Improvements in Toilet Clippers for Cutting Human Hair.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 11th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left. 11th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 17th May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Toilet Clippers for Cutting Human Hair.
I, WILLIAM KIMBERLEY of Emily Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Tool Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In this invention the ordinary "clipper" form of hair cutter is provided with a
guard formed by a spring plate the width of the clipper which is bent round the back
of the cutting jaw having a slot to allow the handles to work. The upper side of this
spring plate passes under the washer-plate through which pass the bolts which adjust
the cutters, and is thus held in position.
A small bolt is rivetted into the underside of the spring-plate and passes through
the cutters and washer-plate. A slot being made in the upper cutter so that it can
work to and fro in the usual manner. This small bolt has a feathered nut at its
extremity above the washer-plate and by tightening or loosening this nut the guard is
adjusted, and brought nearer or further from the cutters. By means of this adjustable
guard the clipper can be made to cut the hair at any desired distance from the skin
(within certain limits) and a perfectly uniform cut secured.
3000
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C., Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Toilet Clippers for Cutting Human Hair.
I, WILLIAM KIMBERLEY of Emily Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick,
Tool Manufacturer, 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 :-
This invention relates to instruments for cutting human bair constructed on the
well known principle of the horse clipper and is designed to supply a simple and easy
mode of regulating the closeness of the cut to the skin.
For this purpose there is attached to the cutting blades of the clipper, a guard-plate
formed of a piece of sheet metal.
This guard-plate is bent round the back of the cutting jaw and secured to the back
of the fixed handle of the clipper. It also extends a short distance in front of the
cutters where it is divided into teeth so as to form a comb in front of the cutting
parts. The teeth of this comb are curved inwards at their extremities so as to shield
and partly cover the cutters.
The guard-plate is shaped and attached at the back so as to allow the necessary
action to the handles.
I will now proceed to describe the invention with reference to the accompanying
drawings in which Fig. 1 shews a plan view of the entire clipper with my adjustable
comb attached. Fig. 2 shews the section of the same on the line a-y. Fig. 3 shews
the plan and side view of my guard plate detached from the instrument.
a, is the spring guard plate. a¹, the comb with bent or curved teeth. b, is the
e is the
washer plate. c, c, are bolts which adjust the cutters. d, d, are the cutters.
regulating bolt of a. f, is the regulating nut of e. 9, is the fastening screw
of a.
It will be seen that the back of the spring guard a, is secured by the screw g, to the
fixed handle of the cutter d, and a, is thus held in position. A small bolt e, has its
head on the underside of the spring-plate a, and passes through the cutters d, and
washer-plate b, a slot being made in the upper cutter so that it can work to and fro in

page_text: the usual manner. This smail bolt has a feathered or milled nut f, at its extremity
above the washer plate, and by tightening or loosening this nut the guard plate is
adjusted and brought nearer, or further from, the cutters.
By means of this adjustable guard the clipper can be made to cut the hair at any
desired distance from the skin (within certain limits) and a perfectly uniform cut
secured.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In a cutting or clipping instrument for hair, the adjustable combined spring-plate
and comb with curved or bent teeth a, a¹, together with the regulating bolt and
nut e, f, and screw g, as herein described and set forth.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, E.C., Patent Agent.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, E.C., Patent Agent.