CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS MANUFACTURE OF SCISSORS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hubert Sommelet, of Paris, in the French Empire,
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
MANUFACTURE OF SCISSORS."
IN THE
Sealed the 7th December 1860, and dated the 11th June 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hubert Sommelet at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on: the
11th June 1860.
I, HUBERT SOMMELET, of Paris, in the French Empire, Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS.
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SCISSORS," to be as follows:-
The distinguishing feature in my Invention consists in stamping by a blow
or blows in a hand press or under a pile hammer the blades and handles of
scissors while the metal from which they are made is hot. The process is as
follows: The two pieces for forming the scissors are first cut by ordinary
means of suitable shape; each piece is then forged or rather drawn out while.
hot to lengthen the part to form the blade in order to thin the end of the blade.
and give it the desired length, the blade being thinner than the other parts,
and generally pointed, could not be produced by cutting out without leaving.
an excess of metal which would affect the stamping and would cause great
waste. Upon the bed of a hand press or stamper a matrix or mould is fixed, the
sunk portions of which represent the half relief of the scissor blade and handle,

page_text: to be produced; the bottom of the stamp has fixed to it a similar die or mould
the sunk portions of which represent the blade and handle also in half
relief. When united the hollow portions in the moulds represent the precise
figure of the intended blade. The parts of the scissors after being prepared
as above are placed in an oven or furnace and as soon as they have attained
the temperature at which steel is forged they are removed one by one and
stamped in the moulds above named by means of one or more sharp blows
of a hand stamp for small scissors, or of a pile hammer for large scissors.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Hubert Sommelet in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th December 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HUBERT
SOMMELET, of Paris, in the French Empire, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Hubert Sommelet, Her special licence that I, the said Hubert Sommelet,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said.
Hubert Sommelet, my 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 Ircland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SCISSORS," upon the condition (amongst.
others) that I, the said Hubert Sommelet, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, 'that I, the said Hubert Sommelet, do hereby declare the:
nature of my 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed;
that is to say:-
J

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my improvements
in the manufacture of scissors,―
First, stamping by a blow or blows in a hand press or under a pile hammer
the blades and handles of scissors while the metal from which they are made
is hot in the manner herein-before described.
Second, the apparatus herein-before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawings by which the stamping of scissors is performed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hubert Sommelet, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of December, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty.
Witness,
CH. ARMENGAUD, Je. Ingr*. Civil,
Boulevard de. Strasbourg, No. 23,
à Paris.
H. SOMMELET. (L.S.)

page_text: The distinguishing feature in my Invention consists in stamping by a blow
or blows in a hand press or under a pile hammer the blades and handles of
scissors while the metal from which they are made is hot. The process is as
follows: The two pieces for forming the scissors are first cut by ordinary
means of suitable shape; each piece is then forged or rather drawn out while
hot to lengthen the part to form the blade in order to thin the end of the blade
and give it the desired length; the blade being thinner than the other parts,
and generally pointed, could not be produced by cutting out without leaving
an excess of metal which would affect the stamping, and would cause great
waste. Upon the bed of a hand press or stamper a matrix or mould is fixed the
sunk portions of which represent the half relief of the scissor blade and handle
to be produced; the bottom of the stamp has fixed to it a similar die or mould;
the sunk portions of which represent, the blade and handle also in half
relief. When united the hollow portions in the moulds represent the precise
figure of the intended blade. The parts of the scissors after being prepared
as above are placed in an oven or furnace, and as soon as they have attained
the temperature at which steel is forged they are removed one by one and
stamped in the moulds above named by means of one or more sharp blows
of a hand stamp for small scissors, or of a pile hammer for large, scissors.
The accompanying Drawings illustrate the manner in which I carry my
Invention into effect, but only showing the working parts of the apparatus.
Figure 1 is an elevation of the apparatus, and Figure 2 is a horizontal
section through the line 1, 2, of Figure 1. A is a lower matrix or mould
fixed to a bed plate by four screws D, D, so that its position may be regulated
as required to make it correspond with the upper matrix A', fixed in the
dovetail beneath the press or pile hammer M. B, B, are two guides on which
the hammer M slides; these guides are fixed to the uprights C, C. The
parallelism of the guides B, B, is maintained as well as the necessary play of
the hammer by means of the screws E, E, which, screwing into the uprights
C, C, abut against the aforesaid guides. The apparatus shewn in the Drawing
is only available for articles of small size; its arrangement, however, can be
modified; a balance lever can, for example, be employed; but for stronger
scissors I employ a press or pile hammer worked by steam, hydraulic, or other
power. The apparatus is then arranged in a similar manner to that of forged
hammers, or may be modified according to the work the hammer is required
to do. The supports which serve at the same time as slides in ordinary
hammers in this case are simply used as supports for the steam cylinder.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what