Improvements in or connected with Brushes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 4th July, 1894-Accepted, 4th Aug.,
1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Brushes.
A communication by EMIL DOERNBERGER, of 120, Königsstrasse, Fuerth,.
Bavaria, in the Empire of Germany, Merchant.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street,.
Manchester both in the County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, 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 brushes, and has for its object_to
render them available for holding other articles akin to the purposes for which the
brushes are used, more particularly for toilet purposes and the like.
The invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a plan of a boot brush with a movable cover partly open;
Figure 2 a sectional elevation of a clothes brush, on the back of which a hair
brush is attached, which latter may be removed when the clothes brush is about to.
be used, and also showing the manner of attaching other articles to the brush.
Figure 3 is a plan of the same.
In the brush shown on the drawings there are one or more recesses b formed in.
the back a, the shape of such recesses being suited to the various articles which are
to be placed therein. In the case of a boot brush such as shown in Figure 1, the
various articles used for polishing may preferably be attached thereto, such, for
instance, as a blacking box, a blacking brush, or the like, and in the case of a
clothes brush on the other hand, necessary articles of toilet, such as a comb, tooth
brush, mirror, etcetera, may be inserted.
The various receptacles are closed by means of a lid or cover d, which is movably
attached to the back of the brush.
A peculiar form of clothes brush of the kind herein before described is shown in
Figures 2 and 3, a hair brush being also attached to the back of the clothes brush..
When the latter is in use, the hair brush is capable of being removed. The hair
brush his connected with the clothes brush B in such a way that it lies on the
back a with the bristles directed upwards, and also forms at the same time the lid
or cover for the receptacles arranged beneath it. The shortened handle i of the
brush is placed in a suitable groove formed in the back a of the clothes brush..
The hair brush his attached to the back a of the clothes brush oy means of a
movable cover d, which when closed grips the back h¹ of the hair brush h between
its bevelled front edge and a fixed projection a¹ of the clothes brush.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A brush arranged for receiving other articles characterised by suitably shaped
receptacles 6 arranged in its back a, which receptacles may be closed by means of
a movable lid or cover d substantially as herein before described and illustrated.
2. The combination, with a brush such as described in Claim 1, of a hair brush h
placed with its bristles upwards on the back of the clothes brush and which may be
clamped thereto between a cover d and a projection a', the shortened handle of such

page_text: hair brush being placed in a suitably shaped recess in the back a of the clothes.
brush substantially as herein before described and illustrated.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1894.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.