Tweezers
A pair of tweezers is a tool that is used to access small items. The name derives from the French pince = pliers to pinch on pincer = tweak.
Most consist tweezers from two joined pieces of metal ( other materials, such as plastics, ceramics or glass-fiber reinforced plastic are used ) that move towards using light pressure on both parties to each other. The tip of the forceps is then closed. In the cosmetics industry light tweezers are preferably made of seamless aluminum. These tweezers are made of cast, anodized aluminum profiles, which are then cut transversely and polished at the tips.
Metal tweezers are known from numerous grave finds from the Early Bronze Age, before they were made of wood, bone or horn. Tweezers are used, often in conjunction with Ohrlöffelchen and razor, the hair and beard care as well as a universal small tools.
Tweezers are available in different designs:
- With pointed ends
- With rounded ends
- With four -edged ends
- Just Tweezers
- Curved or angled tweezers
- Cutting forceps
- Holding forceps ( tweezers Cross ) (eg ball holding forceps )
- Anti-magnetic and acid-resistant tweezers
Applications
- In the lead sentence
- In dealing with stamps (see philatelic )
- In Electronics
- For hair removal
- In semiconductor technology in the form of wafer tweezers
- In cosmetics
- In Medicine ( Anatomical forceps and surgical forceps )
- In the household
- In jewelery
- In the textile industry as knobs iron
- In science
- In the hunting and the planting eg Aquascaping
There are other tweezers, for example so-called optical tweezers and vacuum tweezers to the tweezers shown in the image.