Samuel Blatchford

“ The screws, 4, 5, serve as the fulcra for the hand-levers, g, h, having short arms, g', h', to act upon the ends of the longer arms of the jaw-levers, and turn them on their fulcra to close the jaws and bring the cutting edges together. The spring, f, opens the jaws the instant the clasping pressure on the hand-levers is relaxed. In order to move the jaw-levers equally at all times, and prevent the jaw-levers and body of the pliers turning on the handles, I have provided one hand-lever with a prong, m, having a rounded end that enters a rounded notch in the opposite lever. ”

“ Hall
This is a suit in equity, brought in the circuit court of the United States for the Eastern district of New York, by Henry G. Thompson against Thomas G. Hall, J. F. Oliver, Samuel Leopold, and David L. Harris, for the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 232,975, granted October 5, 1880, to the plaintiff, as assignee of the inventor. Moses C. Johnson, for an improvement in cutting pliers, on an application filed June 2, 1880. ”

“ These lips also serve another essential purpose, viz., that of holding the ends of the spring from displacement, and obviating the employment of a separate pin or stud to hold the said spring at one end, as heretofore common. ”