US2066757A - Scissors - Google Patents

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M. BAILEY SCISSORS Jan. 5 1937 Filed Aug. 20, 1936 Amman/ram EWILE Patented Jan. 5, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2 Claims.

This invention relates to scissors that are custornarily used for a certain class of work, such as ripping the light basting stitches, or basted seam,

or cutting threads, or trimming edges, or any similar light work in sewing or other needle work.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide scissors that can readily be retained in the hand while leaving the principal finger free for work.

Another object is to provide scissors that can' be operated, opened and closed, readily by the thumb and first finger.

Another object is to provide scissors, though the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. l is an illustration of a closed scissors as retained in the hand, leaving thumb and first two fingers free for any purpose necessary in needlework.

Fig. 2 illustrates the ready application of thumb and first finger to the opposite cutting blades of the scissors for cutting and other operations.

Fig. 3 is an end view in the direction of the arrow 3 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a cross section on line 4-4 of Fig. l.

Beforehand it should be realized that a dressmaker or needle-worker hardly uses any but the thumb and the first two fingers, practically never the third or fourth fingers, so that the use of these -two smaller fingers as explained here later on 1.,of a size and form as to practically disappear within the hand while the hand performs the 5 accustomed manipulations.

Fig. 1 really shows the hand further opened than it would normally perhaps ever be, for the simple reason that a clearer illustration of thearticle itself was intended; while, as soon'as thethumb moves closer to the first two fingers, the

scissors just naturally will move further into the hand, that is closer to the socket of the thumb and closer to the larger ball of the hand, so that the whole space between the thumb and the first two fingers is suflicientiy free that any material normally handled by needle-workers may occupy this space of the hand without any so much, that needle workers are often seen interference by the scissors that remain in the hand at all times.

These scissors are really so inobstructive as to not inconvenience the worker in the least by its presence, on the other hand, forming the 5 greatest convenience in being always Just in the position to be readily grasped between the thumb and first finger, for such work, as prying beetween basting stitches and material, as for removing the basting threads from the material 10 for cutting the cad; for trimming the edges; for cutting sin 11 holes in material when small ornaments are worked out that require or make it desirable to have such holes in the finished work between the stitches.

In fact, workers on small needle-work find common scissors very inconveniencing, in that they stick too much around the thumb and some of the fingers, and that it commonly takes too much time to remove them from the fingers, 20

just taking hold of common scissors over the outside of the loops that really were meant for the fingers.

The removing from the fingers as well as a proper application upon the fingers of common scissors is therefore quite commonly considered, not only waste of time, but, particularly inconveniencing and troublesome.

Having scissors that can be retained in the hand at all times without forming any sort of obstruction is therefore something, not only convenient but rather important and very useful.

Fig. 2 clearly illustrates the ready application of the thumb and first finger to the opposite cutting blades of these new scissors, an operation which can easily be realized by just taking any small and thin articles, such as a pencil, into the hand as in Fig. l, and then applying the thumb and first finger to the opposite sides of 'the pencil, in a similar manner as shown in Fig. 2 with respect to the scissors.

The tension of the third and fourth fingers is practically released as soon as the thumb and first finger take hold, and the scissors are at the most merely guided. by the hand and two smallest -fingers while the real actions and operations are,

in fact, alone performed by the thumb and first finger opening and closing of the scissors, and whatever other operations, prying or cutting, may be required. I

The handles of these scissors are therefore-a very much' neglected and to be neglected portion of these; scissors; while the cutting blades are the principal portions.

As illustrated, the handle portions 5 are of no particular shape .or form, but rather as inobstructive and smooth as possible, the simple endview being given in Fig. 3.

0n the other hand, the cutting blades 6 are very carefully designed, being as light and thin as possible and still thick enough to contain sumcient material that proper provision may be made that the thumb and first finger may have and take a suitable hold to perform the desired operations.

It must be realized that scissors of this type are not opened very far, since only light cuts are involved.

Of course, for men-operators, tailors, who desire stronger scissors, such scissors may be 0! various sizes, but, nevertheless, of the here disclosed suitable proportions and characteristics, to make them suitable for trimming'work of a similar though heavier nature.

For a proper grasping of the cutting blades, each blade is provided with an indentation, a suitable distance away from the pivot 8, to provide a suitable leverage between such pivot and such indentation l, and also a suitable distance away from the cutting ends of the blades, to provide desired cutting and operating facilities away from the operating fingers.

However, since it concerns only light trimming work, only short portions of the cutting blades are ever used and the whole length of the cutting blades can accordingly be short regardless of any desired leverage.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In scissors, handle portions narrowly and closely associated to enable a retaining in a hand at all times so as to leave the normal operating fingers of the hand tree, and cutting blades having indentations at points to be reached by the tips 01' the thumb and first finger while the scissors are so in the hand.

2. In scissors, handle portions narrowly and closely associated to enable a retaining in a hand at all times so as to leave the normal operating fingers of the hand free, and cutting blades having indentations at points to be reached by the normal operating members of the hand while the scissors are so in the hand, said indentations being formed with shoulders in all lateral directions in planes parallel to the oppositely touching faces of the cutting blades so that said members of the hand may control movements of the cutting blades and thereby of the whole scissors in said directions by said shoulders.

MARIE BAILEY.

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