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A 36 in (910 mm) reach extender with a secondary trigger and a pole that can be rotated 90 degrees. A reach extender (or reacher, grabber arm, helping hand, trash picker, picker-upper, extended gripper, long arm gripper, extended reach grabber, grabber tool, litter picker, or caliper) is a handheld mechanical tool used to increase the range of a person's reach and grasp when grabbing objects.
Knife and scissor grinder sharpening a knife on a water-cooled grinding wheel, 2018.. A scissor grinder (German: Scherenschleifer), sometimes also scissor and knife grinder or knife and scissor grinder, for short also knife grinder, is a craftsman who sharpens and repairs blunt knives, scissors and other cutting tools.
The scissor (pl. scissores) was a type of Roman gladiator. [1] [2] [3] Very little is known about them [4] [5] and they were not mentioned after the first century BCE. [3] [1] The name, from the verb scindere ("to cut") means cleaver, carver, or slasher. [6] [1] [7] [4] Historian Marcus Junkelmann identified what he termed a scissor in a relief ...
A scissors mechanism uses linked, folding supports in a criss-cross 'X' pattern. [1] The scissor mechanism is a mechanical linkage system used to create vertical motion or extension. It consists of a series of interconnected, folding supports that resemble the shape of a pair of scissors, hence its name.
The two brothers John and Henrie Clauss, of German origin, started Elyria Shear Works from a one-room building in Elyria, Ohio. [1] Together with five employees, they began manufacturing scissors, shears, straight razors and serrated kitchen knives.
An assisted-opening knife is a type of folding knife which uses an internal mechanism to finish the opening of the blade once the user has partially opened it using a flipper or thumbstud attached to the blade. [1] When the knife is in the closed position, the blade is held in place by means of torsion springs and an additional blade lock ...
The blade of this type of kabutowari was a curved tapered square [4] iron or steel bar with a hook on its back edge. [5] In combat, one could parry and catch a blade with that hook, as with a jitte. Some kabutowari of this type were mounted in the style of a tantÅ with a koshirae. [3]
[1] [2] Suitable targets for the knifehand strike include the carotid sinus at the base of the neck (which can cause unconsciousness), [3] mastoid muscles of the neck, the jugular, the throat, the collar bones, ribs, sides of the head, temple, jaw, the third vertebra (key stone of the spinal column), the upper arm, the wrist (knifehand block ...