An Improved Combined Clothes Brush, Flask, and Drinking Cup.
Year: 1893

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being date of first Foreign Application (in 4th Nov., 1892
United States of America),
Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 20th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 20th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 27th May, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Clothes Brush, Flask, and Drinking Cup.
1, THOMAS WILLIAM HELM, of Danville, in the County of Pittsylvania, and
State of Virginia, United States of America, Gentleman, 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 :-
The object of my invention is to so construct a combined clothes brush, liquor
flask and drinking cup, as to provide for the compact disposal of the parts and
thus attain the desired object without unduly increasing the size of the brush, and
this object I attain in the manner hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the
accompanying drawings, in which :
Fig. is a perspective view of a combined clothes brush, flask and cup constructed
in accordance with my invention.
Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the flask and cup in use.
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the device.
A represents a brush block having knots or bristles secured in openings formed
in the same in the usual manner, the block, however, being much thinner than the
block ordinarily employed in this class of brushes.
On the back of the block is securely attached a metal flask B, provided with the
usual contracted neck a, threaded nozzle b, and cap d, or other equivalent form of
cork or stopper, this flask being somewhat shorter than the back of the brush, but
otherwise conforming in shape therewith and with the ordinary form of clothes
brush back.
Fitting snugly to the base of the contracted neck a, of the flask is a cup D, which,
when applied to the neck of the flask as shown in Fig. 1, presents an outer surface
flush with that of the flask and fitting snugly against the brush-block, this cup
conforming to the shape of that part of the block A which it covers, so that when
the cup is in place on the flask the brush presents substantially the same appearance
as an ordinary clothes brush, the cup, however, being readily removed when it is
desired to use the same for drinking purposes as shown in Fig. 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. A clothes brush, combined with a flask and drinking cup, which form the back
of the brush, substantially as specified.
2. The combination of the brush block with the flask secured thereto, and a
drinking cup fitted snugly to the base of the reduced neck of the flask and to the
brush-block, substantially as specified.
3. The combination of the brush-block, a flask secured to the back of the same
and having a reduced neck with stopper closing the same, and the drinking cup
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page_text: fitted snugly to the reduced neck of the flask and to the brush block, and enclosing
and hiding the nozzle of the flask, substantially as specified.
Dated this 20th day of March 1893.
F. W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent.