US655796A - Clipping-machine. - Google Patents

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No. 655,796. Patented Aug. I4, I900. J. K. PRIEST.

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JOSEPH K. PRIEST, OF NASHUA, NEIV HAMPSHIRE.

CLIPPING-MACHlNE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,796, dated August 14, 1900. Application filed MarohZZ, 1900. Serial No.9,664. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn K. PRIEST,a citizen of the United States, residing at Nashua, Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, have invented .certain new and useful Improvements in Clipping-Machines, of which the fol lowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to hair-clipping machines; and one object of said invention is to provide a simple construction which is efficient in use and can be handled with facility.

A further object of my invention is to provide a hair-clipping machine which can be used either upon a swinging or upon a standard support, as desired.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters designatecorresponding parts in the various views, Figure 1 is a side view of a clipping-machine embodying my invention, the same being shown supported from overhead. Fig. 2 is a like view of the same supported upona footpiece. Fig. 3 is a detail view of a portion of the device to be hereinafter more fully described.

Referring specifically to Fig. 1 of the drawings, it will be seen that a hanging clipper is illustrated wherein a socket member a of a universal or ball-and-socket joint is shown attached to the ceiling or other suitable overhead support. Cooperating with this socket member a is a ball member b,which has connected thereto adepending arm 0, which may be made in one or more sections and which is provided with means, as indicated at d, for detachably uniting the arm to a rigid supportingrod A. The upper end of the supporting-rod A has a part which cooperates with the fastening means on the arm 0 and which forms a circumferential shoulder e, that limits the upward movement of a swiveled supporting collar or bearing B. This collar B may be adjusted and maintained against movement in a downward direction by the adjustable collar f. The supporting-collar B is provided witha bearing g, adapted to receive a pivot h, extending from one side of an arm C, so that the arm and the parts carried thereby may be rotated around the axial center of the pivot h. One end of the arm 0 is provided with a handle 2', whereas the opposite end of the arm is provided with a cast in g j, which constitutes a bearing for shafts 7c and Z. Fixed to these shafts 7c and Z are coopcrating bevel-gears m n, respectively, and to the shaft 76 is affixed a suitable belt-pulley which receives a belt D,while the shaftlis connected to a flexible shaft movable within a flexible sheath E. The outer end of the flexible shaft is connected in the usual or any preferred manner to the movable parts of a hairclipperorshearingdeviceF. Adriving-wheel G is pivoted to the arm 0, between the handle 2' and the pivot h thereof, so as to act as a counterbalance for the parts of the device carried on the arm atthe opposite side of the pivot thereof. The periphery of the driving wheel is recessed to receive the belt D, so that motion may be transmitted from said drivingwheel to the shaft and to the movable parts of the clipper F when the wheel is rotated by the handle 0. The lowerend of the supportingrod A is provided with suitable connecting means, as indicated at p, for uniting it to a tripod, footpiece, or support II.

It will be observed that by my invention I am enabled to provide a clipping -machine which can be readily used from a swinging or overhead support, as illustrated in Fig. 1, or as an upright-standard machine, as represented in Fig. 2. All that is necessary to convert the swinging clipper (shown in Fig.1) into the standard clipper (represented in Fig. 2) is to disconnectthe supporting-rod A from the arm 0 and to unite the rod to the footpiece H. It will likewise be observed that the arm 0 may be moved around the axial center of the pivot 71. or may be rotated with the collar 13 around the supporting-rod A, whether the clipper be used on the hanging or the foot support. It will also be seen that all of the movable parts of the clipper may be adjusted bodily up and down on the supporting-rod Whether the clipper is used upon the swinging or foot support.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. In a hair-clipping machine the combination of a rigid supporting-rod, means for movably connecting said supporting-rod to an overhead support, a vertically adjustable bearing rotatably supported upon said supporting-rod, an arm pivoted to said bearing and the entire clipper and clipper-operating mechanism carried by said arm whereby the arm together with the clipper and clipperoperating mechanism may be moved in various directions.

2. In a hair-clipping machine the combination of a rigid supporting-rod, means for movably connecting said supporting-rod to an overhead support, an adjustable bearing movably supported upon said supporting-rod, an arm pivoted to said bearing, clipper mechanism carried by said arm to one side of the pivot thereof, a driving-wheel carried by the arm on an opposite side of the pivotthereof from that which carries the clipper mechanism so as to act as a counterbalance therefor and intermediate driving connections between the clipper mechanism and the drivingwheel.

3. In a hair-clipping machine the combination of a rigid supporting-rod, a universal joint for movably connectingsaid supporting-rod to an overhead support, an adjustable collar movably supported upon said supporting-rod, an arm pivoted in a bearing upon said collar so that the arm is adapted to turn with relation to the collar and the supporting-rod, clipper mechanism carried by said arm to one side of the pivot thereof, a driving-wheel carried by the arm on an opposite side of the pivot thereof from that which carries the clipper mechanism so as to act as a counterbalance therefor and intermediate drivingconnections between the clipper mechanism and the driving-wheel.

4. In a hair-clipping machine the combination of a rigid supporting-rod, means adapted to be connected to said supporting-rod for movably connecting the same to an overhead support, means for connecting said rod to a foot-support, an adjustable bearing rotatably supported upon said supporting-rod, an arm pivoted to said bearing and clipper and clipper-operating mechanism carried by said arm whereby the arm together with the clipper and clipper-operating mechanism may be moved in various directions.

5. In a hair-clipping machine the combination of a rigid supporting-rod, a foot-support rem'ovably secured thereto, means adapted to be connected to said supporting-rod for movably connecting the same to an overhead support, an adjustable bearing rotatably supported upon said supporting-rod, an arm pivoted'to said bearing, and clipper and clipperoperating mechanism carried by said arm whereby the arm together with the clipper and clipper-operating mechanism may be moved in various directions. I

6. In a hair-clipping machine the combination of a rigid supporting-rod, a support removably secured thereto, a bearing rotatably support-ed upon said supporting-rod, an arm pivoted to said bearing, a hand-operated driving-wheel carried by the arm on one side of the pivot thereof and clipper mechanism carried by said arm upon the opposite side of the pivot from that which carries the drivingwheel so as to act as a counterbalance therefor and intermediate driving connection between the clipper mechanism and the handoperated driving-wheel.

JOSEPH K. PRIEST.

Witnesses:

WM. A. NELSON, WARREN B. NELsoN.

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