Improvements in and relating to Scissors.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1895--Accepted, 20th July, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Scissors.
We, MORITZ JACOB of 26 Schulzeudorfer Strasse, Merchant, and RICHARD
ELOESSER of 58, Spandauer Strasse, Merchant, both of Berlin, in the Kingdom of
Prussia, German Empire, 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 scissors intended to be used for cutting a great number
of layers of stuff at a time without requiring an undue exertion of the hand; we
attain that purpose by forming one of the handles as a foot so as to enable the
scissors to be put in upright position upon a table (the longitudinal axis of the
scissors being then parallel to said table), and by providing said handle with an
arm carrying a support for the thumb of the hand. We prefer to arrange said
support in such a height, that it is on a level with the other handle of the scissors,
if the scissors are opened to their normal degree.
In order to make our invention more clear, we refer to the accompanying
drawing, in which similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the different
figures, and in which:
Figure 1 is a side-view of our improved scissors, the latter being in position to
receive the layers of stuff to be cut, and
Figure 2 is an upper-view of the same, the upper handle and the arm of the
thumb-support being cut away.
Figure 3 is a rear-view of the thumb-rest C, and of the end of the handle B'.
The handle A of the blade A is formed to, or furnished with, a foot A², that
may be of any desired configuration, provided, the scissors can thereby be held in
an upright position as stated in the preamble. The handle A', or the foot A²
respectively, is provided with the arm A³, to the upper end of which is hinged the
thumb-support C. B is the other blade, and B' the handle of the same; both the
blades with their handles are connected by the bolt D. The handle B' is
the handle proper of our improved scissors, whilst the handle A' A' is used solely
as a foot.
In using the scissors, the thumb of the right hand is placed into, or upon, the
support C, whilst the hand proper clasps the handle B¹. As said support is on a
level with said handle, when the scissors are duly open, there is thus that distinctive
peculiarity of our improved scissors with regard to the ordinary ones, that in the
fatter the hand is open when the scissors are open, and, consequently, is closed
when the scissors are closed, whilst in our improved scissors the blades are open
when the hand is closed.
In order to close our improved scissors, and to cut the several superposed layers
of stuff put between the blades of the same, there may be used not the force of the
hand only, but that of the whole arm, afforded by pressure from the palm upon the
handle B and the scissors may, further, be opened considerably farther than
ordinary ones, the latter requiring therefor a greater consumption of power.
Having now particularly described the nature of our said invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :-
1. Scissors having one of their handles formed into a foot adapted to support the
scissors in upright position, for the purpose as described.

page_text: 2. Scissors having one of their handles formed into a foot adapted to support the
scissors in upright position, said handle or foot carrying an arm adapted to support
the thumb of the operator's hand, for the purpose as described.
3. Scissors having one of their handles formed into a foot adapted to support the
scissors in upright position, said handle or foot carrying an arm holding a movable
support for the thumb of the operator's hand, for the purpose as described.
Dated this 17th day of May 1895.
MORITZ JACOB,
RICHARD ELOESSER,
By Geo. Thos. Hyde,
1 Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.