IMPROVEMENTS IN OR ADDITIONS TO SCISSORS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Mary Weldon Daw, Wife of Samuel Daw, of
1, Parade, Tredegarville, Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan, for
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Scaled the 30th July 1875, and dated the 10th February 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Mary Weldon Daw at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on
the 10th February 1875.
I, MARY WELDON DAW, Wife of Samuel Daw, of 1, Parade, Trede-
garville, Cardiff, in the County of Glamorgan, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR ADDITIONS TO
SCISSORS," to be as follows:-
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My said improvements consist in making on each blade or on one of
the blades of a pair of scissors a hook which is especially useful for
drawing forward the thread from under the needle of a sewing machine
after finishing a seam.
The hook or hooks may be formed on any part of the scissors, but I
prefer forming it or them at the point or points of the blade or blades.

page_text: The said hook or hooks may be either blunt or have sharp cutting
edges.
When I make a hook on each blade of a pair of scissors I prefer that
one of the said hooks shall be blunt and the other sharp, the object of
the sharp edge or edges being chiefly to facilitate the cutting and
clearing away of tangled cotton from the revolving hook or other part of
sewing machines, but such cutting edge or edges is or are also useful for
other purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Mary Weldon Daw in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th August 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MARY
WELDON DAW, Wife of Samuel Daw, of 1, Parade, Tredegarville, Cardiff,
in the County of Glamorgan, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Mary Weldon Daw, Her special license
that I, the said Mary Weldon Daw, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Mary Weldon Daw, 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, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
OR ADDITIONS TO SCISSORS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Mary Weldon Daw, 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 T the said Mary Weldon Daw do banche

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My said improvements consist in making on each blade or on one of
the blades of a pair of scissors a hook which is especially useful for
drawing forward the thread from under the needle of a sewing machine
after finishing a seam.
The hook or hooks may be formed on any part of the scissors, but I
prefer forming it or them at the point or points of the blade or blades.
The said hook or hooks may be either blunt or have sharp cutting
edges.
When I make a hook on each blade of a pair of scissors I prefer that
one of the said hooks shall be blunt and the other sharp, the object of
the sharp edge or edges being chiefly to facilitate the cutting and
clearing away of tangled cotton from the revolving hook or other part of
sewing machines, but such cutting edge or edges is or are also useful for
other purposes.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents a pair of scissors
on one of the blades of which a hook a is formed.
Figure 2 represents the same opened.
· Figure 3 represents a pair of scissors having a hook 6 formed at the
point of cach of the blades.
Having now described my Invention I wish it to be understood that I
claim, forming a hook or hooks on scissors, essentially as herein-before
described.
Figure 3 represents a pair of scissors having a hook formed at the
point of cach of the blades.
Having now described my Invention I wish it to be understood that I
claim, forming a hook or hooks on scissors, essentially as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Mary Weldon Daw, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
G
30 Witness,
WILLIAM SYMINGTON,
Bowden Steam Mills,.
Market Harborough.
MARY WELDON DAW. (L.S.).