A NEW SYRINGE TO BE USED OR APPLIED IN COMBINATION WITH COMBS BRUSHES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES.
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Nathaniel Willis, the younger, of Woodbine
Cottage, South Hill Road, Gravesend, in the County of Kent,
Photographic Artist, and Samuel Judd, the younger, of No. 16,
Edwin Street, Gravesend, aforesaid, Upholsterer, for the Invention
of "A NEW SYRINGE TO BE USED OR APPLIED IN COMBINATION WITH COMBS
BRUSHES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES.'
Sealed the 18th December 1868, and dated the 13th July 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Nathaniel Willis
and Samuel Judd at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 13th July 1868.
We, JOHN NATHANIEL WILLIS, the younger, of Woodbine Cottage,
South Hill Road, Gravesend, in the County of Kent, Photographic
Artist, and SAMUEL JUDD, the younger, of No. 16, Edwin Street,
Gravesend, aforesaid, Upholsterer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "A NEW SYRINGE TO BE USED OR APPLIED IN COMBINATION
WITH COMBS, BRUSHES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of a syringe to be adapted for use in combs and
brushes or any other article for dyeing, cleansing, perfuming, brushing,
Prin

page_text: or oiling the hair or any other material for which the syringe can be
adapted.
The syringe is made with a hollow back or side communicating with
a handle of some elastic material wholly or partially hollow with
apertures pierced in various parts of the combs, brushes, or other
articles used, through which apertures the dye, oil, or other material
with which the comb or brush or other article is charged will pass out
by pressure or otherwise.
When the syringe is used for dyeing purposes a modification of the
above may be used by placing the reservoir in the centre between the
handle and the perforated comb, brush, or other article, by which means
the quantity of dye used can be regulated to a nicety.
This Invention of a syringe is equally applicable to currycombs, cloth
brushes, hat brushes, and such like useful purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Nathaniel Willis and Samuel Judd in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th January 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME
we, JOHN
NATHANIEL WILLIS, the younger, of Woodbine Cottage, South Hill
Road, Gravesend, in the County of Kent, Photographic Artist; and
SAMUEL JUDD, the younger, of No. 16, Edwin Street, Gravesend, afore-
said, Upholsterer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said John Nathaniel Willis and Samuel Judd,
Her special licence that we, the said John Nathaniel Willis and Samuel
Judd, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said John Nathaniel Willis and Samuel Judd, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the

page_text: Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW SYRINGE TO
BE USED OR APPLIED IN COMBINATION WITH COMBS, BRUSHES, AND OTHER SIMILAR
ARTICLES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
John Nathaniel Willis and Samuel Judd, our executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said John Nathaniel Willis and Samuel
Judd, do hereby declare the nature of our said 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 consists of a new syringe to be used in combination
with combs, hair brushes, brushes for cloth, hat brushes, currycombs,
and other similar articles.
In the following description reference is made to accompanying
Drawings, the same letters referring to like parts:-
Comb. The syringe A, Fig. 1, which is made of india-rubber or
some other elastic material, is connected by a screw piece (B) and the
comb (C), which has a hollow back (D) formed by a drill or other
method, and small holes are pierced through the teeth, or between the
same (E), as occasion may require, into the aforesaid hollow back. The
syringe (A) when filled with oil, dye, hair wash, or whatever material
desired to be used is connected with the comb by means of the screw (B),
and together form one article. The syringe (A) forms a handle for the
hand to grasp, and when pressed the material used passes up the hollow
back (D) of the comb C and out through the holes in or between the
teeth E, thereby enabling the hair to be combed and oiled, dyed or
washed, at the same time. Fig. 2 shews the syringe or tube without
comb, and may be used for perfuming and other like purposes.
Brushes Perforated tubing is laid in the back of the brush, see (D),
Fig. 3, with the branch tubes (F) with small pendant tubes (G) to allow
the material used to pass to the face of brush, the tubing to be attached
to a screw piece (B), by which means an elastic reservoir is fastened (A),
the said reservoir is placed in a concave handle to offer resistance in

page_text: using, but is partly exposed to allow of pressure in using. Fig. 4 shews
the back of brush complete.
Currycombs to be made on the same principle as brushes, see Fig. 5,
Fig. 6, section at H, H. If the liquid be found to flow too freely in
any of the articles a piece of sponge inserted in the screw piece (B) will
cause it to flow more slowly. The syringe or handle (A) could be used
independently as a scent bottle.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Nathaniel Willis and Samuel
Judd, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eleventh day
of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-nine.
JOHN NATHANIEL WILLIS, JNR. (L.S.)
SAMUEL JUDD, JUNB.
(L.S.)