Patent ID: 7131448
Filing Date: 2006-11-07
Classification: A45D

Abstract:
1. A nail clipping assembly including a pair of nail clippers for clipping a finger or toe nail, said nail clippers having an upper arm and a lower arm, each arm having a blade end and a joined end and said upper and lower arms being joined at their joined ends and said upper arm having an upper blade at its blade end and said lower arm having a lower blade at its blade end, said upper and lower blades being aligned to meet to form a cutting line and an operating lever held to said pair of nail clippers so that the depression of said operating lever causes said upper blade to move downwardly and meet said lower blade to create a cutting action wherein the improvement comprises: a holder having a hand graspable portion, a top portion including a nail clipper holding area, a bottom, a back and a cutting end, said holder supporting a light source at its cutting end and said holder having a pair of fingernail guides extending forwardly with respect to said cutting line and positioned so that a bottom edge of each fingernail guide is horizontally aligned between a lowermost portion of said upper blade and an uppermost portion of the lower blade when said nail clippers are oriented horizontally whereby a subject's fingernail is guided into a space between said upper and lower blades.