Improved Form of Instrument for Cutting Purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd June, 1894-Accepted, 28th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Form of Instrument for Cutting Purposes.
I, JAMES ERNEST ARNOLD of the Firm of Arnold & Sons Instrument
Manufacturers of West Smithfield London, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This instrument is particularly applicable for docking or evenly cutting horses
tails or for various operations on animals. I make this instrument with a number
of cutters or teeth, preferably curved and in the form of scissors or shears and by
fixing the blades together by a nut screw or other fastening at the extreme end,
greater leverage is obtained and whatever substance is required to be cut, can be so
done with the greatest ease. Hitherto scissors usually used for the purpose of
cutting horses tails have been found to slip and cut unevenly and my invention
destroys all possibility of slipping or uneven cutting.
Dated this 17th day of October 1893.
P.p. JAS. E. ARNOLD,
W. Olivier.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Form of Instrument for Cutting Purposes.
JAMES ERNEST ARNOLD of the Firm of Arnold & Sons Surgical Instrument
Manufacturers 31, West Smithfield, London E.C. 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 instrument is particularly applicable for docking or evenly cutting horses
tails, or for various operations on animals: it may also be used for many surgical
operations.
I make this instrument of steel or other suitable material, the blades and
handles are in two pieces, united by a screw and nut, the end of the handles having
a pair of hafts, of wood or other suitable material.
The blades or cutting part, marked A. A. in the drawing annexed, are curved
and furnished with teeth: the shape of the blades combined with the teeth prevent
the possibility of any substance such as hair or skin escaping their action; a clean
cut is therefore in all cases ensured.
The blades are joined together by a screw and nut marked B. in the drawings
annexed. These blades overlap each other when the operator presses together the
handles, marked C. C. in the drawing annexed, thus preventing any substance
between the blades being passed or escaping. The handles, which have hafts at the
ends, being of such a length as to enable the operator to make the cut with the
greatest possible ease and expedition: the hafts on the handles are to give firmness
of grip.
The operator should adjust the object to be cut between the curved blades, then
sharply press the handles close together; the curve of the blades presses every
yielding substance to the centre and the teeth prevent the same from slipping or
escaping, and, as the blades when closed considerably overlap each other, the
severance of the parts operated upon is clean and complete.

page_text: 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
1. The shape and formation of the blades as described.
2. The construction of the instrument for the purposes herein before enumerated.
Dated this 22nd day of June 1894.
JAMES ERNEST ARNOLD.