A Scissors' Sharpener.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 1st July, 1891-Accepted 1st Aug., 1891
TOVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Scissors' Sharpener.
HENRY TAYLOR, Metal Plate Worker, 33, Rural Vale, Northfleet, Kent, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A tool for sharpening scissors. It consists of a triangular frame made any size,
in zinc or brass, attached to a wood handle. Two grooves are made in the
triangular frame to receive a fine tooth'd steel file plate.
A blade of the scissors is inserted in the aperture and being worked backwards &
forwards, the bevelled edge comes in contact with the file plate and produces the
same sharpening effect that a grindstone would have.
Dated this 21st day of May 1891.
HENRY TAYLOR.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Scissors' Sharpener.
HENRY TAYLOR, Metal Plate Worker, 33, Rural Vale, Northfleet Kent, 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:-
The scissors sharpener is a tool for sharpening blunt scissors.
It consists in the first place of a triangular frame Fig. 1. (small size in full
handle not shown) made of zinc, brass or any metal, with a suitable handle. In the
frame Fig. 1 are two grooves A. B to receive a fine tooth'd steel file plate C. Fig. 2.
The triangular frame Fig. 3 (a repetition of Fig. I with file plate slid on the
grooves) shows two of these angles D. E, either of which is a complete sharpener
& corresponds to the angle formed by the flat blade & bevelled edges of a pair of
scissors. (The object of the two angles in the tool is to utilize as much of the
steel plate as possible.) Either of the sloping inner sides of the frame Fig. 3 is
smooth & acts as a guide for the flat blade of the scissors the file or cutting
plate C, is the sharpening medium.
A blade of a pair of scissors to be sharpened being placed in either angle D. E
Fig. 3, & worked backwards & forwards, files or planes away the worn part &
produces the same sharpening effect that a grindstone would have.
The scissors sharpener can also be made in any convenient form consistent with
the retention of the angles D. E as in the following forms described in the drawing.
The triangular form of frame Fig. 3 contains, as above described, two sharpeners.
By halving the triangle either half would therefore, present a complete sharpener
of a V-shape Fig. 4, when canted to the left. The angle F in Fig. 4 being equal
to either of the angles D. E, Fig. 3, only presented in another position.
Again two of these V angles joined would represent a W shaped frame Fig. 5
the angles G. H Fig. 5 being equal to the angles D E Fig. 3. (The W shaped
sharpener being open is better adapted for large scissors.)
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion & in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. That whether the scissor's sharpener be made in either of the forms described
in the drawing that is triangular Fig. 3, ▼ shaped Fig. 4, or W shaped Fig. 5, the
angles are the same in all.

page_text: 2. That either angle is identical & corresponds to the flat blade & bevelled edges
of a pair of ordinary scissors.
3. That as the working of the scissors blade backwards & forwards in the said
angle Fig. 6. produces the sharpening effect, it is this angle (the left inner side
being smooth for the guide, the right inner side tooth'd for sharpening) I claim as
the principle feature and novelty of my invention.
Dated this 1st day of July 1891.
HENRY TAYLOR,
Applicant.