IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBS FOR THE HEAD
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Copland, of Edinburgh, Scotland, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN COMBS FOR THE HEAD."-A com-
munication from abroad by Benjamin Foster Britton, of the City
and State of New York, United States of America.
Scaled the 4th June 1875, and dated the 25th March 1875.

page_text: or otherwise applied to the sides or ends of the main comb or band so
that it may swing backward thereon to retain the hair.
The main comb may be one of the various styles of children's long
combs, or a combination, back, tuck, crown, or other comb made of hard
rubber, vulcanite, horn, shell, gutta percha, brass, steel, or any other 5
suitable material, and to its sides the second comb is applied by pivot
pins or by a hinge, slot, or other equivalent fastening device, which will
allow of the ready swinging back and adjusting to the same to the
hair.
If desired more than one auxiliary swinging comb may be used, the 1
same being provided with full or gradually diminishing teeth, or a mere
fastening band without teeth may be used instead of a comb.
The main comb is adjusted to the hair in the usual manner, and the
swinging comb is then carried back over the same into the hair of
the back of the head so as to form an additional retaining device for the 1
hair.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said David Copland in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 25th September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DAVID
COPLAND, of Edinburgh, Scotland, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said David Copland, Her special
licence that I, the said David Copland, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said David Copland, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
COMBS FOR THE HEAD," being a communication to me from abroad by

page_text: If desired more than one auxiliary swinging comb may be used, the
same being provided with full or gradually diminishing teeth, or a mere
fastening band without teeth may be used instead of a comb.
The main or front comb A is adjusted to the head in the usual manner,
and the swinging comb B is then carried back over the same into the
hair of the back of the head, as shewn at Fig. 1, so as to form an
additional retaining device for the hair, preventing its falling forward,
aud also the sliding or dropping out of the main holding comb. The
front and back comb, or either of them, may if desired be ornamented
in any suitable manner.
Combs constructed as above described will furnish a very convenient
hair fastening device, which will increase the neat appearance of the
hair, and may be applied with equal facility as the combs hitherto
used.
Having thus described the Invention of "Improvements in Combs for
the Head," as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and
explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be
understood that under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim
a duplex comb composed of a main comb or band with one or more
swinging hair retaining auxiliary combs or bands, constructed and
applied substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Copland, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Eighteenth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.