Improved Pocket Toilet Appliance.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1896-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1896
Improved Pocket Toilet Appliance.
I, WILLIAM CARRICK, of No. 8 Columbus Avenue, Boston, in the County of
Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, United States of America, Jeweller, 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:-
This invention has for its object to provide a simple and convenient manicure-
implement, adapted to be carried in the pocket, and to be used for various purposes,
such as cleaning the ears and nails. The invention consists in the improvements.
which I will now proceed to describe and claim.
Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,―
Figure 1 represents, in separate views, the parts of my improved implement,
disconnected.
Figure 2 represents a sectional view, showing the parts together.
In the drawings-
a represents a tubular shank, upon one end of which is formed a circular or
disk-shaped head a. The said head is made of suitable size to be conveniently-
inserted in the human ear, and while comparatively thin, is carefully finished
and polished around its margin, to avoid any roughness and prevent any
liability of scratching the surfaces on which it acts, the object being to enable
the disk to thoroughly clean the ear without injuring it. The opposite end
of the shank a is cut away at one side to form a nail-scraping or cleaning
projection a³.
b represents a smaller shank, adapted to be inserted in the tubular shank a and
provided at one end with a disk or head 6', which is formed like the head a¹ but is
preferably of a different diameter. The opposite end of the shank b is reduced to
a thin flat top, being thus formed to serve as a toothpick, or it may be adapted for
any other desired purpose.
It will be seen that when one shank is inserted in the other, as shown in
Figure 2, the disks or heads are located at opposite ends of the device, and can
be used for the purposes for which they are intended, the difference in the sizes of
the two heads giving the operator a choice between two sizes. When carried
in the pocket, the heads prevent any liability of the device peuetrating the material
of the pocket. When the parts are separated, each is capable of being used for
the various purposes for which it is intended, the tubular shank a forming a
convenient sheath for the smaller shank 6 when the latter is not required for use.
The shank a may be split longitudinally, as indicated at a³, which will make it
somewhat yielding and enable it to hug the shank 6 and prevent the latter from.
slipping out accidentally.
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 :-
A manicure implement comprising a tubular shank having at one end a circular

page_text: head or disk, its other end being open, and a smaller solid shank formed to enter
the tubular shank and having a circular disk or head at one end, and a thin flat tip
at the other end, the two disks being of different diameters.
Dated this 5th day of June 1896.
WILLIAM CARRICK.