IMPROVEMENTS IN SCISSORS PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE FOR HORTICULTURAL AND PRUNING PURPOSES GENERALLY
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Griffith Brewer at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd May 1882. A communication
to me from abroad by Jules Eugene Donop of Paris France
EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER of 33 Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SCISSORS PARTICULARLY APPLICABLE FOR HORTICULTURAL AND
PRUNING PURPOSES GENERALLY (A communication to me from abroad by Jules
Eugene Donop of Paris France)
"
This invention refers specially to scissors intended to be used either for cutting
flowers or for fruits or for pruning dead or sickly branches. Generally when
a tree or shrub is pruned or when a stem with flower is required to be cut
it is necessary to take hold of the stem with one hand and the scissors with the
other; on the one hand this is a double operation and on the other for rose trees
for example you run the risk of dirtying the hands and pricking the fingers, but
with the construction of scissors adopted by the Inventor the operation of holding
and cutting is accomplished at one and the same time with great facility.
According to this invention the scissors is made in two parts one of which is
intended to hold the stem before the section of same is effected while the other
effects the section in such manner that the operation is accomplished with one hand
and the stem being cut is held by the scissors and cannot be withdrawn therefrom
except at the will of the operator.
According to one modification two levers or pincers are jointed one to each of
the scissor blades; there is a spring acting against each of the jointed levers or
pincers and the distance the levers or pincers open or close is regulated by studs
on the scissor blades against which the notched and tail ends of the levers or .
pincers operate; the stem to be cut is seized by the levers or pincers and the
scissor blades being brought together severs the stem, while the levers or pincers
hold same.
According to another modification two simple springs preferably curved at the
ends connected to the scissor blades may be used instead of the levers or pincers,
this arrangement much reduces the cost of manufacture.
According to another modification only one pincer or lever is used which itself

page_text: forms a spring and thus the separate springs as in the first modification described
are dispensed with.
According to another modification the levers or pincers are double with spring
blades having no special springs and one pincer may be plain and one serrated or
both serrated or both plain. The pincers or levers may be placed on either side of
the scissor blades which latter may be straight, semi-circular or cranked.
These scissor may be kept closed ether by a hook or cap or other suitable
covering.
According to another modification the fixed portion of the scissors that is the
scissors proper may be prolonged so that even when fitted with the appliances
before described the scissors may be used if desired as an ordinary scissors.
A regulating stop may be applied to the blades to regulate the distance the
pincers or levers open.
The scissors may be carried in a case held by a chain to a hook secured to a
waist belt for example. In some cases the movable blades are fitted with stops to
prevent them lifting if acting on stout stems. Other kinds of springs than those
described may be used.