The present invention relates to a fruit pruning and collecting device. The device features a telescoping pole having a basket at the top end and an ergonomic grip at the bottom end. The pole has a plurality of telescoping sections for adjusting a length of the pole and enabling a user to reach elevated fruits without climbing on a ladder. The basket has pruning blades that are actuated by a manual trigger or an electric power button for pruning a stem positioned between the blades to remove one or more fruits. The basket does not allow the fruits to drop onto ground. In use, the device is positioned with the basket under the fruits on the tree with the stem in between the blades such that the blades when actuated prune the stem and enable the fruit to fall into the basket.

A tree pruner includes a pruner body, a blade system, and an electric motor to provide driving power for the blade system. Rotation of the electric motor in a first direction provides a cutting action. A control system controls the electric motor, and a transmission system having a transmission rope transfers power from the electric motor to the blade system. The tree pruner includes a tension management system to detect a slack rope situation in which tension of the transmission rope is below a predetermined limit value, and the control system prevents rotation of the electric motor in a second direction opposite to the first direction as a response to detection of the slack rope situation.

A handling device (20), in particular for a processing device, such as a gardening and/or household implement, comprising a gripping portion (30) and an electrical power supply (45) in the form of at least one rechargeable battery, wherein the handling device (20) also has contact means (80), which serve alternately, on the one hand, for the electrical and non-electrical connection of a tool (50) to the handling device (20) and, on the other hand, for charging the electrical power supply, in particular by means of a charger (100), and also to a processing device (10), in particular a gardening and/or household device, equipped with such a handling device (20).

A processing device (10), in particular a gardening and/or household implement, comprising a handling device (20) with a gripping portion (30) and a connecting portion (40), and further comprising an electrical power supply (45) and a tool (50) which can be detachably connected to the handling device (20) by means of the connecting portion (40), wherein the tool (50) is an electrical or non-electrical tool and the connecting portion (40) has means by which both the electrical and alternatively the non-electrical tool (50) can be connected to the handling device (20), and to a handling device (20) and a connecting portion (40) for such an implement and use thereof.

A tree pruner includes a pruner body having a first body section and a second body section spaced apart in a longitudinal direction, a blade system connected to the first body section and having a first blade and a second blade that co-operate and for cutting branches, and a drive mechanism is provided in the second body section and includes an operating switch for actuating the first blade and/or the second blade. The operating switch has at least two actuation modes, so that by a first actuation of the operating switch, the blade system moves from a blades-open position to a gripping position and stays in the gripping position, and by a second actuation of the operating switch, the blade system moves from the blades-open position to a cutting position, wherein the gripping position is between the blades-open position and the cutting position.

A handheld power tool includes a motor, a handle having a first switch for starting and stopping the motor, an output assembly, and an adjustment device including a telescopic rod assembly. The length of the adjustment device changes so that the handheld power tool has at least first and second working states. The distance between the frontmost side of the handheld power tool and the rearmost side of the first switch is an effective length of the handheld power tool. When the handheld power tool is in the first working state, the handheld power tool has a first effective length T1. When the handheld power tool is in the second working state, the handheld power tool has a second effective length T2. The first effective length T1 is less than or equal to 1 m, and the second effective length T2 is greater than the first effective length T1.

A tree pruner includes a pruner body, a blade system, and an electric motor to provide driving power for the blade system. Rotation of the electric motor in a first direction provides a cutting action. A control system controls the electric motor, and a transmission system having a transmission rope transfers power from the electric motor to the blade system. The tree pruner includes a tension management system to detect a slack rope situation in which tension of the transmission rope is below a predetermined limit value, and the control system prevents rotation of the electric motor in a second direction opposite to the first direction as a response to detection of the slack rope situation.

A lopper or lopper head attachment includes a primary gear, a secondary gear, a ratchet gear, an engagement flag, a dampened lag bolt, and a cutting blade. The secondary gear is enmeshed with the primary gear. The secondary gear defines a lag groove radially offset from the secondary axis. The ratchet gear is rotatable about a secondary axis separately from the secondary gear. The engagement flag is rotatably mounted to secondary gear to move between an unengaged position and an engaged position. The dampened lag bolt is slidably received within the lag groove to move relative to the secondary gear between a permissive position and a restrictive position. The cutting blade is in mechanical communication with the ratchet gear to be pivoted thereby, in the engaged position of the engagement flag, to a closed position from an open position.

A lopper or lopper head attachment includes a primary gear, an engagement flag, and a dampened lag bolt. The primary gear may be in mechanical communication with a drive shaft. The secondary gear may be enmeshed with the primary gear, the secondary gear defining a lag groove. The engagement flag may be rotatably mounted to the secondary gear to move between an unengaged position and an engaged position. The dampened lag bolt may be received within the lag groove to move relative to the secondary gear between a permissive position permitting the engagement flag to the unengaged position and a restrictive position holding the engagement flag in the engaged position.