AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CURRYCOMBS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Talbot Pitman, of the American & European
Patent Office, No. 67, Gracechurch Street, London, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CURRYCOMBS."-A com-
munication.
Sealed the 3rd November 1857, and dated the 5th May 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Talbot Pitman at
tho Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th May 1857.
I, JOHN TALBOT PITMAN, of the American & European Patent Offices,
No. 67, Gracechurch Street, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CURRYCOMBS," a com-
munication from a foreigner residing abroad, to be as follows:-
It consists in forming the back of the currycomb of india-rubber or other
similar material, having the teeth of the same formed of wire or other sub-
stance secured to the back by running and pressing the india-rubber or other
similar material in the form of ridges, concs, &c. when in a heated state
around the wires or hooks. The teeth may be arranged in any form, and may
be made entirely of the india-rubber. The handle may be attached to & bo
formed at the same time with the back.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Talbot Pitman in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th November 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOIN
TALBOT PITMAN, of the American and European Patent Offices, No. 67,
Gracechurch Street, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
John Talbot Pitman, Her special licence, that I, the said John Talbot Pitman,
or my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
time
Talbot Pitman, or my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
agree with, and no others, from time to timo 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF CURRYCOMBS," a communication, upon the condition (amongst
.others) that I the said John Talbot Pitman,, or my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 John Talbot Pitman, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement reference being had to the Drawings:-
Figure 1 represents a longitudinal side view.
Figure 2
Figure 3
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a plan of the toothed side.
a transverse section at X, X, of Figure 2.
The same letters indicate the same parts.
My Invention consists in constructing of india-rubber or other elastic
material of proper strength a currycomb, combining a sufficiently stiff but
elastic back with a series of teeth of the same material raised upon it, in the
form of ridges, cones, or other suitable protuberances, a part or all of which
may be strengthened by wires or hooks of metal or other material.
A represents the handle of the comb; B, the support for the hand; C

page_text: the back; D, teeth with projecting metallic points; E, teeth strengthened by
wires not projecting; F, teeth without wires.
The comb is formed by running in a melted state and pressing the material
into a mould in which the hooks, when used, have been previously arranged.
The material will thus envelope the wires to the extent required, a portion of
which may be entirely buried in the material while another portion may project
beyond it, and at one moulding will form the teeth in cones, ridges, &c., the
back, supporter, and handle. The india-rubber is then treated and prepared
by vulcanization in the usual way.
The advantages this Invention possesses are that it conforms to the body
of the animal over which it is passed, and is perfectly flexible; the teeth are
firmly secured to the back and are able to comb the hair more thoroughly
than by any other mode.
The currycomb without the hooks makes an excellent flesh brush.
Having now described the Invention and its advantages, as communicated
to me, what I claim under the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,
the construction of a currycomb of india-rubber, or other similar material, so
as to secure the teeth by means of the wires or hooks, substantially as repre-
sented, to a flexible or elastic back; the construction of said comb by
moulding the same in one piece, whether the teeth thereof are strengthened
by means of hooks, wires, &c., or are entirely of the same material with the
back, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, tho said John Talbot Pitman, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, on this Fifth day of November in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
JOHN TAI ROT DITMAN
JOHN TALBOT DITMAN (..)