Improvements in the Manufacture of Brushes.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 25th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 30th May, 1896
Improvements in the Manufacture of Brushes.
I, JOSEPH JOHN ASHBURNER, of 390, Hackney Road, in the County of
London, Brush Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in brushes the improvements being chiefly
applicable to nail, tooth and other toilet brushes but also applicable to brushes
generally.
In carrying out my invention the stock, board or block of the brush is perforated
to receive the bristles or hair in the usual manner but I also provide the face of
the stock, board or block with one or more grooves, channels or recesses adapted
to receive any liquid or powder such as a dentifrice so that when the brush is used
the said liquid or powder will be distributed through the bristles and on to the
surface being brushed.
At the end or ends of each of my channels I advantageously form culargements
to allow of the ready introduction of the liquid or powder into the grooves or
channels.
It will be obvious that my present improvements can be very advantageously
used in combination with the invention forming the subject of my former Patent
No. 6687 of 1886.
Dated the 8th day of April 1806
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Brushes.
I, JOSEPH JOHN ASHBURNER, of 390, Hackney Road, in the County of
London, Brush Manufacturer, 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 relates to improvements in brushes, the improvements being chiefly
applicable to nail, tooth and other toilet brushes but also applicable to brushes
generally.
In carrying out my invention the stock, board or block of the brush is perforated
to receive the bristles or hair in the usual manner but I also provide the face of
the stock, board or block with one or more grooves, channels or recesses adapted
to receive any liquid or powder such as a dentifrice so that when the brush is used
the said liquid or powder will be distributed through the bristles and on to the
surface being brushed.
At the end or ends of each of my channels I advantageously form enlargements
to allow of the ready introduction of the liquid or powder into the grooves or
channels

page_text: To enable my invention to be fully understood 1 will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a tooth brush made according to my
invention:
Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2, Figure 1:
Figure 3 is a plan of the brush stock with the bristles removed:
Figure 4 is a plan similar to Figure 3 but shewing a stock provided with two
grooves instead of one.
a is the stock, board or block of the brush, and & the bristles which are inserted
in holes in the said block in the usual manner. c is a groove or channel formed
in the face of the block a, and d is the enlargement at the end of the channel or
groove c.
In Figure 4 I have shewn two grooves c with their enlargements d.
A liquid or powder such as a dentifrice being introduced into the enlargements d
will run into the grooves or channels c in the face of the block from which it will
be distributed through the bristles on to the surface being brushed.
In some cases I form the grooves without the enlargement at the end.
It will be obvious that my present improvements can be very advantageously
used in combination with the invention forming the subject of my former Patent
No. 6687 of 1886 in which a number of holes such as e, e is formed through the
block.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is
1. A nail, tooth or other brush having one or more grooves or channels formed
in the face of the stock, substantially as, and for the purpose, herein before
described.
2. In a nail, tooth or other brush having one or more grooves formed in the face
of the stock, forming enlargements at the ends of the grooves, substantially as, and
for the purpose, herein before described.
3. The manufacture and use of the improved tooth brush herein before described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 25th day of April 1896.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.