IMPROVEMENTS IN SHAVING TOOTH AND HAIR BRUSHES AND OTHER BRUSHES to be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: I WILLIAM LORD BALLIN HINDE of Nos 15 and 16 Oxford Street Birmingham
in the County of Warwick Brush Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHAVING TOOTH AND HAIR BRUSHES
AND OTHER BRUSHES to be as follows:―
"
My invention consists in constructing and combining the parts of shaving tooth
and hair brushes and other brushes in the manner herein after described whereby
they are made very compact and portable.
I will describe my invention as applied to a shaving brush. I make the handle
part of the shaving brush of a box or case of a cylindrical figure by preference and
I make the stem or body of the brush in which the bristles are affixed also cylin-
drical and of a size proper to slide freely in the hollow handle part. Between the
bottom of the box shaped handle and the underside of the sliding brush is a coiled
spring by means of which the brush is projected outwards when at liberty to move
so that the bristles of the brush are situated above the mouth of the box shaped
handle. When the sliding brush is pressed inwards the said coiled spring is com-
pressed and the greater part of the brush passes into and is concealed by the box
shaped handle and by means of a lid or cover placed upon the open end of the
box handle the brush is completely concealed. The sliding brush is held in its
depressed position within the box and in its projected position by means of a
fastening.
The fastening which I prefer to use somewhat resembles a bayonet joint fastening
and consists of a longitudinal slot made in the box shaped handle each end of the
slot having a cross slot made in opposite directions. Connected to the sliding
brush and working in the longitudinal slot described is a stem having a cross head.
When the sliding brush has been pressed into the box handle the cross head of the
stem is turned into the bottoin cross slot so as to hold the sliding brush in its
depressed position and when the cross head is withdrawn from the last named
cross slot the sliding brush is projected outwards by the coiled spring and the cross
head of the stem brought opposite the top cross slot into which it is passed so as to
hold the brush in its projected position for use. The cross head of the fastening
may be made elastic so as to bind it firmly in the cross slot and thereby steady the
projected brush. But I do not limit myself to the details described of the fastening

page_text: by which the sliding brush is connected to the box shaped handle and held in its
projected and withdrawn positions respectively.
Instead of making the spring project the brush from the box shaped handle it
may be made to draw it into the said handle.
I apply my improvements to tooth brushes and hair brushes and other brushes
having handles substantially as herein before described with respect to a shaving
brush.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Shaving, Tooth, and Hair Brushes, and other
Brushes.
I WILLIAM LORD BALLIN HINDE of N°* 15 and 16 Oxford Street Birmingham
in the County of Warwick Brush Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the
said. 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 consists in constructing and combining the parts of shaving tooth
and hair brushes and other brushes in the manner hereinafter described whereby
they are made very compact and portable.
I will describe my invention as applied to a shaving brush. I make the handle
part of the shaving brush of a box or case of a cylindrical figure by preference and
I make the stem or body of the brush in which the bristles are affixed also cylin-
drical and of a size proper to slide freely in the hollow handle part. Between the
bottom of the box shaped handle and the underside of the sliding brush is a coiled
spring by means of which the brush is projected outwards when at liberty to inove
so that the bristles of the brush are situated above the mouth of the box shaped
handle. When the sliding brush is pressed inwards the said coiled spring is com-
pressed and the greater part of the brush passes into and is concealed by the box
shaped handle and by means of a lid or cover placed upon the open end of the
box handle the brush is completely concealed. The sliding brush is held in its
depressed position within the box and in its projected position by means of a
fastening.
The fastening which I prefer to use somewhat resembles a bayonet joint fastening
and consists of a longitudinal slot made in the box shaped handle, each end of.the
slot having a cross slot made in opposite directions. Connected to the sliding

page_text: brush and working in the longitudinal slot described is a stem having a cross head.
When the sliding brush has been pressed into the box handle the cross head of the
stem is turned into the bottom cross slot so as to hold the sliding brush in its
depressed position and when the cross head is withdrawn from the last named cross
slot the sliding brush is projected outwards by the coiled spring and the cross head
of the stem brought opposite the top cross slot into which it is passed so as to hold
the brush in its projected position for use.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in elevation and Figure 2 in
vertical section, with the lid or cover removed, a portable shaving brush constructed
according to my invention the sliding brush being represented in its depressed
position in the box handle and held in that position; Figure 3 represents the
detached lid or cover; Figure 3ª represents a cross section of the handle and sliding
brush; Figure 4 represents in elevation and Figure 5 in vertical section the shaving
brush ready for use, that is, with the sliding brush in its projected position and
supported in that position.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the drawing.
a is the handle part of the brush consisting of a cylindrical box or case which
can be closed by the lid or cover b sliding upon the upper part of the said box ; or
the said lid or cover may be secured to the top of the box by screwing: c is the
cylindrical stem in which the bristles are affixed hereinafter called the sliding
brush. The stem of the said sliding brush has a size proper to slide freely in the
hollow handle part a; d is the coiled spring by which the sliding brush is projected
outwards when the fastening is released into the position represented in Figures 4
and 5. The said spring d takes an abutment at one end against the bottom or
closed end of the hollow handle a and at the other end against the underside of the
sliding brush c as seen in the sections Figures 2 and 5. When the sliding brush c is
in its projected position the coiled spring d is in its expanded state and the whole
of the bristles of the brush are situated above the top of the box handle a as repre-
sented in Figures 4 and 5 and when the sliding brush c is pressed inwards and the
coiled spring & thereby compressed the whole of the brush passes into the box
shaped handle a as represented in Figure 2. When the sliding brush is in the
position Figure 2 the lid or cover b can be placed upon the open end of the box
handle so as to conceal the brush as represented in Figure 1. The sliding brush c
is held in its depressed position within the box handle and in its projected position
by means of the fastening arrangement represented in the Drawing. In the box
handle a is a longitudinal slot e having at its ends cross slots marked respectively
e² and e³, each cross slot terminating in a notch. Fixed to the sliding brush c is a
headed stem working in the longitudinal slot e and cross slots e², e³. The sliding
brush c having been depressed to its full extent in the box handle a its headed
stem is brought to the lower cross slot e* into which it is turned, the upward
pressure of the spring d causing the said stem to snap into the notch of the cross
slot e as represented in Figure 1. The sliding brush is thereby firmly held in its
depressed position and can be covered by the lid b When it is wished to use the
brush the lid or cover b is removed and the headed stem f is slightly pressed down
so as to withdraw it from the notch in which it is engaged. The headed stem fis
now withdrawn from the cross slot e² and brought into the longitudinal slot e. The
sliding brush c being thus unfastened is projected outwards by the coiled spring d
into the position Figures 4 and 5 in which projected position it is held and sup-
ported by turning the headed stem finto the cross slot e³ as represented in Figure 1.
The brush is now ready for use the pressure upon the brush when in use causing
the headed stem f to take into the notch at the end of the cross slot e³. The
headed stem of the fastening may be made elastic so as to bind it firmly in the
cross slot and thereby steady the projected brush. But I do not limit myself to
the details described of the fastening by which the sliding brush is connected
to the box shaped handle and held in its projected and withdrawn positions
respectively.

page_text: Instead of making the spring project the brush from the box shaped handle it
may be made to draw it into the said handle. In this case the spring is elongated
on pressing out the brush by means of the headed stem f and is fixed in its pro-
jected position by turning the headed stem f into the upper cross slot e³. On
turning the headed stem f out of the cross slot e³ the elongated spring contracts
and forces the sliding brush c into the box handle a. The box handle a and stem c
of the brush may be made either of metal or of wood, bone, ivory or other non-
metallic material.
I apply my improvements to tooth brushes and hair brushes and other brushes
having box or tubular handles substantially as herein before described and illustrated
with respect to a shaving brush.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that
claim as
my invention of "Improvements in shaving, tooth and hair brushes. and other
brushes
دو
The combination with a box shaped or hollow handle of a sliding brush which
when released is projected outwards by a compressed coiled spring so as to expose
the bristles of the brush for use, the sliding brush being held in its depressed
position within the box shaped or hollow handle or in its projected position for use
preferably by means of a fastening of the kind herein before described and illus-
trated in the accompanying Drawing; also the modification described in which the
sliding brush is drawn into the box shaped or hollow handle by a coiled spring
instead of being projected from the said handle by a coiled spring.
Dated this Tenth day of March 1886.