An Improved Device or Apparatus for Sharpening the Blades of Scissors, Shears, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: UUD LEID DI DUIFICATION.
An Improved Device or Apparatus for Sharpening the Blades of
Scissors, Shears, and the like.
I NELSON LOOMIS WILLARD, of 22, Cochrane Street, St. John's Wood,
Louden, N.W. Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to a new or improved device, or apparatus, for sharpening
the blades of scissors, shears, and the like, and consists of a highly tempered steel
bar, rod, wire or needle, held or retained, within, upon, or otherwise, by a casing
or folding of metal, or other material, which, may or may not be arranged to
form, or carry, a plate or tablet, upon which the method of using the instrument
may be described, or any advertisement, decoration, design, or trademark, may be
written, printed, embossed, or otherwise provided thereon and I intend that
the said apparatus shall be commercially known, as the "Electric Scissor
Sharpener."
In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a few of the many ways in
which the steel bar or rod may be held or retained for the purposes of my
invention, but it would be next to impossible to therein show the endless number
of ways in which the retention of the said steel bar or rod may be effected, I
therefore wish it understood, that I do not confine myself to any particular method
or means of constructing a holder for the said bar, but what I desire to secure by
Letters Patent is the employment of a steel bar, rod, wire or needle in the
manner hereinafter described for sharpening the blades of scissors, shears, and
the like.
Figs. 1 and 2 are plan views of the two parts of which the device consists
according to one method of construction, the latter shewing the position of the
steel bar before Fig. 2 is folded.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of the complete apparatus when Fig. 2 is folded and
connected to Fig. 1 as hereinafter explained.
Fig. 4 is an end view of Fig. 3.
Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are views of alternative methods of constructing the said
apparatus, while Figs. 8 and 9, illustrate the manner of using the apparatus as
hereinafter explained.
In so far as regards Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4 I carry my invention into effect by
cutting out from very thin copper, brass, zinc, or other sheet metal a piece
preferably shaped as at A Fig. 2, in the centre of the length of which or there-
abouts place a steel bar, rod or needle B, so that when A is folded centrally,
B would be enclosed and held tightly thereby. One end of A is concave while
the other is convex, and when folded as stated I place between the said concave
and convex ends a cardboard, celluloid, or metal plate C, preferably formed as
at Fig. provided with recesses or notches D, D', and upon C may be printed,
embossed, or otherwise provided, the directions for using the apparatus or, and
any design, mark or advertisement desired. The plate C would be retained
within or between the folded piece B,.by bending over the points of the concave
end of A grasping the recesses or notches D, D', of and folded upon the convex
end of B as shewn in Figs. 3 and 4, when the instrument is complete.
As alternative methods I may employ a metallic, vulcanite, celluloid or other
plate E, in the side or end of which the bar, rod, or needle B may be fixed as
at Fig. 6, or upon the flat surface of same as at Fig. 7, or I may employ a wire

page_text: frame F, in the form of an elongated U, in the ends of which B would be fixed as
at Fig. 5, and the method of use is as follows.
The, or one of the projecting ends of the rod, bar, or needle B, would be placed
between the point of the scissors or shears G as at Fig. 8, when the apparatus
would be held firmly in the left hand and G be pushed towards B, in the direction
of the arrow Fig. 8, which would cause the edges of the blades of G to be brought
in sharp rubbing contact with B, and the blades to be opened thereby until B
reached the jointed ends of these as at Fig. 9, during which process and the
repetition of same for two or three times if required the edges of the blades would
be sharpened. This operation may and probably would cause a burr to be formed
upon the flat portion of the blades, and to remove this the said flat portion would
be placed flatwise upon B and be drawn once or twice therealong, when the said
burr would be removed and the cutting edge be thereby perfected.
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:
First. In an improved apparatus for sharpening the blades of scissors, shears
or the like, the employment of a steel rod, bar or needle placed between, by, or
upon any suitable device by which the same may be held and used substantially as
herein described.
Second. In an improved apparatus for sharpening the blades of scissors, shears,
and the like, the employment of a steel rod, bar, or needle B, placed between a folded
metallic plate A, retaining a cardboard, celluloid, metallic or other tablet C,
containing advertisement or other matter substantially as and for the purposes
-described and shewn by Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, of the accompanying drawings.
Third. In an improved apparatus for sharpening the blades of scissors, shears
or the like, the employment of a steel rod, bar, or needle B fixed upon the side or
end edges or flat surface of a plate E as at Figs. 6 and 7 or between the ends of a
wire frame F as at Fig. 5 substantially as and for the purposes herein described.
Dated this 1st day of March 1894.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.