Improvements in and connected with Horse Clippers and analogous Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 6th June, 1896-Accepted, 11th July, 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Horse Clippers and analogous
Machines.
I DAVID HILLHOUSE of 5 Dalnottar Terrace Old Kilpatrick in the County of
Dumbarton North Britain Engineer 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 :-
This invention which relates to improvements in and connected with horse
clippers and analogous machines consists in substituting for the old fashioned
method of actuating by hand horse clippers presently in use an arrangement of
spur gearing to produce rotary motion which in order to actuate the cutting blades
is converted into a rectilinear motion by mechanism which I shall presently proceed
to describe.
To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and
use the same I have hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings in the
three figures of which corresponding parts are marked with the same letters of
reference.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a horse clipper made in accordance with and.
constituting my said invention.
Figure 2 is a horizontal section of the same taken on the line a and b, and
Figure 3 is a plan of the underside illustrating the spur gearing.
A is the driving wheel which has teeth cut on its inner circumference and these
teeth gear with those of a pinion B. By virtue of a crank handle C, motion is
imparted to the said wheel A, which, again, through, or by means of, the spindle D,.
on whose lower end the pinion B aforesaid is keyed or otherwise rigidly fixed, is
communicated with a quadruple speed to a crank dise E, and crank pin F, also
keyed upon the said spindle D. The motion thus produced being a circular or
rotary motion it is necessary to convert this into a rectilinear or oscillating motion
to give to the cutting blades G, the shearing action which is well known in this
class of machines. This I accomplish through the medium of a slotted link or
connecting rod H, and right angled extensions and h', seen more particularly in.
Figure 2. The said link H and extensions h, and h¹, are capable of no other motion
than the sliding horizontal motion indicated by the arrows (Figs. 1 and 2) and this
is determined by the two guides I and I'.
In effecting the proper working of the clipper, the left hand clasps the handle J,
which is elliptical in cross section and is so designed that the centre of gravity
passes therethrough, while the right hand rotates the driving wheel A, aforesaid,
with such facility that any person unaccustomed to the use of the old clipper may
soon become an adept in horse clipping by using one made in accordance with my
present invention.
It is to be understood that although I have only shown one way of carrying my
invention into practice I do not confine myself to this particular arrangement of end
driving to the exclusion of all other ways which lie within the scope of my
invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In horse clippers and analogous machines the arrangement of spur gearing to.

page_text: produce a rotary driving motion which is converted into a rectilinear motion in
order to give to the cutting blades or teeth the requisite shearing action substan-
tially as described and shown on the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 5th day of June 1896:
DAVID HILLHOUSE,
Applicant.