US2946122A

US2946122A - Attachment for barber's shears

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Publication number: US2946122A
Application number: US768614A
Authority: US
Inventors: Lemuel W Gaskins
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1958-10-21
Filing date: 1958-10-21
Publication date: 1960-07-26
Anticipated expiration: 1977-07-26

Description

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y 1960 L. w. GASKINS 2 ATTACHMENT FOR BARBERS SHEARS Filed Oct. 21-, 1958 Lemuel Hf Gaskzhs INVENTOR.

awe 4 United States Patent 2,946,122 7 ATTACHMENT FOR BARBERS SHEARS Lemuel W. Gaskins, 1308 Dickinson Ave., Greenville, N.C.

Filed Oct. 21, 1958, Ser. No. 768,614

2 Claims. (CI. 30-133) 2,946,122 Patented July 26, 1 960 the convenience of the barber. cover 40, and it has a bolt 46 extending therethrough. The, bolt is attached to top wall 38 of housing 18 and is passed through the central opening in washer 48, the latter disposed on the top surface of cover 40. Spring 52 is concentrically disposed on bolt 46 and bears against washer 48. It also bears against nut 54 on bolt 46 to hold the cover 40 in a selected position in accordance with the desires of the barber. The barber will make an adjustment of cover 40 by sliding it forward or rearward depending on the size of blades 14 in the clippers 10.

There is an upturned flange 58, constituting a hair guide and air diffuser. This flange is at the front extremity of and accumulate it in a container or the like at a location remote from the barber. In this way it will be unnecessary to use hair gowns, neck strips on the customer, neck dusters and substitutes therefor.

The use of the invention air-conditions the clippers and eliminates waste hair falling on barber shop floors.

A more specific object of the invention is to provide an attachment for barbers clippers, the attachment having a suction housing provided with an adjustable top that provides for both short and long clipper blades, and which is so constructed that it will fit essentially all manufacturers makes of clippers. The attachment is neat, small and compact providing essentially no obstruction to any part of the clipper and absolutely no obstruction to the barber in using the conventional clippers in the way in which he is accustomed. However, the cut hair is automatically drawn from the region of the barbers shears and conducted away to a remote location.

These together with other objects and advantages which will become subsequently apparent reside in the details of construction and operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

Figure 1 is a top view of the attachment applied to a pair of conventional clippers.

Figure 2 is a side view of the structure in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a sectional view similar to Figure 3 but showing the adjustable top in a second position.

Figure 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of Figure 3.

In the accompanying drawings there is a pair of conventional barber clippers 10 on which attachment 12 is secured. The attachment has for its purpose the withdrawing of hair that is cut by the blades 14 of the clippers and carrying it off through tube 16 to a remote location. Attachment 12 is composed of a housing 18 made of a pair of

side walls

20 and 22 that converge outwardly to the air inlet 24 to form a nozzle configuration. There is a bottom wall 26 adapted to fit flush against Wall 28 on the clippers 10, and a top wall 30. The bottom wall 26 and thetop wall 30 are secured to the lower and upper edges of

side walls

20 and 22, and they taper toward inlet 24 to complete the nozzle shape. A rectangular portion 34 of the housing 18 has a tube 36 attached to its end wall 38, and flexible tube 16 secured to tube 36.

A flat sliding plate 40 is disposed on the upper surface of top wall 30, forming a cover for it. Transverse thumb rests 42, consisting of a raised portion of cover 40 is for cover 40 and is maintained closely adjacent to the clipper blades 14. There are a pair of

sides

60 and 62 at the edges of cover 40, these being located at the side edges of the air and hair inlet 24 and adapted to move forward and rearward with the cover 40.

Sides

60 and 62 cooperate With deflector 58 to form an extension of the nozzle which is formed by the housing so that the same or essentially the same suction is obtained regardless of the adjustment of cover 40 and regardless of the size of clipper blades that are being used. In order to assure that the cover 40 will remain centered in all positions of adjustments, depending cars 66 and 68 are at the ends of thumb rest 42, and these slide alongside of the side walls of the housing. In use, the attachment is applied to the barbers clippers and cover 40 is adjusted until the guide 58 is properly spaced from the blades of the clipper, this permitting the same attachment to be applied to the clippers without bodily displacing the attachment and yet compensate for different sizes of blades. Not only is the guide 58 properly spaced from the clipper blade 14, but due to the

sides

60 and 62 forming extensions of the side walls of the nozzle formed by housing 18, the vacuum at the hair of the patron is maintained essentially the same regardless of whether coarse or fine clippers or whether clippers having different types and sizes of blades are used.

When suction is applied to hose 16, air is drawn through as it is clipped and withdrawing it from the head of the patron.

The foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the invention. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the invention to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention as claimed.

What is claimed asnew is as follows:

1. An attachment for a pair of clippers that has a body with a longitudinal axis, blades at one end of said body and at an angle to said axis, said attachment comprising a housing having walls constituting a nozzle with an air inlet opening at one end positioned in spaced relation with the clipper blades, means on said housing for attaching a conductor to the housing to draw air through said nozzle, an adjustable cover carried by said housing and having a guide at one end forming an extension at said air inlet of said nozzle and located adjacent to the clipper blades, said guide comprising a flange at an angle to said axis and terminating in a straight line parallel to and adjacent to the clipper blades and movable rectilinear-1y toward and away from said clipper blades thereby providing a substantially uniform spacing between said flange and the blades regardless of the size of blades that are used on the clippers, sides attached to said cover rearwardly of the flange and movable therewith to form efiective extensions of the housing sides when said cover is extended, and means for holding said cover in selected adjusted positions with respect to said housing thereby There is a slot 44 in.

3 holding said flange in corresponding adjusted positions with respect to the clipper blades.

2. The attachment for a pair of clippers defined in claim 1 wherein said cover holding means include a bolt, a fastener on said bolt, and a slot in said cover through which said bolt is passed, said fastener on saidbolt being lightenable on the bolt for frictionally holding said cover in a selected position on said housing.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS' Severson Aug. 26, 1924 Jostenet a1 Mar. 3, 1925 Stout Aug. 19, 1952 Atha Sept. 29, 1953 Snead Dec. 14, 1954 Blanchard Dec. 28, 1954