IMPROVEMENTS IN SCISSORS
Year: 1872

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LETTERS PATENT to Franz Pigall, of No. 22, Tichborne Street, near
the County Fire Office, in the County of Middlesex, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SCISSORS."
Sealed the 9th May 1873, and dated the 26th November 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Franz Pigall at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th November 1872.
I, FRANZ PIGALL, of No. 22, Tichborne Street, near the County Fire
Office, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SCISSORS," to be as follows:—
This Invention has for its object improvements in scissors.
For scissors to be carried in the pocket or to fit into travelling dressing
cases, or wherever it is desirable that scissors should occupy as small a
space as possible, I make them with flexible bows which will fold down
flat against the shanks, and I form on the shanks stops to prevent the
blades crossing each other beyond the proper distance in closing. I
prefer to form the bows of flat metal chains jointed at each end to the

page_text: shank, or the bow may be jointed to the shank at one end only, and be
capable of being connected or disconnected at the other end by means of
a catch. The flexible bows may also be made of springs of metal, or it
may be of other material.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, t
filed by the said Franz Pigall in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th May 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANZ
PIGALL, of No. 22, Tichborne Street, near the County Fire Office, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of November, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in
the thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for, Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Franz Pigall, Her special
license that I, the said Franz Pigall, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Franz Pigall, my executors, admi-
nistrators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN SCISSORS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Franz Pigall, 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 Franz Pigall, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the

page_text: For scissors to be carried in the pocket or to fit into travelling dressing
cases, or wherever it is desirable that scissors should occupy as small a
space as possible, I make them with flexible bows which will fold down
flat against the shanks. I prefer to form the bows of metal chains
jointed at each end to the shank.
The annexed Drawings represent pairs of scissors constructed ac-
cording to my Invention.
The bows a, a, are of steel chain, and are jointed to the shanks
at a¹, a¹. When the scissors are closed the shanks b, b, abut on cach
other at 6', and stop the blades, so that they may not overlap each other
beyond the proper distance.
I claim the construction of scissors with flexible bows, substantially
as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Franz Pigall, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 19th day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
FRANZ PIGALL. (L.S.)
19th May 1873.