Tongue Cleaner Attachment for Tooth Brushes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 10th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Apr., 1895-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Tongue Cleaner Attachment for Tooth Brushes.
We, WILL AND FINCK COMPANY of San Francisco, State of California, a
Corporation duly organised and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the
State of California, Manufacturers, and MORRIS FREDRICK a member of the
said corporation all of 818 Market Street, San Francisco, California, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
This invention relates to an attachment for tooth brushes, and consists of' a
folding or closing blade which is adapted when opened for the purpose of scraping
or cleaning the tongue.
In carrying out our invention we form upon or attach to the handle of the tooth
brush, which may be of any suitable or usual construction, a thin elastic blade
made of bone, celluloid, or other suitable material and provided with a scraping
edge. This blade may be pivoted at one end to the handle so as to fold into a
channel or slot provided in the latter for that purpose when the blade is not being
used, and to open out when required for use.
Or the blade may be made to slide longitudinally in the handle, in which case it
will be provided with projecting lugs on the inner end for the purpose of preventing
it from being entirely withdrawn from the brush handle.
Or we may otherwise arrange for the blade to be permanently secured upon and
extending from the end of the handle of the tooth brush.
This device is especially adapted for. the purpose of scraping or cleaning the
tongue whenever the latter is coated, and forms a convenient attachment for a
tooth brush so that it will always be ready for use when required.
Dated this Tenth day of July 1894.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Tongue Cleaner Attachment for Tooth Brushes.
'
We, WILL AND FINCK COMPANY of San Francisco, State of California a
Corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the
State of California, Manufacturers, and MORRIS FREDRICK a member of the said
corporation all of 818 Market Street, San Francisco, California 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 relates to an attachment for tooth brushes and consists of a folding
or closing blade which is adapted when opened for the purpose of scraping or
cleaning the tongue.
Referring to the accompanying drawings for a more complete explanation of our

page_text: Figure 2 shows a modification, and
Figure 3 shows an arrangement in which the blade is permanently fixed to the
handle.
A is a tooth brush having the handle B of any suitable or usual construction.
This handle has attached to or formed with it a thin elastic blade D.
In the arrangement shewn in Figure 1'the handle B is slotted or channelled as
shewn at C, so as to admit of the blade D which is pivoted at the end and folds
into the channel or unfolds from it.
This blade may be made of bone, celluloid or other suitable material and is made
thin enough to be elastic, having also a scraping edge. It may be either pivoted
into the handle, as shewn at E, so as to open and close within the slot, or it may be
made slidable longitudinally in the handle, as shewn in Figure 2, in which case it will
be provided with projecting lugs E, on the inner end, which will prevent its being
entirely withdrawn from the brush handle.
In Figure 3, the blade D is shewn permanently fixed and projecting from the
end of the handle B.
This device is especially adapted for the purpose of scraping or cleaning the
tongue whenever the latter is coated, and forms a convenient attachment for a tooth
brush so that it will always be ready for use when needed.
'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 :-
1. As a new article of manufacture, an intermediate handle having a toothbrush
fixed to one end and an elastic scraping blade forming an extension from the
-other.
2. As a new article of manufacture a tooth brush having the slotted or
channelled - handle, and a blade capable of extension beyond the end of the
handle.
Dated this Second day of Anril 1895.