Improvements in Flesh-brushes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 4th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flesh-brushes.
1. FRANCIS JAMES BENNETT of 1 St. Mary's Place, Newbury in the County
of Berkshire, Geologist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
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My invention relates to improvements in flesh-brushes, and it has for its
object rendering the said brushes more easy to use and consequently more
efficacious.
I construct my brush of a long rectangular shape with the ends of the back
continued to form suitable handles.
The back or foundation of the brush is made of any suitable pliant material
such as leather, vulcanite, or even any softer material stiffened and made flexible
by the introduction of suitable springs.
To the ends of the handles are attached loop shapes. The brush may be a single or
double-faced one, if the latter, I make each set of bristles of a different strength so as
to suit different parts of the body. With a brush constructed according to my
invention any one can easily brush every part of his own body, and regulate the pressure
of the brush on the body as desired.
DRIVER CHIN on day of February 1009.
ROBT. ED. PHILLIPS, M.I.M.E.,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent,
Royal Courts Chambers, 70, 71 & 72, Chancery Line, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flesh-brushes.
1, FRANCIS JAMES BENNETT, of 1, St. Mary's Place, Newbury, in the County of
Berks, Geologist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particulary described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in flesh brushes, and it has for its
object rendering the said brushes more easy to use and consequently more
efficacious.
I construct my brush of a long rectangular shape with the ends of the back
continued to form suitable handles. The back or foundation of the brush is made
of any suitable pliant material such as leather, vulcanite, or even any softer material
stiffened and made flexible by the introduction of suitable springs. To the ends of
the handles are attached loop straps. The brush may be a single or a double-faced
one, if the latter I make each set of bristles of a different strength, so as to suit
different parts of the body.
With a brush constructed according to my invention persons can easily brush
every part of their own bodies, and regulate the pressure of the brush on the body
as desired.
In order that my invention may he fully understood I will more particularly
describe it with the aid of the accompanying drawing in which Figures 1. and 2.
are views in elevation and plan respectively of one form of my improved flesh-brush,
and Figures 3 and 4. are views in sectional elevation and sectional plan respectively of
a modification thereof.
Throughout these views similar parts are marked with like letters of reference.

page_text: The bristles A of my brush are fixed on to a back 13 of a long reetangular shape.
This back is made of leather, or any other suitable semi-pliant material or substance
such for instance as leather. In caso the bark is made of a material that is not
sufficiently rigid, one or more springs C, are inserted in the back B as shown by
Figures 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawing. The brush may be provided with
bristles on one sido ns illustrated by Figures 1. and 2, or on both sides as illustrated
by Figures 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawing. In the latter case the bristles on
one side are stiffer than those on the other so as to give a brush with two degrees of
hardness. The ends of the back Bare shaped to form handles B¹ B' and to the ends
of these handles are fixed loop straps D. 1).
It will be seen that my improved brush while being sufficiently rigid to be used
with one hand is also sufficiently pliable or flexible to be used with two hands, and
when so used gives an equal pressure over its surface, it is therefore adapted for all
usas to which a flesh-brush can be put.
I am aware that prior to the date of my invention flesh-brushes have been inado
with wood or other solid backs, and also that flexible flesh brushes have been made
of woven hair or fibre. I therefore do not broadly claim such; but having now particu-
larly 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 ;-
1st. A flesh-brush constructed in the manuer and for the purpose set forth.
2nd. In a flesh-brush the combination with the bristles, of a rigid but semi-pliant
hack the ends of which aro slumped as handles, and the loop straps attached thereto,
as set forth.
Brd. In a flesh-brush the insertion in a pliant or flexible back, of one or more
springs to give it the necessary rigidity, as set forth.
4th. In a flesh brush the combination of the bristles A, the semi-pliant back B, the
handles B' and the loop straps 1), all combined arranged, and operating, as and for
the purpose set forth.
5th. In a flesh-brush the combination of the bristles A, the pliant, or semi-pliant
back B, the spring or springs U, the handles B', and the loop straps D, all combined,
arrango, and operating as and for the purpose set forth.
6th. In a flesh-brush having a semi-pliant back the ends of which are shaped as
handles and have straps affixed thereto, fixing bristles of different degrees of stiffness
on each side of the sail back so as to form a double sided brush of different degreas
of hardness, as set forth.
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