AN IMPROVED CURRY-COMB
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of the Firm of John
Gedge and Son, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED CURRY-COMB."-A communication from abroad by Julien
Pierre Even, of Paris, France.
Sealed the 28th January 1870, and dated the 3rd August 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 3rd August 1869.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of
No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED CURRY-COMB," a communication to me from abroad by Julien.
Pierre Even, of Paris, France, to be as follows:-
The curry-comb the subject of this Invention is a combined brush and
curry-comb. By its use the winter or summer coat of a horse or other

page_text: hairy animal may be made to fall off in a few days, and a daily dressing
keeps the coat perfectly clean, giving it a gloss unattainable by the
ordinary method of dressing. This improved brush curry-comb neither
pains nor tickles the animal. It may be passed in any direction over
every part of the animal's body, even, and great stress is laid upon this
point, down to the lower part of a horse's legs, in a word upon the most
sensitive parts of the animal; this cannot be done with ordinary curry-
combs, and therefore the animal remains in an imperfect state of
cleanliness.
This improved curry-comb in no wise alters the mode of currying, the
animal being rubbed as with ordinary curry-combs.
Having set forth the advantages of this improved curry-comb, I will
proceed to describe the construction, reference being had to the annexed
Sheet of Drawing, representing a brush curry-comb ordinary size, which
size may be increased or diminished at pleasure.
Fig. 1, front view. A, handle of brush curry-comb, either of wood or
of metal; B, square plate, rounded at the angles; C, top of metal tubes,
in which are set strips of caoutchouc D.
Fig. 2, side view. A, wooden or metal handle; B, plate slightly
curved; C, tubes fixed on plate; D, strips of caoutchouc, gutta percha,
or other flexible material which will answer the same purpose.
The tubes and the strips of caoutchouc may be set on the metal plate
in any desired direction and position, the shape of the instrument be
modified, and for certain animals it may be useful to insert metal blades
or combs between the tubes holding the strips of caoutchouc.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 3rd February 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of the Firm of John Gedge and Son, of No. 11;
Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of August, in the year of

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our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence
that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Gedge, 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
CURRY-COMB," a communication to me from abroad by Julien Pierro
Even, of Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said William Edward Gedge, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Edward Gedge, 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 :-
The curry-comb the subject of this Invention is a combined brush
and curry-comb. By its use the winter or summer coat of a horse or
other hairy animal may be made to fall off in a few days, and a daily
dressing keeps the coat perfectly clean, giving it a gloss unattainable by
the ordinary method of dressing. This improved brush curry-comb
neither pains nor tickles the animal: It may be passed in any direction
over every part of the animal's body, even, and great stress is laid upon
this point, down to the lower part of a horse's legs, in a word upon the
most sensitive parts of the animal; this cannot be done with ordinary
curry-combs, and therefore the animal remains in an imperfect state of
cleanliness.
This improved curry-comb in no wise alters the mode of currying, the
animal being rubbed as with ordinary curry-combs.
Having set forth the advantages of this improved curry-comb, I will
proceed to describe its construction, reference being had to the annexed

page_text: Sheet of Drawing representing two brush curry-combs ordinary size,
which size may be increased or decreased at pleasure. Similar letters of
reference denote corresponding parts in each of the Figures respectively.
Fig. 1 is a front view of an improved curry-comb made according to
this Invention. A, handle of brush curry-comb, either of wood or of
metal; B, square plate, rounded at the angles; C, top of metal tubes, in
which are set strips of caoutchouc; D, gutta percha or other flexible
material which will answer the same purpose.
Fig. 2 is a side view of same shewing curve of plate B.
The tubes and the strips of caoutchouc may be set on a metal plate in
any desired direction and position, the shape of the instrument be
modified, and for certain animals it may be useful to insert metal blades
or combs between the tubes holding the strips of caoutchouc, as
indicated by E, Figs. 3 and 4.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.