A new or improved combined nail cutter and nail file / [Ernst Kaufmann].

  • Kaufmann, Ernst.
Date:
1903
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Credit: A new or improved combined nail cutter and nail file / [Ernst Kaufmann]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9 N° 23,382.—A.D. 11)02. Kavfmann's New or Improved Combined, Nail Cutter and Nail File. formed as a folding clip as indicated in Figures 9 to 14. Such clips have hitherto, for the most part, been so formed that they could lie in a corresponding groove in the nail file. The present provision of the nail file with a nail cleaner necessitates however, that the clip should carry in the centre a curved shield which is adapted to cover or protect the nail cleaner. Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what i claim is: — First:—A nail cutter characterised by being constructed in the form of two flat legs i and k finished off like pincers at the one end and fixedly connected 10 at the other end, one of which legs is capable of being moved towards the other one by a pressing lever, which may be in the form of the file /. Second. A nail cutter as described in Claim 1., characterised by its cutting edges x and y which come flush together or clear each other, having a concavity in their breadth, which concavity is arranged symmetrically to the axis of the 15 broad side of the legs. Third. A nail cutter as described in Claim 1., characterised by its cutting edges x and y having a concavity in their breadth arranged obliquely to the broad side of the legs so that the point so formed permits the nails to be cut right into the corners. 20 Fourth. In a nail cutter as described in Claims 1. to o, the method of pivotally mounting the lever, characterised by the fact that one leg i carries a stay m which extends through a slot in the opposite leg Jc, and here carries the lever l so that the latter, in the open position, is so adjusted, owing to the correspond¬ ing formation of its head, that it falls into a position in continuation of the 25 elastic leg Jc. Fifth. In a nail cutter as described in Claims 1. to 4, a closing device v which turns upon a vertical pin common to both legs. Sixth. In a nail cutter as described in Claims 1. to 4, a closing element v which is horizontally pivoted and provided with a central curved part adapted 30 to surround the nail cleaner on the file and thereby forms a secure closure for the cutters of the jaws. Seventh. A nail cutter of the special description and formation above described. Eighth. The novel formation of a nail cutter in connection with a nail file of the nature above described and shown in the accompanying drawings. 35 Dated this 24th. dav of October 1902. ERNST KAUFMANN By George Barker 7T, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, 40