A NEW OR IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF BRUSH FOR CONDUCTING AND IMPARTING ELECTRICITY TO THE HUMAN OR ANIMAL FRAME to be as follows :-
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM TAPP of College Green in the city and county of Bristol Hairdresser
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
CONSTRUCTION OF BRUSH FOR CONDUCTING AND IMPARTING ELECTRICITY TO THE
HUMAN OR ANIMAL FRAME to be as follows :-
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This invention relates to a new or improved construction of brush for conducting
and imparting electricity to the human or animal frame.
In carrying my invention into practice I construct the "back" in the same
manner as ordinarily for wood backed brushes with the addition of a plate or
plates of metal on its face (said plates forming positive or negative poles) with a
division between, to prevent contact between the wire bristles of the plates or
portions of plate for conducting the electricity through the bristles or wire or wire
and bristles (mixed) and said bristles or wire or wire and bristles mixed will be
drawn through said plates. Between the plates I draw pure bristlos into the wood
back instead of the bristles and wire before mentioned. Connected to the said
plates are conducting wires which pass through the handle and are provided with
loops or other connections for connecting the brush to form the required connection
either by means of a metallic cord or a cord of other electric conducting material
with an electric machine or an electric or galvanic battery.
E. J. COLSTON FEAR,
17, Redcliff Street, Bristol,
Agent.

page_text: I, WILLIAM TAPP, of College Green in the City and County of Bristol, Hair-
dresser, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
CONSTRUCTION OF BRUSH FOR CONDUCTING AND IMPARTING ELECTRICITY TO THE
HUMAN OR ANIMAL FRAME" and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
This Invention relates to a new or improved construction of brush for conducting
and imparting electricity to the human or animal frame.-In carrying my Inven-
tion into practice, I construct the back of the brush in the ordinary way, with two
or more plates of metal or electric conducting material on the face thereof. The
plates of metal or conducting material are connected by wires or other means
preferably passing through the handle of the brush with an electric machine or
electric or galvanic battery, of which they form the positive and negative poles.-
Spaces are kept between the said plates, which spaces, are filled by bristles or other
material, to prevent electrical contact between the said plates, which through the
connecting wires, form the two poles of the battery or electrical machine-For con-
ducting the electricity from said plates, wires, or a mixture of wires and bristles
aro drawn through then, so that when the brush is applied to the skin, a complete
circuit is formed.
The novel and important features of my Invention are as follows:-
(1.) By the use of a brush constructed as above described, I am enabled to
transmit electricity to the scalp or other part of the human frame, without putting
any part of the body in connection with the circuit, except that part which is
being directly operated upon by the metallic bristles of the brush.-By this means,
the current of electricity applied to the body becomes merely a surface current
passing along the skin between the two poles of the brush, and thus all unpleasant
or dangerous effects which may arise from the passage of an electric current
through the body are obviated.
(2.) The brush is very simple in construction, as it contains no battery, coils, or
other mechanical arrangements, being altogether apart from the source of electricity,
and only acting as an agent for conducting and imparting electricity from any
suitable source.
(3.) By the use of this brush, I can either impart what is known as a voltaic or
electromagnetic current.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare that
what I claim is
The construction of a brush with plates of metal or electrical conducting
material, through which wires or a mixture of wires & bristles are drawn in

page_text: connection with a battery or electric machine, or other source of electricity apart
from the brush, said plates forming the two opposite poles of the battery or machine
and being provided with conducting wires, thus enabling a current of electricity
to be passed through the brush to the human or animal frame, substantially as
herein before described.