US1585927A - Scissors gauge - Google Patents

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May 25 192.6. 1,585,927

. F. J. LEWIS SCISSORS GAUGE Filed June 13 1923 Patented May 25 1926.

UNITED STATES FRANK J. LEWIS, OF WINNER, SOUTH DAKOTA.

SCISSORS GAUGE.

Application filed June 13, 1923.

This invention relates to scissors gauges, and particularly to a device adapted to hold scissors while being honed or otherwise sharpened; the said invention having for an object the provision of novel means whereby both blades are held in certain position with relation to each other, the blade not being treated being held against independ ent movement with relation to the blade under treatment.

An object of this invention is to provide a novel clamp and gauge adapted for use in connection with scissors of different sizes, within predetermined bounds, novel means being provided also for permitting an adjustment of the handle with relation to the clamp in order that the device may be set to present the blade being treated so that the proper bevel will be formed on the blade.

It is a further object of this invention to produce a clamp of the character indicated comprising jaws and a connection for the handle having a one-piece structure, and as sociated with a handle and a clamping screw that will prove efficient and satisfactory in use and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 illustrates a plan view of the scissors gauge embodying the invention with the scissors applied thereto;

Figure 2 illustrates a plan view thereof with a fragment of the handle omitted, with the scissors disconnected therefrom; and

Figure 3 illustrates a view in side elevation of the device.

In the present embodiment of the invention, the clamping element consists of two integral and coacting jaws 5 and 6, the former of which has a recess 7 in its end forming a clearance for the head of the screw or pivot 8 on which the scissors blades are mounted.

The jaw 6 is bifurcated and extends outwardly across the jaw 5 in order that the furcations 9 and 10 may overlie a blade of Serial No. 645,113.

the scissors to clamp it into engagement with T 5 The jaws being integral are preferably 57 formed of rather rigid though resilient material in order that the jaws may be opened when the clamping screw is released, to free the blade, as will presently appear.

The jaws are forced together by reason i of the fact that a bolt 11 extends through apertures 12 and 13 in the respective jaws, and preferably, a wing nut 14 is threaded on the bolt and it serves to force the jaws into engagement with the blade of the scissors, it being understood that when the nut is backed, the spring action of the metal from which the jaws are formed will serve to separate the jaws.

An ear 15 is formed integral with the jaws and is preferably bent downwardly parallel with the bolt. The ear has an aperture for the reception of a screw 16 on which a handle 17 is oscillatably mounted, the said handle preferably being formed of fiat metal hav ing a quarter-turn between its ends in order that that portion of the handle which is connected to the car will lie parallel with the ear and the handle portion will extend at right angles thereto.

The handle terminates in an angularly disposed portion 18 having a foot 19 which will serve as a support for the handle, if it is desired to reciprocate the foot on a plane surface in order to maintain the blade at a proper angle with respect to the abrading material over which it is moved.

The device in the present embodiment of the invention is shown as having been constructed from sheet metal, and it will be obvious that the device can be made almost wholly by the stamping process; therefore, the cost of manufacture. will be comparatively small, as stated.

I claim:

1. In a scissors gauge, coacting integral jaws, one of which is bifurcated, the furcations of the one jaw extending across the other jaw and being adapted to clamp a scissors blade between them, means for moving the clamping jaws toward each other and holding them in said adjusted position, a handle, and means for pivotally connecting the handle to the aws.

2. In a scissors gauge, coacting integral jaws, one of which is bifurcated, the furcations of the one jaw extending across the other jaw and being adapted to clamp a scissors blade between them, means for moving the jaws toward each other and holding them in said adjusted position, a handle, an ear integral with the jaws, and means for pivotally connecting the handle to the ear.

3. In a scissors gauge, a pair of integral jaws which cross at right angles, one of which has a recess in its end forming a clearance for one of the blades of scissors, the other of said jaws being bifurcated and the furcations thereof extending across the first mentioned jaw, means for forcing the jaws in contact with an object to be held, and a handle pivotally and adjustably connected to the said jaws.

4. In a scissors gauge, a pair of integral jaws, one of which has a recess in itsend forming a clearance, the other of said jaws being bifurcated and the furcations thereof extending across the first mentioned jaw, means for forcing the jaws in contact with an object to be held, an ear formed integral with one of the said jaws and extending therefron' toward the opposite jaw, and a handle pivotally and adjustably connected to the said ear.

In a scissors gauge, a pair of jaws, one of which extends over the other, one of said jaws having a bifurcated end adapted to lie on a blade of scissors with the other blade of the scissors in the space between furca tions of the jaw, means for forcing the jaw which cooperates with the bifurcated jaw into engagen' ient with the blade whose sur face is engaged by the bifurcated jaw, and a handle connected to the said jaws.

6. In a scissors gauge, a pair of integral jaws, one of which has a recess in its end forming a clearance, the other of said jaws being bifurcated and adapted to lie on the surface of a blade of a scissors and arranged with its furcations engaging the edges of the other blade of the scissors, means for forcing the aws into contact with the blade whose surface is engaged by the bifurcated jaw, and a handle connected to said aws.

FRANK J. LEIVIS.

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