AN IMPROVEMENT ON SHAVING AND OTHER BRUSHES, WHICH IMPROVEMENT IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1827

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PECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
WOODMAN, of Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Perfumer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-second day of March, One thousand eight hundred
and twenty-seven, in the eighth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His
heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said James Woodman, His
especial licence, that I, the said James Woodman; my exors, adññiors, and
assigns, or such others as' I, the said James Woodman, my exors, admors,
or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT ON SHAVING AND
OTHER BRUSHES, WHICH IMPROVEMENT IS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER PURPOSES;" in
which said Letters Patent. is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said James
Woodman, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly
to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same. is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Woodman, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described
and ascertained by the following description thereof (that is to say):-
First, my shaving brush is a brush either of badger-hair, camels'-hair,
or bristles, with a hole or holes in the socket, or into the part into which the
hair or bristles. are fixed, for the purpose of admitting the soap or paste, &c.
to pass through into the brush, which is secured or put on to a hollow tube
which contains the soap or paste. In the centre of the tube is a revolving
screw with a piston, which rises and falls as the screw is turned either to the
right or to the left. To prevent its turning with the screw I have fixed within
the tube a wire. Its use is to press or force out the soap or paste into the brush.
The brush is covered with a cap, which has a hole or holes at the top (for the
free circulation of air), and is screwed or put on to the brush or the tube.
I make my brush of badger-hair, camels'-hair, or bristles, and the screws, tube,
cap, &c. of gold, silver, or any other suitable substance. My nail brush, hand,
paste, and Bath brushes, I make on the same principle as my shaving brush.
Second, my scrubbing brush I make of hair, bristles, and whalebone, with
holes in the block or part that the hairs, &c. are fixed to, which block is
hollow and sufficiently large to contain soap, &c.
It has a lid or cover, with
holes through it, to admit the water when in use. I make it of wood, or
other fit material.
Third, my paint brush is of bristles, with a hole or holes through the
centre of the head, or part where the bristles are fixed to, which is screwed or
put on to a hollow tube, at the mouths of which I have placed a valve or other
contrivance, for the purpose of allowing the paint to pass through into the
brush, or to prevent it, as occasion may require. At the extremity of the tube
is a cap which is screwed on, and takes off to admit the paint into the tube. My
extract brush, my oil and blacking brushes, are made similar to my paint brush.
My extract and oil brushes I make of badger hair, camels'-hair, or bristles,
and the tubes, caps, valves, &c. of gold, silver, or any proper metal, material,
or composition. The tubes, valves, caps, &c. of my paint and blacking brushes
I make of wood, tin, japanned copper, or any fit metal, material, or compo-.
sition. This method may be also applied to pens and other articles. Although
I have specified certain materials as applied to my Invention; yet I consider
any method of passing or conveying the soap or other material through the.
head, top, or handle of the brush, &c. and any substance applied as a substitute
for the metals, &c. used, as an infringement on my Invention, and shall deem