AN IMPROVED COMBINED HAIR BRUSH AND COMB
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Barr, Clerk, Sudbrook Park, Richmond,
Surrey, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED COMBINED HAIR BRUSH AND
COMB."
Sealed the 25th August 1854, and dated the 6th March 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said David Barr at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
March 1854.
I, DAVID BARR, Clerk, Sudbrook Park, Richmond, Surrey, do hereby declare
my Invention for "AN IMPROVED COMBINED HAIR BRUSH AND COмB" to be as
follows:-
The brush and comb are constructed in the usual way, and arranged or
combined so as to form a cavity or receptacle for oil, pomatum, hair dye, &c.,
which are compressed through a small crevice or number of orifices, by means
of a lever or metal plate placed on the top of the pomatum, or other solid com-
pounds or preparations for the hair; a small piece of sponge being inserted and
saturated, when fluids, such as oil, hair dye, &c. are required, the filled sponge
being made to discharge itself gradually on the hair by the use of the same lever
or metal plate.
15 SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said David Barr in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 31st
August 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
BARR, Clerk, Sudbrook Park, Richmond, Surrey, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the seventeenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said David Barr, Her special licence that. I, the said David Barr,
my executors, adininistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said David
Barr, my 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 "AN IMPROVED COMBINED HAIR
BRUSH AND COMB," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said David
Barr, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particu-
larly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said David Barr, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof (that is to say):
Figure 1 represents my Invention in side elevation; Figure 2 represents
the same in transverse section; and Figure 3 represents a plan of the under
part of the same. a is the comb; and b, the hair brush; the said comb and hair
brush being placed back to back, as represented in Figure 1. c is a box or cham-
ber, in the under side of which the comb a is fixed; the said box or chamber c
is provided with a cover d (see Figure 2), which said cover d opens and closes
by turning upon the joint e; the said cover d is fixed when closed by the spring
catch f. The brush 6 (Figure 1) is fixed upon the cover d (Figure 2), but the
said brush is not represented in Figure 2. g, h, is an arm or lever turning
upon the joint e; the said arm or lever carries upon the end of the part ha
plate i, connected therewith by a joint. k is the handle by which the instru-
ment is held. A spring concealed in the joint e tends to bring the arm or
lever g, h, into the position represented in Figure 2, and thereby to force open
the cover d; but when the said cover d is closed down upon the chamber c,
and held in its place by the spring catch f, the arm or lever g, h, and the
plate i assume the position represented by the dotted lines g', hi, ¹, Figure 2.
A piece of sponge, or cotton wool, or other absorbent substance is placed in
the chamber c, and the said sponge, wool, or other substance is impregnated

page_text: with oil, pomatum, hair dye, or any other liquid or semi-liquid substance, with
which it is wished to dress the hair. The lid d having been closed after the
introduction of oil or other matter into the chamber c, the several parts having
the position represented in Figure 1, the instrument is ready for use. The said
instrument is held by the handle k, and while using the comb a, the thumb is
from time to time pressed upon the arm g', whereby the plate i', Figure 2,
compresses the sponge or cotton wool containing the oil or other liquid or
semi-liquid matter, whereby the said oil or matter is squeezed from the said
sponge or wool, and runs down the interstices 1, 1, 1, on to the teeth of the
comb a, the said oil or other matter thus becomes introduced into the hair.
By turning the instrument, the brush 6 may be applied to the hair. Instead
of supplying the oil or other matter contained in the chamber c to the comb, as
described, the said oil or matter may be supplied to the brush.
By the use of my Invention, oil and other liquid and semi-liquid substances
may be applied to the hair in a more uniform manner than when applied by
the hands or a sponge, and the soiling of the hands avoided.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise method herein described, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of my said Invention. But I claim as my
Invention, combining a hair brush and comb, as herein-before described and
represented in the accompanying Drawing; that is to say, attaching the said
hair brush and comb to a chamber or receptacle containing oil or other matter
with which the hair is to be dressed, which said oil or other matter may be
forced from the chamber or receptacle on to the comb or brush during the use
of the said comb or brush.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Barr, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirtieth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT.
DAVID BARR. (L.S.)