Improvements in Scissors.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1898-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1898
Improvements in Scissors.
I, GEORG KURSCHUS, of Berlin, 19, Beussel Str., G I., Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
The essential idea of the present invention consists in the construction
of scissors, with which it is possible without the necessity of applying
further means, such as measures, to supply a garment with buttonholes in such
a manner that the same have a certain fixed distance between them and can also
be arranged a certain distance from the border of the cloth.
In the accompanying drawings which show by way of illustration the method
of carrying this invention into effect
Fig. 1 represents a top view of a pair of scissors constructed according to the
new invention applied to a piece of cloth.
Fig. 2 is a side view.
Fig. 3 a plan view.
Fig. 4 and 5 are details.
The construction of the new device will now be fully demonstrated and the way of
effecting the use of same clearly pointed out in the following.
A support a is attached to one of the scissor-blades just below the point where
both are detachably pivoted. A pivot 6 extends through said support which can
be displaced higher or lower and fastened by means of a clamp-screw c.
The end
of this pivot is arranged with a headpiece d the latter being penetrated and in
connection with a plate e. A wire or rod y bent in form of an angle extends
through the head & whereas a screw f serves as a means for laterally dislodging
and fastening the same.
The arm h of the rod formed in a right angle terminates in a flattened end 2
which after again being bent runs parallel with the blade of the scissors. A
set-screw k permits a regulation of the length of the buttonholes to be cut. The
distance of the buttonhole from the edge of the cloth being established by dis-
placing the pivot b, the edge of the cloth lies against e. After having cut a
buttonhole m in the cloth the scissors are removed and for the purpose of cutting
a second and third hole the flattened part i of the bent rod is placed into the
hole m just cut in which position the cloth also rests against e and which process
continued gives the possibility of cutting as many holes as desired without using
a measure of any kind. The length of the buttonhole is regulated by more or less
turning the screw k.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is:-
1) Improvements in scissors for cutting holes of certain length and situated a
certain distance from the border and apart without the use of a special measure
by applying a support through which a pivot extends the latter being screwed
higher or lower by a plate substantially as set forth.

page_text: 2) Improvement in scissors for cutting buttonholes of any desired length and
situated any desired distance apart without the use of a special measure by apply.
ing a head piece to a pivot and being connected to a plate e, which penetrated
head piece carries a wire or rod bent in form of an angle, which can be displaced
laterally dislodged and fastened by a set-screw and which wire or rod terminates
in a flattened end the same being again so bent so as to run paralell to the blade
of the scissors substantially as put forth.
3) Improvements in scissors consisting in a support, a pivot to be screwed
higher or lower by a plate, which pivot carries a head pice in connection with
a plate, a right-angular bent wire or rod laterally dislodgeable and to be fastened
by a setscrew, which rod terminates in a bent flattened end running parallel with
the scissors the shaft of which has a set-screw for the purpose of regulating the
length of the holes to be cut, substantially as put forth.
1000
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.