A NEW OR IMPROVED APPLIANCE OR GLOVE TO BE USED FOR HORTICULTURAL AND OTHER PURPOSES, AND FOR CLEANING AND SMOOTHING THE COATS OF ANIMALS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Griffith Brewer, of Chancery Lanc, in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPLIANCE OR
GLOVE TO BE USED FOR HORTICULTURAL AND OTHER PURPOSES, AND FOR
CLEANING AND SMOOTHING THE COATS OF ANIMALS." A communication from
abroad by Isidore Dominique Sabaté, of Paris, France.
Scaled the 21st November 1876, and dated the 23rd May 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Griffith Brewer at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd May 1876.
EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER, of Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex.
"A NEW OR IMPROVED APPLIANCE OR GLOVE TO BE USED FOR HORTICULTURAL
AND OTHER PURPOSES, AND FOR CLEANING AND SMOOTHING THE COATS OF ANIMALS."
A communication from abroad by Isidore Dominique Sebaté, of Paris, France.
This Invention substantially consists in the manufacture and employment of an
appliance or glove, consisting of a foundation or form made of skin, fabric, or other
suitable material, covered wholly or partially with a second envelope or covering
either of metal lace or woven work of textile lace or woven work, or of a knitted
fabric composed of animal material. The two forms or envelopes may be employed
together or separately. The outer covering or envelope may be made of steel or
iron network, copper, or of other metal or combination of metals, or it may be made
to resemble ancient armour, or it may be made of a rough textile material, such as
of hemp, flax, and the like, or of animal material, such as gut.
Appliances or gloves made according to this Invention are useful in horticulture,
agriculture, viniculture, floriculture, and other purposes, as well as for cleaning and
polishing or smoothing the coats of horses, oxen, and other animals.
This appliance or glove although having a rough surface at the same time
possesses a certain amount of flexability or suppleness, whereby whether it is used
for trees, plants, animals, or other purposes it is capable when applied thereto of
adapting itself to the varying forms, and of removing moss or other extraneous
material, flies, worms, insects, or other injurious impurities therefrom, which if
allowed to remain produce injurious results. When the appliance is used for animals
it advantageously takes the place of the currycomb, now usually employed, which
only acts upon the projecting parts.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Griffith Brewer in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd
November 1876.
EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER, of Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex.
"A NEW OR IMPROVED APPLIANCE OR GLOVE TO BE USED FOR HORTICULTURAL AND
OTHER PURPOSES, AND FOR CLEANING AND SMOOTHING THE COATS OF ANIMALS."
A communication from abroad by Isidore Dominique Sebaté, of Paris, France.
This Invention refers to a glove made of skin or of fabric composed of different
materials, covered by another fabric made of links either of steel, iron, brass, or any
other metal, such as lace work or work resembling ancient armour, or it may be
made of textile materials, such as hemp, flax, or animal material, such as guts or
analogous products. This glove may be employed for such purposes as horticulture,
agriculture, viniculture, floriculture, and also for dressing the coats of animals in
general, such as horses, cattle, and the like.
By the particular and peculiar construction of this glove it affords a great rough-
ness of surface so that if applied to plants, trees, or bushes it decorticates and frees
them from moss and animal matters which are injurious to these trees or plants.
Although rough this glove possesses a certain amount of flexibility whereby all
cavities which may exist on such trees or bushes are brought under its operation.
This apparatus or glove when applied to the dressing of animals coats may with
advantage be used instead of the currycomb now generally employed, which by
reason of its rigidity only enables the prominent parts of the animal to be reached.
An apparatus or glove constructed or made according to one part of this
Invention, and made up of either skin, linen, or any other suitable fabric is shewn
at Figure 1, and at Figure 2 as partially with a second envelope made of metallic
links, or of links made of textile or animal material. These two envelopes may be
used either both at once or separately. The external one the roughness of which is
sufficient in agricultural, floricultural, or vinicultural purposes for decorticating
trees and bushes to remove moss or other foreign matters either vegetable or
animal.
Different views are shewn in the accompanying Drawings; firstly, of an internal
glove which may be made of leather, skin, or of any other fabric (see Figure 1);
Secondly, of a glove made of steel links or any other metal or material (see
Figure 2); here it will be soon that the links which correspond to the rubbing
parts are soldered at a in order to obtain a great solidity; the other parts of the
glove may, however, be made of links partially soldered, and some of them simply
closed, as it will be understood that these links which form the metallic glove are
composed partially of divided links and partially of full links.
It is well known that cleanliness is a very important point in fattening cattle, but
this result ought only to be obtained by subjecting the animals to as little fatigue
as possible, and much labour ought not to be required to clean them, advantages which
my glove afford by reason of its flexibility and hardiness. The operation may be
easily accomplished and very quickly; thus currycombs which are really in-
struments of torture for animals may be dispensed with, and besides with them it is
impossible to reach the cavities of the animal, such as the shoulder and other joints
specially on thorough bred horses, whereas by this Invention all these parts can be
reached.
Concerning agriculture if it is important after the process of decorticating that
the reproductive agents or germs which have been removed from the trees or bushes
should be destroyed; to effect this a moveable vessel or apparatus (Figure 4) may
be placed at the base of trees or bushes which are to be treated to receive these
reproducers or agents which can by this means be casily destroyed.
As it may be in some cases rather difficult with this glove to get into the inter-
section of branches in trees or bushes, the difficulty is overcome by using a small
apparatus (Figure 5) which resembles in shape an ordinary saw, the blade of which

page_text: is replaced by a chain or its equivalent, and in this way all these parts may be
reached whatever may be their form.
A glove made according to Figure 3 might also be used. It is composed partially
of links band of a smooth part c. These links might be made of wire of any shape,
round, square, or flat, if the wire used has sharp angles instead of being rounded the
operation will be more efficient.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that I claim―
First. The employment of a glove appliance or apparatus made in two distinct
parts, viz., an internal part made of skin, linen, or any other fabric covered wholly
or partially with another envelope made of metallic tissue or fabric, textile fabrics
or other fabrics, substantially in manner and for the purposes described and set
forth.
Second. The special apparatus serving to reach between the parts where the glove
cannot penetrate, substantially as described and shown.
Third. The vessel or recipient serving to collect all agents or germs of decom-
position to enable the same to be destroyed by fire or other means, substantially as
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Griffith Brewer, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
E. G. BREWER. (L.S.)