A Combined Solitaire or Stud and Sharpener for Scissors or Shears.
Year: 1894

page_text: 1. WILLIAM SPIERS FREEMAN, of the Invicta Works, Otford, Kent, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
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This invention consists in forming a stud or solitaire with a centre bai of hard
steel, so that a scissors or like cutting instrument can be sharpened upon it, in the
well-known way.
The centre bar or connecting pin may be of any preferred size, or section, and
should be plain on its sui face, as the sharpening action is essentially a burning over
of both edges of the blades simultaneously
The sides or flanges at each end of the bar, may be discs or may be of different
shape or pattern as preferred. For instance, one eud may be tound, and the other
oval or crescent-shaped or otherwise.
The bar may be set straight or slanting When required for sharpening, the
stud is held between the finger and thumb of one hand, and the scissors in open
position are held in the other hand. The sc15901s are then drawn to and fro on the
bar as if attempting to cut it.
Dated thus 3rd day of October 1894
S. S BROMHEAD,
97 Newgate Street, E.C., Agent for Applicant.
A Combined Solitaire or Stud and Sharpener for Scissors or Shears.
I, WILLIAM SPIERS FREEMAN of the Invicta Works, Otford, Kent Engineer
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 :-
The object of my invention is to supply a handy means for sharpening blades of
SCISSOIS and the like.
For this purpose I make a collar or cuff stud or solitaire of any pattern or shape
provided it has a centie connecting bai or tube of smooth hardened steel between
the bead and the back.
This connecting bar may be solid or tubular, and made of any preferred size or
shape, but must be made of hardened steel with a plain surface
In sharpening scissors and the like, the action requned is one which will burr of
tun over the edges of the blades and so forun sharp edges where the sides of the
blades meet.
In using my combined stud and sharpener all that is necessary to do, is to hold
the stud in convenient position, as for example between the thumb and linger, and
then rub or press the edge of the blades which require to be sharpened, forwards
and backwards until the edge is sufficiently buired to cut well.
This may be most easily done by holding the stud in one hand and the scissors
in another and then diawing the scissors to and fio ou the bar as if attempting to
cut it.

page_text: I will now describe my invention with reference to the accompanying diawings
in which
Fig. 1 shows an end and side view of one of my stud scissors sharpeners, made
of solid steel.
Fig. 2 shows a sectional elevation and back view of a shirt on collar stud,
constructed on my system. It can be made solid, or to screw together as shewn,
o might be duven tightly together.
Fig 3 shows a simple form of the invention, consisting of a central steel pin and
two discs of any suitable metal or material. These could be made of bone, ivory
or any like substance, and are suitable as a wrist stud and for like purposes
Fig. 4 shows a sectional elevation and a front and back view of a wist, stud or
solitane, the back of which is crescent or oval shaped. The centre bar forms the
sharpener
It will be understood that in all cases the central bat 18 of smooth hardened steel
and forms the sharpener. It may be set straight oi slanting.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what 1
claim is:
In a stud or solitaire for collars fronts wrists and like purposes:
A central bai either solid or hollow of smooth haidened steel between the discs
of the stud by means of which scissors can be quickly and effectively sharpened as
herein described and set forth.
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Bated the 3rd day
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97 Newgate Street, London, E.C., Patent Agent.