Iм- PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR BRUSHING THE HAIR
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Butler Watters, of Maidstone, in the County
of Kent, Homoeopathic Medical Practitioner, for the Invention of "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR BRUSHING THE HAIR."
Sealed the 4th August 1865, and dated the 7th February 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Butler Watters at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th February 1865.
I, JOHN BUTLER WATTERS, of Maidstone, in the County of Kent, Homo-
pathic Medical Practitioner, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR BRUSHING THE HAIR," to
be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a peculiar combination and arrangement of
machinery or apparatus for brushing the hair, and consists in the employment
of a chair or other convenient seat on each side of which, or to each of the
arms thereof, if an arm chair, is fitted an upright arm or support extending in
front of, but higher than the head of the sitter. These arms or supports are
each provided with a bearing at their upper ends, and in these two bearings
rotates a horizontal spindle or shaft. On this horizontal spindle or shaft are
fitted two driving pullies, the one pulley serving to impart a rotatory motion
to the spindle or shaft, whilst the other pulley, which rotates with the spindle
or shaft, transmits a rotatory motion, by means of an elastic driving band, to
a rotatory hair brush, which is held by suitable handles in the hands of the

page_text: operator, the elastic band passing round a pulley on the axis of the brush.
The rotatory motion of the horizontal spindle or shaft above referred to is
transmitted thereto by means of a grooved pulley. on a crank shaft working in
bearings fitted to the under side of the chair or seat, and actuated by means
of a treadle worked by the foot of the operator. A driving band passed round
the pulley on the crank shaft, and round the driving pulley on the horizontal
spindle or shaft herein-before referred to, transmits motion to such spindle or
shaft. By the arrangement of apparatus herein-before referred to facility
is afforded for the operator brushing his own hair or that of a second
person, as desired, the treadle being made to project either from the front,
back, or sides of the chair or seat, as found most convenient. This apparatus
is entirely self-contained within the chair or seat itself, and the whole may
consequently be readily removed from place to place.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Butler Watters, in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 5th August 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
BUTLER WATTERS, of Maidstone, in the County of Kent, Homoeopathic Medical
Practitioner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said John Butler Watters, Her special licence that I, the said John
Butler Watters, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said John Butler Watters, 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
nake, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR BRUSHING THE HAIR," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Butler Watters, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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

page_text: SIA CHIchtal monitus A mediately after cut date of
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Butler Watters, 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 and accompanying Drawings, that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to a peculiar combination and arrangement of
machinery or apparatus for brushing the hair, whereby I obtain the advantage
of the apparatus being entirely self-contained within the chair or seat in which
the person to be operated upon rests, whilst the whole apparatus is, if desired,
capable of ready removal from place to place.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying Sheet of explanatory Drawings represents a
front elevation of my improved combined apparatus, and Fig. 2 is a side
elevation thereof. A, A, are the side standards or main framing of an
arm-chair or other seat to the opposite sides of which are attached, in any
convenient manner, the upright arms or supports B, B, which are each
provided with a bearing a, a, at their upper ends for the purpose of carrying
the second motion shaft or spindle C. On this shaft or spindle are fixed the
two driving pullies D and E, the pulley D serving to impart a rotatory motion
to the spindle or shaft C, whilst the other pulley E transmits a rotatory motion,
by means of either a single elastic driving band or two elastic driving bands
F, F, to the rotatory hair brush G, provided with the loose handles H, H,
and small pullies I, I, under which latter the elastic driving bands pass, as
shown in my Drawings. The rotatory motion of the horizontal spindle or
shaft C above referred to is transmitted thereto by means of a grooved pulley
K keyed on to the end of the first motion or main driving shaft L, which
rotates in bearings at b, b, made in the side standards of the seat. This shaft
L has a crank M formed thereon, from which crank a connecting rod N leads
to a foot lever or treddle O working on the fulcra c, c, in the legs of the chair
or seat, and actuated either by the foot of a special operator or of the person
operated upon, the fulcra being capable of being changed from the front legs
to the back legs of the chair or seat, according as the treddle is required to be
worked by a separate operator or by the person operated upon, thus affording
facility for a person brushing his own air without any assistance whatever by
the aid of a machine-actuated rotatory brush. P is a driving band which
passes under the large grooved driving pulley K, keyed on the crank shaft L,
partly round the guide pulley D, and thence passes over the smaller grooved
driving pulley D on the overhead or second motion shaft C; Q is a fly wheel
for assisting and regulating the rotatory motion of the crank shaft.

page_text: Having now described the nature of my Invention of "Improvements in
Machinery or Apparatus for Brushing the Hair," and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, I would remark that I do not confine myself to the
precise details so long as the particular character of my said Invention be
retained; but what I claim as my Invention is,-
First, the making of hair-brushing machinery self-contained in a fixed or
moveable chair or seat, as specified.
Second, the combination of the seat A, uprights B, shafts C, L, crank M,
and rotatory brush G, for the purpose of brushing hair, substantially as herein
specified.
In witness whereof, I, the' said John Butler Watters, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
JOHN BUTLER WATTERS. (L.S.)