Improvements in Instruments or Apparatus for Cutting String, Cord, Laces, and the like, and Simultaneously Binding the Ends of the same.
Year: 1888

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Instruments or Apparatus for Cutting String,
Cord, Laces, and the like, and Simultaneously Binding the
Ends of the same.
I, GUSTAV HILLER, of 21 Amalia Street Zittau, in the Kingdom of Saxony,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:
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My present invention relates to improvements in the instrument or apparatus for
cutting string, cord, laces, and the like, and simultaneously binding the ends of the
same, for which I applied for Letters Patent on the 8th March 1888 under No. 3605.
In the said instrument or apparatus the cutting and binding portions thereof are
arranged on legs connected together in the same manner as a pair of pincers.
According to my present invention I construct the apparatus of two independent
parts one of which parts is fixed, whilst the other is moved to and fro along the same
by means of a lever or other similar means.
In the annexed drawing which illustrates a double-acting apparatus constructed
according to my present invention,
Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section, and
Figure 2 a transverse section of the apparatus.
The part in which the slot is formed wherein the knife-blade e.which cuts the
string works, is made on a frame provided with feet to allow of it being fixed on a
table, bench, or the like, by means of screws m, m. g, g indicate the said parts for
receiving the knife-blades e, e which are connected and fixed by means of screws e¹
in a sliding block d provided with central slots and sliding to and fro on the part g¹
of the frame.
The ends of the sliding block d are provided with projections d', d', along which
slide the ends of the metal plates or clips h serving to bind up the strings by being
rolled up around them. The sliding-block d is guided by means of a cover 9² fixed
on the frame g, g¹ by means of screws g³. This sliding block d is moved to and fro
on the frame g, g¹ by means of a lever k which passes through slots in the cover g
in the block d, and in the part g₁ of the frame, the said lever being pivotted to the
latter by means of a pin k².

page_text: The cutting and binding of the strings, laces, and the like, in this apparatus is
effected in the same manner as in the apparatus described in my said former
application..
If however the metal plates or clips for binding the string have to be fixed with
extra security, the said plates h have only to be provided on their ends with teeth or
serrations bent over, as shown in figure 1. By rolling up the metal plates or clips
around the string simultaneously with the operation of cutting, these teeth are caused
to enter the string and the clips are firmly secured on the string.
I would observe that the apparatus can be made single-acting and that the
frame, g can be adapted to be fixed on a table, a bench, or the like, by means of a
cramp. Further, instead of the lever I can employ any other suitable arrange-
ment for moving the block and the block d, d can be fixed and the part g, gbe
adapted to move to and fro over the same, the effect of the apparatus remaining the
same in all cases.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :—
1. An instrument or apparatus for cutting string, cord, laces, and the like, and
simultaneously binding the ends of the same, in which one of the parts is fixed,
whilst the other is moved rectilinearly to and fro thereon by means of a lever or any
other suitable means, substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The combination of parts forming the improved apparatus for cutting string,
cord, laces, and the like, and simultaneously binding the ends of the same substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Latted the Town day of April 1000.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant..
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agents for the Applicant..