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Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
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FOR ULIPPINUT OK SHEARING
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ANIMALS. A communication from abroad by Messieurs Barigaand and Sony
Di Tronco
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Alexander Melville. Clark at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents ou the 29th April 1881.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent. IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING OR
SHEARING HORSES, SHEEP, AND OTHER ANIMALS."
by Messieurs Bariquand and Son, of Paris, France.
A communication from abroad
This Invention relates to improvements in apparatus or instruments for clipping
or shearing horses, sheep, and other animals, and for other like purposes, and it
has for its object to enable the clipper to be readily adjusted for use either as an
ordinary clipper, that is to say, a clipper in which the handles are perpendicular
to the line of motion of the cutter plate, or as a side clipper, or one in which the
handles are parallel or thereabouts to the movement of the cutter plate. To this
end the operating levers are made in two parts, and the two parts jointed together
in such a way that they may be rigidly united in either of two positions, as
hereafter described.
In order that the Invention may be readily understood I have illustrated it in
the accompanying Drawing as applied to a horse clipper by way of example, but
I would have it understood that the Invention is also applicable to clippers or
shearers for other animals. Figure 1 is a top view of the cutting plates of a clipper
provided with adjustable levers, the adjustable portions of the levers being
removed, and showing their connections with the cutter plates; Figure 2 is a top
view of the clipper arranged as an ordinary clipper; Figure 3 is a similar view
of the same clipper arranged as a side clipper; Figure 4 shows separately the
connections of the levers with the cutter plates; and Figure 5 shows upper, under,
and edge views of the ends of the levers for connection with the parts shown in
Figure 4.

page_text: As the cutting parts of the instrument present no features of novelty it is
unnecessary to describe them in detail. They may be constructed according to
any of the systems in general use. I will therefore coufine the description to the
improved construction of the levers.
The two levers are constructed each in two parts a, b, and a¹, 61, respectively,
the parts a, a¹, being respectively connected to the upper and under cutter plates,
and the parts b, 61, being adjustably attached to the parts a, a', either by being
connected thereto in such a way as to be separable therefrom, or by being hinged
thereto or otherwise, so as to admit of their being fixed in either of the two relative
positions herein described.
The parts a, a, differ in form, as shown in Figure 4; the part is rigidly
attached to the under or comb plate, and the part a¹ pivots upon a stud at k, and
is connected with the upper or movable cutter plate at 7 in the way usual when
the levers are made in one piece.
The levers b, are provided with the usual handles e, and.they may be connected
with the parts a, a, as follows:-Each lever 7, 1, terminates in an ear provided
with a notch or slot f, which embraces a square stud e on the corresponding part a
and a', and with a lug y at the underside which enters one or other of two notches
d, d', formed at right angles to one another in each of the parts a,al. The studs a
are screw threaded to receive nuts, by which and washers the two partsya,:,b,
a, b, of each lever are secured rigidly together. When the lugs g, g, of the two
levers are placed in the notches d, d, as shown in Figure 2, and the nuts h
tightened; an ordinary clipper is formed; but by merely slackening the nuts and
shifting the levers 6, ', so as to place the lugs in the notches i, d', as shown
in Figure 3, and again tightening up the nuts, the clipper is converted into a side
clipper suitable for hair cutting.
it should be understood that I do not limit myself to the details of construction
herein described, as other methods of connecting the two parts of the levers may
be used, and they may even be hinged or jointed permanently together and locked
by pins in one or the other position.
:
Having described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what I claim as new and desire to secure by
Letters Patent is,-
:
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Ist. The improvement in clippers, herein described, consisting in constructing
the levers in two parts connected together either separably or permanently in such
manner as to enable them to be adjusted in either of two positions respectively.
perpendicular and parallel (or nearly so) to the line of motion of the reciprocating
cutter, whereby to convert an ordinary clipper into a side clipper as specified..
2nd. The application of the improvement, herein specified, to the Clark.
Newmarket, Adie, and other known forms of clipper, including sheep shearers and
hair cutters.
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3rd. The construction, arrangement, and combination of the parts of the. levers
of horse and other clippers, substantially as shown and describeil; for the purpose
specified.
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In witness whereof. I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have hereunto sei