US385914A

US385914A - Nail-cutter

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Publication number: US385914A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-07-10
Anticipated expiration: 1905-07-10

Description

(No Model.)

T. F. OURLEY.

NAIL CUTTER. No. 385,914. Patented July 10, 1888.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR.

BY iaga vw ATTORNEY.

Fries.

TERENCE F. CURLEY, OF BROOKLYN, NIWV YORK.

NAI L-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,914, dated July 10, 1888.

Application filed March 99, 1888. Serial No. 268,765. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: burnishing end, Z), which is adapted for clean- 'Be it known that I, TERENCE F. CURLEY, ing the nails, but is not furnished with a cutof Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State ting-edge. In opposite edges of the said of New York, have invented a new and Inr rounded end I have formed V shaped notches 5 proved Nail-Cutter, of which the following is c, the blade being beveled on opposite sides 5 a specification, reference being had to the anof the notch, forming cutting-edges d. The neXed drawings, forming a part thereof, in cuttingedges, being wholly within the edge of iCh the blade, cannot be made to cut into the flesh;

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved but they are of sufficient width to admit the x0 nail-cutter, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section edge of the nail. 5o

taken on line a: x in Fig. 1. vVhen the V-shaped notch is applied to the Similar letters of reference indicate correnail,one or the other of the edges d serves as a sponding parts in both views. guide while the other is employed in cutting; The object of my invention is to provide a or the nail may be inserted in the V-shaped [5 nail-cutter by means of which the nails may notch, so as to bisect the angle of the notch, 55 be trimmed without danger of cutting the thereby causing both of the cutting-edges to fiesln cut the nail.

My invention consists in a plate having un- The cutting-edges d are sharpened, when sharpened edges and provided in one or both necessary, by means of a V-shaped oil-stone.

2 ofits edges with a V-shaped notch, the plate Having thus described my invention, I 60 being sharpened at the sides of the notch to claim as new and desire to secure by Letters adapt it for cutting the ends of the nails. Patent The blades commonly used for trimming the 1. In a nail-cutter, a blade provided with nails are provided with a file-cut surface on V-shaped transverse notches, with cutting- 2 Opposite sides for the greater portion of their edges formed on theblade along opposite sides 6 length. the extremity of the blade being of the notches, substantially as specified. pointed and sharpened upon one edge. \Vith 2. In a nail-cutter, a blade, A, provided a blade of this kind no guide is provided for with a rounded burnishing end, I), and having preventing the cutting of the flesh. As a eoncuttiug-notches d formed in the edges thereof,

0 sequence, the cuttingedge is liable to lead too substantially as specified. 7Q deeply into the nail and produce painful 3. In a nail-cutter, a blade, A, provided wounds in the flesh under the nail and around with a file-cut surface, a, with a rounded burits edges. In my improvement I avoid these nishing end,b,havingcutting-notches (Z formed difficulties by providing a very narrow cutin opposite edges thereof, substantially as 35 ting-surface in one or both edges of a blade specified.

not otherwise adapted for cutting. m T T To carry out my invention I provide a LEREB 0L CURLEX' blade, A, which may be pivoted in the han- Witnesses: dle B or not, as may be desired, the said blade GEO. M. IIOIKINS, 0 A having a file-cut portion, a, and a rounded O. SEDGWIOK.