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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 1987
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1985
Ian Fettes, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Gary F Jervis, Corona, CA (US);
Hudd Enterprises, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
An electric motor or gasoline engine driven pruner by which to facilitate the cutting of generally inaccessible or hard to reach trees and shrubs. The pruner includes a rotatable drive shaft, an elongated tubular drive shaft housing surrounding the drive shaft, an electric motor or gasoline engine affixed to one end of the drive shaft housing to rotate the drive shaft, and a cutting head affixed to the outer end of the drive shaft housing to efficiently cut trees and shrubs. A unique arrangement of telescoping, concentrically aligned housing sections surrounds an arrangement of telescoping, concentrically aligned drive shaft sections to permit the pruner to be extended to reach high, and otherwise inaccessible branches and limbs or collapsed to form a compact assembly for easy transport and/or storage.