Improvements in connection with the Handles and Backs of Hair Brushes, Hand Mirrors, and like articles.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in connection with the Handles and Backs of Hair
Brushes, Hand Mirrors, and like articles.
We, GEORG WACKER and CHRISTIAN WEIDINGER, of 44, Landgrabenstrasse,
Nurnberg, in the Empire of Germany, Directors of the Bayerische Celluloidwaren-
fabrik, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Haretofore clothes brushes, hair brushes, hand looking glasses and similar
articles have been made upon a base, frame, or setting generally consisting of wood
having strips of bone, horn, or celluloid glued thereon and the present invention
relates to making a celluloid casing of one piece so that the articles will be more
durable and have a more finished appearance, and the manufacture of the article
will be much simpler and cheaper. The annexed drawings shew in Fig. 1 a front
view of a hand looking glass, and in Fig. 2 the longitudinal section of a hair
brush. The cover l'of the article is made of a celluloid sheet which is cut in the
shape of the wood foundation or setting 2 but a little larger, and by means of a
press the sheet is pressed or turned into a bowl into which the wood 2 fits exactly.
The celluloid casing 1 is fixed onto the wood setting 2 by turning the projecting
rims of the bowl inwards so that the edge rests on the wood as shewn at 3. At the
points where the wood 2 is visible, as for instance at the handle or other pro-
jections, a celluloid leaf 4 of shape corresponding to the uncovered portion is
fixed thereon by its edge resting under the turned over portion of the covering 1.
Dated this 10th day of November 1897
BRIERLEY & HOWARD),
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax,
Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in connection with the Handles and Backs of Hair
Brushes, Hand Mirrors, and like articles.
We, GEORG WACKER and CHRISTIAN WEIDINGER, of 44, Landgrabenstrasse,
Nurnberg, in the Empire of Germany, Directors of the Bayerische Celluloidwaren-
fabrik, 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:-
Heretofore clothes brushes, hair brushes, hand looking glasses, and similar
articles have been made upon a base, frame, or setting generally consisting of wood
having strips of bone, horn, or celluloid glued thereon, and the present invention
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page_text: relates to making a celluloid casing of one piece so that the articles will be more
durable and have a more finished appearance, and the manufacture of the article
will be much simpler and cheaper.
Such being the nature and object of our said invention, the following is a
complete description of same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, in
which:-
Fig. 1 is a front view of a hand looking glass.
Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of a hair brush.
According to this invention the cover 1 of the article is made of a celluloid
sheet which is cut in the shape of the wood foundation or setting 2 but a little
larger, and by means of a press the sheet is pressed or turned into a bowl into
which the wood 2 fits exactly. The celluloid casing 1 is fixed onto the wood
setting 2 by turning the projecting rims of the bowl inwards so that the edge
rests on the wood as shewn at 3. At the points where the wood 2 is visible, as for
instance, at the handle or other projections, a celluloid leaf 4 of shape corresponding
to the uncovered portion is fixed thereon by its edge resting under the turned over
portion of the covering 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
The herein described method of manufacturing celluloid covered articles such
as hair brushes, clothes brushes, and similar articles.
Doted this 14th
GEORG WACKER,
CHRISTIAN WEIDINGER,
By their Agents,
Brierley & Howard,
Penny Bank Chambers, Halifax,