Nail clipper

A nail clippers or nail clip, called in Bavaria and Austria also Nagelklipserl or nail clipper is a device for the care of toenails and fingernails. It is constructed like tongs, at the top has two concave curved blades that are facing each other in parallel. The invention of the nail clipper is attributed to Chapel Carter in 1896.

The nail clipper is used, the nails, unlike a nail clipper, not cut, but remove the nail to remove part as a whole, called pinch back onomatopoeic. Advantage to nail scissors is that in this case no or only little tears in the horn plate arise because the nail is not loaded on one side by the shearing as with the scissors by the overlapping blade approach at each intersection, but the pressure from the parallel blades on the severed portion of the nail is evenly distributed through the wedge cutting. In addition, the symmetrical structure of advantage - Nail scissors are " wrong " when cutting the nails of the dominant hand (cf. left-handed scissors ). Disadvantage is that the nail clipper is not to lead as fine as a nail clipper.

Most of the nail clippers are structured such that one of the gripper arms is rotatable by 360 °. In use, it is rotated to the position that is required in order to achieve the lever effect which removes the desired nail part. In the rest position of the gun arm is rotated back.