IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING THE BACKS OF BRUSHES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard John Cole, of No. 11, Pembridge Gardens,
Bayswater, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING THE BACKS OF BRUSHES."
Sealed the 24th October 1861, and dated the 26th April 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard John Cole at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th
April 1861.
I, RICHARD JOHN COLE, of No. 11, Pembridge Gardens, Bayswater, in the
5 County of Middlesex, Esquire, do hereby declare the nature. of the said Inven
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING THE BACKS OF BRUSHES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention relates to ornamenting the backs of hair, clothes, and other
brushes in a manner not hitherto adopted. I propose employing for this
O purpose pictures, transfers, paintings, or enamels, either on glass, porcelain, or
other suitable substance, and for which Letters Patent were granted to me on
the 19th day of September 1860, No. 2277; and which said pictures or
paintings I propose to apply, fix, or attach to the backs of brushes by suitable
metallic or other plain or ornamental frames, edgings, or borders, or the entire
backs may be so ornamented, leaving a space or, opening in the centre for the
introduction of the before-mentioned pictures.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard John Cole in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th October 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
JOHN COLE, of No. 11, Pembridge Gardens, Bayswater, in the County of
Middlesex, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard John Cole, Her special licence that I, the said Richard John
Cole, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such other as I, the said
Richard John Cole, my 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 Iréland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
ORNAMENTING THE BACKS OF BRUSHES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Richard John Cole, my executors. or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 I, the said Richard John Cole, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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 relates to ornamenting the backs of hair, clothes, and other
brushes in a-manner not hitherto adopted.
In order that my said Invention may be more fully understood, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, as follows:-
:
For the purpose of ornamenting the backs of brushes I employ pictures,
transfers, paintings, or enamels, either on glass, porcelain, or other suitable
'substance, and for which Letters Patent were granted to me on the Nine-
teenth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and sixty, numbered
2277; and which said pictures or paintings I apply, fix, or attach to the

page_text: backs of brushes by suitable metallic or other plain or ornamental frames,
edgings, or borders, or the entire backs may be so ornamented, leaving a
space or opening in the centre for the introduction of the before-mentioned
pictures.
In cases where it is desired to change the subject of the picture or to insert
various portraits from time to time, the frames or borders are to be detached
by means of screws; or the frames may be made with a hinge to open like a
locket.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention of "Improvements
in Ornamenting the Backs of Brushes," and the manner in which the same is
to be performed, I would remark in conclusion that I do not confine myself to
the use of any particular material for the manufacture of the before-mentioned
frames, nor to any particular mode of attaching such frames to the backs of
brushes; but what I claim as my Invention intended to be secured to me by
the herein in part recited Letters Patent is, ornamenting the backs of brushes,
in the manner herein described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard John Cole, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE,
Patent Agent,
4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.
R. J. COLE. (L.B.)