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In 1899 Frederick F. Fulks of

Buckner, Texas applied for

a patent for a knife attached

to a scissor handle. He was

granted U. S. Patent No.

652,429 on June 26, 1900 for

his

Combined Shears and

Knife

. His intended

audience was

―

dressmakers, tailors, and the like

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Obviously he added the corkscrew

blade for those dressmakers and tailors who wanted to have a little nip

while doing their work.

U. S. Patent No. 1,423,127 issued July 18, 1922 to Edward Levy of

London, England for Scissors. Levy suggests a number of tools that

could be included in the construction of this tool - a knife sharpener, a

can opener, a glass cutter, a screwdriver, and a corkscrew.

Left: U. S. Patent Number

1,644,936 issued October 11, 1927

to Paul Mertens of Newark, New

Jersey for a

Collapsible Corkscrew.

Ivan Randall Churchill

Edwards of Georgetown,

British Guiana [

sic

], was

granted U. S. Patent No.

2,361,387 on October 31, 1944

for his

Scissors

. These are

manicure scissors for cutting

and filing finger nails.

Edwards added

―

Another

object is so to construct the

ends of the blades as to

permit them to be used conveniently as a cork puller.

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