IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR, PROVISIONAL
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Walter More, of Market Street, Finsbury,
and John Norman, of Hoxton Square, both in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Walter More
and John Norman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 17th January 1872.
We, JOHN WALTER MORE, of Market Street, Finsbury, and JOHN
NORMAN, of Hoxton Square, both in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS
OR APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS," to be as
follows:-
For this purpose we employ as heretofore two combs, one of which is
fixed rigidly to a handle whilst the other is provided with guide slots to
work on studs or pins projecting from the fixed or bottom comb, but

page_text: instead of operating such moveable or upper comb direct by a lever
handle having a pin working in a slot or opening therein, we connect
such lever handle to one end of a link, the other end of which is pin
jointed to the upper or moveable comb.
The fixed handle is connected to the bottom or fixed comb at or near
one side thereof, and the moveable handle works on a pin fixed at or
near the other side of such bottom comb, whilst the link connecting the
movcable handle to the upper or moveable comb works by preference
between the two combs and is made long enough to extend from end to
end thereof. By these means we are enabled to prevent all jarring
between the moveable handle and its connection with the upper or
moveable comb, and thereby prevent undue wear of such parts.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Walter More and John Norman in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
WALTER MORE, of Market Strect, Finsbury, and JOHN NORMAN, of
Hoxton Square, both in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said John Walter More and John Norman,
Her special licence that we, the said John Walter More and John
Norman, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said John Walter More and John Norman, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MEANS OR APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said John Walter More and
John Norman, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in

page_text: writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and
seal of one of us or them, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the. Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Norman, on behalf of
myself and the said John Walter More, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
For this purpose we employ as heretofore two combs, one of which is
fixed rigidly to a handle whilst the other is provided with guide slots to
work on studs or pins projecting from the fixed or bottom comb, but
instead of operating such moveable or upper comb direct by a lever
handle having a pin working in a slot or opening therein, we connect
such lever handle to one end of a link the other end of which is pin
jointed to the upper or moveable comb.
The fixed handle is connected to the bottom or fixed comb at or near
one side thereof, and the moveable handle works on a pin fixed at or
near the other side of such bottom comb, whilst the link connecting the
moveable handle to the upper or moveable comb is made long enough to
extend from end to end thereof. By these means we are enabled to
prevent all jarring between the moveable handle and its connection
with the upper or moveable comb, and thereby prevent undue wear of
such parts.
And in order that our said Invention may be more clearly under-
stood and readily carried into effect, we will proceed aided by the
accompanying Drawings more fully to describe the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan, and Figure 2 is a sectional view of a horse clipper
having our improvements applied thereto.
a is the bottom comb which has the handle b rigidly fixed thereto;
c is the upper or moveable comb plate which is provided with slots and

page_text: heretofore. Instead however of operating the moveable comb plate c by
a lever handle working in a slot or opening therein, as usual, we fix in
such comb plate c a pin or stud c², on which is mounted one end of a
link d the other end of which is mounted on a pin or stud e³ carried by
the lever handle e which is mounted on an axis e³, as shown. The studs
c¹, e¹, are formed with flat sides to fit their corresponding washers and
thereby prevent the nuts becoming loose by the motion of the parts.
The lever handle e has a prolongation e³ which works between the two
comb plates a and c and thereby prevents such lever e from working
loose upon its axis. If desired the link d may be placed between the
two comb plates a and c, but since filing our Provisional Specification
we have found that to do so gives rise to difficulties in manufacture, we
therefore prefer the arrangement shown in the accompanying Drawings.
The comb plate c has a piece cut out therefrom to permit of the lever
handle e working freely.
If desired the handles may be fixed at or near the centre of the comb
plate a, the link d being made of a suitable length.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the mode
in which we carry the same into effect, we would have it understood
that what we claim in means or apparatus for clipping horses and other
animals is, the employment of a link to connect the moveable comb
plate to the lever handle in manner and for the purpose substantially as
herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Norman, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.