IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING OR SHEARING HORSES, AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Ramsay L'Amy, of Warwick Square, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING
OR SHEARING HORSES, AND FOR OTHER LIKE PURPOSES."
Sealed the 4th January 1878, and dated the 10th July 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Ramsay L'Amy at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th July 1877.
JOHN RAMSAY L'AMY, of Warwick Square, in the County of Middlesex.
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING OR SHEARING HORSES, AND FOR OTHER
LIKE PURPOSES."
"IM-
My Invention relates to improved shears or apparatus intended more particularly
for clipping the tails of horses, but which are also applicable to other purposes where
a like action is required, and it consists in the combination with the moveable
cutting blade of the clippers or shears, of a blade or bar to which the cutting blade
is pivotted, the extremity of which blade or bar is made in the form of an eye or loop
for the reception of the tail to be clipped, which is introduced thereinto through an
opening formed in the side or in one of the sides of the eye or loop, and maintained
normally closed by a hinged tongue acted upon by a spring, the tail so enclosed
being clipped by the act of turning by the aid of handles the moveable cutting
blade upon its centre, thereby causing it to move across the surface of the other
blade or. bar with which it is in contact, and clip the hair with facility in a uniform
and even manner.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Ramsay L'Amy in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th
January 1878.
"IM-
JOHN RAMSAY L'AMY, of Warwick Square, in the County of Middlesex.
PROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING OR SHEARING HORSES, AND FOR OTHER
LIKE PURPOSES."
My said Invention relates to improved shears or apparatus intended more par-
ticularly for clipping the tails of horses, but which are also applicable to other
purposes where a like action is required, and it consists in the combination with
the moveable cutting blade of the clippers or shears of a blade or bar to which the
cutting blade is pivotted, the extremity of which blade or bar is made in the form
of an eye or loop for the reception of the tail, for example, to be clipped, which is
introduced thereinto through an opening formed in the side or in one of the sides
of the eye or loop, and maintained normally closed by a hinged tongue acted upon
or secured by a spring or other suitable means, the tail so enclosed being clipped
by the act of turning by the aid of handles the moveable cutting blade upon
its centre, thereby causing it to move across the surface of the other blade or bar
with which it is in contact, and clip the hair with facility in a uniform and even
manner.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood, I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer to
the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of Drawings, the same letters of reference
indicating corresponding parts in all the Figures.
Figure 1 of my Drawings represents an elevation of one side of the clippers or
shears in their closed condition; Figure 2 is a plan of the same corresponding to
Figure 1; Figure 3 is an elevation of the opposite side to that shewn in Figure 1;
and Figure 4 is a view of the same side as is shewn in Figure 1, but with the
moveable parts represented partly in full lines and partly in dotted lines in their
open position.
A is the moveable cutting blade of the clippers or shears, and B is the relatively
stationary blade or bar to which the cutting blade A is pivotted at a. The blade
or bar B is made of a recessed shape at the end at which the blade A is pivotted to
it so as to form, with the addition of a tongue C hinged at b to the blade or bar B,
an eye or loop D for the reception of the tail (for example) to be clipped, the said
hinged tongue being mained normally closed by means of a spring catch E so
as to complete the eye or loop D, as shewn by the full lines in my Drawing, but
capable of being opened by releasing such spring catch into the position indicated
by dotted lines in Figure 4, in order to admit of the introduction of the tail to be
clipped. The blades A, B, are respectively provided with long and short levers A¹, B¹,
terminating in handles A2, B2, for the facility of manipulating the apparatus.
In using this apparatus, the operator, grasping the handle B2 with his left hand
and the handle A2 with his right hand, first turns the blade A upon its pivot a from
the position shewn in Figures 1, 2, and 3, to that indicated in Figure 4, then
retaining his hold with the left hand of the handle B2 and relinquishing his hold of
the handle A2, he with the right hand raises the spring catch E so as to liberate the
hinged tongue C which he next throws back from the position shewn in full lines
to that indicated by dotted lines in Figure 4. The apparatus is then in a condition
to receive the tail to be clipped, which is next introduced into the eye or loop D
through the opening left by the hinged tongue C, after which the said tongue is
moved back into its normal position, as shewn by the full lines, and secured by the
spring catch E. The operator then, resuming his hold of the handle A2, turns the
cutting blade A upon its pivot a in the reverse direction of its previous motion,
thereby causing it to move across the surface of the blade or bar B, from the
position shewn in Figure 4 to that indicated in Figures 1, 2, and 3, and clip the
tail at a single cut in an even and perfectly symmetrical manner.

page_text: Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into effect,
I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original, and
therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, the general arrangement and combination of parts forming an
apparatus for clipping and shearing horses, and for other like purposes, substantially
as herein-before described, and illustrated by my Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Ramsay L'Amy, have to this my Speci-
fication set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of January, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.
JOHN RAMSAY L'AMY. (L.S.)