Improvements in Combs for Ladies' and Gentlemen's Toilet.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 13th Feb., 1890-Accepted. 5th Apr.. 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combs for Ladies' and Gentlemen's Toilet.
I, JAMES DRIVER of "Rosemont," 2, Cherryhinton Road, Cambridge, Retired
Fleet Engineer, R.N., do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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My invention consists in adapting & fitting handles to Combs for ladies and gentle-
mens toilet; the said handles to be made of wood, ivory, bone composition, or any
other material or shape, and of various sizes, most commonly in use for hair brushes,
knives, paper knives, &c.
The said handles may also be made of the precious metals, or any metal whatever.
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JAMES DRIVER, R.N.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combs for Ladies' and Gentlemen's Toilet.
I JAMES DRIVER, R.N., "Rosemont," Cherryhinton Road Cambridge, Cambs.,
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 consists in the adaptation of every kind of handle-fit for the toilet-
to combs for the hair, for ladies and gentlemens toilet. The handles to be similar to
those used for dessert and other knives, such as paper, or hair brush pattern or those
used for fancy button-hooks, and in fine, all, and every conceivable kind of handle
now in use, or may be found applicable for the purpose aforesaid, and they may be
made plain, or in all fancy designs. The said handles to be made of any conceivable
material such as wood, ivory, mother-of-pearl or gold, silver, German silver or plated
with gold or silver, also from bone, buckhorn, composition porcelain, &c. The tang
or pointed end of the comb to be either in a line with the back of the comb, or
curved towards, or to the centre, that is between the point of the teeth and back of
the comb, or as those shown in the drawing, and to be inserted into the handles as
there shown, and to be secured to the said handles by rosin, screws, rivets or cement,
or by the numerous methods adopted in fixing knife, hair-brush, or any other kind
of handle fit for the toilet, and as a modification some handles will be made to grip
the end of comb wide enough for riveting to the same and thus making some of the
variety of combs without a tang or pointed, or semi-pointed end. Some handles will
be formed with the ends hook'd to hang on a nail or gas bracket &c., as shown in the
drawing (No. 5. comb) others may be made with a swivel, eye, or ring for the same
purpose of hanging up. The drawing merely gives a few specimens of the adapting
of handles to combs. No. 1, is a fancy handle fixed to a large tooth'd comb, the tang
of this comb as in most of the others in the drawing is diverted from the top line of
back or top in a curved manner towards the centre of comb or teeth, others may be
made straight or nearly so. No. 2 comb has a slighter handle and fitted with the (usual
sized) small teeth. No. 3, is another variety having merely the large tooth'd comb
attached to a plain handle made of wood, or ivory, or plated metal. No. 4 is a comb
complete, or fitted with large teeth at one end, and smaller teeth at the other end, and
having the handle between the two combs. This pattern can also be made to close
like the blades of a knife. No. 5, has a hook'd end, shaped sword-hilt fashion, and
made of plated gold, or silver, or sword-material, or otherwise. No. 6, comb of both
sized teeth is fitted with a sliding handle for using either end of comb, it is secured
in position by movable pins.

page_text: My claim for a patent is
For the adaptation of any kind or shaped handles (fit for the toilet) to all kinds of
combs for the hair, for ladies and gentlemens toilet, and for the formation of tangs,
or pointed, or other ends of combs for fixing to each particular handle.
Dated this 13th day of February 1890
JAMES DRIVER, Retired Fleet Engineer, R.N.,
"Rosemont," Cherryhinton Road, Cambridge.