Improvements in Scissors of the kind known as Pocket Scissors.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 30th Jan., 1896-Accepted, 7th Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Scissors of the kind known as Pocket Scissors.
We, SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE, of the Firm of Hinks, Wells and Company, of
No. 106 Buckingham Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Steel Pen
and Penholder Manufacturers, and JOHN HEWITT of No. 58 Graham Street
Birmingham, aforesaid, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
Our invention consists in making in the manner hereinafter described from
sheet steel or other hard and elastic metal or alloy, the two combined blades
and handles which when connected by a joint pin constitute the said scissors.
The scissors so produced may be opened out to a sufficient extent to bring their
blades in line or nearly in line in which position of the said blades their points
spring into the openings in the handles constituting the finger and thumb loops.
The said scissors when in this their opened out position resemble generally the
eyes and bridge of a pair of spectacle frames with the blades partly crossing
the said eyes and the said scissors with the blades in this position may be placed
in the pocket, the handles protecting the points of the blades, and retaining the
said blades in their opened out or protected position.
In order to bring the blades from their opened out position into their acting
position the points of the blades are simultaneously pressed in opposite directions
so as to bring the points of the blades out of the plane of the handles and the
handles are turned so as to bring the said blades together.
In making a pair of scissors of the kind herein before described we produce by
stamping, two slightly curved or concave blanks of a shape having the outline of
one of the handles and blades of a pair of scissors and we form in the said blanks
preferably by the same stamping operation the piercings for the finger and thumb
loops and also the hole for the joint pin. When the said blanks are placed one on
the other and are connected by a joint pin the inner edges of the loops are in the
same or approximately the same plane and when pressed by the thumb and finger
abut against each other. The scissor blanks are without the projecting parts or
stops common to ordinary scissors for limiting the extent to which the scissors can
be opened so that scissors made from the said blanks can be opened until their
blades are in line or nearly so, the points springing or snapping and engaging
under the inner edges of the loops of the handles in the manner herein before
described in consequence of the slight concavity of the blades.
Dated this Eighth day of June 1895
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
Improvements in Scissors of the kind known as Pocket Scissors.
We SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE, of the Firm of Hinks, Wells and Company, of
No. 106 Buckingham Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Steel Pen
and Penholder Manufacturers and JOHN HEWITT, of No. 58 Graham Street,
Birmingham, aforesaid, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of our invention
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page_text: and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:―
Our invention consists in making in the manner hereinafter described from sheet
steel or other hard and elastic metal or alloy, the two combined blades and
handles which when connected by a joint pin constitute the said scissors. The
scissors so produced may be opened out to a sufficient extent to bring their blades
in line, or nearly in line, in which position of the said blades their points spring
into or engage with the openings in the handles constituting the finger and thumb
loops. The said scissors when in this their opened out position resemble generally
the eyes and bridge of a pair of spectacle frames with the blades partly crossing
the said eyes and the said scissors with the blades in this position may be placed
in the pocket, the handles protecting the points of the blades, and retaining the
said blades in their opened out or protected position.
In order to bring the blades from their opened out position into their closed or
acting position the points of the blades are simultaneously pressed in opposite
directions so as to bring the points of the blades out of the plane of the handles and
the handles are turned so as to bring the said blades together.
In making a pair of scissors of the kind hereinbefore described we produce by
stamping, two slightly curved or concave blanks of a shape having the outline of
one of the handles and blades of a pair of scissors and we form in the said blanks
preferably by the same stamping operation the piercings for the finger and thumb
loops and also the hole for the joint pin. When the said blanks are placed one on
the other and are connected by a joint pin the inner edges of the loops are in the
same or approximately the same plane and when pressed by the thumb and finger
abut against each other. The scissor blanks are without the projecting parts or
stops at the junction of the handles with the blades common to ordinary scissors
for limiting the extent to which the scissors can be opened so that scissors made
from the said blanks can be opened until their blades are in line or nearly so, the
points springing or snapping and engaging under the inner edges of the loops of the
handles in the manner herein before described in consequence of the slight con-
cavity of the blades, or engaging with cranked or shouldered parts of the loops of
the handles.
Figure of the accompanying drawing represents one of the pair of blanks of
thin sheet steel or other ductile and hard sheet metal or alloy which we employ in
making a pair of scissors according to our invention;
Figure 2 represents the same in side elevation and edge view after the loop for
the finger and the joint or rivet hole have been pierced therein and the blank made
slightly concave ;
Figure 3 represents in side elevation and Figure 4 in edge view a pair of scissors
made from two of the pierced and shaped blanks Figure 2, the said pair of scissors
being represented opened out ready to be placed in the pocket ;
Figure 5 represents the said scissors closed and ready for use;
Figures 6, 7, 8 and 9 represent a modification of our invention as hereinafter
described.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of
the drawing.
In making a pair of scissors according to our invention we stamp or cut out
preferably from thin sheet steel two blanks of the kind represented in Figure 1.
We next pierce in the said blanks the loop holes for the finger and thumb and also
the holes b for the joint or rivet pin and either at the same time or by a separate
operation we make each of the combined handles and blades slightly concave as
shown by the edge view of Figure 2. The pair of treated blanks being put
together with their concave sides presented to each other they are connected by
the joint pin c as represented in Figure 5. The blades of a pair of scissors made
in the way described may be opened out until they are in line or nearly in line as
represented in Figures 3 and 4 and in consequence of the slight concavity of the
combined handles and blades the points of the said blades when they are fully.

page_text: opened spring into the loops of the handles and engage under the inner edges of
the same thereby protecting the points and retaining the blades in their opened out
position. The opened out blades Figures 3 and 4 are disengaged from the loops
and closed for use as represented in Figure 5 in the manner hereinbefore
described.
Figure 6 represents a modified combined scissor blade and handle and Figure 7
represents in side elevation and edge view the finger loop of the same drawn to a
larger scale; Figure 8 represents in side elevation the finished opened out scissors,
and Figure 9 represents the same in edge view, Figures 8 and 9 being drawn to the
same scale as Figure 6.
In making the combined scissor blade and handle Figure 6 we slightly crank the
outer side of the loop of the handle at d (see Figure 7) and thereby form a
shoulder for the point end of each of the blades, when opened out, to seat them-
selves against as represented in Figures 8 and 9. In other respects the scissors
Figures 8 and 9 resemble the scissors Figures 3, 4 and 5 and corresponding parts
are marked with the same letters of reference.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we
claim as our invention :-
The improvements in scissors of the kind known as pocket scissors herein before
described and represented in the accompanying drawing, the said improvements
consisting in making each combined blade and handle from sheet steel or other
hard and ductile sheet metal or alloy so that when riveted together by their joint
pin they may be opened out so as to bring their blades in line or nearly in line, the
points of the blades snapping into the loops of the handle or engaging against
shoulders formed by slightly cranking the said loops substantially as described and
illustrated.
Dated the Twenty-eighth day of January 1896.
SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE..
JOHN HEWITT.