Combined Scissors, Unpicking Knife, Needle Case, Thread Drawer, and Copying Wheel.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 14th Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Combined Scissors, Unpicking Knife, Needle Case, Thread Drawer,
and Copying Wheel.
I, CHARLES HUELSER, of the firm of Huelser & Co., of 142, Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Solicitors of Patents, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention, a communication to me from abroad by Miss Emilie Quast, of Neu-
Lagow, in the Province of Brandenburg, Empire of Germany, Gentlewoman, to be
as follows:-
The object of this invention is a pair of scissors which is provided with an
unpicking knife, a needle case, a basting-thread drawer or picker and a copying
wheel.
The knife is placed into a recess provided at the back of one of the blades of the
scissors. The pivot of the knife blade is elliptic, the larger axis of its elliptic cross
section lying in the direction of the blade of the scissors. The hole of the knife
blade is likewise elliptic and forms part of a slot extending some distance longi-
tudinally over the blade and terminating beyond the elliptic hole laterally in the
rear part of the blade. When the knife is turned out of its recess the said slot
extends and contracts again after the blade has been turned for 180 degrees and
projects from the fore part of the scissors ready to be used for unpicking, the rear
portion of the back of the knife blade abutting against the respective surface of the
recess mentioned above. The slot of the knife blade, while the latter is being
turned into the recess, is likewise spread out and requires the use of some pressure
till it resumes its normal shape. In the ridge or back of the other blade of the
scissors is provided a quadrangular recess for receiving the needle case. The latter
is open only on the narrower side directed towards the scissors and has its sides
lightly elongated at top and bottom and its upper and lower surfaces bent
inward.
The quadrangular recess has at top and bottom a curved spring serving to catch
into the said bends of the needle box and hold the latter when introduced into the
recess.
The basting-thread drawer or picker and the copy ing wheel are respectively lodged
in corresponding recesses provided in the contiguous sides of the handles of the
scissors and when inoperative lie with their free extremities towards the joint of the
latter. Each of these two tools is provided with a similar slot as that of the knife
blade and likewise turns on an elliptic pivot to produce the clamping spring action
above referred to.
Dated this 1st of Vox 1800
HUELSER & Co.,
Attorneys.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Combined Scissors, Unpicking Knife, Needle Case, Thread Drawer,
and Copying Wheel.
I, CHARLES HUELSER, of the firm of Inelser & Co., of Temple Chambers,
London, International Patent Agency, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention, a communication to me from abroad by Miss Emilie Quast, of Neu
Lagow, in the Province of Brandenburg, Empire of Germany, Gentlewoman, 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 combined scissors and has for its purpose to provide

page_text: Ecissors which embody at the same time an unpicking tool, a needle receptacle, a
thread drawer and a copying wheel.
Referring to the drawing hereunto annexed.
Fig. in front view, and
Figs. 2 to 6 are details of the improved combined article.
The novel feature of the invention consists in the mode of combining the various
constituents and in replacing the usual steel spring in the three tools.
The unpicking knife blade A is lodged in a recess a provided in the back of one
of the blades of the scissors. The pin e about which turns the blade is not
circular as usual, but elliptic, the large axis of the elliptic eross section lying in the
direction of the blade of the scissors. The knife blade hole is likewise elliptic, and
lies in a lot which extends in the direction of the knife blade and terminates
laterally beyond the elliptic hole in the rear portion of the knife blade. When the
knife is turned out of the recess a the slot spreads out and closes again, after the
knife has been turned for 180 degrees, and projects with its fore part, ready to he
ned for unpicking, from the blade of the scissors. The rear portion of the back of
the knife then abuts against the front surface of recess a Abo when the knife is
being turned in, it must again be spread out at the slot so as to retain its opened
position until a special pressure is exercised for murning in. In the back of the
second blade of the scissors is provided a quadrangular recess which serves to
receive the needle ease B Figs. 5 and 6. The latter is open only the narrow side
which is directed towards the scissors and is provided with slightly projecting side-
and turned-in top and bottom sides, which latter are adapted to be fixed by
catching over hent springs d provided at the end of the recess.
The basting thread drawer or picker C and the copying wheel D.-or the fork of
the latter are lodged in notches fitted into the contiguous sides of the handles of
the scissors, and when not being used, lie with their free ends towards the joint
of the latter. To adjust one of the two tools for use, it is turned out about its
elliptic pin, the -lot 6 shewn in Figs. 3 and 4 ensuring the same as with the knife
blade, the proper adjustment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1) Combined scissors, unpicking knife, needle ease, thread drawer and copying
wheel, substantially as illustrated and described in the foregoing Specification.
2) In the combined tool referred to in Claim 1, the combination with the scissors,
of a knife lodged in the back of one of the blades of the scissors, a needle case
lodged in the back of the other blade, a thread drawer lodged in the inner side of
one of the handles of the scissors and n copying wheel lodged in the other of said
handles, substantially as set forth.
3) In the combined tool forming the subject of Claims 1 and 2, the application,
as substitute for the springs hitherto used for giving the knife and other tools their
operative and inoperative position, of an elliptic pin or pivot and appurtenant
elliptic slot, which two parts are adapted to co-operate substantially as illustrated
and described.
Dated this 24th day of January 1891