An Improved Soissors Holder.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 10th Oct., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Soissors Holder.
We, AMELIA DEVELING POLSGROVE, Lady, and SHERMAN BURDETTE:
MYERS, Grocer, both of Huntingdon in the County of Huntingdon, and State of
Pennsylvania, United States of America, 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 relates to devices for holding scissors, and is designed for the
use of store clerks, seamstresses, barbers, nurses, and others who frequently employ
scissors or shears. It consists of a holding plate provided on its rear face with a
pin for securing it to the clothing, and on the front face with a band to receive
the shears.
Reference is to be had to the annexed drawings and to the letters and figures.
marked thereon, forming a part of this specificatiou, the saine letters or figures.
indicating the same parts or features, as the case may be, wherever they occur.
Of the drawing-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved scissors holder, the scissors being
indicated by full lines.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the rear face of the holder.
In carrying out our invention, we employ a supporting plate a, having its ends.
bent under or formed as beads bb, which are adapted to rest against the clothing
and hold the plate a small distance therefrom.
Upon the front face of the supporting plate, we secure a band, hoop, or collar c,.
which is elliptical in shape and of a size to receive the scissors and support them
as illustrated in Fig. 1. The holder proper, or band c, is secured to the sapporting
plate by a rivet but we have contemplated securing it in other ways as well.
Upon the rear face of the supporting plate we secure, by soldering or otherwise,.
a pind which is hent into a spring at e.
The free end of the pin may be passed through the clothing, and then caught in.
the hook, which is formed by the other end.
A scissor holder formed in this way is highly efficient and serviceable for the
purposes for which it is intended. The scissors are placed loosely in the holder
and are supported therein in such way that they may be easily withdrawn for use
when wanted.
The plate fits closely against the clothing, sinco the ends are bent under, or
beaded, and the pin or other fastening device is secured to the rear of the plate in.
such way as to lie practically within the planes of the body of the plate, and the
bent under ends thereof. That is to say, the ends of the plate are bent under to.
such a distance that when the pin is fastened in the clothing, the plate will be held
firmly against movement.
We have contemplated constructing our scissor holder in other ways, as of
wire, and, therefore, do not limit ourselves to the exact shape shown and
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is-
1. A scissors holder consisting of a supporting plate having upon its frout face a
loon or band to receive the scissors, and a pin attached to the rear face of the

page_text: Bupporting plate, the ends of the said plate being bent rearwardly and inwardly to
form beads, b, by which the body of the plate is held away from the material to
which it is attached, substantially as set forth.
2. A scissors holder consisting of a supporting plate having upon one face a loop
or band c, to receive the scissors and having its ende bent rearwardly and inwardly
to form two beads, b, and a pin attached to the supporting plate between and
lying in the planes of said bands, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 9th day of July A.D. 1896.
AMELIA DEVLING POLSGROVE.
SHERMAN BURDETTE MYERS.
Wm. P. Thompson & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents.