Year: 1896

page_text: I, ALBERT LLOYD of No. 60, Graham Street, City of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to the improvements hereinafter described in scissors and has
for its object to provide a simple arrangement whereby scissors may be made much
cheaper than heretofore.
My invention consists essentially in making a pair of scissors from a blank of sheet
metal by means of suitable tools.
In carrying my invention into practice I provide two suitably shaped metallic
blanks preferably sheet steel, one end of the said blanks is shaped into the form of a
scissor blade terminating into a narrow tang. I pierce the said blanks with holes to
receive the rivet to form the joint. A little distance below the said holes and where
the set-off of the tang commences I form a twist in the metal which brings the flat
part of the tang at right angles to the blade the said flat part is bent into the
form of a loop thus forming a complete scissor blade. The two blades when rivetted
together constitute a pair of scissors.
Dated this 11th date of Contember 1906
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.
I, ALBERT LLOYD of No. 60 Graham Street, City of Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturer 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 relates to the improvements hereinafter described in scissors and
has for its object to provide a simple arrangement whereby scissors may be made
much cheaper than heretofore. My invention consists essentially in making a pair
of scissors from a blank of sheet metal or wire by suitable tools. In carrying my
invention into practice I provide two suitably shaped metallic blanks preferably
sheet steel though in some cases I may use wire, one end of the said blanks is
shaped into the form of a scissor blade terminating into a narrow tang. I pierce
the said blanks with holes to receive the rivet to form the joint. A little distance
below the said holes and where the set off of the tang commences I form a twist.
in the metal which brings the flat part of the tang at right angles to the blade
this said flat part is bent into the form of a loop thus forming a complete scissor
blade. The two blades when rivetted together constitute a pair of scissors.

page_text: The nature of my invention will be more clearly understood from the accompanying
drawings the same letters of reference indicating similar parts throughout.
Figures 1 and 2 represent a front and side elevation of a pair of scissors made in
accordance with my invention.
Figure 3 shows in front and side elevation a blank shaped to form the scissor blade
which may be cut by suitable tools from sheet steel or the same may be made from a
length of flat or other suitable section of wire, the part A forming the scissor blade
and the tang B the loop.
Figure 4 shows similar views of the same blanks after being further operated on,
the hole C is pierced to receive the rivet, the blank is twisted as shown at D to give
strength and rigidity to the scissors, the same operation also causes the flat part of the
tang to be brought at right angles to form the loop E.
Figure 5 which is so formed by a further operation, the other half of the scissor
blade is formed in a similar manner, the two being rivetted together by means of the
holes C as shown in Figures 1 and 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improved scissors made from a sheet of metal or wire blank substantially as
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 27th day of January 1897
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant,