Appliance for Improving the Appearance of the Nose.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1899-Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1899
Appliance for Improving the Appearance of the Nose.
I, ALBERT FELIX EHRHARDT, of Olivaer Strasse, 29, Neufahrrvasser, Germany,
Captain in the Army, 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:―
"
The appliance for improving the appearance of the "nose" serves to improve
deformations of the nose.
It consists, as shown in the drawing annexed, of the pinchers a, the two head.
straps b, c, and the ear-loop e.
By
The pinchers a are made of an elastic piece of nickeled steel-plate bent in the
middle. The space between the two sides or legs should be made or chosen a
little narrower than that part of the nose that is to be treated. The pinchers put
on the respective nasal part will thus exercise a pressure on the same.
means of stuff-linings or the like the space between the two sides or legs may
be lessened. The pinchers are shaped so as to cover the nasal part to be treated:
their shape, therefore, varies according to the nasal part they shall be applied
to, either the tip, wings a, s, 0. Their size also varies according to the size
of the nasal part or to the latter's being more or less deformed. At the top of
the pinchers a there is a divided eye d, through which the ends 61 c¹ of the two
head-straps b, c are drawn. The width of the eye allows the straps to be drawn
The pinchers a
through it, but will not permit of their getting loose when in use.
serve as handle to the straps and the ear-loop in their action on the nose.
by their own pressure alone already the pinchers will remove deformations,
especially extuberances of the nose.
But
The two head-straps be are two pieces of elastic tape of equal length which
are conducted round the head, their ends be¹ being then passed through the
divided eye
d of the pinchers and then tightened according to necessity. Together
with the pinchers they are to exercise a pressure more or less strong on the
nasal part to be treated. The direction of this pressure also may be changed
by either conducting one or both straps below, round or above the ears, in order,
e.g., to bend the tip of the nose downwards or upwards. The head-straps, too,
will prevent the pinchers from slipping. The ear-loop e also is attached to them.
Two sizes of the straps have been devised, for children and adults.
The ear-loop e principally consists of a piece of elastic tape. At each end
there is a hook by means of which the loop may, either at the left side of the
nose or at the right, be hooked to the straps themselves or to their protruding
ends or to both at the same time, e.g. near g, g. In the middle where the loop
is put round the ear, it has been sewn into a round cord, so that it may lie close
to the ear only there where the latter is attached to the head, and cannot bend
the ear down. Together with the corresponding pinchers the ear-loop serves to
put a crooked nose straight. To this end it is put round that ear in the direction
of which the tip of the nose shall be drawn. It is so hooked in as to exercise
a pull. Two sizes of the loop have been devised, for children and adults.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. The use of elastic steel-pinchers which, in combination with the head-straps
or the ear-loop, or by themselves alone, serve to improve deformations of the
nose.
2. The use of two head-straps which, in combination with the pinchers, serve
to exercise a pressure on any part of the nose and to regulate the strength and
the direction of such pressure.
3. The use of an ear-loop which, in combination with the two head-straps and
the corresponding pinchers, serves to turn a crooked nose straight.
Dated this 16th day of June 1899.
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