MULTIPLE SCISSORS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, OSCAR EDLINGER, Engineer, of Geithain, in the Kingdom of Saxony, do
hereby declare the nature of said Invention for "MULTIPLE SCISSORS," to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to multiple scissors adapted for cutting parallel strips of
constant or of variable width,
For this purpose two or more pairs of scissors are mounted parallel to each
other on the same axis, and the corresponding blades or shanks of the different
pairs are connected with each other transversely, in order to keep them always
parallel, this transverse connection serving also to set the different pairs in action
simultaneously.
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The distance between the different pairs may be constant, or variable, so as to
cut strips of variable width. This may be effected by converting the transverse
connections into guides upon which the blades are adapted to slido, and fixing the
latter in the desired position by set screws or rings.
The blades may also be adapted to slide on their common axis or pivot and to
be secured thereon by set screws, rings or equivalent means.
Dated this 19th day of Anoust 1884.

page_text: I, OSCAR EDLINGER, of 67 Strand, W.C. London, do hereby declare the nature
of my invention for MULTIPLE SCISSORS, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The multiple scissors hereinafter described and illustrated by the annexed
drawings in three different forms or modifications has for its objects to produce at
the same time two or more parallel cuts and to cut strips of variable width.
The novelty chiefly consists in the arrangement of several scissors on one pivotal
axis in such a nanner, that the analogous blades are kept parallel with each other
_by_a_transverse connection which also serves for setting the blades in operation
simultaneously
Figs I and II illustrate a set of multiple scissors.comprising two-pairs of scissors.;.
a is the common pivotal axle of the two scissors 8, 8, 9 the transverse connection
of the two-corresponding shanks or blades leading to the common handles g.
Fig. III illustrates a modification in which the second pair of scissors &' is made
adjustable-by-means of the screw a', so as to permit the cutting of parallel strips
or concentric rings of any desired width. The transverse connection g of the two
Corresponding shanks forins a guide which slides in a corresponding hole of the
second pair of scissors 8 and is fixed-by a sot screw t. g, y, are the handles for
siimultaneously cutting with the two scissors.
Figs IV, V and VI illustrate the coinbination of three scissors with each other.
In this modification the common axlo a is also converted into a slide, so as to
permit the accurate parallel adjustment of the three separate pairs of scissors.
v, v are set screws for securing the different pairs of scissors on the common axle a,
t the set screws for the shanks, g is the common handle.
Having bow 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
Two or more scissors mounted on one pivotal axis and connected with each other
transversely in such a manner that the analogous blades remain parallel, and may
be set in operation simultaneously by means of the same transverse connection.
Dated this 8th day of December 1884