IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SCISSORS
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
We, ALBERT LLOYD of Birmingham in the County of Warwick and WILLIAM
FREDERICK CLYDON of the same place, Manufacturers do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SCISSORS to
be as follows :—
This Invention consists in making scissors from wire. We take wire of any
suitable size and metal and flatten it by means of a stamp or hammer, we then
place it under a press or stamp having top and bottom dies the one to form the
upper and the other the under sido upon one half of the scissors. This operation
at once shapes the blade and the part for the rivet or joint.
We then bend up the finger bows in a bending machine and finish and polish
the scissors in the ordinary way or by shaking in a barrel.
PAYNE & TALBOT,
100, Colmore Row, Birmingham,
Agents for the Applicants.

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We ALBERT LLOYD of Birmingham in the County of Warwick, and WILLIAM
FREDERICK GLYDON of the same place Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SCISSORS
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-Reference being had to the
Drawings hereunto annexed and to the letters and figures marked thercon that
is to say
This Invention consists in making scissors from wire, we take wire of any
suitable diameter and metal, and cut it into the required length, we then reduce a
portion of this length by means of stamps hammers, presses or other suitable tools
and dies to the requisite diameter or shape for the finger bow and shank, the
portion of the wire not so reduced is then by means of stamps, haminers, presses,
or other suitable tools and dies shaped into the form required for the joint and
cutting blade, this operation is required for each portion of a pair of scissors after
which the two portions are rivetted together finished and polished in the ordinary
way.
We can also use wiro for the manufacture of scissors of uniform thickness that
portion only which is required to form the joint and the blado being flattened.
We will now proceed to describe our Invention by the aid of the accompanying
Drawings in which (A) represents the length of round wire cut off as required
at (A) and shewn in section at (A), (B) the same wire after it has been bent
at (B) to form the part immediately below the joint (C) the same wire after it has
been shaped in tools to form the cutting blade. (C) is tho section of this cutting
blado. (D) is a view of the other blade after having gone through the same
process. (E) is the blade (D) with the rivet hole (E) formed in it. (F) one half
of the pair of scissors turned up at one end into the finger bow (F). (G) the
other half of the pair of scissors. (H) is the two halves rivetted together and
forming the complete pair of scissors. The remaining Drawings represent wire
which has gone through the same operations as above described but shewing a
variation in the shape of the scissors that is to say in the case illustrated a lighter
finger bow, (I 1') represent the wire (J J') the shape into which it is formed by
the first operation which forin may be elliptical or of any other required form
and (K) tho shape it takes under the second operation (L L) the shape after the
blade is made the wire is then pierced, turned up, bowed and finished as at (M).
(N) represents the two halves of a pair of scissors of a different form which are
made as above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is―
Improvements in the manufacture of scissors by making them from wire in
manner herein more fully set forth and specified.
Dated this 26th day of April 1884.
ALBERT LLOYD.
WILLIAM FREDERICK CLYDON.