IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CUTTING CHAMPAGNE WIRES AND OTHER SIMILAR WIRES
Year: 1884

page_text: We HENRY HAWKSLEY TAYLOR and GEORGE HAWKSLEY TAYLOR, both of The
Times Works, Love Street, Sheffield in the County of York Cutlery Manufacturers
do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR CUTTING CHAMPAGNE WIRES AND OTHER SIMILAR WIRES, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention relates to improvements in Apparatus, or what may be more
particularly described as pocket implements for cutting the wire of Champagne
and other bottles, and other wired articles; such apparatus or implements being
convenient to combine with what are known as Champagne Knives, being much
better adapted for the purpose mentioned than the Champagne Hooks now in
general use, and in order that our invention may be fully and clearly understood
we shall refer to the annexed sheet of drawings, in our description in which the
same letters of reference indicate the same or similar parts in all the figures.
Fig. 1, represents the apparatus or implement in combination with a pocket knife.
Fig. 2, a perspective view of the cutting parts.
Fig. 3, a view of the details.
Our improvements consist in the arrangement of a hooked cutter operated by a
long handle or lever, working on a fixed axis or fulcrum, the hooked cutter is
made to pass between two cutter-plates, and thus cuts or shears the wire that is
placed between them.
In carrying out our invention when applied to a Pocket Knife (for example) one
of which is illustrated in the sheet of drawings, we make the hooked cutter
preferably of steel, and so shaped and arranged as to be closed and shut up in the
knife in a most compact form, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. in the same
figure A represents the hook B the handle or lever of the cutter when open, O is
the pin or fulcrum upon which the cutter works, W is the wire about to be cut.
The inner faces of the scales D and E, should be of steel and hardened, or separate
cutter plates may be used, thus by pressing the lever B the hooked cutter presses
the wire W against the edges D, and E, and cuts it. To retain the cutting lever
in its place when closed, and to place it in a convenient position for use when

page_text: open, I use a catch G with a projecting thumb bit I, and a spring H. One end of
the spring acts against the hooked cutter just below the pin or fulcrum C, and the
other end of the spring retains the catch G in the position shown, see Fig. 3.
When closing the cutter, press back the thumb bit in the direction of the arrow,
and force the lever in as shown; when the thumb bit is again forced back the
action of the spring against the upper part of the lever causes it to fly out in the
position shown in Fig. 1.
The cutter instead of being fitted to and combined with a pocket knife may be
made a separate instrument by fitting it between two scales or cutter plates, or it
may be combined with other instruments, either with or without a retaining
catch.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
The Apparatus consisting of the hook A the lever B, working between the.
plates D, E, and the catch Ğ, for cutting the wires of champagne bottles, and other
wired articles, made either as a separate instrument or in combination with a knife.
or other article, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.
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