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Harold Dwaine Palmer

Ronald D White

James Robert Hellerman

A garden implement including an elongate, manually engageable handle and a working head at one end of the handle; the head is Z-shaped and has straight laterally spaced parallel cutting blades, a straight central member extending diagonally between oppositely related ends of the blades and joined therewith at acute angles and guard plates at right angle to and extending laterally inwardly from the other ends of the blades; the head is established of thin, narrow strap steel, the opposite edges of which are sharpened to define oppositely disposed cutting edges which are disposed longitudinally with respect to the longitudinal axis of the implement. The implement further includes coupling structure to couple the one end of the handle with the diagonal member, at right angle to and intermediate the ends of that member.

Garden implement

A springy one-piece wire element is mounted on one arm of a wire cutter to hold a section of wire as it is clipped from a main wire. The wire element has a U-shaped portion which grips the cutter arm and holds a catch portion of the wire element adjacent the cutting edge to cooperate with the other cutter arm to hold the clipped wire section.

Cutter with wire catch

An extraction tool is disclosed for removing integrated-circuit blocks (IC's) from soldered placement in a circuit board. Support members of the tool position it with reference to the circuit board for proper operation. Heating elements melt the solder; and a force mechanism, including a pair of grippers, is then actuated. In a two-step motion pattern, the grippers grasp the block then withdraw it from the circuit board. An ejector then forces the block from the tool.

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Mission Viejo, CA, United States of America

Harold Dwaine Palmer