AN IMPROVED APPARATUS OR INSTRUMENT FOR CLIPPING OR SHEARING THE HAIR OF HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS." PROAL
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Salom Henry Salom, of Regent Street, Optician,
and Thomas Field, of Vine Street, Westminster, Machinist, both
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS OR INSTRUMENT FOR CLIPPING OR SHEARING THE HAIR OF HORSES
AND OTHER ANIMALS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Salom Henry Salom
and Thomas Field at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 13th March 1868.
We, SALOM HENRY SALOM, of Regent Street, Optician, and THOMAS
FIELD, of Vine Street, Westminster, Machinist, both in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED APPARATUS OR INSTRUMENT FOR CLIPPING OR SHEARING THE HAIR
OF HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS," to be as follows, that is to say: -
We take a segmental plate of steel or other suitable material having
its periphery (the front) serrated so as to form a comb the teeth of
which radiate from the centre or centres of the plate, one side of which

page_text: terminates in a handle so as to support it when in use. Fixed upon
the centre of the comb plate so as to turn freely is an arm of metal or
other suitable material, one end of which terminates in a handle; the
other end which stretches towards the teeth of the comb terminates in
a hollow socket. Within the socket we fix a knife of a spear shape, the
edges on each side sharpened, and the under surface ground so as to
move smoothly over the upper face of the comb plate, the apex of the
knife reaching to within a short space of the outer ends of the teeth.
The comb being applied to the skin of a horse or other animal will
divide and raise the hair, which will enter between the teeth, and the
small arm being made to rotate backwards and forwards the knife will
cut the hair which stands between the teeth of the comb.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Salom Henry Salom and Thomas Field in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th September 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SALOM
HENRY SALOM, of Regent Street, Optician, and THOMAS FIELD, of
Vine Street, Westminster, both in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Salom Henry Salom and Thomas Field,
Her special licence that we, the said Salom Henry Salom and Thomas
Field, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we,
the said Salom Henry Salom and Thomas Field, 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 "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS OR INSTRUMENT FOR CLIPPING OR SHEARING THE HAIR OF HORSES AND
OTHER ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Salom Henry Salom and Thomas Field, our executors or

page_text: administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, 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 im-
mediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Salom Henry Salom and Thomas
Field, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say:-
Our Invention consists of a segmental shaped metallic plate, the
periphery of which is cut so as to form a series of radiating teeth
resembling a comb. Upon the surface we fix a shank or handle
made so as to rotate or oscillate upon a centre pin; the one end of
this handle is formed with a socket, and into the socket we fix a
metallic knife or cutter, so that when the handle is moved it -will
carry the cutter or knife in a plane parallel to the comb plate, the
edge of the knife passing over the face of the teeth of the comb, so
that the substance required to be cut between the teeth would be
clipped or sheared by the knife in its passage right and left. The
comb being applied to the skin of any animal the hair or wool is
raised and passes between the teeth and the knife, being caused to
rotate over the teeth, cuts, clips, or shears the hair or wool. A
handle is attached to the comb for the greater convenience of handling
it during the operation.
In order more clearly to illustrate the nature of our Invention, and
how the same is constructed and acts, we have appended to this
description the accompanying Drawings, which shew the mode of
forming and actuating the same.
Figure 1 is a plan of our instrument, and Figure 2 is a side view
of the same.
a is the metallic segmental plate having the radiating teeth b, b,
shaped so as to form the comb; c, the handle attached for convenience
in holding it; d is the radiating handle centered and turning upon
pin x, having its end e formed with a socket, into which the knife
or cutter fis inserted and held by the nipping and tightening screw g,
the face h, h, of the comb being brought to a cutting edge; i, j, are

page_text: studs to regulate the throw of the knife, the stud j being screwed
into the plate a in such a manner that it can be quickly and easily
removed, and permit the full sweep of the cutter f beyond the edge
of the steel plate a, when the cutter f can be quickly removed if
blunt and in its place a fresh cutter substituted. The comb being
applied to the hide of an animal the teeth pass between the hair or
wool, raising and separating it; the knife f is then caused to rotate
from right to left or left to right and cuts or shears away the hair
or wool between the teeth of the comb..
Figure 3 represents another form of radiating handle and cutter.
Having now described the nature of our Invention, and how the
same is formed and acts, we wish it understood that what we claim
and wish secured by the before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
combination of the curved metallic comb with the rotating knife
or cutter to be applied for the purpose of clipping or shearing the
hair of horses and other animals, substantially as here-within described
and set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Salom Henry Salom and Thomas
Field, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifth day of
· September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.