An Improved Hat Brushing Article, applicable also as a Brush for Brushing Garments generally.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Hat Brushing Article, applicable also as a Brush
for Brushing Garments generally.
I, EDWIN ARTHUR KENYON, of 13, Massey Park, Liscard, in the County of
Chester, Estate Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
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This invention has reference, primarily, to articles for brushing hats, such as
felt and silk hats; but is applicable also for brushing garments generally. The
general nature or form of the device is that of a pad-brush.
According to this invention, the brushing device is generally in the form of
a stuffed pad, having special features and characteristics hereafter described.
The side or surface of the pad which is to act as a brush for brushing and cleaning,
or renovating hats, such as felt hats, or silk hats, is made of a textile fabric of
the plush type, having a cut pile surface, the pile being relatively strong and
stiff, and standing at a more or less acute angle (that is, not at right angles), to
the base of the fabric; and this pile is disposed and adapted to be used on the
pad, so that the direction of movement of the brush is in the same direction as
the inclination of the pile. Thus, the fibres of the pile, being of a stiff or rough
order, will enter the fibre or nap of the felt or silk of the hat or fabric, as the
case may be, and will draw out and remove all dust from the interstices, and
thoroughly clean and renovate it. After this has been done, the hat may be
smooth brushed by drawing the pad over it in the required direction, so that the
pile or fibre is moved in a direction away from the direction of its inclination.
The other side of the pad may be of velvet, smooth plush, or any suitable fabric;
or it may be of the same plush as the face.
In connection with hat brush pads of the kind referred to, there is, according
to this invention, provided at one edge, a flap, comparatively thin, and having
a wire or other stiffening in it; it being preferably joined to the body, so as to be
freely movable upon it; in the manner of a hinge. This device or part is mainly
for brushing and cleaning the surface inside the rim of felt, silk, or other similar
hats, it being so adapted as to pass in one side, enter under the overturned rim, and
pass out of the other, and brushing and cleaning the whole of the rim.
Preferably, the rubbing surface of this part, is made of the same pile fabric
as the body above described, with the pile projecting at an inclination the same
as the direction of movement. If, therefore, this flap be along one of the
longer sides of the body, the angle of inclination of the pile in the body will
be at right angles to the angle of the pile in the flap.

page_text: The pad portion or body is stuffed with any suitable material.
As to the general form of the article, it may be rectangular in shape, or have
any other desired configuration or shape.
Datad this 7th day of January 1898
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
Applicant's Patent Agents, 15, Water Street, Liverpool.
An Improved Hat Brushing Article, applicable also as a Brush
for Brushing Garments generally.
I, EDWIN ARTHUR KENYON, of 13, Massey Park, Liscard, in the County of
Chester, House Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has reference, primarily, to articles for brushing hats and caps,
such as felt and silk hats and cloth caps; but is applicable also for brushing
garments generally. The general nature or form of the device is that of a pad
brush.
According to this invention, the brushing device is generally in the form of a
stuffed pad, having special features and characteristics hereafter described.
The side or surface of the pad which is to act as a brush for brushing and cleaning,
or renovating hats, such as felt hats, or silk hats, is made of a textile, fabric of
the plush type, having a cut pile surface, the pile being relatively strong and
stiff, and standing at a more or less acute angle (that is, not at right angles), to
the base of the fabric; and this pile is disposed and adapted to be used on the
pad, so that the direction of movement of the brush is in the same direction as
the inclination of the pile. Thus, the fibres of the pile, being of a stiff or rough
order, will enter the fibre or nap of the felt or silk of the hat or fabric, as the
case may be, and will draw out and remove all dust from the interstices, and
thoroughly clean and renovate it. After this has been done, the hat may be smooth
brushed, by drawing the pad over it in the required direction, so that the pile
or fibre is moved in a direction away from the direction of its inclination.
The other side of the pad may be of velvet, smooth plush, or any suitable
fabric; or, it may be of the same plush as the face.
In connection with hat brush pads of the kind referred to, there is, according
to this invention, provided at one edge, a flap, comparatively thin, and with or
without a wire or other stiffening in it; it being preferably joined to the body,
so as to be freely movable upon it; in the manner of a hinge. This device or
part is mainly for brushing and cleaning the surface inside the rim of felt, silk,
or other similar hats, it being so adapted as to pass in one side, enter under the
overturned rim, and pass out of the other, and brushing and cleaning the whole
of the rim.
Preferably, the rubbing surface of this part, is made of the same pile fabric
as the body above described, with the pile projecting at an inclination the same
as the direction of movement. If, therefore, this flap be along one of the longer
sides of the body, the angle or inclination of the pile in the body will be at right
angles to the angle of the pile in the flap.
The pad portion or body is stuffed with any suitable material.
As to the general form of the article, it may be rectangular in shape, or have
any other desired configuration or shape.

page_text: The invention, the nature of which is above described, will be further described,
with the aid of the accompanying drawings, in which are shewn three modifications
of brushing article.
Figure 1 is a plan, Figure 2 a side view, and Figure 3 an end view of one
modification; Figure 4 is a plan, and Figure 5 a side view shewing the second
modification; Figure 6 being a plan of the third modification.
Referring to these drawings, a is the body of the pad, or the pad proper, and
bis the flap. The side of the body a which is covered with the pile fabric of
the kind referred to, namely, preferably, seal plush, is designated a¹, and a part
of the pad shewing this material, with its inclined pile, is shewn in section, the
base of the fabric being marked a2, whilst the direction of pile and length is shewn
by the inclined lines. The other side of the body of the pad may be velvet, smooth
plush, or any suitable fabric.
With regard to the flap b, one side of it is made of the same material, namely
seal plush, with the inclined pile, the direcion of the pile being that indicated by
A portion of this edge is shewn in section at 61 in Figure 2, which
indicates the direction of the inclination of the pile, which is along the length
of the flap.
the arrows.
The other side of the flap may be made of the same material as the opposite side
of the body, so that one side of the body and flap will be of the kind of plush
referred to, and the other will be preferably a soft velvet or smooth plush.
The flap will consist of two thicknesses of material joined together, they being
stitched all round the edges, and along the part e which forms a joint; and at
this part, the joining of the two parts of the plush forming, respectively, the flap
and body, will be sewn together, the inclination of the pile of these two points
being, as stated, arranged in directions at right angles to each other.
In the modification shewn in Figures 4 and 5, the flap 6 is on the end of the
body, in lieu of the side, and consequently the seal plush, both of the body, and
of the flap is in one piece, with the pile inclined towards the direction indicated
by the arrows.
In use, in brushing the rim of a hat, the flap is placed flat down, with the seal
plush side downwards on the rim, so that it will be at about right angles to the
body, with the inclined pile lying in the direction of movement. Then by
drawing the body along, the pad will enter in under the overturned rim of the
hat (such as that of a man's silk or felt hat) and will brush it, and remove all
the dust. The inclination of the pile, and the nature of the plush fabric used,
being stiff and having great resilience, virtually makes the article a brush, with
very short and closely packed inclined fibres or filaments.
In like manner, the plush surface of the body is applied to the body of the hat
with the pile inclined towards the direction of movement of the pad in brushing,
and acts as a brush, brushing off all dust and dirt from the felt or silk, and
cleaning the hat.
Obviously, the pad, with one or both of its surfaces of the seal plush, or equi-
valent material, will serve as a brush for brushing clothes and other articles of
textile material, as well as hats.
The use and action of the pad shewn in Figures 4 and 5, is identical with that
just described, except, of course, that the end b is laid on the brim with the body
turned up lengthwise, instead of in the direction of the pad or brush first described.
The modification illustrated in Figure 6, consists in making the pad a, and
Alap b, in two pieces, suitably joined together at c, and having the inclination of
the pile surfaces running in contrary directions (as indicated by the arrows).
so that after brushing the body of the hat by the pad, say, with the pile surface a¹
inclined in the direction of movement, the pad is turned, and the end piece,
which is preferably not stiffened, may be pressed into the rim by the fingers,
and drawn through same, thus brushing and cleaning, the rim.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, it is to be stated that although
I have shewn and described the brushing article made up in a particular way,
or of particular shape and form, the invention is not restricted to these, and that
what I claim in respect of the herein described invention is:-
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1. The herein described brushing article comprising a body, and a flap, the
brushing surface being of pile fabric such as specified, the pile of which is adapted
to act as described; for the purposes specified.
2. The hat brushing article, having its brushing surfaces made of material speci-
fied, and arranged and adapted to act particularly as set forth with reference to
and shewn in the drawings.
Dated this h of Outla
1000
LAYA
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
Applicant's Patent Agents, 15, Water Street, Liverpool.