IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Bullows and Alfred Bullows, of Walsall,
in the County of Stafford, Malleable Ironfounders, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING HORSES AND OTHER
ANIMALS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Bullows and
Alfred Bullows at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 28th March 1873.
We, JOSEPH BULLOWS and ALFRED BULLOWs, of Walsall, in the
County of Stafford, Malleable Ironfounders, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING
HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS," to be as follows:--
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for
clipping horses and other animals. For this purpose we employ two
stout steel plates with teeth along their edges. These two plates are
held in contact by studs which are fixed in one of them and passing

page_text: through slotted holes in the other receive washers and screw nuts
beyond.
An eccentric which has a handle fixed to it is fitted into a circular
hole in one plate and it is able to turn about a stud or axis fixed in the
other plate. Another handle is fixed to the plate, in which is the stud
serving as the axis of the eccentric. By moving the two handles rapidly
to and from each other one plate is made to slide on the other with
a circular motoin, and any hair which may be standing between the
teeth of the plates is clipped off and the cutting action is more effective
than if the motion of the plates, the one on the other, were rectilinear.
The motion may extend over either one or two teeth.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Bullows and Alfred Bullows in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th September 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH ]
BULLOWS and ALFRED BULLOWS, of Walsall, in the County of Stafford,
Malleable Ironfounders, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in s
the thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Bullows and
Alfred Burrows, Her special license that we, the said Joseph Bullows
and Alfred Bullows, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said Joseph Bullows and Alfred Bullows, our
executors, administrators, 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 APPARATUS FOR CLIPPING HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS,” upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Joseph Bullows and
Alfred Bullows, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal

page_text: of one of us or them, 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 Joseph Bullows, on behalf of
myself and the said Alfred Bullows, 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 following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for
clipping horses and other animals. For this purpose we employ two
stout steel plates with teeth along their edges. These two plates are held
in contact by studs which are fixed in one of them and passing
through slotted holes in the other receive washers and screw nuts
beyond.
An eccentric which has an handle fixed to it is fitted into a circular
hole in one plate and it is able to turn about a stud or axis fixed in the
other plate. Another handle is fixed to the plate, in which is the stud
serving as the axis of the eccentric. By moving the handle affixed to
the upper plate rapidly to and from the other handle the upper plate is
made to slide on the lower one, and the hair standing between the teeth
is cut through. The motion may extend over either one or two teeth.
In order that our said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect we will proceed to describe the Drawings here-
unto annexed.

page_text: they do not come into contact; the lower plate has a stem a³ rivetted
to it by which it is fixed to the handle c. The plate b is held in contact
with the plate a by the studs a³, a³, which are fixed in the plate a and
pass through the slots 6', 6', in the plate 6, and receive the washers d, d,
and nuts ď, d¹, beyond. The plate 6 has a circular hole 6º in it into
which an eccentric e is received. This eccentric is secured to the plate a
by a stud a' fixed in the plate, it passss through the hole e' in the eccentric
and receives a nut fat its upper end. The stud a* forms an axis for
the eccentric. The eccentric e is formed in one piece with the stem e³,
shewn also in side view at Figure 4, and in under side view at Figure 5.
The stem terminates in a tang which is driven into the handle g.
The details of the construction of the apparatus may be varied but
the peculiarity of our Invention is in the use of an eccentric in the
manner described to cause one cutting plate to slide upon the other,
by which we obtain great strength and simplicity of construction, and
produce a curvilinear and oblique movement, and more or less of a
drawing motion of the cutting edges, the one along the other which
is more favorable to cutting than a direct rectilinear reciprocation, the
eccentric may be so set as obtain a more nearly direct reciprocation,
but the more oblique reciprocation is preferable.
What we claim is the construction of apparatus for clipping horses
and other animals, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Bullows, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
JOSEPH BULLOWS. (1.8)