Improvements connected with Rotary Hair Brushing Machines.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd May, 1891-Accepted, 4th July, 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Rotary Hair Brushing Machines.
I IGNACIO MARIA TINTORE of 32 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, London,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of my 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 certain improvements in or connected with the
driving mechanism by which a rotary hair brushing machine can be operated at the
desire or will of the assistant.
The article is intended for use by hair dressers and will enable the rubber band,
the overhead wheels, and the shaft, and also the usual driving engine or the power
wheel to be dispensed with.
Figure 1, elevation of invention with outer or cylindrical brush in part removed.
The spring of this apparatus can be wound up by holding one handle and revolving
the brush.
Figures 2 and 3 similar elevations of apparatus in which the winding up of the
spring can be effected by a key.
Figure 4 elevation of key to fit over square of spindle to wind up the spring.
For the purpose of my invention and as I show I make the brush stock A hollow
and of cylindrical shape, with ends B, B, and I fit a train of wheels to a frame or
case C which I arrange in the cylindrical brush stock A; one of the wheels D is
in gear with a toothed ring E in the stock, so that it can be rotated therefrom.
In a barrel or casing F I arrange a powerful spring which can be wound up by
a handle or a key G fitted at one end of the cylinder, or one handle may have a
square end to take into a hole of a floor or a wall during the winding of the spring.
In connection with the train of wheels I use a pair of flyers H, H, and also a
brake or stop appliance I which can be released by the thumb of hand acting on
the button J at the time the article has to be used.
It will be observed by the drawings that the shaft K which is attached to the
spring in the barrel is provided with a ratchet wheel L into which a paul M is
engaged said paul being on the casing C to prevent the brush cylinder rebounding
or unwinding while being rotated to wind up the spring. This shaft K terminates
just outside the right hand side plate of the casing C, so that it has no connection
with the train of wheels on that side of the plate, the rotative working motion
being from the barrel wheel N, pinion P, spindle Q to D and E at one end, and
through pinion P, spindle Q to pinion R and thence through the gears S, T, U, V,
to the flyers H, H.
The end plates C, C, of the inner casing are held rigidly at the proper distance
apart by the tie rods W, W.
X is a bridge or connection plate connecting the stem Y of the handle Z with
the casing C, the brush stock being free to rotate thereon, and on the shaft K when
the brake I is released from the flyer.
To wind up the spring in the barrel F, the handle Z is held firmly in one hand
and the handle G or the key a is turned by the other hand, the paul slipping over
the teeth of the wheel L during said operation.
I am aware that self contained spring rotating hair brushes have been made
before this date therefore I make no claim in a broad sense to such an article.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a spring contained circular rotatable hair brush, the particular arrangement

page_text: of gear operated from a mid-wheel of the barrel, said gear being worked from
both ends of spindle Q, as and for the purpose described with reference to Figure 1.
2. The modified arrangements of gear. shown at Figures 2 and 3 in which the
gear driver N is at one end of the barrel and the winding up gear at the other end
of the barrel.
VITIN
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London, Agent for the said I. M. Tintoré.