IMPROVEMENTS IN CLIPS OR SHEARS FOR CLIPPING OR SHEARING HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS, WHICH ARE ALSO APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1871

page_text: ETTERS PATENT to Thomas James Smith, of the Firm of Robertson,
Brooman, and Company, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London,
Patent Agents, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLIPS OR
SHEARS FOR CLIPPING OR SHEARING HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS, WHICH ARE
ALSO APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES."-A communication from abroad
by Auguste Lengelée, Leon Bouttier, and Charles Vincent, all of 23,
Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, France.

page_text: " IMPROVEMENTS
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
IN CLIPS OR SHEARS FOR CLIPPING OR SHEARING HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS,
WHICH ARE ALSO APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
:―
This Invention relates to previous Letters Patent dated 21st February
1870, No. 508, and consists in improvements upon the clip or shear. then
patented in order to render its action more perfect and regular.
.
The improvements relate to the action of the free blades and to the
arrangement for keeping the latter firmly against the toothed sector,
whatever the nature of the skin, hair, or other substance to be clipped
may be. The blade carrier pivots upon an axle, and carries at its end
screws or pins, upon which pressure levers are mounted. The levers
carry at their ends an oscillating cross piece, and this cross piece carries
a pressure screw, the end of which bears upon the blade carrier. The
levers press by their other end, which is curved against the blades, the
rear part of which is freely engaged into grooves in the blade carrier.
The degree of pressure upon the levers against the blades is regulated
by the screw upon the cross piece, which can be turned by the hand, so
that the blades cannot yield, whatever may be the nature of the
substance they have to clip.
.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
☐ filed by the said Thomas James Smith in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 7th March 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
JAMES SMITH, of the Firm of Robertson, Brooman, and Company, of
166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent Agents, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas James Smith,
Her special licence that I, the said Thomas James Smith, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas James
.

page_text: Smith, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter.
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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CLIPS OR SHEARS FOR CLIPPING OR SHEARING HORSES AND
OTHER ANIMALS, WHICH ARE ALSO APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES," (a com-
munication to me from abroad by Auguste Lengelée, Leon Bouttier, and
Charles Vincent, all of 23, Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, France,) upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas James Smith,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 Scal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after*
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas James Smith, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same.
is to be performed, 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 :-
: This Invention relates to previous Letters Patent dated 21st February
1870, No. 508, and consists in improvements upon the clip or shear then.
patented in order to render its action more perfect and regular.
The improvements relates to the action of the free blades and to the
arrangement. for keeping the latter firmly against the toothed sector,
whatever the nature of the skin, hair, or other substance to be clipped
may be. The blade carrier pivots upon an axle, and carries at its end
These levers.
screws or pins, upon which pressure levers are mounted.
carry an oscillating cross piece, and this cross piece carries a pressure
the end of which bears upon the blade carrier. The levers press
by their other end, which is curved against the blades, the rear part of
which is freely engaged into grooves or recesses in the blade carrier.
screw,
The degree of pressure upon the levers against the blades is regulated
by the screw upon the cross piece, which can be turned by the hand so.,
:

page_text: take, also a transverse head in which hollows are made to receive the
stems of the cutting blades, substantially as described and shown.
And, Thirdly. The arrangement of pressing mechanism for keeping the
blades closely against the toothed sector of clipping appliances, sub-
stantially as described and shown.
In witness whereof. I. the said Thomas James Smith have here
stantially as described and shown.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas James Smith, have here.
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of March One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
I