AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SHEARING OR CLIPPING SHEEP, HORSES, AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan, F.C.S., of
54, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SHEARING OR CLIPPING
SHEEP, HORSES, AND OTHER ANIMALS."—A communication from abroad by
Charles Scheidecker, residing at Paris, in the Republic of France."
Sealed the 17th June 1873, and dated the 21st February 1873.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Edward Primerose
Howard Vaughan at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with his Petition and Declaration, on the 21st February 1873,
pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act,
1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
PRIMEROSE HOWARD VAUGHAN, F.C.S., of 54, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR SHEARING OR CLIPPING SHEEP, HORSES, AND OTHER ANIMALS," and
have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, admini-

page_text: strators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have
made solemn Declaration that it has been communicated to me from
abroad by Charles Scheidecker, residing at Paris, in the Republic of
France.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan,
do hereby declare that the following Complete Specification, under my
hand and seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed in and by
the following statement, reference being had to the figures of the
accompanying Drawing, and to the letters marked thereon, that is to
say:
This Invention consists in an improved apparatus for shearing or
clipping sheep, horses, and other animals, as shewn in the accompanying
Drawing, in which Figure 1 is a front view of the apparatus ready for
use, its cutter held in position by the stop F; Figure 2 is a vertical
section of the same.
Figure 3 is a front view of the apparatus, its cutter freed from the
stop F to shew the pitch of the spring D; Figure 4 is a vertical section
of the same.
A is a branch of sheet or cast metal, to the upper end of which is
secured a steel plate G provided with teeth c. To the lower end of this
branch is rivetted the spring handle D, to the opposite extremity of
which is fitted the steel blade E, ground on one side to a cutting point.
The due contact of the blade with the toothed plate G is obtained by
the twist or pitch of the spring handle D, as shewn in Figures 3, 4, the
blade and teeth being inclined in opposite directions to each other as in
ordinary shears, thus securing efficient and uniform action of the cutting
edges without the use of screws and other pressure appliances generally
employed in apparatus of this description. F, F, are stops set in the
branch A and plate F to limit the range of the branch B.
The apparatus is worked in the same manner as ordinary sheep shears,
the blade E being passed from right to left along the teeth of the plate G
by closing the hand, and returning to its starting point when the hand is
opened.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner of carrying it into effect, I would have it understood that I do

page_text: not confine myself to the precise details of form, construction, or
dimensions herein laid down or shewn, as these may be modified
according to circumstances; but what I claim and desire to protect by
Letters Patent is, an apparatus for shearing or clipping sheep, horses,
and other animals, in which the contact of the cutting edges is main-
tained by the pitch of the spring handle D, and the inclination in
opposite directions to each other of the blade E and toothed plate G,
substantially as above described and shewn in the Figures of the accom-
panying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Primerose Howard Vaughan,
have hereto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of
February. One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
E. P. H. VAUGHAN. (L.S.)