Combination implement assembly

Claim 1

A COMBINATION IMPLEMENT ASSEMBLY COMPRISING: A CASING INTEGRALLY FORMED OF RESILIENTLY DEFLECTABLE SHEET METAL HAVING A PAIR OF SPACED APART, GENERALLY ELONGATED SIDE WALL PORTIONS AND A BASE PORTION CONNECTING SAID SIDE WALL PORTIONS FROM ADJACENT ONE END THEREOF BUT TERMINATING INWARDLY FROM THE OTHER END THEREOF TO PROVIDE UNCONNECTED PORTIONS OF SAID SIDE WALL PORTIONS ADJACENT SAID OTHER END RESILIENTLY DEFLECTABLE RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER, SAID UNCONNECTED PORTIONS PROVIDING COOPERATING NAIL CLIPPER JAW ELEMENTS, AND SAID UNCONNECTED PORTIONS BEING BIASED APART IN OPERATIVE POSITION TO PROVIDE YIELDABLE SPACING BETWEEN SAID CLIPPER JAW ELEMENTS; A POST INTERMEDIATE THE LENGTH OF SAID UNCONNECTED PORTIONS; AN ELONGATED OPERATING LEVER PIVOTABLY MOUNTED ON SAID POST AND EXTENDING GENERALLY LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID SIDE WALL PORTIONS FOR BIASING SAID UNCONNECTED PORTIONS INTO ENGAGEMENT BY THE ABUTTING OF SAID JAW ELEMENTS; A PIVOT MEMBER ADJACENT SAID ONE END THEREOF; AT LEAST ONE BLADE MEMBER RECEIVABLE IN SAID CASING AND MOUNTED ON SAID PIVOT MEMBER FOR ROTATION FROM A CLOSED POSITION DISPOSED IN SAID CASING TO AN OPEN POSITION GENERALLY ALIGNED WITH THE ELONGATED AXIS OF SAID CASING; AND A JAW PROTECTOR PIVOTED ON SAID POST AND HAVING A PORTION THEREOF EXTENDING OUTWARDLY OF SAID JAW ELEMENTS TO PROTECT SAID JAW ELEMENTS FROM INADVERTENT CONTACT, SAID JAW PROTECTOR BEING PIVOTABLE TO ONE SIDE OF SAID JAW ELEMENTS WHEREBY SAID IMPLEMENT ASSEMBLY MAY BE USED AS A NAIL CLIPPER.