IMPROVEMENTS IN CLIPS FOR SHEARING HORSES, DOGS, OR OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1881

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LETTERS PATENT to Fernand Guillaume, of Boulevard Saint Denis, No. 1, at
Paris, Manufacturer, for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN CLIPS FOR
SHEARING HORSES, DOGS, OR OTHER ANIMALS.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Fernand Guillaume at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th November 1881.
FERNAND GUILLAUME, of Boulevard Saint Denis, No. 1, at Paris, Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CLIPS FOR SHEARING HORSES, DOGS, OR OTHER ANIMALS."
My Invention has reference to apparatus for clipping or shearing horses, dogs,
or other animals, and consists of a special arrangement for tightening up and
facilitating the putting together and taking to pieces of the parts of the apparatus.
I obtain a very perfect tightening up, and at the same time give great facility.
for putting together and taking to pieces the parts of the clipper by a lever of the
third class, whose point of support, situated at the end, is formed by a cone which
enters a hole in the fixed limb of the clipper. The tightening up is effected by
means of a winged nut screwing on to a pin fixed to the clipper and passing
through the lever above described. The employment of this lever simplifies the
construction of the clipper, and also gives it solidity and good action. The outer
end of the lever is forked so as to extend the tightening effect over the whole
length of the pressure plate. The winged nut allows of tightening up the pressure
plate against the cutter or comb bars with much precision.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Fernand Guillaume in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th May 1882.
FERNAND GUILLAUME, of Boulevard Saint Denis, No. 1, at Paris, Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CLIPS FOR SHEARING HORSES, DOGS, OR OTHER ANIMALS."
My Invention has reference to apparatus for clipping or shearing horses, dogs,
or other animals, and consists of a special arrangement for tightening up and
facilitating the putting together and taking to pieces of the parts of the apparatus.
I obtain a very perfect tightening up, and at the same time give great facility
for putting together and taking to pieces the parts of the clipper by a lever of the
third class, whose point of support, situated at the end, is formed by a cone which
enters a hole in the fixed limb of the clipper. The tightening up is effected by
means of a winged nut screwing on to a pin fixed to the clipper and passing
through the lever above described. The employment of this lever simplifies the
construction of the clipper, and also gives it solidity and good action. The outer
end of the lever is forked so as to extend the tightening effect_over_the_whole-
"length of the pressure plate. The winged nut allows of tightening up the pressure
plato against the cutter or comb bars with much precision.
The accompanying Drawings illustrate the Invention. Figure 1 is a side view,
and Figure 2 a front view of the apparatus; Figures 4 and 5 are detached views
of the tightening lever; Figure 3 is a side view of the apparatus with the fixed
cutter or comb bar, the pressure plate and the tightening lever removed in order to
show more clearly the guide pin of this lever. The tightening up is effected by
means of the lever a, whose point of support is formed on the limb b by a hole
into which a cone c on the end of the lever enters. This lever, as already explained,
is forked so as to extend the tightening effect over the whole length of the pressure
plate. It has a hole at the middle and fits upon a pin & fixed to the clipper where
it
tightened by the nut f.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what manner the
samo has to be performed, I declare that I claim,—
Constructing apparatus for clipping or shearing horses, dogs, or other animals,
substantially as hereinbefore described and represented in the accompanying
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Fernand Guillaume, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of May, One thousand eight hundred and
aichte a
Witness,
ALBERT CAHEN,
Civil Engineer,
of Boulevard St. Denis, 1,
at Paris.
F. GUILLAUME. (L.S.)