AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Mathurin Jean Baptiste Couhault, Manufacturer,
of Boulevard de Strasbourg, No. 23, at Paris (France), for the In-
vention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING HORSES AND OTHER
ANIMALS."
:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Mathurin Jean Baptiste
Coühault at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 10th August 1874.
I, MATHURIN JEAN BAPTISTE Couhault, Manufacturer, of Boulevard
3 de Strasbourg, No. 23, at Paris (France) do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING HORSES
AND OTHER ANIMALS," to be as follows:-
―
The clip which is the object of my Invention is distinguished from
the various systems hitherto proposed by the action of the pressure

page_text: plate, which in this case is fixed, and serves at the same time as a slide
to guide the movable comb in its transverse to-and-fro movement. This
new arrangement simplifies the mechanism of the clip very much and
ensures it a very regular action.
plate, which in this case is fixed, and serves at the same time as a slide
to guide the movable comb in its transverso to-and-fro movement. This
new arrangement simplifies the mechanism of the clip very much and
ensures it a very regular action.
The instrument is composed of but five principal pieces, namely:-
1st. The fixed arm, the enlarged head of which serves as a support to
the other parts of tho clip.
2ndly. The fixed lower comb which is fastened rigidly beneath the
head of the arm by means of screws.
3rdly. The pressure plate or slide which is fastened to the head:
of the arm by two pressure screws with bearing nuts which enablo
the degree of pressure of the plate upon the movable comb to be
regulated.
4thly. The movable comb which slides between the fixed comb, the
pressure or sliding plate, and the upper surface of the head of the arm.
And, 5thly. The action arm which pivots upon an axis rivetted upon
the fixed arm, and the shorter arm of which carries a stud traversing the
groove of the plate and adjusting itself in a hole made in the middle of
the length of the movable comb. It is also held in its alternate move-
ment by two studs keyed in the fixed comb and fastened in two little :
oblong grooves made across the movable comb.
The two arms have a uniform olive shaped section between the
handles and their bent portions which gives them a certain elegance of
appearance united with great solidity.
The construction of this clip is very simple, and its action is perfectly a
regular. The pressure plate being fixed cannot change its pressure while
at work, which so frequently happens with clips in which the prossure
plates are movable.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Fatem,
filed by the said Mathurin Jean Baptiste Couhault in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 10th February 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MATHURIN
JEAN BAPTISTE COUHAULT, Manufacturer, of Boulevard de Strasbourg,
No. 28, at Paris, France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-eighth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Mathurin Jean Baptiste Couhault, Her special
licence that I, the said Mathurin Jean Baptiste Couhault, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Mathurin
Jean Baptiste Couhault, 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, exercisc, and vend, within the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING HORSES AND
OTHER ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Mathurin Jean Baptiste Couhault, 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 Mathurin Jean Baptiste Couhault,
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, that is to say :—
The clip which is the object of my Invention is distinguished from
the various systems hitherto proposed by the action of the pressure
plate, which in this case is fixed, and serves at the same time as a guide
5 to the movable comb in its transverso to-and-fro movements. This new.

page_text: be well understood.
Figure 1 is a front view of the instrument, and Figure 2 is a profile 5
view; while Figuro 3 shows the pressure plate separately.
The instrument is composed of but fivo principal pieces, namely:-
1st. The fixed arm a, the enlarged head of which serves as a support
to the other parts of the clip.
2ndly. The fixed lower comb
which is fastoned rigidly beneath the 1
head of the arm a by means of screws c, c.
3rdly. The pressure plate or slide d' (shown separately at Figure 3)
which is fastened to the head of the arm a by two pressure screws ƒ, f,
with bearing nuts g, g, which enable the degree of pressure of the
plate a upon the movable comb to be regulated.
4thly. The movable comb which slides between the fixed comb b.
The pressure or sliding plate & and the upper surface of the head of the
arm a.
1
And, 5thly. The action arm i which pivots upon an axis j rivetted
upon the fixed arm a, the shorter arm of which carries a stud / traversing 2
the groove of the plate & and adjusting itself in a holo made in the
middle of the length of the movable comb h. It is also held in its
alternate movement by two studs m, m, keyed in the fixed comb b and
fastened in two little oblong grooves made across the movable comb.
The two arms a and i have a uniform olivo shaped section between the 2
handles p, p, and their bent portions which gives them a certain elegance
of appearance united to a great solidity.
:
As will be perceived the construction of this clip is very simple and
its action is perfectly regular, for the pressure plate being fixed it cannot
chango its pressure while at work, which so frequently happens with 3
clips in which the pressure plates are movable.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,—
The manufacture and employment of apparatus or instruments for

page_text: clipping horses and other animals in which the pressure plate both
regulates the degree of pressure exerted by the movable comb upon the
fixed comb, and serves at the same time as a guide to the movable comb
in its to-and-fro movements, as herein-before described and as shown in
the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Mathurin Jean Baptiste Couhault,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third day of February,
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
10 Witness,
M. J. B. COUHAULT. (L.s.)
ALBERT CAHEN,
Civil Engineer,
of Boulevard Magenta, 32,
at Paris.