Nail clippers
A nail clippers or nail clip , in Bavaria and Austria also Nagelklipserl or nail clipper called, is a device to maintain the toe and fingernails . It is constructed in the shape of a forceps and has two concave curved blades at the tip , which are parallel to each other. The invention of the nail clipper is attributed to Chapel Carter in 1896.
The nail clipper is used, the nails, other than a pair of nail scissors , not cut , but to remove to remove nail unit as a whole to, onomatopoeic pinch back called. The advantage over nail scissors is that there are no or only few tears in the horn plate, because the nail is not stressed on one side by the shear cutting at the respective intersection, as is the case with scissors , but the pressure from the parallel blades on the one to be severed Nail part is evenly distributed by the wedge cutting . In addition, the symmetrical structure is an advantage - nail scissors are guided “the wrong way” when cutting the nails of the dominant hand (see left-handed scissors ). The disadvantage is that the nail clippers are not as easy to use as nail scissors.
Most nail clippers are designed so that one of the pliers arms can be rotated 360 °. In use, it is rotated to the position needed to achieve the leverage effect that removes the desired part of the nail. In the rest position, the tong arm is turned back again.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ A brief history of the nail clipper is printed in: Nicholson Baker : The Size of Thoughts: Essays & Other Lumber. Vintage, New York 1997, ISBN 0-679-77624-9 .
