This design still dominates the market today. In the late s, Bassett introduced the high-end Croydon nail cutter, which was stamped with a clipper ship emblem and promoted in Esquire magazine for the jewellery store trade.
Unfortunately, the Croydon was not commercially successful. But W. Bassett continues to be a major manufacturer of personal beauty tools.
Their Trim product line has now grown to include more than products. Author Prof. Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad 0 Spread the love. Tags: Inventions , nail clippers , nail files , Science. Preview post. Next post. Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad. The reason is that the slim parts—designed so that the clipper is not a burden to carry around—have a lot of give, so the jaws don't meet with quite as much oomph as if the parts were more rigid. Johnston has solved this problem by making his nail clipper out of injection-molded stainless steel that's been heat treated to make it extra hard.
The blade on his clipper stays sharper for longer and it doesn't have nearly as much bend. Sure, Johnston's model is a better ergonomic design, with the arm connection kicked to the back and extending forward, but the price point is too high for most of us to even consider.
What we really need is the version of a Bassett moment—give us all the nail-cutting good stuff, but at a price that will work for the masses.
Rachel Swaby is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. Giz Explains is where we break down whatever science or tech questions are scratching at the backs of our noggins. Got questions of your own? Shoot us email at explains gizmodo. Image: US Patent , Oh you can just use your teeth and spit the nail out of the car window. Problem solved. Filed under: fingernail clippers , fingernail history , fingernail trimming , fingernails , history , toenails. That effect?
The fact that, every couple of weeks you have to cut them. By the way, did you know that nail clippers are a fairly new phenomenon, roughly as old as the Swiss Army Knife?
How did we cut our nails before that? A much better superstition: The idea that white specks on the fingernails would lead to good fortune. Fingernail clipper patent, Eugene Heim and Oelestin Matz, circa The man credited by the U. A better hint of how fingernails were cut before the days of fingernail trimmers comes from the patent for R.
The design, in fact, has more in common with peeling an apple than pressing a clamp. Regarding the latter: Basically, you had long nails if you never did hard labor, but often wore your nails short if you did.
That touches on another point about nail length: The more physical labor you do, the more likely your nails are going to be short. But where did our interest in well-cared-for fingernails come from in the first place? The ancient Romans, to be specific. Again, the evidence there comes from literature. The satirist Horace repeatedly touched upon fingernails in his works. The first United States patent for an improvement in a finger-nail clipper was filed in by Valentine Fogerty and in the United Kingdom, Hungarian inventor David Gestetner.
Other subsequent patents for an improvement in finger-nail clippers are those in by William C. Edge, and in by John H. Coates for a finger-nail cutter , and in by Chapel S.
Carter with a later patent in Around , Carter was secretary of the H. Cook Company in Ansonia, Connecticut , which was incorporated in as the H.
Cook Machine Company by Henry C. Cook, Lewis I. Cook, and Chapel S.
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