A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT OR PLANE FOR REMOVING EXCRESCENCES, ROUGHNESS, AND OTHER IRREGULARITIES, ALSO THE SPLIT ENDS OF LADIES' HAIR
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Bond, of Oxford Street, Marylebone, in the
County of Middlesex, Hairdresser, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
INSTRUMENT OR PLANE FOR REMOVING EXCRESCENCES, ROUGHNESS, AND
OTHER IRREGULARITIES, ALSO THE SPLIT ENDS OF LADIES' HAIR.”
Sealed the 17th January 1879, and dated the 16th November 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Bond at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th November 1878.
CHARLES BOND, of Oxford Street, Marylebone, in the County of Middlesex,
Hairdresser. "A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT OR PLANE FOR REMOVING
EXCRESCENCES, ROUGHNESS, AND OTHER IRREGULARITIES, ALSO THE SPLIT ENDS
OF LADIES' HAIR."
The object of my present Invention is to move the excrescences and other irregu-
larities from ladies' hair, also to take off the split ends thereof without injury to
the proper points of the hair, which is of great importance to the growth of the
hair, and to its healthy and comely appearance.
In carrying my said Invention into practice, I form a small implement or plane,
with one projecting handle of wood, ivory, bone, metal, or other suitable material,
somewhat flat in shape and bevilled truly on one side edge thereof; upon this article
I securely fix a steel blade, having a fine razor-like edge, on or adjoining the upper
part of the said article, and so arranged that the edge of the said blade forms a
continuation of the said bevel or incline, or thereabout. In order to protect the
thumb of the operator I fit over the said blade a metal guard, which is also so placed
as to form a further portion of the said bevil, or thereabout.
In using my said instrument I first divide the hair into thin tresses or locks, and
place one such tress or portion of hair upon the bevilled part of the instrument,

page_text: with the operator's thumb pressing such hair upon or against the edge of the said
blade, and then gently draw the instrument under pressure from the thumb from
and in the direction of the roots to the points of the hair. This operation is per-
formed a few times on such tress, which thereby removes all the excrescences and
roughness from the hair, and also the split ends thereof. The same process is
repeated upon all the remaining portion of hair.
My improved method of treatment results in promoting the growth of the hair
generally, in preserving the points or fine ends thereof, in greatly improving its
texture, condition, and appearance, and in frequently preventing the premature loss
of the hair.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Charles Bond in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 12th May
1879.
CHARLES BOND, of Oxford Street, Marylebone, in the County of Middlesex,
Hairdresser. "A NEW OR IMPROVED INSTRUMENT OR PLANE FOR REMOVING
EXCRESCENCES, ROUGHNESS, AND OTHER IRREGULARITIES, ALSO THE SPLIT ENDS
OF LADIES' HAIR."
. The object of my present Invention is to remove the excrescences and other
irregularities from ladies' hair, also to take off the split ends thereof without injury
to the proper points of the hair, which is of great importance to the growth of the
hair, and to its healthy and comely appearance.
In order that my said Invention may be more clearly and more fully understood
and be more readily performed, I will explain the same with the aid of the accom-
panying Drawing, which forms part of this Specification, reference being made
thereto by the numerals and letters marked thereon, and which reference applies
to cach Figure of the said Drawing, where the same index numerals and letters
appear.
Fig. 1 is a plan of my improved implement (hereinafter called a 'plane'),
with the guard fitted thereon.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the head of the plane, with the guard removed to show the
method of fixing the cutting blade.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section thereof on the line A, B, Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a front elevation, and Fig. 5 a back elevation of the same.
In carrying my said Invention into practice I form the frame or stock a of the
plane of wood, bone, ivory, metal, or other suitable material, having one projecting
handle, as shown. The broad part or head of this stock is sunk or reduced in
thickness on its upper side, whereon is fixed by the screws a steel blade c, having
line, or nearly so, with
a fine razor-like edge at d, which edge is arranged to lie in
the bevilled edge e of the stock a, as shown in Fig. 3.
In order to protect the thumb of the operator, I fit or slide over the blade ca
metal guard, as shown in Fig. 3. The front portion g of this guard I prefer to
form to a similar bevil or angle as the part e of the stock a, see Fig. 3.
In using my said improved plane I first divide the hair into thin tresses or locks,
and place one such tress or portion of hair near the roots thereof upon the bevilled
part of the instrument, say from to e, Fig. 3, with the operator's thumb pressing
such hair upon or against the edge of the said blade c, and then gently draw the
plane under pressure from the thumb along the tress of hair to the points thereof.
This operation is performed a few times on each tress, which thereby removes all
the excrescences and roughness from the hair, and also the split ends thereof. The
same process is repeated upon all the remaining portion of hair.
My improved method of treatment results in promoting the growth of the hair
generally, in preserving the points or fine ends thereof, in greatly improving its
texture, condition, and appearance, and in frequently preventing the premature loss
of the hair.
Having thus fully described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and the method of performing the same, I further state that I do not restrict
myself to the precise dimensions, shapes, or forms, or relative proportions of the
several parts
of my
said Invention, but what I claim as new, and desire to secure

page_text: by the herein before mentioned in part recited Letters Patent, the implement or
plane, substantially as and for the purposes herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Bond, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy nine.
CHARLES BOND. (L.S.)