IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOTHES BRUSHES."
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Alfred Warrington, of 96, Newgate
Street, in the City of London, and Alfred Minton, of the Lawn,
Datchet, Bucks, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLOTHES
BRUSHES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Alfred War-
rington and Alfred Minton at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 24th April 1871.
We, THOMAS ALFRED WARRINGTON, of 96, Newgate Street, in the
City of London, and ALFRED MINTON, of the Lawn, Datchet, Bucks,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CLOTHES BRUSHES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in clothes brushes,
and is designed to render such brushes more useful than heretofore by
making them suitable for the ready removal of splashes or spots of mud
and the like from clothes without the necessity of scraping with the
finger nails, as at present usually practised. For this purpose, according

page_text: to our Invention, we form in or combine with the back or handle of the
brush a scraper or scrapers consisting of one or a series of sharp edged
ribs or blades, or we form grooves in rows at right angles or otherwise
to each other, so as to leave a series of pyramidal projections or pointed
scrapers.
In carrying out our Invention we prefer to make the ribs, blades,
pyramidal projections, or pointed scrapers by stamping them in a thin
sheet of metal between suitable dics, and so as to leave base pieces
or edges for attachment to the body of the brush; or the ribs, blades,
pyramidal projections, or pointed scrapers may be cast in an ordinary
mould in one piece with a suitable base plate or backing for enabling
them to be readily attached to the body of the brush as aforesaid, which
we prefer to do at the end thereof farthest removed from the handle;
or the scrapers may be made to project from the edges of the brush or
handle, and when ribs or blades are used in order to make them more
efficient in their operation and to lessen the liability of injury to the
clothes to be brushed we in some cases form the ribs or blades with
curved edges or faces, such curvature being in the direction of their
length with the higher or raised portion situated between the extremities
of the ribs or blades.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Alfred Warrington and Alfred Minton
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd October 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
ALFRED WARRINGTON, of No. 96, Newgate Street, in the City of 2
London, Civil Engineer, and ALFRED MINTON, of the Lawn, Datchet,
Bucks, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the 3
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Alfred Warrington
and Alfred Minton, Her special licence, that we, the said Thomas
Alfred. Warrington and Alfred Minton, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Thomas Alfred Warrington 3

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and Alfred Minton, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter 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 CLOTHES BRUSHES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Thomas Alfred Warrington and
Alfred Minton, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, 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 we, the said Thomas Alfred Warrington and
Alfred Minton, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement in writing,
that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in clothes brushes,
and is designed to render such brushes more useful than heretofore by
making them suitable for the ready removal of splashes or spots of mud
and the like from clothes without the necessity of scraping with the
finger nails, as at present usually practised. For this purpose, according
to our Invention, we form in or combine with the back or handle of the
brush a scraper or scrapers consisting of one or a series of sharp edged
ribs or blades, or we form grooves in rows at right angles or otherwise
to each other so as to leave a series of pyramidal projections or pointed
scrapers.
In carrying out our Invention we prefer to make the ribs, blades,
pyramidal projections, or pointed scrapers by stamping in a thin sheet
of metal between suitable dies and so as to leave base pieces or edges
for attachment to the body of the brush, or the ribs, blades, pyramidal
projections, or pointed scrapers may be cast in an ordinary mould in
one piece with a suitable base plate or backing for enabling them to be
readily attached to the body of the brush as aforesaid, which we prefer
to do at the end thereof farthest removed from the handle, or the
scrapers may be made to project from the edges of the brush or handle,
and when ribs or blades are used in order to make them more efficient

page_text: in their operation and to lessen the liability of injury to the clothes to be
brushed, we in some cases form the ribs or blades with curved edges
or faces, such curvature being in the direction of their length, with the
higher or raised portions situated between the extremities of the ribs or
blades.
Having now described the nature of our improvements in clothes
brushes, and the manner in which the same is to be carried into practical
effect, we would remark in conclusion that what we claim is, a clothes
brush having combined with its back or handle or attached thereto a
scraper or scrapers consisting of one or a series of sharpe dged ribs or
blades or grooves in rows at right angles or otherwise to each other so
as to leave a series of pyramidal projections or pointed scrapers as herein
described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Alfred Warrington and
Alfred Minton, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this the
Twentieth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.
THO³. A. WARRINGTON. (L.S.)
ALFRED MINTON.
(L.S.)