The "What is it?" is easy. It's the "Why?" that's worth a discussion.
To make it easier to carry in your pocket or maybe just because the inventor wanted to have some fun?
.. any excuse for a patent ? I once found a "What is it" that turned out to be an ice pick - there are many dozens of ice pick "designs" & therefore patents !
This is what I usually grab for a sliver :
This pin has dug out many a splinter. Many years' worth. That's just a small sample of the holes in the drywall behind my workbench. It's one tool that *always* get put back where it belongs. ;-)
I find the sewing pins a bit too bendy - I keep a sewing needle with the tweezers - but it's not easy to hang-on-to .. ... perhaps there's an idea for a new patented invention - a handy dandy easy-to-hold needle holder ! .. one that old calloused & arthritic fingers can grip. John T.
A dowel, a 1/16" drill bit and a bit of epoxy.
a like new utility knife blade works best for me...pick it out with the sharp blade, or cut along side if it doesn't cooperate with the point... Of course there is always ichthammol for the feint of heart...
Ta-da !
That's what immediately came into my mind. I use a very sharp pair of tweezers, ones like I used to pick up 10x20mil resistors last month. ;-)
Handy to carry in your pocket. Have you ever carried regular tweeters in your pocket?
I needed a pair some time back when I got a narley splinter from a piece of Ipe at the limber yard.
That's what this patent is for:
My paternal grandfather used to invent things like the tweezers I posted the pictures of. I found those in a box of my dad's things but it turns out that they aren't one of Grandpa's patents. Grandpa had a patent for a laboratory-quality check-valve, a nut-cracker and pick set, a handle for removing cupcake pans from the oven and few others.
A pin vise works great.
That was one of the reasons that I mentioned in my OP, but...
If you had that pair "some time back", would they have been in your pocket when you needed them?
It's great that they are handy to carry around, but would you?
Good question. But most certainly I would have had a pair in my truck's deep dark console along with my work gloves and Kleenex, hand sanitizer, tape measure, etc. Having the pointy end covered would prevent me from finding them the painful way.
Just as I grab the tape measure as a minimum, when buying wood, I might also grab the tweezers and put those in my pocket.
I always carry a single lock blade pocket knife. My previous knife had been sharpened so much that the point no longer was inside the knife when closed. I had to cut/stick the end of my finger more than once to steer me towards a new knife. So I do carry sharp objects that are not always in a safe mode.
I guess until you have the need you don't really see the need.
Tweezers are always with me, swiss army knives.
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