Micro-Sheath Heated Secateur (Pruning Shear) for Prevention of Contagious Plant Diseases

A world new simple electronically sheath heated self-disinfection secateur, an experimental prototype kit has been designed and made for alternating chemical disinfection of the blades. A battery with capacity of 7.2 V is designed to hung on worker's waist belt. Hence, the battery enables heating blades at more than 100 °C for about 3 hours in a field operation. This battery operated heating secateur should contribute in economy of harvesting by protecting from contagious disease transmission and in saving farmers from routine time consuming disinfection work by chemicals in every cutting.