Improvements in the Manufacture of Neck Protectors.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Nov., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec.. 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION,
Improvements in the Manufacture of Neck Protectors.
I GEORGE FREDERICK EYRE of 1 Meal Street Fountain Street Manchester
in the County of Lancaster Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
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The object of this invention is to manufacture an article intended chiefly to be
used as a "neck protector by hair dressers to prevent the falling of the short hairs
down the neck of the person being operated upon, which is a well known source of
discomfort and irritation, the same article can also be used as a
"neck protector
to prevent the rubbing of the collar against the neck of the wearer in cases of
tenderness or irritation of the skin, or under other circumstances where a
"neck
protector" may be desirable.
For the purposes of my invention I first make a roll or lap of cotton wool with
an intervening layer of tissue paper or other suitable material under pressure
preferably in the manner and by means of the apparatus described in the Specifi-
cation of Letters Patent No. 2848 granted to me and dated the 22nd day of
February 1890 and whilst this combined roll or lap of cotton wool and tissue
paper is in a state of compression I cut it transversely by means of a slicing knife
or other suitable instrument into slices of from about half to three quarters of an
inch thick, each slice thus forming a flat coil of compressed cotton wool of con-
venient width and several yards long when uncoiled, with an intervening layer of
tissue paper or other suitable material in which state it may be kept ready for use
as a "neck protector."
When required a certain length (say 12 to 15 inches more or less) of the cotton
wool and paper is torn off, and the tissue paper being then removed the cotton
wool will expand to about three quarters of an inch or more in thickness and in
this state it is placed round the neck and being tucked in between it and the collar
will form an efficient protector to prevent any of the short "snippets" of hair
(when being cut) from falling down between the neck and the collar as above
mentioned and when removed from the neck will carry all the short hairs or
snippets" away with it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
First-The manufacture of "neck protectors" by coiling a lap or roll of cotton
wool under pressure, with an intervening layer of tissue paper or other suitable
substance and cutting the same whilst under pressure into transverse slices or flat
coils to be used as "neck protectors
substantially in the manner and for the
purposes hereinbefore set forth, and
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Secondly claim as a new manufacture "neck protectors" made of cotton
wool formed into flat coils in combination with tissue paper or other suitable
substance substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1892.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.