US127783A - Improvement in combined button-hole cutters, eyelet-punches - Google Patents

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' WILLIAM C. McGlLL. Improvement in Combined Button-Hole Cutter, Eyelet Punch, and Scissors-Sharpener. No. 127,783, Q 7 Patented June.ll,1872

UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

WILLIAM (J. MCGILL, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED BUTTON-HOLE CUTTERS, EYELET-PUNCHES. AND SCISSORS- SHARPENERS. v

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,783, dated June 11, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM C. McGILL, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, and State of Ohio,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Button-Hole Gutter, Eyelet-Punch, and Scissors-Sharpener; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents the instrument in use as a button-hole cutter. Fig. 2 shows the same when applied as an eyelet-punch and Fig. 3 represents the instrument in position as a scissors-sharpener.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

The nature of my invention consists in the combination of a button-hole cutter with an eyelet-punch and scissors-sharpener, the whole being inclosed within a suitable sliding case or sheath for the protection of the working parts. It consists of a flat tube, slotted longitudinally, through which the device for sliding out a tapering cutter is arranged. It further consists in furnishing the reverse end of said cutter with a sharp conical instrument, used for perforating cloth, &c., and which, when put into use, is slid out at the opposite end of the aforesaid tube. It further consists in the combination of the above cutter of a nick cut into the hilt of the same at such an angle as to present a sharp cutting-edge for the purpose of sharpening scissors, knives, &c.

In construction my invention is as follows: A is the tubular sheath, forming, at the same time, the handle for the instrument and a gauge for the cutter. B is a button, communicating with the cutter 0 within by means of a rivet. The cutter O is made with an acute angle, having the cutting-edge on one side only. At D is cut a notch, slightly at an angle, to give a proper cutting-edge, which is to be used as above set forth. E in Fig. 2 represents the eyelet-punch,consisting of a sharp conical in- I strument, formed of the same piece as the cutter 0, or attached thereto. The mouth a of sheath A is slightly rounded, which forms the gauge for the size of the hole to be cut. When but a small hole is wanted only a small portion of cutter O is made to protrude. The cutter is then forced down through the cloth, and is stopped by the end a of sheath A. This produces an adjustable gauge, which may be operated with great ease and accuracy.

I do not claim, broadly, a button-hole cutter formed of a single blade-the shape given in the drawing; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of the tapering cutter G with sheath A, when used as a button-hole cutter, as above described.

2. The combination of the notch D with the cutter 0, when used as and for the purpose specified.

3. The eyelet-punch E, in combination with the cutter C and sheath A, substantially as and for the purpose described.

WM. 0. MOGILL.

Attest:

G. A. Soorrr, T. VAN KANNEL.

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