Improvement in Clippers for Horses, Sheep, and other Animals.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Clippers for Horses, Sheep, and other Animals.
WILLIAM STEGGALL PEDDAR Higham Hall Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk
Farmer &c. do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A steel plate about 2 inches long inch wide 33 thick to be screwed on any
horse clipping machine with two nuts on the same bolts as the bearings are now.
Said plate has six grooves cut in for six 32 steel balls to run in. Said balls are
applied between the steel plate & top cutting plate of clipping machine which
makes it go about 60 or 70 per cent. lighter.
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WM. S. PEDDAR,
Higham Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
Improvement in Clippers for Horses, Sheep, and other Animals.
I, WILLIAM STEGGALL PEDDAR of Higham Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
Farmer, 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 improvements in connection with clippers for horses,
sheep, and other animals, and has for its object to provide an arrangement by
means of which the clippers will work much more easily and lightly than is at
present the case.
The arrangement I propose to employ consists of a small plate which is fixed to
the lower plate of any ordinary clipper by means of bolts passing through slots in
the upper cutting plate. The upper clipping plate can thus slide under the plate
above described, and in order to allow the parts to move easily and without friction,
the covering plate above described is formed with a number of grooves in its under
surface. These grooves are adapted to receive small balls which bear upon the
upper surface of the cutting plate and allow it to move to and fro with very little
friction.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is a plan of clippers constructed according to my invention, Fig. 2 is a
cross section of the same, and
Fig. 3 is a detail view of the top plate.
A is the top plate which is fixed to the lower cutting plate B by the small bolts C
provided with the nuts c. The upper cutting plate D is placed below A and is
provided with slots allowing the cutting plate to reciprocate.
Between the two plates A and D the balls E are placed, the plate A being
formed with the grooves a within which the balls are placed. Six of these grooves
are shown but any other number may be employed. A single ball is preferably

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placed in each slot, and the plates will thus roll over the balls when moved
relatively to each other.
Instead of forming the grooves in the covering plate, they may of course be
made in the top-cutting plate, the arrangement being in no wise altered by this.
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―
(1) In an improved clipping machine, the combination with a top plate secured
to the fixed plate of the clipper, of balls placed between the said plate and the
upper cutting plate substantially as and for the purposes specified.
(2) In an improved clipper, the combination with a top plate carried by the
fixed cutting plate, grooves in the said plate and balls placed in the grooves bearing
upon the upper cutting plate, substantially as described and for the purposes
specified.
(3) In an improved clipping machine, the combination with a top plate fixed by
nuts and bolts to the lower cutting plate, and slots in the upper cutting plate
allowing the bolts to pass, of grooves in the said top plate and balls placed in the
groove and bearing on the upper cutting plate, substantially as and for the purposes
specified.
(4) The improved clipping machine having ball bearings for the upper cutting
plate, constructed substantially as described and shown in the accompanying
drawings, and for the purposes specified..
Dad 1. Kal. do. of Ma.. 1907
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.