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Letters Patent No. 70,544, dated November 5, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN SCISSOS-SEARPBNBB. AND CLOTH-RIPPBR. COMBINED..

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Be it known that I, A. W. `GIFFORD, of Worcester, in the county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Combined Scissors-Sharpener and Ripper, of which the following is a full,'clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a one-side or face-view of an implement constructed according to my improvement.

Figure 2, an opposite side or face view, with portion o'f the frame removed, and showing in red lines a blade of a pair of scissors in the act of being drawn through the same; and

Figure 3 a transverse section taken as indicated by the line a: in fig. 1.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The nature of my invention consists in acombination of a knife, blade, or ripper with a. serratedbar or file in a frame or holder constructed to form guides tothe blades of scissors for the purpose of sharpening the same, whereby the work of the tailor or seamstress is greatly facilitated, the ripper serving to cut the stitches where it is inconvenient to use the scissors, or where the blades of the latter require sharpening, which the same implement serves to effect.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, A represents theframe of the implement, which may be made o f a thin sheet of metal bent to form sides B C, the one of which is preferably made higher than the other, and which sides form guides for thefscissors-blade in being sharpened, by drawing it over a serrated steel bar or le, D, the teeth a of which extend across-its width or thickness, and are bevellcd or inclined, as represented in iig. 3, to give a proper set to and bearing of the scissors-blade against the side B in being drawn over the said bar. This serrated bar or lilo D may either be a ixture in the frame A, or made to slide longitudinally therein, say, by means of a slot, b, in the frame A., and button or knob c connected with the bar, which has attached to or formed on its one end a blade or ripper, E, that, in case of the bar D being made to slide, as described, may

be 'drawn-within the frame A, or be projected beyond its one end, accordingly as the instrument is designed to be used as a ripper .or simply as a scissorsfsharpener. Where the bar D has no sliding provision in its connection with the frame A, then the blad-o E should `be made to project as a fixture beyond the end of the frame. It is preferable, however, to give to the bar, with its ripping-blade, a sliding connection with thc frame, so as to enclose or cover the blade when not required to be used.` The bar D may be serrated on opposite edges, and so fitted to the frame as to be capable of being reversed, so r.that when one edge has become. useless theothcr can be brought into play. By thus .combininga ripper with a scissors-Sharpener in the one implement, the work of the seamstress will be greatly facilitated, as when the scissors are at fault the ripper may be used to sever the stitches, or the implementnsed to sharpen the scissors, where they are preferred or can be worked to greater convenience.

What is here claimed as new and useful, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is A combined scissors-Sharpener and ripper, constructed for operation substantially as described.

A. W. GIFFORD.

Witnesses:

S. B. J. Gonnsnn, Onis. F. Cana.

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