Improvements in Pocket Scissors.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd May, 1896-Accepted, 27th June, 1896
Improvements in Pocket Scissors.
We,
LEOPOLD MYERS, of Charlotte Street Steel Pen Works Charlotte Street,
in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, and EDWARD HUNT, of 22 Mayfield
Road, Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturers' Manager, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in constructing and arranging the parts of pocket scissors
as herein described whereby we are enabled to produce at a low cost a pair of
pocket scissors which may either be folded to protect the blades or extended and
opened out ready for use."
In carrying out this invention each of the two cross limbs of the scissors has the
cutting blade part made separate from the leg with which the eye or bow is formed
and the two blades and legs are all connected together by the same cross rivet the
blades being between the legs so that the blades can be folded between the legs by
opening out the legs and turning each of them through a semicircle but in opposite
directions. Each of the two cutting blade parts of the limbs is continued back for
some little distance beyond the rivet between the two legs and is there made with
a side projection which takes against the inner edge of the corresponding leg when
the scissors are open for use. Each of the legs has a spring tongue extension fixed
outside the leg as by the cross rivet and a projection on the outer face of the leg
engaging in a notch in the spring tongue. The outer parts of these spring tongues
press against the outer faces of the blades and tend to keep the blades together.
Each of the said tongues is also made to engage with its corresponding blade
which can very conveniently be done by making the tongue with a projecting pip
which snaps into a hole in the face of the blade and this with the above mentioned
projection on the backward continuation of the blade taking against the side of
the leg locks the blade and leg together when the scissors are open ready
for use.
To fold the scissors for the pocket the limbs have to be turned on the cross rivet
or joint until the further opening of the blades will be prevented by one blade
coming in contact with a projection on the other blade.
As the further turning
movement of the legs about the cross rivet is continued without the blades the pip
parts on the springs spring out of the holes in the blades and a side projecting
hook formed on each of the legs comes in contact with the outer edge of the
blade belonging to the other leg and thus closes the blades together where they
will lie between and be protected by the two legs when the scissors are closed.
To open the scissors ready for use it is only necessary to turn both the legs
through almost a semicircle in opposite directions when each leg will first leave
the blade belonging to the other leg and then be locked to the corresponding blade
as above described.
Each of the spring tongues may if preferred be made in a piece with its
corresponding leg instead of being made separate therefrom as above described.
Dated this 26th day of July 1895
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Improvements in Pocket Scissors.
We, LEOPOLD MYERS, of Charlotte Street Steel Pen Works, Charlotte Street,
in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, and EDWARD HUNT, of 22, Mayfield
Road, Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturers' Manager, 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 :-
This invention consists in constructing and arranging the parts of pocket scissors
as herein described whereby we are enabled to produce at a low cost a pair of
pocket folding scissors which may either be folded to protect the blades or extended
and opened out ready for use.
We will describe this invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on
which
Fig. 1 is a front elevation and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a pair of pocket
scissors constructed according to this invention shewn open ready for use;
Fig. 3 is a front elevation and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the same scissors
partly folded and closed;
Fig. 5 is a front elevation and Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the same scissors
closed for carrying in the pocket;
Fig. 7 shews one of the legs of the scissors separately;
Fig. 8 shews one of the cutting blades of the said scissors separately in side
elevation and in edge view
Fig. 9 shews one of the spring parts of the said scissors separately;
Fig. 10 is a front view and Fig. 11 is a side view of a slightly modified form of
our invention and
Fig. 12 is a front and side view of one of the legs of the same separately.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures.
In carrying out this invention each of the two cross limbs of the scissors has a
cutting blade part (which two cutting blade parts are marked respectively A¹ and A³)
made separate from the leg parts B1 B2 with which latter the eye or bow 61 is
formed, and the two blades A' A' and legs B' B' are all connected together by the
same cross rivet C the blades A' A' being between the legs B' B so that the
blades can be folded between the legs by opening out the legs B' B' and turning
each of them through a semi-circle in opposite directions as indicated by the
arrows in Fig. 1. Each of the two cutting blade parts A' A' of the limbs is
continued back for some little distance at a¹ beyond the rivet C between the
two legs B B and is there made with a side projection a' which takes against the
inner edge 6 of the corresponding leg when the scissors are open ready for use as
shewn in Fig. 1. Each of the legs B B has also a spring tongue extension
marked respectively D' D' which correspond with each other in shape and size and
one of which is shewn separately by Fig. 9. These spring tongue extensions D¹ D'
are fixed outside the legs B1 B2 by being threaded on the cross rivet C and by a
projection on the outer face of the leg engaging in a notch d' in the corre-
sponding spring tongue D' or D. The outer parts d2 of these spring tongues D'D'
press against the outer faces of the blades A¹ A' and tend to press the blades
together so that a clean and perfect cut by the blades is ensured. The spring
tongue D is made to engage with its corresponding blade A¹ and the spring
tongue D is similaily made to engage with its corresponding blade A2 by making
the tongue with a projecting pip d² which snaps into a hole a³ in the face of the
blade A' or A' and thus, with the above mentioned projection a² on the backward
continuation a¹ of the blade taking against the side edge of the leg, locks the

page_text: leg B' to the blade A¹, and also the leg B' to the blade A³ as shewn in Figs. 1
and 2 when the scissors are open ready for use.
To fold the scissors for the pocket the legs B1 B2 have to be turned out on the
cross rivet or joint C in the direction indicated by the arrows in Fig. 1 until the
further opening of the blades A' A' will be prevented by the blade A' coming in
contact with the projection a' on the other blade A'. As the further turning
movement of the legs B' B' about the cross rivet C is continued without the
blades A A² the small projections d³ of the springs D1 D2 spring out of the
holes a in the blades A' A' and the side projecting hook formed on each of
the legs B B comes in contact, as shewn in Fig. 3, with the outer edge of the
blade belonging to the other leg and thus closes the blades together where they
will lie between and be protected by the two legs B' B' when the scissors are
closed as shewn in Figs. 5 and 6.
To open the scissors ready for use it is only necessary to turn both the legs
through almost a semi-circle in the opposite directions as indicated by the arrows
in Fig. 5 when each leg will first leave the blade belonging to the other leg and
then be locked to the corresponding blade as above described and shewn in Figs. I
and 2. The small projection at on the face of the blade A' (shewn in Fig. 1).
serves as a stop by coming into contact with the edge of the blade A' and prevents
the blades closing too far when the cut is being made.
Each of the spring tongues may if preferred be made in a piece with its
corresponding leg instead of being made separate therefrom as above described.
This modification of our invention is illustrated by Figs. 10, 11 and 12 where it
will be seen that each of the legs B' B is extended at D' D' beyond the rivet C
each of these extensions having the projecting pip d³ to engage in the holes a³ in
the blades A¹ A2 and secure each of the blades to its corresponding leg similarly
as above described with reference to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
:―
1. In a folding or pocket scissors provided with two blades and two legs mounted'
on the same rivet so that the blades will either fold between the legs or open out
therefrom, providing each of the said legs with a spring tongue extension adapted
to press the blades together and engage with the corresponding blade when the
scissors are open for use and be disengaged therefrom in the act of folding the
scissors substantially as herein before set forth.
2. In a folding or pocket scissors provided with two blades and two legs mounted
on the same cross rivet so that the blades will either fold between the legs or open
out therefrom, providing each of the said legs with a spring tongue extension
adapted to press the blades together and engage with the corresponding blade
when the scissors are open for use and be disengaged therefrom on the act of
folding the scissors, in combination with a backward extension a' of each of the
blades made with a side projection to take against the inner edge of the corre-
sponding leg to support the blade when cutting, substantially as hereinbefore set
forth.
3. In a folding or pocket scissors provided with two blades and two legs mounted
on the same cross rivet so that the blades will either fold between the legs or open
out therefrom, providing each of the said legs with a side projecting hook adapted
to come in contact with the outer edge of the blade belonging to the other leg
when the scissors are being closed and thus close the blades together to lie
between the legs, substantially as hereinhefore set forth.
4. In a folding or pocket scissors provided with two blades and two legs mounted
on the same cross rivet so that the blades will either fold between the legs or open
out therefrom, providing on the said cross rivet outside the legs two springs plates
which form the spring tongue extensions of the legs and engage with the blades
and press the blades together when the scissors are open for use and are disengaged

page_text: therefrom in the act of folding the scissors, substantially as hereinbefore set
forth.
5. In a folding or pocket scissors provided with two blades and two legs mounted
on the same cross rivet so that the blades will either fold between the legs or open
out therefrom, the combination of the spring plates D' D arranged on the same
cross rivet outside the legs to press the blades together and secured to the corre-
sponding leg by a projection 63, on the leg engaging with a notch in the spring
tongue extension the latter having a projecting pip d' which snaps into a hole a³
in the corresponding blade when the scissors are open out for use and springs out
of the said hole in the act of closing the scissors, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
6. A folding or pocket scissors constructed and arranged substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by Figs. 1 to 9 of the accompanying
drawings.
7. A folding or pocket scissors constructed and arranged substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 10, 11 and 12 of the accompanying
drawings.
י
1000
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.