Improvements in the Manufacturing of Scissors and Shears and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 9th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 14th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacturing of Scissors and Shears and
the like.
JOB WHITEHOUSE, Bridgtown West, Cannock, Staffordshire, Edge Tool
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The frames comprising the handles and joints and pins also the blade frames are
to be made of malleable iron castings, or from steel castings, or they may be
stamped from either iron or steel and the blades to be made of cast or shear steel,
specially rolled for the purpose, and pressed into the proper shape.
The pins or rivets or screws can be either part of the malleable frame or can be
put in loose as is the usual way, the garden shear tangs to be made long for
riveting through the wood handles to prevent the same coming off.
Dated this 12th day of April 1890.
JOB WHITEHOUSE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacturing of Scissors and Shears and
the like.
JOB WHITEHOUSE, Bridgtown West, Cannock, Staffordshire, Edge 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 :-
The following parts of both scissors, and also shears, are to be made of
malleable iron castings, or steel castings, or steel or iron stampings, viz., the whole
framework consisting of the handles, or the bows, the joints and the blade frames,
which will hold the steel blades, and also the pins or screws, or rivets, the blades
to be made of best cast steel, or shear steel, which will be specially rolled for the
purpose, to fit the iron frames, or they can be made to fit by means of a stamping
press, and afterwards properly hardened & tempered and ground. The pins or
screws also may be made part of the malleable frames, or they may be separately,
and fit in the usual way.
1 sheet of drawings lettered A B C.
A represents the steel blade.
B represents malleable iron frame with solid iron pin or screw.
C represents malleable iron frame with steel blade screwed in.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacturing of Scissors and Shears and
the like.
JOB WHITEHOUSE, Bridgtown West, Cannock, Staffordshire, Edge 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 :-
The following parts of both scissors, and also shears, are to be made of
malleable iron castings, or steel castings, or steel or iron stampings, viz., the whole
framework consisting of the handles, or the bows, the joints and the blade frames,
which will hold the steel blades, and also the pins or screws, or rivets, the blades
to be made of best cast steel, or shear steel, which will be specially rolled for the
purpose, to fit the iron frames, or they can be made to fit by means of a stamping
press, and afterwards properly hardened & tempered and ground. The pins or
screws also may be made part of the malleable frames, or they may be separately,
and fit in the usual way.
1 sheet of drawings lettered A B C.
A represents the steel blade.
B represents malleable iron frame with solid iron pin or screw.
C represents malleable iron frame with steel blade screwed in.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the value of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1st. The loose steel blades which can be fastened in by screws or by rivets.
2nd. The putting of new blades when the same require replacing.
3rd. The pins or screws for fastening the scissors together can be either part of
frames or separate from the same.
Dated this 8th day April 1891.