AN IMPROVEMENT IN SCISSORS AND SHEARS
Year: 1884

page_text: I EDWARD NUNAN of 166 Fleet Street, London, Gentleman, do hereby declaro
the nature of my said invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN SCISSORS AND SHEARS,"
to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to construct and arrange the blades of scissors and
shears with the pivot pin at or near to the outer ends and out of the line of the
cutting edge or edges so that the blade or blades shall have a sliding action for
cutting purposes.
According to my invention I make each blade with the outer end at right or
other angle from the cutting edge or edges and pivot them at some part of the
angled ends so that when the handle ends are brought towards each other tho
blades or one of them only slide and effect the cut.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
"
I EDWARD NUNAN of 166 Fleet Street, London, Gentleman, do hereby declare
the nature of my said invention for AN IMPROVEMENT IN SCISSORS AND SHEARS,"
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
The object of this invention is to construct and arrange the blades of scissors
and shears with the pivot pin at or near to the outer ends and out of the line of

page_text: the cutting edge or edges so that the blade or blades shall have a sliding action for
cutting purposes.
For the purpose of my invention which is clearly shown in the annexed sheet of
drawings I make cach blade A B Figure 1 with the outer ends C C at right angles
and pin or rivet joint them together at D so that the cutting edge of the blade A
moves with a sliding action along the edge of the blade B when the handles E, E,
are brought towards each other in the act of cutting and sever the material with a
perfectly clean cut for the full length of the blades, the cut being effected in an
opposite direction from that obtained by an ordinary pair of scissors until one
blade passes the other as indicated at Figure 2.
These scissors are specially adapted for trimming lamp wicks, the action being
more easy on account of the leverage, and more certain because of the guillotine or
sliding movements of the blades, there being no tendency to pucker the wick whilo
trimming it.
Figures 3 and 4 represent a pair of shears with the blades A, B, similarly
-arranged but provided with long handles E, E, the blade B being formed as a spur
or offshoot of the rod F so that a cutting action may take place towards the operator
as with tho scissors shown at Figures 1 and 2."
_ These shears are particularly adapted for trimming the edges of grass lawns the
point of the blade B under running the grass while the other blade A severs it.
The shears can also be used for clipping hedge-rows within reach of the operator
but the handles EE may be of any length and when lopping of trees has to be
effected I make the handle rod G of any desired length and curve the other rod F
as at Figure_5_and_attach_a_spring H to open the blades A B the closing of the
blades-for-cutting-purposes-being effected_by_a_pull_on_the_cord_or_it_may_be_a_
rod. J.
Figure 6 shows a modification of Figure 5 having a toothed blade A for lopping
branches of various sizes. Figure 7 represents scissors or shears similar to those
shown at Figures 3 and 4 but having a slot K and pin L for regulating the extent
-of-opening-and-closing-of-the-sbears.--Figure-8-is-a-modified-arrangement with
compound blade-A the several faces-a-a-a-of which cut in succession..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner-the-same-is-to-be-performed-I-declare-that-what-
I claim is
Constructing scissors and shears as described the blades being pivot jointed at
their outer ends and out of the line of the cutting edges as shown in the annexed
drawings.