 38 are disposed substantially perpendicular to the shearing plane of the tool 10, the limbs L are firmly held against the faces 39 in position normal to the shear plane 30 to assure a clean cut with a minimum of force. As shown, the optimum holding capability is provided with notches 32 wherein the angles 0 and (I) are equal so that the limbs have no tendency to rotate about their axis during cuttlng.
It will be apparent that the outer, perpendicular notch sides 34 are also disposed substantially normal to the outward direction of movement imparted to the work by the wedging or closing action of the shear blades 12, 14, whereby the notches 32 function effectively to hold the work, as that is induced by said blade closing to slide down the sloping or acutely angled inner sides 36 to fully seat in the notches.
Accordingly, with the invention notch shape, when the opposing or shearing blade 12 is closed to cutting position, the entire opening of the notch 32 is generally closed, and the work is completely or substantially enclosed or encompassed therein, preventing both flattening and slippage. In making the work rigid by notch confinement it is made easier to cut, as against holding i by flattening the work which makes it harder to cut. And in preempting slippage, the notches hold the work infirm position while making the cut.
By its firm holding of the work to be cut, and complete surrounding and encompassing of that upon the To prevent damage to the shearing bladel2 by contact with the corners of the holding notches 32 and to afford quiet and smooth operation, the corners are knocked down, herein bya bevel 44, FIG. 1 and 4, formed in the engaging face 28 of, and from the work engaging edge 33 of, the holding blade 14, said bevel extending longitudinally of and generally over the depth of the notches 32.
In accordance with the invention, the work or limb holding surfaces 39 of the notches 32 are not only square or perpendicular to the shear plane 30, but are also of a width or thickness which is adequate or sufficient to present the desired bearing or holding surface longitudinally of the work, and to secure the same against the unwanted rotating, or skewing orrocking about, during the course of thevshearing manipulation of the blades, and whereby to afford the hedge shear hereof clean cutting of one or a plurality of limbs of one ora plurality of sizes.
, Under thisinvention, then, the holding blade 12, which by its notches 32 preventsslippageaway from the pivot, and holds the work firmly and vertically during the cut, is not sharpened in the region. of the notches 32. The top blade'l2 only is sharpened,,and the cutting action obtained is that of a slicing action by one blade i.e. a cut from one side only. For the desired firm, secure holding action, then, the transverse dimension or thickness of the holding blade 14 may be, at the base or roots of the notches 32, at least about five thirty-seconds inches, which thickness may be reduced by the bevel 44to a thicknessat the blade edge 33 of at least about four thirty-seconds or one-eighth inch.
Turning now to the shearing blade 12, that has a double bevel, comprising along bevel 42applied first at about 30 from the horizontal, until the cutting edge 40 is about a 0.030 inches edge or land that is then ground or sharpened, at say 45, down to asharp point. The bottom or engaging face26 of the shearing blade 12 is then flat ground to straighten out the steel, and remove scale formation, and imperfections from rolling, tempering or other fabricating steps.
Further in accordance with the invention, the shears are pitched, the bottom or holding blade 14 having an upward bow of 0.030 inch 0.040 inch, and the top or shearing blade 12 having a downward bow of 0.080 inch 0. I00 inch. This can be varied, of course, to put more or less of the combined pitch in one blade.
Under this invention there is provided also, in combination with shear blades of the described or other construction, an improved tension controlling device. The tension controlling means hereof is seen as mounted on the blade pivot, which is seen in turn to comprise a case hardened machine bolt 24, and an adjustable nut 25 retaining the blades l2, 14 which are relatively rotatable thereon.
It will be understood that to get the proper cutting action, the shears must have tension in addition to that afforded by the pitch of the blades. Accordingly, with reference to FIG. 2, an elongated metal strip spring 46,
preferably of tempered steel, has an oversized opening at a medial point receiving and by which it is loosely held on the'pivot bolt 24, being pressed under the head of, and at a spacing from the blade 12 afforded by the projecting shank of, said bolt 24.
The strip spring 46 has forward and rearward arms 47, 51 projecting oppositely of its medial pivot mounting, and turned downwardly at both ends to an engagement with the facing, herein upper blade 112 such that, with the nut 25 adjusted as normally, the spring 46 is compressed between the bolt head and blade 12, and thereby functions to bias or tension the top blade 12 against bottom blade 14.
The forward arm 47 of the strip spring 46 mounts or terminates in an inwardly extending or inturned member or portion, herein an integral lip 48, engaging against outer face 50 of the shearing blade 12 at a suit able distance from, which may be about three inches forward of, the pivot 24, whereby is afforded it a lever action, or a large mechanical advantage, at the spaced away point, over merely tightening the pivot bolt. 7 It is foundthatthere is a proper relationship, of in excess of a one-to-one (1:1) ratio, of the length of tensioning arm 47 to the spacing up from the adjacent blade of the spring strip portion engaging under the head of the pivot body 24.
Under the invention the forward lever arm 47 of strip spring 46 is tapered, and also slightly angled from proximate the pivot out to the turned down, rounded point 48, as shown, FIGS. 1 and 2, and whereby it is afforded or towards the cutting edge of the shear blade 12.
It will be seen also that the strip spring 46 may be adjusted in tension by tightening or loosening the nut 25, with the desired firm but yielding or spring pressure being asserted against the blades by the lip or point 48 at the optimum point to insure proper shearing action along the entire length of the blades.
Thus the unnotched, outer extremity of the blade 14, which, as earlier mentioned, may be, say 3 V2 inches in length and pitched for cutting fine material such as grass, is assured of the desired sharp cutting action with respect to such lighter, fine material.
The rear arm 51 of the strip spring 46 is seenas shorter and wider than forward arm 47, being of untapered, full strip width, and therefore of stiffer section. Rear arm 51 extends a straight or horizontal length approximating that of forward arm 47 to its aforementioned incline or bend. At the end of its straight length away from the pivot, rear arm 51 is curved or turned down against blade 12, and there provided with a narrow nib or lip 52 projecting further down into cooperating recess or aperture 54 provided in blade 12 thereat.
From FIG. 2 it will be seen that forward arm 47 is of a length B more than twice the length A of rearward arm 51, and such that its engagement by lip 48 against upper blade 12 is at a point intermediate thelength of blade 14 that is recessed by the notches 32.
Further in accordance with the invention, the spring 46 is provided in its longer, tapered, forward arm 47, at the point outwardly of but relatively close to the pivot where commences the aforementioned taper and incline of the arm, with an elongated, tear drop hole 55, which is seen to taper outwardly from said incline or bend of the arm; which is of good appearance; which provides a means for hanging the shears from a nail or the like; which controls the lever arm at the right tension for the weight of the material used, and which defines two flexible struts at the weakest or maximum flexure point.
As understood by those skilled in the art, if the tension were to be applied at the pivot, as by closing the bolt and nut 24, 25 against the pitched blades, that would cause binding at the heel of the blades, rapid wear of the blades, a too tight pivot, and impairment of the cutting action. With the described tension device 46, not only is this binding avoided, but also a loose pivot is achieved, for easy action, and to permit the upper blade to in effect ride up the shank of the bolt responsive to the blade pitch, while the desired tension is applied at the point of the cut. There results a uniformly good cutting action, by the presence of wanted pressure out at the point of cutting, and of resilient or yielding closing pressure on the blades at the pivot, freeing the blades from the rigid binding that results from resort to excessive pitch or pivot confinement for the tensioning, and that grinds the cutting action and too rapidly wears the blades.
Under the invention the pivot arrangement may be as shown, FIGS. 1 and 2, or the bolt 24 may be passed through the blades 12, 14 from the bottom, having a rigid relation either with the top blade 12 by a press fit with spring 46, or with the bottom blade 14 by a press fit of its smooth shoulder with the bottom blade. There results a rigid blade and bolt pivot for the other blade to turn on, and the ability to make the tension adjustment with but a single tool. The described arrangement is also the most economical, eliminating as it does the threading of the blade opening, and the need for a more expensive carriage type bolt, or for welding or riveting. Further, the pivot hereof is replaceable, as a riveted or welded bolt would not be.
Referring now to FIGS. 1, 2 and 6, to cushion shock between the blades 12 and 14 at the end of the shearing stroke, a pair of L-shaped members or angle brackets 56 and 58, each defining a mounting plate or arm 60 and 62 and a facing plate or arm 64 and 66, are secured to the handle mounting portions 16 and 18, respectively, as by rivets 68. The facing arms or stop plates 64 and 66 are seen as turned upwardly over the facing edges of the juxtaposed blade portions 16 and 18, in spaced parallelism and substantially perpendicular to the shearing plane 30. An exposed frusta-conical resilient or rubber bumper or button 70 is secured by an axial screw, rivet or the like 72 passed through it and one of the plates, herein the plate 66, the screw receiving a threaded nut 74 recessed with it in a well 76 eliminating metal-to-metal contact between the securing means and the opposing fiat or stop plate 64, and proportioned, relative to the bumper 72, to define the projecting, frusto-conical portion of the bumper or button as a compressive annulus of sufficiently large cross section to attain the wanted compressive strength and shock absorption, with substantial freedom from deformation and wear in continuous use, in a low durometer or soft rubber construction.
The parallel relationship between the facing stop plates 64 and 66 insures that the bumper 70 is subjected to direct axial compression, by the closing of the blades to completion of the cutting stroke, eliminating non-axial deformation of the bumper, and thereby greatly increasing its durability in use. It should be apparent that other axially symmetrical bumpers, such as cylindrical, may also be employed.
It is understood that this description is solely for illustration and that the invention contemplates numerous modifications and equivalents which fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
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1. In hedge shears, in combination,
a pair of pitched blades pivotally joined for swinging their'engaged faces in a cutting plane, one said blade comprising an elongated shearing blade having a generally flat engaging face and a cutting edge, the other said blade comprising an elongated holding blade having a generally flat engaging face and a working edge,
both said elongated shearing blade and said elongated holding blade of solid construction and free from weakening aperture or recess in the work contacting lengths thereof;
bearing means on which'the blades are received for relative movement in both rotation about and in opening-closing along the axis of their pivoting,
said bearing means located at a point intermediate in the pitched extent of said blades;
spring means received on said bearing means and compressed in said pivoting axis between said bearing means and one of said pitched blades and so as to bias that against the other of said pitched blades,
said spring means comprising an elongated metal strip spring, said strip spring having an oversized opening at a medial point receiving and by which it is loosely held on said bearing means for its said compressing in said pivoting axis, said strip spring further having forward and rearward arms projecting oppositely of its medial pivot mounting, both said arms turned downwardly at their ends to engagement with said one of said pitched blades;
said forward strip spring arm terminating at its said downturned end in an integral lip engaging against the outer face of said one pitched blade,
said forward arm being of a length whereby its said lip engages said outer surface of said one pitched blade at a point intermediate in the cutting surfaced length of that blade and which is sufficiently spaced away from said bearing means to enable said arm to apply wanted, lever action pressure out at the point of cutting, and thereby to achieve for the shears uniformly good cutting action without resort to excessive blade pitch or pivot confinement for the blade tensioning;
said rearward arm downturned against said outer face of said one pitched blade and terminating thereat in a lip for engaging said blade;
a formation on said one pitched blade cooperating with said lip to fix said rearward arm, and with it said strip spring and forward arm, against rotation relative to said one pitched blade thereby assuring wanted precise application of the tension of said forward arm at the center or towards the cutting edge of said one pitched blade;
the pitching of said blades, and their biasing by said strip spring means, being such as to properly tension the blades for effecting cutting at all points along the blade length,
, 9 the elongation and downturning of said strip spring means being such as to produce such cuttingpoints-effective tensioning and being also such as to permit yielding by said spring means to opening of said blades on said bearing means upon the closing together of said blades to engagement with the work towards the tips of the blades; and resilient stop means carried by said shear blades, said resilient stop means extending in facing relation whereby to be compressively engaged by the closing together of said shear blades, and said resilient stop means so spaced as to halt the closing together of said shear blades upon the completion of the cutting stroke. 2. A hedge shears accordingto claim 1, wherein said strip spring forward arm comprises i an inner straight portion extending relatively close to said pivot bearing, and an inclined and tapered portion intermediate said straight portion and said terminating lip. 3. A hedge shears according to claim 2, and a hole in said inclined and tapered intermediate portionof said forward arm of said strip spring, said hole tapering outwardly and defining said inclined andta'pered forward arm portion as two flexible struts at the maximum flexure point of said forward strip spring arm, said hole also thereby controlling said forward arm at the right tension for the weight of the material used. 4. A hedge shears according to claim 1, wherein said bearing means comprise:
means adjustable for opening-closing said strip relative to said one blade and whereby to adjust said tensioning by said strip of said blades. 5. A hedge shears according to claim 1, wherein said bearing means comprise:
a bolt passed through said blades and a nut threaded on said bolt.
6. A hedge shears according to claim 5, wherein said bolt is rigidly related to one of said blades.
7. A hedge shears according to claim 1, wherein said cooperating formation is an aperture in said outer face of said one pitched blade, said aperture receiving said lip of said rearward arm of said strip spring.
8. A hedge shears according to claim 1, wherein said rearward arm of said strip spring is of untapered, full strip spring width, of stiffer section than said forward arm, and of less than half the length of said forward arm of said strip spring. 9. A hedge shears according to claim 1, wherein said resilient stop means comprise:
a rigid stop carried on one said blade; a rigid support carried on the other said blade and in juxtaposition to said stop; and a rubber bumper mounted on said support to project towards said stop and whereby closing manipulation of said blades to engage said tips subjects said bumper to direct axial compression.
10. A hedge shears according to claim 9, wherein said stop and support extend transversely of and out of the cutting plane of said blades.
11. A hedge shears according to claim 9, wherein said stop and support comprise angle brackets having their one arms fixed to the blades and their other arms parallel-extending from the facing edges of said blades.
12. A hedge shears according to claim 9, wherein said ribber bumper comprises a solid rubber button, and means recessed in said button for releasably securing that to said support.
13. A hedge shears according to claim 12, wherein said stop defines a hard, flat surface, and wherein said button comprises an exposed annulus arranged for overall compressive engagement against said surface, and of sufficient cross sectional extent to provide desired compressive strength and shock absorbtion in soft rubber construction.
14. A hedge shears according to claim 1, wherein said strip spring forward arm extends to engage said one pitched blade at its said terminating lip about three inches away from the pivot, to accomplish'said tensioning of the shear blades which is effective out at the point of cutting.
15. A hedge shears according to claim 1, wherein the downturning of said forward and rearward strip spring arms, and the length of said forward strip spring arm, is such that the ratio of said forward arm length to the spacing up from said onepitched blade of said medial strip point is in excess of a one-to-one ratio.
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We certainly live in interesting technological times. And no more interesting than the current competing IoT standards for connectivity. Various standards bodies, approaches, and ecosystems are vying for mindshare and positioning for a competitive edge. It is clear that when the dust settles, we will have new protocols, evolved protocols, that will change the way we interact with devices and infrastructure. We will also have evolved web protocols, like HTTP/2, that will be changing the very core of our infrastructures. At the same time, we have old approaches made new again like micro-services...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
May. 30, 2015 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,187
Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
May. 30, 2015 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,561
Collecting data in the field and configuring multitudes of unique devices is a time-consuming, labor-intensive process that can stretch IT resources. Horan & Bird [H&B], Australia's fifth-largest Solar Panel Installer, wanted to automate sensor data collection and monitoring from its solar panels and integrate the data with its business and marketing systems. After data was collected and structured, two major areas needed to be addressed: improving developer workflows and extending access to a business application to multiple users (multi-tenancy). Docker, a container technology, was used to ...
May. 30, 2015 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,830
The true value of the Internet of Things (IoT) lies not just in the data, but through the services that protect the data, perform the analysis and present findings in a usable way. With many IoT elements rooted in traditional IT components, Big Data and IoT isn't just a play for enterprise. In fact, the IoT presents SMBs with the prospect of launching entirely new activities and exploring innovative areas. CompTIA research identifies several areas where IoT is expected to have the greatest impact.
May. 29, 2015 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,560
2015 predictions circa 1970: houses anticipate our needs and adapt, city infrastructure is citizen and situation aware, office buildings identify and preprocess you. Today smart buildings have no such collective conscience, no shared set of fundamental services to identify, predict and synchronize around us. LiveSpace and M2Mi are changing that. LiveSpace Smart Environment devices deliver over the M2Mi IoT Platform real time presence, awareness and intent analytics as a service to local connected devices. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Sarah Cooper, VP Business of Development at M2Mi, will d...
May. 29, 2015 04:27 PM EDT Reads: 985
The Industrial Internet revolution is now underway, enabled by connected machines and billions of devices that communicate and collaborate. The massive amounts of Big Data requiring real-time analysis is flooding legacy IT systems and giving way to cloud environments that can handle the unpredictable workloads. Yet many barriers remain until we can fully realize the opportunities and benefits from the convergence of machines and devices with Big Data and the cloud, including interoperability, data security and privacy.
May. 29, 2015 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 5,135
Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In this session, James Kirkland, Red Hat's Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems, will describe how to revolutionize your architecture and...
May. 29, 2015 02:33 PM EDT Reads: 930
The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
May. 29, 2015 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 6,914
All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades. With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo, June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "IoT-Ready" as it can be
May. 29, 2015 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,127
Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
May. 29, 2015 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 7,556
We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
May. 29, 2015 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,811
SYS-CON Events announced today that MetraTech, now part of Ericsson, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Ericsson is the driving force behind the Networked Society- a world leader in communications infrastructure, software and services. Some 40% of the world's mobile traffic runs through networks Ericsson has supplied, serving more than 2.5 billion subscribers.
May. 29, 2015 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,512
Thanks to widespread Internet adoption and more than 10 billion connected devices around the world, companies became more excited than ever about the Internet of Things in 2014. Add in the hype around Google Glass and the Nest Thermostat, and nearly every business, including those from traditionally low-tech industries, wanted in. But despite the buzz, some very real business questions emerged – mainly, not if a device can be connected, or even when, but why? Why does connecting to the cloud create greater value for the user? Why do connected features improve the overall experience? And why do...
May. 29, 2015 12:42 PM EDT Reads: 1,108
SYS-CON Events announced today that O'Reilly Media has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participa...
May. 29, 2015 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,423
Imagine a world where targeting, attribution, and analytics are just as intrinsic to the physical world as they currently are to display advertising. Advances in technologies and changes in consumer behavior have opened the door to a whole new category of personalized marketing experience based on direct interactions with products. The products themselves now have a voice. What will they say? Who will control it? And what does it take for brands to win in this new world? In his session at @ThingsExpo, Zack Bennett, Vice President of Customer Success at EVRYTHNG, will answer these questions a...
May. 29, 2015 12:13 PM EDT Reads: 941


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