Improvements in Hair-brushes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Improvements in Hair-brushes.
I, EMILE HENRI BENOIT MICHAELIS, Brush Manufacturer, of 83, Boulevard de
Sebastopol, Paris, in the French Republic do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a brush so constructed that by its use the hair may be
simultaneously brushed and combed without tearing out or breaking it.
The principal feature of my invention is the application of rigid teeth between
the bundles of bristles of the brush.
And in order that my said invention may be understood I will now refer to the
drawings accompanying this specification, in which
Fig. 1 shows an elevation of a brush made according to my invention;
Fig. 2 is a plan showing that side of the brush on which the bristles are;
Fig. 3 shows a section on line AB Fig. 1.
The same letters of reference denote the same parts in all the views.
It will be seen that rigid teeth bare interposed, in any convenient manner,
between the bundles of bristles a.
These rigid teeth 6, which are of any suitable material, celluloid for example,
are, like the bristles a, mounted preferably upon a plate c constituting a part of
the back of the brush.
The rigid teeth may be formed in one with the plate or carried by it. In
the latter case they would be fixed either by screwing, gluing, or any other
suitable means.
I may construct the rigid teeth, as well as the plate which carries them, of
metal aluminium for example. In this case the teeth and plate could be cast
in one.
The plate which carries the bristles a and the rigid teeth b, may be of wood,
bone, ivory, leather, shell, celluloid, or other suitable material, and be connected
to the back of the brush by screwing, pegging, nailing, or by any other suitable
means. Again, the bristles and the teeth may be mounted directly upon the
back of the brush, with or without a plate.
It is understood that the back of the brush may be of any shape and size, with
or without handle, and of any suitable material.
I may also vary the length and colour of the bristles, the rigid teeth and the
plate which carries them.
In my improved brush, the rigid teeth interposed between the pliant bristles
constitute a sort of comb, and this combination allows of a simultaneous brushing
and combing of the hair.
My invention, then, renders easy the combing of luxuriant tresses without
tearing out or breaking the hair.
Dated this 9th day of October 1800
BROWNE & Co.,
Agents for Applicant,
9, Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, London, W.C.

page_text: Improvements in Hair-brushes.
I, EMILE HENRI BENOIT MICHAELIS, Brush Manufacturer, of 83, Boulevard de
Sebastopol, Paris, in the French Republic, 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 relates to a brush so constructed that by its use the hair may
be simultaneously brushed and combed without tearing out or breaking it.
The principal feature of this invention is the application of rigid teeth between
the bristles of the brush.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood I will proceed to
describe the same with reference to the drawings accompanying the Provisional
Specification in which Fig. 1 shews an elevation of a brush made according to
my invention, Fig. 2 is a plan shewing that side of the brush on which the
bristles are, Fig. 3 shews a section on line A B Fig. 1.
The same letters of reference denote the same parts in all the views.
It will be seen that rigid teeth are interposed, in any convenient manner,
between the bundles of bristles a. These rigid teeth b which are of any suitable
material, celluloid for example, are, like the bristles a, mounted preferably upon
a plate e constituting a part of the back of the brush.
The teeth may be formed in one with the plate e or carried by it. In the
latter case they would be fixed either by screwing, gluing, or any other suitable
means.
may construct the teeth b, as well as the plate which carries them, of metal-
aluminium for example.
In this case the teeth and plate could be cast in one.
The plate which carries the bristle and the teeth 6, may be of wood, bone;
ivory, leather, shell, celluloid or other suitable material, and be connected to the
back of the brush by screwing, pegging, nailing, or by any other suitable means.
Again, the bristles and the teeth may be mounted directly upon the back of the
brush, with or without a plate.
It is understood that the back of the brush may be of any shape and size, with
or without handle, and of any suitable material.
I may also vary the length and colour of the bristles, the teeth, and the plate
which carries them.
In my improved brush, the rigid teeth interposed between the pliant bristles
constitute a sort of comb, and this combination allows of a simultaneous brushing
and combing of the hair.
My invention thus renders easy the combing of luxuriant tresses without tear-
ing out or breaking the hair.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is―
WHO
1. Constructing hair brushes substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2. In hair-brushes, the combination with the bristles of the brush, of teeth for
rpose set forth
Dated this 9th day of July 1900.
BROWNE & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
9, Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, London, W.C.