Improvements in Mechanically Driven Hair-brushes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 2nd June, 1896-Accepted, 4th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mechanically Driven Hair-brushes.
I, JOHN PERCY NICHOLL, Tobacconist, 10^ Orchard Street, Weston-super-
Mare, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to produce a self-contained mechanical hair-brush,
and in carrying out my improvements I provide a spindle having at each end a
handle by which the complete appliance is held. Near one of the handles I fasten
a circular brush having hair or the like around its periphery.
More or less of that part of the spindle which extends from the brush to the
other handle passes through a metal case inside which are a train of wheels and a
spring all constituting a clockwork arrangement of any suitable construction, and
by means of which the spindle and the brush attached to it are revolved.
At the end of the case I provide a handle for stopping the brush when required,
and a key for winding up the clock-work. The case for containing the clock-work
remains stationary, only the spindle and the brush revolve.
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Contamber 1895
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for Applicant.
Improvements in Mechanically Driven Hair-brushes.
I, JOHN PERCY NICHOLL, Tobacconist, 10* Orchard Street, Weston-super-
Mare, 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 :-
My invention relates to a mechanically operated brush for the use of hair-
dressers and the like, and the object is to produce a self-contained brush and motor
which can be readily held and manipulated by the user.
A.
In order to render the construction of my improved brush clearer, I make
reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings which shows a sectional side view
of one of my improved brushes. In a suitable casing a having the head pieces b
aud c are three internal bearing partitions d e and f. The head piece b may have
attached to it or formed thereon, a handle. Centrally through d and e runs the
spindle g carrying the strong spring h and the spur wheel i into which gears the
pinion which is revolved by the key k when the spring his to be wound up.
diaphragm plate is sweated on g. Running loose round the boss of 1 is the spur-
wheel m to which is attached the pawl n, entering the teeth of the ratchet wheel o.
The pawl is kept in contact with the teeth of o by a spring not shewn in the
drawing. Through f and c passes the hollow spindle p, having inside it the
spindle which projects through p sufficiently to allow the tubular centre, of
the brush to be shipped over. The brush is connected to the spindle p by the
pin-clutch & or by any other suitable means. On p is the pinion t. Through f
and c passes the short spindle u having at one end the pinion gearing into spur-
Also attached to p
wheel m and at the other end the spur-wheel w gearing into t.

page_text: is the brake wheel x, surrounded by the brake strap y, which can be brought into
action for regulating the speed by means of the levers y¹ and y' and the finger
piece y³.
When the spring is wound up, the spindle g is revolved by it and carries with it
the ratchet wheel o which by means of the pawl n carries round the spur-wheel m
which gears into the pinion and rotates it and the spindle u at a high speed.
The rotation of v carries round spur-wheel w which in its turn rotates at a still
higher speed the pinion t, shaft p and the brush attached thereto.
z and 2¹ are
the handles by which the brush is held when in use.
I do not restrict myself to the precise configuration, relative proportions or
dispositions of parts shewn in the drawing or described in the specification as any
or all of them may be considerably varied without departing from the spirit of my
invention. For instance, friction wheels and pinions could be used instead of
spur-wheels and pinions.
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 hair-brush revolved by a clock work train arranged on an axis coincident
with the axis of the brush the whole substantially as described in the above
specification and exemplified in the accompanying drawings.
2. A mechanically driven hair-brush provided for and operating substantially
as described in the above specification and exemplified in the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 1st day of June 1896.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.