An Instrument for Applying and Spreading Shaving Soap.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1892
Comple e Specification Left, 4th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 17th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Instrument for Applying and Spreading Shaving Soap.
I, ALFRED BLAKE, of 25 Stow Hill, Newport, Monmouthshire, Gentleman, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in an instrument for applying and spreading shaving soap
on the skin preparatory to shaving. In the instrument in which this invention
consists a piece of sponge, either plain or prepared with methylated spirit or
glycerine, and mounted on a suitable stem or handle is employed instead of hair or
bristles for applying and spreading the shaving soap.
The sponge is carried on the stem or handle in any suitable manner and extends
beyond the end thereof in a shape approximating to that of a ball or rounded tuft.
Or it may be of other suitable shape.
A convenient method of attachment to the handle or stem is by means of a plug
of cork or other suitable substance fitting into a socket in the stem or handle, the
sponge being secured on the plug. Such sponge-heads when worn or otherwise
rendered unsuitable for further use are readily removed and replaced by others.
The plugs of the heads may be adapted to be screwed into the stem or handle.
Dated this 16th day of December 1892.
GUMI LEIE DI DOITICATION.
An Instrument for Applying and Spreading Shaving Soap.
I ALFRED BLAKE now of Newbiggin Richmond Yorkshire Gentleman lately of
Number Twenty-five Stow Hill Newport Monmouthshire 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 :-
I state that though the improved sponge head for spreading shaving soap may
be fixed or applied to any of the ordinary handles now in use for shaving brushes
and fixed on with pitch in the usual way, yet my experiments have shown me that
the best handle for the sponge instrument for spreading shaving soap is one of
porcelain or earthenware (porcelain by preference) which can be made at any of the
usual manufactories of articles of that class. Such handles should be of a round
shape with a small basin head to stop the lather running over on the hand.
It can
be made of any size but I recommend about two inches in length. The basin top
one to two inches in diameter. The diameter smaller under the basin head then
enlarging to the other end with a hollow commencing from the centre of the basin
head to about three quarters of an inch to an inch in depth and three eighths to half
an inch in diameter at the entrance widening at the base. To make the brush the
sponge (either prepared as by macerating in glycerine or methylated spirit or without)
is cut in lengths of about one to two inches or more according to the size of the brush
required so that there is sufficient at one end of the piece to form the head of the
brush and the other end is smaller and tapering so that the whole can be tied down
with strong waxed thread silk or wire that when melted pitch is poured into the
hollow of the porcelain stock or handle before described (which should be previously
heated) and the taper end of the sponge head is pressed into the hollow there

page_text: should be space sufficient to allow enough pitch to remain with a small overflow
into the basin head so that the sponge is firmly fixed on the pitch cooling.
The tying by the thread can be so done that the end can be tapered to any size
required. When the sponge head is worn out the stock can be heated the pitch
melted the old sponge taken out and a new brush inserted in the same way.
Drawings attached showing complete shaving sponge and parts.
No. 1-Complete sponge shaving brush with porcelain handle.
No. 2-Porcelain handle showing section.
No. 3-Complete shaving sponge in ordinary bone or wooden handle.
No. 4-Shaving sponge tied before fixed in handle.
No. 5-Plan of basin to porcelain handle.
Having now particularly described my said invention and in what manner it is to
be carried out I declare that what I claim is
An improved head for shaving brushes or instruments for applying and spreading
shaving soap made of sponge as described and an improved handle for shaving
brushes especially advantageous to the same made as herein described and adapted.
as above stated and made of porcelain or earthenware.
Dated this Second day of September 1893.
ALFRED DLAKE.