Nail clipper

As an article of manufacture, a nail-clipping retainer for a nail clipper having two like elongate jaw members securely connected to each other at a connected-jaw member end and divergent longitudinally in the direction away from said connected-jaw member end, said jaw members having mutually facing and inwardly projecting coacting cutting edges at cutting ends longitudinally opposite the connected-jaw member ends thereof, thereby defining between said jaw members an open-sided cavity which converges toward said connected-jaw member end, and an actuator foldable along the outer surface of one of said jaw members and actuably connected to said jaw members for a cutting operation of said cutting edges, said retainer comprising an elongate channel of compliantly deformable material having a bottom panel conforming to the planiform of the other of said jaw members, said bottom panel being in confronting adjacency with the outer surface of said other jaw member, said channel further having like side panel connected by said bottom panel, means coacting between said jaw members and said channel for retaining said channel to said clipper at least at said connected-jaw member end, the elevational contour of said side panels above said bottom panel conforming substantially to the elevational profile of the open-sided cavity and substantially closing the same, each of said side panels having a transverse slit at a longitudinally central location, each said slit extending the width of its side panel and at least to said bottom panel, whereby said channel is characterized by a selectively movable end near said cutting ends and said selectively movable end is compliantly hinged to a retained end near said connected-jaw member end.