Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 12th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 12th Oct., 1888
1, ARTHUR FRANCIS WILEMAN of 21 Mount Park Crescent, Ealing, in the County
of Middlesex, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My Invention relates to a device applied to a hair comb whereby the grease and
fluff which accumulates about the teeth of the comb may be readily removed as often
as required.
This comb cleaner consists of a perforated strip of sheet metal through the
perforations of which the teeth of the comb are passed, the said strip being curved
in transverse section so as to spring over and clip the back of the comb whereby it
is retained in position about the roots of the teeth, the cleaner remaining applied to
the comb when the latter is in use. By detaching the cleaner from the back of the
comb and slipping it down towards the points of the teeth, it acts as a scraper for the
latter and removes any accumulation of dirt from between the roots of the teeth.
The ends of the cleaner would preferably have a knob to facilitate its removal.
Dated this 13th day of October 1887.
A. F. WILEMAN.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

page_text: I, ARTHUR FRANCIS WILEMAN of 24 Mount Park Crescent, Ealing, in the County
of Middlesex, 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 :-
My invention relates to a cleaner applied to a hair comb whereby the grease and
fluff which accumulates about the teeth of the comb may be readily removed as often
as required.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this speci-
fication in which figure 1 is a side view of the comb with the device in the position it
occupies when the comb is in use. Figure 2 is a similar view, on an enlarged scale of
a portion of the comb and cleaner, partly in section. Figure 3 is a cross section of
same. Figure 4 is a top view of the cleaner separately. The same letters of reference
serve for like parts in all the figures.
This comb cleaner consists of a perforated strip a of sheet metal (preferably
German silver) adapted to slide upon the teeth of the comb and to spring over and
clip the back of the comb so as to be retained in position about the roots of the
teeth whilst the comb is in use. For this purpose the strip a is curved in transverse
section, so as to adapt it to closely embrace the back b of the comb and it is formed
with a central longitudinal row of apertures c corresponding to and fitting on, the
teeth d of the comb.
By detaching the cleaner from the back of the comb and slipping it down towards
the points of the teeth, as seen in dotted lines in figures 2 and 3, it acts as a scraper
for the latter and removes any accumulation of grease or dirt from between the roots
of the teeth.
The ends of the cleaner would preferably have a knob e to facilitate its use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed; I declare that what
I claim is―
The combination with a hair comb of a cleaning device consisting of a perforated
strip of metal adapted to fit around the roots of the teeth and to embrace the back of
the comb for use as a scraper, as described.
Dated this 19th dox of Tul- 1000