UUMIDELE Curry Combs.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 9th July, 1889-Accepted, 10th Aug., 1889
UUMIDELE
Curry Combs.
I, THOMSON HANKEY ALEXANDER, of Washington, District of Columbia, United
States of America, Gentleman, 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 :-
This invention is an improved curry comb, its object being to produce a comb
wherein the strips of which it is composed, will be yielding or flexible, thus avoiding
irritation to a sensitive skinned animal, and which having no backing, will readily
accommodate themselves to the inequalities of surface, and owing to the resiliency of
the strips will be self cleaning. The invention consists essentially of a convolute
band of steel, or a series of rings arranged one within the other, each coil or ring
being secured at one point to the handle but otherwise unconfined as hereinafter
explained.
Referring to the drawings by figures and letters
Figure is a bottom view of the comb made of a convolute strip of metal.
is an enlarged sectional view of the comb inverted, on line x-x figure 1.
is a bottom view of a comb formed of a series of rings.
Figure 2
Figure 3
A designates a strip or ribbon of metal preferably steel which is serrated on one
edge to form the comb teeth. This strip is bent into convolute form, having several
coils as shown in figure, 1, the coils being in the same horizontal plane and the outer
and inner ends of the strip being in the same radial line of the coils. B designates
a bolt passing transversely through perforations in the ends of the strip and in the
portions of the intermediate coils, as clearly shown in the drawing, thus binding the
several coils of the strip together at one side only and holding them in proper relative
position.
C designates the handle, and D the shank thereof which may overlie bolt B, and
has a depending perforated lug d for the passage of said bolt by which the coils are
firmly bound to the handle.
Preferably interpose washers E, E, on the bolt between each pair of coils or
rings. It will be seen that lug d answers the purpose of one washer. By this con-
struction the coils are kept well apart and comb will not choke. While I prefer the
convolute coil as described yet a series of short serrated strips may be employed
which are bent into rings of varying diameters, see figure 3, the ends of the strips
being overlapped and perforated for the passage of bolt B. In either case the
several coils or rings are secured to the handle in such manner that they are
independent of each other, and while part of the coils or rings through which bolt B
passes is rigid, the other portions thereof can move laterally and have a degree of
vertical movement varying, with the resiliency of the metal of which the coils or
rings are composed, and as there is no rigid backing to the comb, except the
shank D at one side, a yielding but yet sufficiently rigid comb is formed, which will
thoroughly do the work without galling the animal.
One edge of the comb may be left plain for the purpose of forming sweat
scrapers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
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1. In a curry comb the combination of a series of serrated coils or springs
arranged within each other with a handle and bolt attached to and securing the
handle to said coils or rings at one side of the same substantially as and for the

page_text: 2. In a curry comb, the combination of the serrated coils or rings formed of elastic
or yielding strap metal arranged within each other; with the washers placed between
said coils, the handle secured to the coils or rings, and the bolt engaging the handle,
washers, and coils or rings, substantially as described.
3. As an improved article of manufacture, a curry comb composed of convolute
coils of spring metal, each secured to the handle at one side and each coil being free
to vibrate, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 2nd day of July 1889.
THOMSON HANKEY ALEXANDER