Improvements in Flower Scissors and like Cutting and Retaining- Instruments.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 26th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 4th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flower Scissors and like Cutting and Retaining-
Instruments.
I, WILLIAM JAMES DAVY, of No. 30 Cornwall Road, Stroud Green, London, N..
Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows :-
This invention has for its object improvements in flower scissors and like cutting
and retaining instruments.
Flower scissors such as are now in use have their blades so made that they sever
the stem and then nip the detached part by its extreme end. Now I construct
flower scissors and like instruments to hold the flower or detached part not at the
extreme end of the stem but at some distance from the end. I thus obtain a more
secure holding.
I extend the blades of the scissors or instruments beyond the cutting edges and
double them back so that when the scissors are closed these prolongations meet
together at a distance above the edges and parallel thereto.
Thus at the same instant that the stem becomes severed by the edges it is
nipped and held at a distance from the severed end between the prolongations of
the blades.
One of the prolongations I make with two parallel fingers or prongs which may
or may not be connected at their further ends and the other prolongation I make
with a single finger or prong which enters between the two other fingers or prongs.
By this arrangement compression of the stem between two directly opposed
surfaces is avoided and the stem is able to adapt itself to sustain the pressure
without injury by bending in and out between the fingers.
These prolongations of the blades beyond the cutting edges are so formed as to
be elastic so that they will yield with sufficient freedom to admit of the cutting
edges being brought together under all the conditions of use.
Dated this 29th day of April 1809
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flower Soissors and like Cutting and Retaining
Instruments.
I WILLIAM JAMES DAVY of No. 41 Wandsworth Bridge Road Fulham
London S.W. Mechanical & Electrical Engineer late of 30 Cornwall Road Stroud
Green London N. 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 for improvements in horticultural scissors or shears has for its
objects to construct the scissors or shears in such manner that when employed to
gather flowers, fruit, or other articles, they shall securely hold the cut articles at
some distance from the cut ends.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings,
Figures 1 and 2 are plan & elevation respectively of a pair of scissors constructed
according to this invention, &
Figures 3 and 4 are details of the retaining fingers and jaws of the scissors.
Each blade cc of the scissors or shears is provided with prongs or fingers a
and 6 arranged parallel to the cutting blades and at a short distance from the cutting
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page_text: plane, & so that at same instant the article is severed by the scissors it is nipped &
held at a distance from the severed end by the jaws or fingers a and b. In order
to avoid unnecessary compression of the stem of the cut article between two
directly opposed surfaces, one of the blades.or fingers a or b may be provided
with two parallel jaws as at. b; whilst the other blade a has a single jaw that
can elastically enter between the jaws of b so that the stem may bend in and out
without injury. In order to admit of the cutting edges of-the shears being brought
together under all conditions of use the jaws are elastically made & attached to
the points of the cutting blades c c¹ of the scissors. The gripping blades a and b
.may or may not be hinged at their extreme end by simply passing one blade
through the other as set forth.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is.
1. Horticultural scissors or shears provided with jaws at a short distance from
the cutting plane, & adapted to grip an article as it is cut at some distance from the
cut end substantially as set forth.
2. The combination in horticultural scissors or shears of the blades a and b
of the jaws c c¹ adapted to grip the cut article, the whole substantially as set forth.
Dated this 26th day of January 1893.
WILLIAM JAMES DAV