A NEW OR IMPROVED MECHANICAL APPARATUS FOR BRUSHING THE HAIR
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Edward Bryant and Samuel Middleton, of
51, Greek Street, Soho, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention
of "A NEW OR IMPROVED MECHANICAL APPARATUS FOR BRUSHING THE
HAIR."
Sealed the 19th June 1865, and dated the 21st December 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Edward Bryant
and Samuel Middleton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 21st December 1864.
We, CHARLES EDWARD BRYANT and SAMUEL MIDDLETON, of 51, Greek
Street, Soho, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED MECHANICAL APPARATUS FOR BRUSHING
THE HAIR," to be as follows:-
The 1st part to consist of a chair made of wood or metal, with a treddle
placed under the side or back thereof for the purpose of driving a fly wheel
affixed to the chair.
2nd part to consist of a roller or wheel to work at the side, back, or over
the chair attached thereto, and connected to the fly wheel by a band passing
over a wheel at the end of the said roller.

page_text: 3rd part to consist of an endless or joined elastic band passing over the said
roller or wheel.
4th part to consist of a wheel fixed at the end of a spindle; to that spindle
is fixed a circular brush; at the side of the said circular brush is fixed
another brush to clean the other aforesaid circular brush of all loose hair or
dirt that it does collect while in use, the aforesaid spindle to revolve in the
handles held by the operator; the elastic band, which is the 3rd part of the
apparatus to be passed over the wheel at the end of the spindle, the treddle
to be worked by the operator's foot, which will set the whole in motion.
The above description of our Invention will be understood by reference to
the Drawing annexed.
A, chair; B, treddle; C, fly wheel; D, roller; E, band; F, wheel at end
of the roller; G, elastic band; HEI, wheel at end of spindle, turned by elastic
band G; I, I, spindle.; K, K, handles.; L, circular brush; M, stationary
brush.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Edward Bryant and Samuel Middleton in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 21st June 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, CHARLES
EDWARD BRYANT and SAMUEL MIDDLETON, of 51, Greek Street, Soho, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Charles Edward Bryant and Samuel Middleton, Her special licence
that we, the said Charles Edward Bryant and Samuel Middleton, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Charles
Edward Bryant and Samuel Middleton, 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 Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED MECHANICAL APPARATUS FOR BRUSH NG THE
HAIR," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Charles

page_text: Edward Bryant and Samuel Middleton, our executors or administrators, 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 Charles Edward Bryant and Samuel
Middleton, 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 and accompanying Drawings,
that is to say:-
First part to consist of a chair made of wood or metal, with a treddle
placed under, connected to a crank, for the purpose of driving a fly wheel
affixed to the chair.
Second part to consist of a roller or wheel to work at the side, back, or
over the chair attached thereto, and connected to the fly wheel by a band
passing over a wheel at the end of the said roller.
Third part to consist of an endless elastic band passing over the said roller
or wheel, or we can use a non-elastic band made to yield by a spring attached
to it.
Fourth part to consist of an ordinary circular brush, with a grooved wheel
at the end to receive the elastic band or belt; the brush to revolve on a
spindle passed through the drum of the brush, with fixed and loose handles at
each end for the operator to hold.
By working the treddle the whole of the machinery is set in motion, and
the operator can guide the brush to any part of the head.
The above description of our Invention will be understood by referring to
the Drawings annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, A chair; B, treddle; C, crank; D, fly wheel; E, roller; F, wheel
at end of roller; G, band connecting fly wheel and roller; H, elastic band.
Fig. 2, roller.-A, roller; B, brass flange to prevent elastic band slipping
out; C, wheel at end for band connecting fly wheel.
Fig. 3, brush.-A, drum in which the bristles are fixed; B, wheel to receive
elastic band; C, bearings for spindle; D, spindle taken from brush; E, fast and
loose handles.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I declare that what I

page_text: claim is, the new or improved mechanical apparatus for brushing the human
hair, substantially as herein-before described and illustrated on Drawings, or
any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, we, the said Charles Edward Bryant and Samuel
Middleton, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-first
day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five.
CHARLES EDWARD BRYANT. (L.S.)
SAMUEL MIDDLETON.
(L.S.)

page_text: In the Matter of Letters Patent granted to CHARLES EDWARD BRYANT
and SAMUEL MIDDLETON, of No. 51, Greek Street, Soho, in the
County of Middlesex, for an Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR BRUSHING THE HAIB," bearing date the Twenty-first
day of December One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four,
No. 3167.
DISCLAIMER AND MEMORANDUM OF ALTERATION proposed to bo
filed by CHARLES GOSNELL, of No. 12, Three King Court, in the City of
London, Perfumer, the Assignee of the above-named Patent in the
Great Seal Patent Office, with the Specification to which the same
relates, according to the Statute in that case made and provided.
WHEREAS since the filing of the Specification of the said Letters Patent,
I, the said Charles Gosnell, to whom the above-mentioned Patent, as to the
share and interest of the said Samuel Middleton, was assigned by an indenture
dated the Seventh day of August One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five,
and made between the said Charles Edward Bryant of the first part, the said
Samuel Middleton of the second part, and me, the said Charles Gosnell of the
third part, and as to the share and interest of the said Charles Edward Bryant
was assigned by an indenture dated the Ninth day of August One thousand

page_text: eight hundred and sixty-five, and made between the said Charles Edward
Bryant of the one part, and me, the said Charles Gosnell, of the other part,
and which said indentures of assignment are duly registered at the proper
Office for registering Patents, has found that a part of the arrangements
described and claimed in the said Specification was not new at the date of the
said Patent, for which reason I, the said Charles Gosnell, desire to disclaim
some parts of the Specification, and to amend or alter the same consistently
with such Disclaimer.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Gosnell, by and with the leave
Her Majesty's Attorney-General, do hereby disclaim,-
Firstly, the words 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, to-be-as-fellows, occurring immediately
before the words "the First part" occurring in the said Specification at the
commencement of the description of the apparatus in the said Specification
described; and, secondly, all the words in the claiming clause commencing with
the words "Having thus," and ending with the words "modification thereof,"
-the-words-"The new or improved mechanical apparatus for abrushing the human
hair, substantially as herein before described and illustrated on Drawings, or any
"-mere-modification thereof," contained in the said Specification next before the
concluding words commencing "In witness whereof."
And with and by the leave aforesaid I do hereby amend or alter the said
Specification by inserting in the place of the words firstly above disclaimed the
following words, "is shown in the apparatus next herein-after described,"
and by inserting in the place of the words secondly above disclaimed, the words
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, we claim, "The use of
a treadle to give motion by the apparatus herein-before described, or by
"other appropriate machinery, to a circular brush for brushing the human
".hair."
"
The Specification when altered, omitting the preamble, will be as follows:-
"The nature of our the said Invention for a new and improved mechanical
apparatus for brushing the hair is shown in the apparatus next berein-after
" described.
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"First part to consist of a chair made of wood or metal with a treadle
"placed under connected to a crank for the purpose of driving a fly wheel
affixed to the chair.
"
"Second part to consist of a roller or wheel to work at the side, back, or
over the chair attached thereto, and connected to the fly wheel by a band
"passing over a wheel at the end of the said roller.

page_text: CHARLES GOSNELL. (L.S.)
Witness,
FRANCIS A. GANAGAN,
10, Old Jewry Chambers, London,
Law Clerk.

page_text: To the Commissioners of Patents for Inventions.
I hereby grant my fiat, giving leave to the above-named Charles Gosnell
to file in the Great Seal Patent Office with the Specification to which the
same relates the above-written. Amended Disclaimer and Memorandum of
Alteration.
Lincoln's Inn,
October 14th, 1865.
ROUNDEL PALMER,
Attorney-General.