An Improvement in Brushes, specially suitable for Hat-brushes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 29th Oct., 1894—Accepted, 1st Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
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An Improvement in Brushes, specially suitable for Hat-brushes.
EDWARD HALES 728 Coventry Road Birmingham Commercial Traveller..
I do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention consists in the arrangement of the bristles, hair, bass, wire, or
other material forming a brush, part of the bristles (or other material of a like
nature) being placed at the side of the brush-frame at right angles with the other
part of the bristles (or other material of a like nature) as shewn in the sketch.
attached, these side bristles are available for brushing, or clearing away dust or dirt.
from the crevices of any article, as inside the curl of a hat-rim.
The improved brush is specially suitable for brushing silk & felt hats, and.
college caps.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Brushes, specially suitable for Hat-brushes..
I, EDWARD HALES, of 728 Coventry Road, in the City of Birmingham,
Commercial Traveller, 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 improvement in hat and other brushes, my object.
being to produce a brush that shall be more conveniently applicable for the
purpose
of brushing within narrow crevices such as the inner sides of the curled rim of a
silk or felt hat.
In order that my invention and the method of carrying the same into effect may
be the more readily understood I append hereunto one sheet of explanatory drawings.
to be hereinafter referred to-
Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 a plan representing my improved
brush.
Figure 3 is a front elevation and Figure 4 an end elevation of the brush with a.
modified form of frame and handle.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
In the construction of my hat brushes I arrange the bristles, hairs, or the like,
in convenient knots or bunches, and fix or secure them to a wood or other frame
or stock A in two rows B and C at right angles to each other. The larger row of
bristles B or the like secured to the lower end or bottom of the stock A, are
employed for the purpose of brushing the crown of the hat in the usual manner,
but by means of the shorter row C, secured on one side of the stock, the inner side
of the rim may be readily and conveniently brushed.
I
Instead of fixing or securing but one row or a single line B of bristles, hair, or
the like, on the bottom of the stock, I sometimes employ two or more rows.
shape the end of the wood or other stock to form a convenient handle A'.
I do not limit myself to the particular form of wood or other stocks illustrated
in the accompanying drawings, but modify the same to suit the requirements of
varying services.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invencion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A hat or like brush having bristles, hairs, or the like arranged and secured at
right angles upon a wood or other stock, enabling the inner side of a hat rim to be
readily and conveniently brushed, substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The construction of a hat or like brush having a short row or line of bristles,
hair, or the like, secured to the stock at right angles to the one or more longer rows
of main bristles or the like, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
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MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.