IMPROVEMENTS IN SHEARS FOR CUTTING METAL THREADS, WIRES, AND RODS, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR GAUGING WIRES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Goudchaux Alcan, of Chaumont, in the Empire of
France, Gentleman, Father and Administrator of the late Emile Alcan,
of King Street, in the City of London, Merchant, deceased, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHEARS FOR CUTTING METAL THREADS,
WIRES, AND RODS, APPLICABLE ALSO FOR GAUGING WIRES."-A communication
to the said Emile Alcan from abroad by Leon Gauchez, of Brussels,
Belgium.
Sealed the 18th March 1864, and dated the 21st September 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Emile Alcan at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st September
1863.
I, EMILE ALCAN, of King Street, in the City of London, Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHEARS
FOR CUTTING METAL THREADS, WIRES, AND RODS, APPLICABLE. ALSO FOR GAUGING
WIRES," to be as follows:-
These shears are composed of two parts similar to each other, and
represented in the accompanying Drawing at A. These parts are connected.
and movable upon a pivot B, and are kept in a position to receive the thread,
wire, or rod, to be cut by a spring C. The two parts A have one or more
grooves or openings to receive the thread, wire, or rod, corresponding to the
various sizes required to be cut. The cutting is performed by bringing
together, by hand or otherwise, the two arms D, D, of the parts A. The slots.
cut in the head of the shears enable them to be used as a gauge for gauging.
wires.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Goudchaux Alcan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st March 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GOUDCHAUX
ALCAN, of Chaumont, in the Empire of France, Gentleman, Father and
Administrator of the late Emile Alcan, of King Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, deceased, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors; give and grant unto
me, the said Goudchaux Alean, Her special licence that I, the said Goudchaux
Alcan, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Goudchaux Alcan, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise,. and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SHEARS FOR CUTTING METAL THREADS, WIRES, AND RODS, APPLICABLE
ALSO FOR GAUGING WIRES," (communicated to the said Emile Alcan from
abroad by Leon Gauchez, of Brussels, Belgium,) upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Gouchaux Alcan, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said. Goudchaux Alcan, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say
These shears are composed of two parts similar to each other, and
represented at A, A, in the accompanying. Drawings; Figure 1 is a face view,
and Figure 2 an edge view of the shears.; Figure 3 is a view of the inner
face of one of the parts A detached. The parts A are connected and movable
upon a pivot B, and. are kept in a position to receive the thread, wire, or rod
to be cut by a spring C. The two parts A have one or more grooves or

page_text: openings a to receive the thread, wire, or rod, corresponding to the various
sizes required to be cut. The cutting is performed by bringing together, by
hand or otherwise, the two arms D, D, of the parts A. The slots a and holes
b cut in the head of the shears enable them to be used as a gauge for gauging
wires.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, constructing
shears for cutting metal threads, wires, and rods, and apparatus for gauging
wires, substantially in manner herein-before described and represented in the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Goudchoux Alcan, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of March, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
G. ALCAN.
(L.S.)