Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Apr.; 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 24th Aug., 1888
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I, GEORGE HAMPTON COURSEN, of 1017, North Calvert Street, in the City of
Baltimore, State of Maryland, United States of America, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Nail brushes are sometimes provided with nail cleaners consisting of pointed
projections or horns at the rear end of the handle, which are of such form as to be
passed beneath the nails. The projections or horns have usually been on opposite
sides of the end of the handle, and of a curved hook form with their points facing
each other. Not only is this shape and arrangement of said projections awkward and
inconvenient for the purpose for which they are designed, but being exposed they are
readily blunted and liable to be broken off by striking or coming in contact with hard
surfaces.
My Invention consists in providing the rear end of the handle of the nail brush
with a central nail cleaner or nail cleaning projection, and guards on opposite sides
thereof, but separated therefrom and constructed to protect the nail cleaner from
injury, also whereby a more efficient shape may be given to the nail cleaner. The
nail cleaner is formed by a projection on the rear end of the handle centrally or inter-
mediately of its width and on opposite sides of this nail cleaner the rear end of the
handle is further constructed or provided with side guards made so as to leave spaces
between them and the nail cleaner and are constructed to project slightly heyond the
front or working end of the nail cleaner; they are also of such a thickness and shape
that they project beyond the nail cleaner in direction of its thickness especially
toward its sharp or working outer end. The nail cleaner may be of a chisel shape or
straight and flat with square edges at its outer end without making a dangerous
exposure of the same.
G. H. COURSEN.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Ohancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: Improvements in Nail Brushes.
I, GEORGE HAMPTON COURSEN, of 1017, North Calvert Street, in the City of
Baltimore, State of Maryland, United States of America, Gentleman, 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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Nail brushes are sometimes provided with nail cleaners consisting of pointed pro-
jections or horns at the rear end of the handle, which are of such form as to ho passed
beneath the nails. The projections or horns have usually been on opposite sides of
the end of the handle and of a curved hook form with their points facing each other.
Not only is this shape and arrangement of said projections awkward and inconvenient I
for the purpose for which they are designed, but being exposed they are readily
blunted and liable to be broken off by striking or coming in contact with hard
surfaces.
My Invention consists in providing the rear end of the handle of the nail brush
with a central nail cleaner or nail cleaning projection and guards on opposite sides 1
thereof but separated therefrom and constructed to protect the nail cleaner from
injury, also whereby a more efficient shape may be given to the nail cleaner,
substantially as hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
specification in which figure 1 represents a back view of a nail brush with the 2
improvement applied to its handle. Figure 2 is a partly sectional side view of the
saime, the section being taken upon the line - in figure 1; and figure 3 is a rear
end view of the brush. Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in
all the figures.
A is the handle of the brush, made of any suitable material and of any desired 2
shape in its general configuration. The nail cleaner is indicated by the letter b, and
is formed by a projection on the rear end of the handle centrally or intermediately of
its width. On opposite sides of this nail cleaner & the rear end of the handle is
further constructed or provided with guards c c. These side guards are made to leave
spaces dd between them and the nail cleaner and are constructed to project slightly 3
beyond the front or working end of the nail cleaner: they are also of such a
thickness and shape that they project beyond the nail cleaner b in the direction of its
thickness, especially towards its sharp or working outer end. This construction
secures the nail cleaner b from coming in contact with any outside hard flat surface
or body no matter in what position the end of the handle is placed whether end wise, 3
flatwise, or otherwise, and thus said nail cleaner is protected from being blunted or
broken off.
Said construction also provides for making the nail cleaner 6 of a chisel shape or
straight and flat with square edges at its outer end without making a dangerous

page_text: exposure of the same, which shape of the nail cleaner will be a much more effective
one than that of the nail cleaning projections now in ordinary use on nail brush
handles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. In nail brushes, the handle of the brush provided at its rear end intermediately
of its width with a projecting nail cleaner and with opposite side guards at said end
leaving intervening spaces between them and the cleaner and constructed to protect
the outer or working end of the cleaner, substantially as specified.
2. The handle of the brush provided at its rear end intermediately of its width
with a projecting nail cleaner and with opposite side guards at said end leaving
intervening spaces between them and the cleaner and constructed to project both
beyond the outer or working end of said cleaner and outside of it in direction of its
thickness, essentially as and for the purpose, or purposes, hercin set forth.
3. In a nail brush handle, the combination of the flat chisel-shaped projecting nail
cleaner intermediately of the width of the handle at the rear end thereof and the
further projecting side guards ee of greater thickness than the cleaner and separated
from the cleaner by intervening spaces, substantially as shown and described.
G. H. COURSEN,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.