AN IMPROVEMENT TO A CURRY COMB, BY INVERTING THE HANDLE OVER THE BACK OF THE COMB, THUS RENDERING THE PRESSURE, WHEN ON ITS TEETH, MORE EQUABLE;
Year: 1815

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENT SHALL COME, I, JAMES
CARPENTER, of Willenhall, in the County of Stafford, Curry Comb Maker,
send greeting.
me,
WHEREAS I, the said James Carpenter, have invented "AN IMPROVEMENT
TO A CURRY COMB, BY INVERTING THE HANDLE OVER THE BACK OF THE COMB,
THUS RENDERING THE PRESSURE, WHEN ON ITS TEETH, MORE EQUABLE;" and
whereas His Majesty King George the Third, by Letters Patent bearing date
at Westminster, the Twenty-third day of August, in the fifty-fifth year of His
reign, after reciting my said Invention and my Petition for the said Letters
Patent for it, for the term of fourteen years, hath given and granted unto
the said James Carpenter, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, especial licence,
full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said James Carpenter, my
exors, adiiors, and assigns, and every of them, by myself or themselves, or
by my and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I,
the said James Carpenter, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise,
and vend my said Invention within that part of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, in such manner as to me, the said James Carpenter,
my exors, adiñors, and assigns, or any of them, should in my or their discre-
tion seem meet. And it is by the said Letters Patent provided, that if I, the

page_text: said James Carpenter, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of
my
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to
be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the
said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages thereby granted, should
utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein contained to the
contrary in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said Letters Patent,
inrolled in the High Court of Chancery, may more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Carpenter, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention
or Improvement, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
are particularly described in the Diagrams annexed, and words following:-
The handle, instead of being made straight as in the common comb, is by
binding the tine inverted over the back of the comb, as in Figures 1 and 2,
or raised by cranking the tine, as in Figures 3 and 5. The handle of the
comb in Figure 2 is supported on each side by a bearer (a) rivetted to the
comb at each side and the handle at each end (b, b), and may be raised or
depressed at pleasure. When raised, the handle is kept in its position by two
slide stays with grooves (c, c), one on each side, rivetted to the top of the
comb, as shown in. Figure 4 (d), which receive the supporters into grooves, as
Figure 2, c, c. The advantages which will be derived from my Invention are
these:
First, the pressure on the teeth of all the bars of the comb will be equal,
whereas in, the comb with a common handle the pressure is for the most part
confined to the three or four first bars.
Secondly, in using the comb with a brush, the hand holding the comb is
protected from the brush. And,
Thirdly, the combs in Figures 1 and 2 may be more conveniently packed
for removal from place to place than the common comb.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Carpenter, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifteen.
Signed and sealed, by the within-named
James Carpenter, in the presence of
JAMES (L.s.) CARPENTER.
JOHN SIMCOX, Att,
Birmingham.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifth day of October, in the
year of our Lord 1815, the aforesaid James Carpenter came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of
the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifteen.