IMPROVEMENTS IN CUBRY- COMBS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Veal, of Willenhall, in the County of
Stafford, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CUBRY-
COMBS."
Sealed the 22nd May 1860, and dated the 8th March 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Veal at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th March 1860.
I, THOMAS VEAL, of Willenhall, in the County.of Stafford, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CURRYCOMBS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists, firstly, in making ribs or corrugations on the bodies
of currycombs, in addition to the single rib or corrugation, sometimes made
on each edge thereof. By the use of the said ribs or corrugations on the
bodies of currycombs the said bodies are much strengthened. Tho said ribs
or corrugations may either be straight.or curved.
My Invention consists, secondly, of the following method. or methods of
making the bars of currycombs. In the ordinary method of making the said
bars they are forged from plain bar iron. My Invention consists in making
them from iron rolled thick on one edge and thin on the other, and concave
in. the sides; or the body of the bar may be for the most part, thin, and have

page_text: a strong rib or shoulder on one edge. The said rolled bars are cut into
suitable lengths, and the ends by which the currycomb bars are secured to the
body of the currycomb are made by forging.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Veal in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd September 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
VEAL, of Willenhall, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Thomas Veal, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Veal,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Thomas Veal, 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
CURRYCOMBS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas
Veal, 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 Thomas Veal, 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 thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists, firstly, in making ribs or corrugations on the bodies
of currycombs in addition to the single rib or. corrugation sometimes made on
each edge thereof.
This part of my Invention is illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the
accompanying Drawing, Figure 1 representing a back view of a currycomb
made according to my Invention, Figure 2 a front view or face of the same, and

page_text: Figures 3 and 4 transverse and longitudinal sections of the same, taken through
a is the body
the currycomb, to
To the face of the
the lines 2, 3, respectively of Figure 1.
which the handle 6 is affixed in the ordinary manner.
said body a the serrated or toothed bars c, c, and the plain bar of the curry-
comb are rivetted as usual. I make on the said body a two ribs or corru-
gations d, d, near either edge of the body of the currycomb, in addition to the
ribs or corrugations e, e, usually made at the edges of the said body. The
additional ribs or corrugations are best seen in the plan and, longitudinal
section, Figures 1 and 4. The said ribs or corrugations d, d, are made by
stamping or pressing, or by an "oliver" or other machine, at the same time as
the ordinary ribs or corrugations e, e, are made. The ribs or corrugations d, d.
may either be straight, as represented, or be curved, or have any ornamental
figure. By the use of the said ribs or corrugations d, d, on the bodies of
currycombs the said bodies are much strengthened.
My Invention consists, secondly, of the method or methods, herein-after
described, of making the bars of currycombs. I will describe this part of my
Invention with reference to Figures 2, 3, and 4 of the Drawing. In the
ordinary method of manufacture the bars c, c, and of the currycomb are
made by forging from plain bar iron. My Invention consists in making the
said bars by rolling, pressing, or stamping.
In carrying this part of my Invention into effect, I take suitable lengths
of heated iron, and by means of suitably shaped rolls give to the said bar of
iron the shape represented in the transverse section of the bars c, c, Figure 3,
of the currycomb, that is to say, I make the said currycomb bars thick on
one edge and thin on the other, and concave in the sides, the bars so formed
being nearly wedge-shaped in transverse section; or I roll the said bars for
the most part thin, and with a strong shoulder on the upper edge, as repre-
sented in Figures 3 and 4, and marked c. The bar rolled of either of the
shapes described is afterwards cut into suitable lengths to form the curry-
comb bars c, c, and c, and the ends f of the currycomb bars, by which they
are secured to the body of the currycomb, are fashioned by rolling, pressing,
or stamping, or by an "oliver" or other machine. The thin edges of the
bars are serrated or toothed in the usual manner. Instead of making the
currycomb bars c, c, and c by rolling, which method of manufacture I
prefer, I sometimes make the said bars by stamping or pressing in properly
shaped dies.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described, as the same may be varied

page_text: without departing from the nature of my Invention; but I claim as my
Invention,
Firstly, the improvement in currycombs herein-before described and illus-
'trated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, making, near either side
of the body of the currycomb, an additional rib or corrugation, by which said
ribs or corrugations the said body is much strengthened.
Secondly, the improvements in making the bars of currycombs, herein-
before described with reference to Figures 2, 3, and 4 of the accompanying
Drawing, that is to say, making the said bars by rolling, pressing, or
stamping, instead of by forging.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Veal, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this First day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw.
THOMAS VEAL. (L.S.)