improvements in Moustache-holders.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 7th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1896
improvements in Moustache-holders.
We, PAUL BERNHARD WERMANN, of No. 3 Bismarckstrasse, Barber, and
JOHANN HEINRICH CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH WEBER, of No. 5 Bismarckstrasse,
Merchant, both of Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention relates to improvements in moustache-holders especially
of that class in which comb-plates and clamp-bars are used for holding together
the hair of each half of the moustache, and the object of my improvements is to
provide means by which the hairs of each half of the moustache are not only
clamped together but are supported and held away from the cheeks at nearly right
angles so that the hairs of the moustache are prevented from being lathered or cut
off by the razor.
The improved moustache-holder consists of two members or bodies of exactly
similar general structure and connected with each other by means of suitable
movable links. Each member or body is formed by a plate provided with a
suitable comb at one of the long edges and with a curved branch or shoulder at its
outer end. Connected to this shoulder is a clamp formed by a convenient bar or
rod bent at right angles so that its short leg is arranged parallel to the said
shoulder and its long leg parallel to the said plate. The clamp-bar is therefore
capable of being turned or swung out. A projection of the said plate serves to
secure the clamp-bar in its closed position.
Instead of pivoting the short leg of the clamp-bar to the said branch or shoulder
of the comb-plate its long leg may be pivoted to the inner end of the plate so
that the clamp bar is capable of being swung out or opened in the reversed
manner. Suitable means may be provided to secure the clamp-bar in its closed
position.
In using the improved moustache-holder the clamp-bars should first be opened or
swung out.
The combs are then to be put into the moustache from beneath-that
is to say one comb into each half of the moustache-and the ends of the hairs of
each moustache-half placed between the branches or shoulders at the outer end of
the said comb-plate and the short legs of the clamp-bars. By closing now the said
clamp-bars that is to say by turning them back over the hairs resting on the said
comb-plates, and locking them in the closed position, the hairs will be clamped in
the moustache-holder and the latter attached to the moustache in such a manner
that the hairs and especially the ends of the halves of the moustache are supported
and held away from the cheeks; the moustache is thereby prevented from being
lathered or injured by the razor during the shaving operation.
Dated this 10th day of June 1895.
HASELTINE LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: We, PAUL BERNHARD WERMANN, of No. 3 Bismarckstrasse, Barber, and
JOHANN HEINRICH CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH WEBER, of No. 5 Bismarckstrasse,
Merchant, both of Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany, 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 relation to moustache guards and more particularly to that
class of guards in which two connected comb plates are provided, to which the
moustache is clamped by means of suitable appliances.
The object of our invention is to improve the construction of this class of
guards in combining therewith means whereby the longer hairs at the ends of the
moustache are supported and held away from the face approximately at a right
angle thereto, with a view, in shaving, of preventing such parts of the moustache
being lathered and shaved off accidentally, and also in combining with said comb
plates means for effectually locking the clamping bars thereto, as will now be fully
described.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which
Figure 1 is a front elevation, and
Figure 2 a plan view of one form of a moustache guard embodying our
invention;
Figure 3 is a cross section on line I-I of Figure 1, the clamping bar being
swung out into its open position, and
Figures 4 and 5 are a front and plan view, respectively, of another form of
guard.
a
Our improved moustache guard consists of two members of like construction
articulated together by means of links e, Figures 1 and 2, or e¹, Figures 4 and 5,
so that a description of one of said members will suffice for a clear understanding
of the invention. These members consists of a comb plate having its teeth bat
right angles thereto along one of its longer edges and at its outer end a curved
branch or shoulder c. This inwardly curved branch or shoulder c is in fact a
standard that forms an end guard between which and the bent end d' of the
clamping bar d² the longer hairs at the end of the moustache are held away from
the face at or substantially at a right angle thereto. .
The clamping bar d2 above referred to has its outer end bent at right angles, the
short leg being pivoted in the overhanging upper end of the standard c, as shown
at d', so as to leave a space between the said short leg d' of the clamping bar and the
vertical member of the standard c for the reception of the longer hairs at the end
of the moustache, see Figure 5.
The horizontal member of the clamping bar d² is substantially parallel with the
comb plate a and lies a short distance above the same in front of its teeth to form
a space between the two for the hair of the moustache, said clamping bar swinging
from and towards the comb teeth on its pivot d as shown in dotted lines in
Figure 2 and in full lines in Figure 3 showing one of the clamping bars swung out.
The comb plate a has at its inner end a projection a' that serves to lock the
clamping bar d² in its operative or closed position, Figures 1 and 2.
In Figures 4 and 5 we have shown another form of moustache guard in which
the long leg d² of the clamp-bar is pivoted at d to the inner end of the plate a,
so that the clamp-bar may be swung out in the reverse manner to that shown in
Figures 1 and 2. In order to secure the clamp-bar in its closed position the short
leg d' has a pin d³ screw-threaded at its outer end and adapted to engage a slot c¹
of the branch or standard c to which it can be locked by means of a nut / screwed
on said pin c¹.

page_text: In using the improved moustache guard the clamp-bars d d should first be
opened or swung out, as indicated by Figures 3 and 5. The two combs 6 are then
inserted into the moustache from beneath, and the longer hairs at the ends of the
moustache placed beneath the standards c and the short legs d' of the clamping
bars. The clamping bars d may now be closed by swinging them back over the
comb plates a and over the hairs on said plates and locking them into their closed
position; the hairs will thus be clamped in the moustache holder and the latter
attached to the moustache in such manner that the hairs, and especially the ends.
of the moustache are supported and held away from the cheeks, as shown by
Figure 5, this being effected by the end guards c between which and the short.
leg d' of the clamping bars the longer hairs at the ends of the moustache are held.
The moustache is thereby prevented from being lathered, or cut off by the razor,
in shaving.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. In a moustache guard, the combination with two comb plates articulated
together and having their teeth at right angles to their bases, and a guard arm cat
the outer end of said bases; of clamping rods adapted to swing to and from the
teeth of the comb plates above the bases thereof and provided at their outer end
with a guard arm, said rods and their guard arms co-operating with the teeth of
the comb plates and the guard arms c thereof to clamp the moustache to said teeth
and hold the longer hair at the end of the moustache away from the face, for the
purpose set forth.
2. A moustache guard comprising two comb plates articulated together and.
provided at their outer end with an arm c and clamping rods d2 for clamping the
moustache to the comb plates, said rods provided at their outer end with an arm d¹
forming with the aforesaid arms c a guard adapted to hold the longer hair at the
moustache ends away from the face, substantially as set forth.
3. In a moustache guard, the combination with a comb plate a b, provided at its
outer end with the inwardly curved guard e having formed therein a recess c¹; of
the clamping rod a pivoted to the base a of said comb plate at its inner end,
said rod provided at its outer end with a guard arm d¹ d³ adapted to be locked
in the aforesaid recess c¹ of the guard c, substantially as and for the purpose set
torth.
Dated this 7th day of March 1806
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.