Combined Moustache and Extension Ends for Puffing to Distort Appearance of the Human Face.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Combined Moustache and Extension Ends for Puffing to Distort
Appearance of the Human Face.
I JOHN WILLIAM LAWRENCE of 112 Houndsditch, London, Manufacturer do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object the manufacture of an article which on application
to the mouth of a person and by him blowing through a tube a pair of bag like
projections can be unrolled and made to extend outwardly from either side of the
face and appear, while the blowing lasts, something like a pair of horns, said bags
being secured to the ends of a cross tube attached to the mouth or blowing tube.
Each bag is provided longitudinally with a strip of fine spring wire throughout its
length, said wire with the bag being curled or rolled up to a fixed curl which can
be uncurled by the force of the air blown into the bag and then to return when the
air pressure is removed by the set curl of the wire.
The appliance has a false moustache affixed to the cross tube. The article can
readily be applied to the face and held by loops to the cars of a person and when
the bags are extended they give a distortion to the features a la Mephistopheles.
Dated this 5th day of September 1895.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said J. W. Lawrence.
Combined Moustache and Extension Ends for Puffing to Distort
Appearance of the Human Face.
1, JOHN WILLIAM LAWRENCE, of 112 Houndsditch, London, Manufacturer, 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 object, the manufacture of an article which on application
to the mouth of a person and by him blowing through a tube a pair of bag like
projections can be unrolled and made to extend outwardly from either side of the
face and appear, while the blowing lasts, something like a pair of horns, said bags
being secured to the ends of a cross tube attached to the mouth or blowing tube.
Each bag is provided longitudinally with a strip of fine spring wire throughout its
length, said wire with the bag being curled or rolled up to a fixed curl which cau
be uncurled by the force of the air blown into the bag and then to return, when the
air pressure is removed, by the sett curl of the wire.
The appliance has a false moustache affixed to the cross tube. The article can
readily be applied to the face and held by loops to the cars of a person and when
the bags are extended they give a distortion to the features a la Mephistopheles.

page_text: My invention is clearly represented in the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 elevation of upward curled mouth bags and tapered in a closed up or
deflated condition.
Figure 2 similar view with the mouth bags extended by inflation.
Figure 3 plan of same showing one of the bags mutilated to expose the lining
wire which in this case is secured centrally along the bag.
Figure 4 clevation of downwardly curled mouth bags.
Figure 5 detached view of blow tube and end of one of the side branches.
Figure 6 a curled bag to project forwardly under inflation, the bag being affixed
to the blow pipe in a similar manner as for the side extensions, a nose cap being
also fitted to distort the features of the person wearing the inflated bag or bags to
a greater extent.
Figure 7 represents close curled bag.
A mouth tube. B, B, angled branches therefrom. C, C, inflatable bags of
taper and hollow formation. D, D, wires therein, said wires being of fine drawn
steel or hard brass and curled into a $ sett open
"form, as at Figures 1 and 4, or
somewhat tightly curled, as at Figures 6 and 7.
E is a hairy or furry representation of a moustache which gives a character to
the article and hides the joins of the bags on the mouth and the branch tubes.
I show at Figure 6 a loop for attachment of the article over the ears but in most
cases the pinch of the mouth tube by the teeth or lips of the wearer will retain the
article in place.
For nigger and minstrel entertainments, burlesques, comic farces, in and outdoor
buffoonery and similar performances, the invention will create an endless amount
of laughter from the various sizes of bags, colours of same, and of the direction of
expansion which can be varied to suit circumstances.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. The article represented at Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, of the annexed drawings
and hereinbefore described consisting of a combined moustache and extension ends
for puffing to distort appearances of the human face.
2. The combination of wire with tapered bags capable of .dation by tube in
mouth of operator and deflatable by return of wire to its sett formation which
inflation had overcome, as set forth and shown at, Figure 6 of the annexed
drawings.
The 27th day of November 1895