An Improved Hat Brush or Polisher.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1894-Accepted, 8th Dec.,
1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Hat Brush or Polisher.
1, JAMES JOHNSTONE COWPER, of 44 Saltown Road, Brixton, London, S.W.,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved hat-brush or polisher and has for its object
to provide a device for brushing and polishing silk hats or the like that shall
produce better results and be easier to pack for transport or to be carried about in
the pocket or similar receptacle than those at present in use.
According to my invention I fashion the body of the device in the form of a
bag or air chamber of india-rubber or similar substance which I may provide with
an air-inlet and valve for the purpose of inflating such bag or air-chamber.
The said bag or air-chamber would be covered with plush or other similar
material to provide a good polishing surface and the mouth of the air-inlet would
project slightly beyond the said surface.
In the arrangement described the brush or polisher could be inflated or disinflated
at will so as to be ready for use or packed away or put into the pocket or other
receptacle respectively.
In lieu of providing the bag or air-chamber with means for disinflating or
inflating at will I may simply provide a tube or inlet through which the bag or air-
chamber will be inflated in the course of manufacture, which tube will then be
turned in and hermetically sealed in a similar manner to that of an ordinary toy
india-rubber ball.
The bag or air-chamber so constructed will then be covered with plush or the
like ready for use.
Din 20th day of Webruary 1894
HUGHES & YOUNG,
12, Basinghall Street, London, E.C., Agents..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Hat Brush or Polisher.
I, JAMES JOHNSTONE COWPER, of 44 Saltown Road, Brixton, London, S.W.,
Gentleman, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved hat brush or polisher and has for its object
to provide a device for brushing or polishing silk hats or the like, that shall
produce better results and he easier to pack for transport or to be carried about in
the pocket or similar receptacle than those at present in use.
According to my invention I fashion the body of the device in the form of a
bag or air chamber of india rubber or similar substance which I may provide with
an air inlet and valve for the purpose of inflating such bag or air chamber.
The said bag or air chamber would be covered with plush or other similar
inaterial to provide a good polishing surface and the mouth of the air inlet would
project slightly beyond the said surface.
In the arrangement described the brush or polisher could be inflated or disinflated
at will so as to be ready for use or packed away or put into the pocket or other
recentacle respectively.

page_text: In lieu of providing the bag or air chamber with means for disinflating and
inflating at will I may simply provide a tube or inlet through which the bag or
air chamber will be inflated in the course of manufacture which tube will then be
turned in and hermetically sealed, in a similar manner to that of an ordinary toy
india rubber ball. The bag or air chamber so constructed will then be covered
with plush or the like ready for use.
And in order that the said invention may be the more readily understood, I have
shewn same upon the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings wherein
Fig. 1 is a sectional view of my invention inflated and covered ready for use,
Fig. 2 being a section of a modification thereof shewn disinflated and uncovered,
whilst Fig. 3 is a similar view of the modification shewn in Fig. 2 but shewing same
inflated and hermetically sealed and covered, ready for use.
Referring to the drawings a is a bag or air-chamber formed of india-rubber or
other elastic substance or material provided with air inlets a'.
In that form of my invention shewn in Fig. 1 the bag or air-chamber a is
provided with an air inlet tube a' having 'a suitable valve a³ and closed at the end
by a screw cap a³ for the purpose of allowing the said bag or air chamber to be
inflated or dis-inflated at will according as the brush or polisher is required for use
or to be packed away or carried in the pocket or similar receptacle.'
Referring to Figs. 2 and 3 I have there shewn the bag or air chamber as having
an air inlet a' which may simply consist of a short tube or nipple through which
the air supply would be introduced in any suitable manner and when the said bag
or air chamber would be filled a plug of india rubber a would be inserted into the
mouth of the air inlet, nipple, or tube a¹ and solutioned therein or the mouth could
be hermetically sealed by means of any suitable solution or in any other suitable
manner and the said air inlet nipple or tube a¹ then turned inside the bag or air
chamber a as shewn in Fig. 2. The bags or air chambers so constructed are
covered with plush or other suitable material 6 having a pile or smooth soft and
yielding surface capable of polishing and producing a gloss upon the silk hat or
other article operated upon.
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:
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1. A hat brush or polisher comprising an air chamber suitably covered and
having an air inlet provided with a valve and cap for inflating and dis-inflating at
will substantially as and for the purpose described and illustrated in Fig. 1 of the
drawings.
2. The modified form of hat brush or polisher. substantially as described and
illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings.
Dated this 5th day of November 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.