IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED IN SHAMPOOING
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph German, of 32, Friar Gate, Derby, and
George Newton Browne, of Kedleston Road, Derby, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED IN SHAMPOOING."
Sealed the 31st December 1861, and dated the 9th July 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph German and
George Newton Browne at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with his Petition, on the 9th July 1861.
We, JOSEPH GERMAN, of 32, Friar Gate, Derby, and GEORGE NEWTON BROWNE,
of Kedleston Road, Derby, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED IN SHAMPOOING," to be as
follows:-
This Invention has for its object a mechanical apparatus to be used in
shampooing. For this purpose we employ, by preference, a piece of wood of
an oblong or other convenient form, into the surface of which we make holes
to receive one or more spheres or rollers to the depth of their semi-diameters;
we then hold the spheres or rollers in the recesses by a covering piece of
wood or other material, which we fix to the first piece, into which covering
piece we have previously made holes corresponding in size with the spheres or
rollers, and sufficiently large to leave them free to revolve or turn on their
own axes, and leaving a considerable portion, or nearly half of the spheres or
rollers, projecting from the surface of the covering piece. We make the

page_text: spheres or rollers, by preference, of wood, but they may be made of other
materials, and of other suitable forms other than spheres or rollers, and of
various sizes. This object may be obtained also by mounting the spheres or
rollers on pins or axes in open frames, with or without a covering piece. In
using the apparatus it is pressed against the surface of the body to be
shampooed, and by rubbing it about thereon, the motion causes the spheres or
rollers to revolve, and so knead or shampoo.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph German and George Newton Browne in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 9th January 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
GERMAN, of 32, Friar Gate, Derby, and GEORGE NEWTON BROWNE, of Kedleston
Road, Derby, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Joseph German and George Newton Browne, Her special licence
that we, the said Joseph German and George Newton Browne, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Joseph German and
George Newton Browne, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED IN SHAMPOOING," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Joseph German and George Newton Brown, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or their
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them, should par-
ticularly 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 I, the said George Newton Browne, on behalf
of myself and the said Joseph German, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-

page_text: ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
that is to say:
This Invention has for its object the construction of apparatus for sham-
pooing, and consists in combining a series of rollers which are preferred to be
as near as may be of a spherical form, suitably mounted in a holder or frame,
in such manner that when the holder or frame is passed over and pressed
towards the parts of the body or limb of a patient, the rollers may indent and
roll over, and offer friction to the parts with which they are in contact, thus
producing a kneading of every part of the surface of the patient over which
the apparatus or rubber is passed, whilst at the same time the skin of the
patient will not be liable to be injured or broken. The shape of the rubber
may be varied, and the number of rollers used therein may also be varied.
The Drawing annexed represents a rubber with eight spherical rollers, each
free to move in any direction, they being placed in holes in the plate a, so as
to protrude through that plate, as shewn. The plate 6 fixed at the back is
formed in such manner as to leave the rollers comparatively free to rotate
when the rubber is moved over and pressed against the surface of the body or
limb of a patient. Ordinarily we make the holder or frame a, b, of the rubber,
and also the rollers of wood, but other suitable materials may be used in the
construction of the apparatus. The apparatus is used dry, but in case it
should be desired to be used wet, vulcanite or other suitable material not
injured by moisture should be employed in the construction of the apparatus.
This apparatus may be used with great ease by the patient, or by another
person, and the application of this description of rubber will be found more
convenient and advantageous than the ordinary system of shampooing.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Newton Browne, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
GEORGE N. BROWNE. (L.S.)