Year: 1887

page_text: .. Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1887
Specification Accepted, 1st Nov., 1887
A communication from abroad by ADOLF HEINEMANN, of Hagan, Westphalia, in
the Empire of Germany, Inventor.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S. M.I.M.E. of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
1
is
The head washing caps that have been in use hitherto for the purpose of protecting
the other parts of the body or the clothes from dropping water, were of faulty con-
struction, because they did not prevent the water from escaping through the cap or
from splashing all round. Secondly, they could not be employed with a supply of
water constantly flowing in. On the accompanying drawing a head washing cap
drawn, the arrangement of which prevents, in a peculiar manner, water from running
down on the face and neck, and also keeps on the head the washing liquid which is led
into the cap, so that the head can be treated with spirituous and other costly washing
liquors which cannot then run out easily. The apparatus is, contrary to others,
composed of a closed vessel, formed with soft india-rubber cloth or any similar
material. As the cap is to be used at the same time as a means of washing, or a
sponge, it is lined inside with some material suitable for washing the scalp or the hair.
In the drawings in which figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the apparatus, and
figure 2 an elevation of the apparatus fixed in position on the head, the water is intro-
duced through a pipe a', provided with a retaining valve to prevent the liquid flowing
back.
If the hair wash is to be kept on the head and used for some length of time in
washing the head, the cock c, fixed to the outlet pipe d of the cap, is then closed, while
in other cases it is kept open. As the ring or border e, made of strong india-rubber

page_text: 1s laid on the skin of head firmly, no water, or at least very little, can escape. However,
for the purpose of preventing also the small quantity of water from running down the
face or the neck, the border or ring e is perforated and surrounded by a hollow ring f
hermetically closed and communicating with the outlet pipe g. Any water that may
run between the head and the ring eis conducted through the openings thereof into
the hollow ring and pipe g, connected to pipe d under the cock c. In order to allow
the air to escape when the hair wash is introduced, and the cock c is shut, a valve h is
applied, which is opened and afterwards closed when the liquid has been introduced.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :
A head washing cap made of suitable material, in which the hair washing liquid is
retained or allowed to flow according as the cock c is shut or open, and provided with a
perforated border for the purpose of preventing the water from running down the
face and neck, said border having holes e, communicating with a hollow hermetically
closed surrounding ring which receives through the holes e any water that may pass
between the head and the cap, the water being allowed to escape through the pipe y,
substantially as described.