Device for Dyeing Hair.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 19th Nov., 1898
Device for Dyeing Hair.
I, RUDOLF HOFFERS, of 55, Reichenbergerstrasse, Berlin, Germany, Apothe
cary, 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:-
The present invention consists of a device adapted to be attached to combs for
imparting dye to the hair or whiskers. This has usually been accomplished by
means of an ordinary comb on which the colouring or dyeing medium was dis-
tributed, care being taken that only the hair came into contact with the dye on
the comb.
According to the present invention the comb is provided with a strip of ab-
sorbing or spongy material mounted underneath the back of the comb and
saturated with the dyeing medium, or, if the dyeing medium is of a pasty or solid
nature a strip of the same may be attached direct to the comb.
And in order to render the present specification more easily intelligible reference
is had to the accompanying drawing in which similar letters of reference
denote similar parts throughout the several views: -
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a comb.
Fig. 2 a cross section through the same,
Fig. 3 a side elevation of the dye holder,
Fig. 4 a side elevation of the comb with the dye holder therein,
Fig. 5 a cross section through Figure 4.
Fig. 6a modified form of comb,
Fig. 7a further modification with the dye holder attached thereto and
Fig. 8 a cross section through a comb showing a further modification.
Referring to Figures 1 to 5, the comb A is formed by a flattened spirally bent
wire the upper broader part of which is fixed between two sheet metal back
forming pieces a a¹ having U-shaped cross section. Thus as will be seen from
Figure 2a space will be formed within the teeth into which the dye holder B
is inserted. This latter consists of a back or holder b¹ having a U-shaped cross
section and a depending piece of absorbent material b attached to the said back-
ing. This material is saturated with the dyeing medium and then simply in-
serted between the teeth of the comb as shown in section at Figure 5.
As illustrated at Figure 6 the space between the teeth or within the same
may be formed by placing together two ordinary combs C C and fixing between
the same an intermediate strip chaving a tapering cross section as shown, and
thus forming a space of triangular cross section or thereabouts between the teeth
sets.
In
Fig. 7 shows a device for attaching the dye holder to an ordinary comb.
this case, the holder is provided with a back of U-shaped cross section adapted
to clamp on to the back of the comb, one shank of the said piece D being pro-
longed downwardly at d and set outwardly so as to receive the dye holder B
between its inner wall and the side of the teeth of the comb. In Figure 8 this
form of the invention is modified in that one arm of the part D¹ is bent out-

page_text: wardly at right angles and the holder B', the outer shank of which 62 is longer
than the inner one, is soldered or otherwise attached to the outwardly extending
flange of the clamp D¹.
In all the above modifications, if a fast or partially solid dyeing medium is
employed the same may be clamped directly in the holder back 6. Or a solid
dyeing medium could be simply inserted in the space between the teeth or in the
space between d and the teeth as at Figure 7. The device may also be employed to
distribute other liquids such as brilliantine, hair oil and the like. Any dyeing
solution such as pyrogallic acid, permanganate of potassium, extract of nut leaves
or the like.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1-A device for dyeing hair which consists of a comb having a strip of dyeing
medium attached to one of the teeth surfaces, substantially as described.
2: The combination of a comb having teeth of V-shaped cross section and
enclosing a space, a strip of porous absorbing material having its
upper end
attached in a holder of U-shaped cross section, said holder and strip being slid
into the space within the teeth in the manner and for the purpose substantially
as described.
3: The combination of two combs having inserted between their backs a
tapered strip, to form the space between the teeth to receive the dyeing medium
holder, substantially as described
4: The combination of a comb having a clamp D to ride on the back thereof,
the said clamping piece having one shank thereof prolonged downwards to receive
and retain the dye holder or dyeing medium between its inner surface and one
side surface of the teeth substantially as described.
5: The combination with a comb of means for supporting therein or at one
side of its teeth a strip of dyeing medium of fast or approximately solid con-
sistency in the manner and for the purpose substantially as described and shown.
6: The device for distributing dye or other substances or liquids in hair
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of September 1898.
J. B. FLEURET,
5, Hatton Garden, Holborn Circus, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.