Patent ID: 8578612

Claim:
The invention of a new and improved fingernail and toenail clipper comprised of two cutting arms with cutting edges at one end and joined at tile other end where a cylindrical barrel is also attached to serve as a hinge joint; and wherein at the front end close to the cutting edges, a support and pivot pin penetrates through both cutting arms and extends out the top where it engages a loose primary actuating lever which is shaped to seat in a notch in the support and pivot pin allowing it to rotate around the support and pivot pin and to lie in a somewhat flat position on the top cutting arm when closed and to close the cutting edges when in the open position; and wherein the primary actuating lever has a sharp upward bend, when in the open position, just back of the support and pivot pin and it curves downward to end in a flat portion that is nearly parallel to the top cutting arm and ending at a point above the cutting arms; and wherein a second lever assembly rotates about a pin running through the lever assembly at its rear end and through the hinge joint at the end of the cutting arms; the second lever assembly includes a horizontally oriented thumb pad; and a horizontally-oriented roller sits on a shaft pin that spans the second lever assembly behind the thumb pad and resting on the primary actuating lever which passes under it.