IMPROVE- MENTS IN HAID AND SUTE Ronours
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Henry Child, of Providence Row, in the
County of Middlesex, Brush Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HAID AND SUTE Ronours"
Sealed the 4th March 1859, and dated the 4th September 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Henry Child
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th September 1858.
I, WILLIAM HENRY CHILD, of Providence Row, in the County of Middlesex,
Brush Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN HAIR AND SKIN BRUSHES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing electrical brushes by the employment
of steel pins or wires in substitution for or in combination with bristles, which
pins or wires are placed in metallic connection with a battery contained in the
handle or back of the brush; or I employ wires of two metals, one electro-
positive to the other, and so arranged with respect to each other that on being
moistened, either directly or through sponge or other absorbing material fixed
at the roots of the wires or otherwise, an electric current or series of currents
shall be generated.
5 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Henry Child in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th March 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
HENRY CHILD, of Providence Row, in the County of Middlesex, Brush
0 Manufacturer, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Henry Child, Her special licence that I, the said William Henry
Child, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
William Henry Child, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
HAIR AND SKIN BRUSHES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said William Henry Child, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Henry Child, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in constructing electrical brushes by the employment
of steel pins or wires in substitution for or in combination with bristles, which
pins are wires are placed in metallic connection with a battery contained in the
handle or back of the brush; or I employ wires of two metals, one electro-
positive to the other, and so arranged with respect to each other that on being
moistened, either directly or through sponge or other absorbing material fixed at
the roots of the wires or otherwise, an electric current or series of currents
shall be generated.
The manner in which I carry my Invention into effect will be fully understood
by reference to the accompanying Drawings.
Figure 1 is a plan of the front of a brush with the parts arranged according
to my Invention; Figure 2 is a plan of the back of Figure 1; Figure 3 is a
side elevation; and Figure 4 is a section through the line a, b, of Figure 1.
Similar letters refer to similar parts in all the Figures. In the handle of the
foundation A of the brush, of which Figure 5 is a plan of the upper side, I
place a galvanic batter▾ B, with strips of cloth or other absorbing material

page_text: between the pairs of plates, and I connect this battery by wires C, C, carried
along the upper part of the foundation, and through it to two copper or other
metal plates D, D, connected to the under part or bottom of the foundation,
as shewn in plan at Figure 6 and in section at Figure 7. E is a piece of
Walton's patent india-rubber pin webbing secured to the face of the foundation
so as to bring the back of the pins in contact with the copper plates D, D;
this webbing is shewn in plan at Figure 8, and in section at Figures 4 and 9.
Figure 10 is a cross section through the line c, d, of Figure 5, shewing the
connecting wires and copper plates. In order to give completeness to the
brush, I surround the metal pins with bristles F, F. G is a covering forming
the back of the brush, and H is a movable cover forming the back of the
handle, and covering the battery.
For some purposes I construct my brushes by merely surrounding metallic
pin webbing with rows of bristles. Or, instead of fitting a battery in the
handle, I obtain an electrical effect by forming the pin webbing of pins of
copper and zinc or other metals of different electrical affinities, placed
alternately in the web; I cause the webbing to bear against a piece of flannel
or other like absorbing material, and moisten the same with acid through
an aperture made in the back of the brush; I close this aperture by a screw
stopper.
Brushes constructed according to my Invention are applicable to horses and
other animals as well as to human beings.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I lay no claim to the
construction of a galvanic brush; but I claim the arrangements of brushes
herein-before described and represented in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Henry Child, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of March, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-nine.
W. H. CHILD. (L.B.)