IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COMBING OR CLEANING ANIMALS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Price, of Dudbridge, in the County of
Gloucester, Engineer, and Charles Rowe, of Brimscombe, in the
County of Gloucester, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS FOR COMBING OR CLEANING ANIMALS."
Sealed the 28th August 1868, and dated the 6th March 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Price and
Charles Rowe at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 6th March 1868.
We, DANIEL PRICE, of Dudbridge, in the County of Gloucester,
Engineer, and CHARLES ROWE, of Brimscombe, in the County of
Gloucester, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COMBING OR CLEANING ANIMALS," to be
as follows:-
This Invention relates to a novel description of apparatus for combing
animals, whereby the parasites infesting them are removed, and at the
same time collected in a receptacle. This apparatus consists of a
conveniently shaped receptacle, one side of which is composed of a

page_text: comb made of steel or other suitable material set at an angle to a jointed
piece turned up on two of its edges; this jointed piece moves freely
within the sides of the receptacle and closes it on the under side by
means of a spring which keeps it in contact with the lower edge of the
comb when not in use, and in contact with the coat of the animal when
in use. This jointed piece is placed so as to increase the space between
the front edge of it and the comb as it lifts within the receptacle when
pressed into the coat of the animal. Two sides of the receptacle are
cut away near the comb to allow it to penetrate the coat of the animal,
and the openings so made are closed by the turned up edges of the
jointed piece. The upper side of the receptacle is made to open in any
convenient way in order to destroy the parasites and remove the filth
collected within it.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Daniel Price and Charles Rowe in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 3rd September 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, DANIEL
PRICE, of Dudbridge, in the County of Gloucester, Engineer, and
CHARLES ROWE, of Brimscombe, in the said County, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Sixth day of March, in the year
of our Lord 'One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Daniel Price and Charles Rowe,
Her special licence that we, the said Daniel Price and Charles
Rowe, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as we, the said Daniel Price and Charles Rowe, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during. the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR COMBING OR CLEANING ANIMALS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Daniel Price and Charles Rowe,

page_text: our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Daniel Price and Charles
Rowe, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference
being had to the annexed Drawings, and to the figures and letters
marked thereon, that is to say :-
Our said Invention consists in the construction of certain apparatus
by the use of which the coats of animals can be combed and cleaned,
and at the same time freed from parasites by which they may be
infested.
The nature of our said Invention will be more clearly understood by
reference to the annexed Drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation,
Figure 2 a side elevation in section, Figure 3 a transverse elevation
in section, and Figure 4 an end view of the apparatus, the same letters
of reference indicating similar parts in all the Figures.
A is a comb plate formed of steel or other suitable material, the same
being fixed to a receptacle B of brass or other suitable material, and
to which is attached a handle C. The sides of the receptacle B are
cut away as shewn in the Drawings, to allow the comb to penetrate
the hair of the animal to which it is applied. The bottom of the
receptacle B is composed of a plate D turned up at the sides e, e, and
fitted to move freely within the receptacle B. One end of the plate
is jointed at a to the receptacle B, and the other end 6 when the
apparatus is not in use is kept in contact with the comb A, and when
in use with the hair of the animal by the spring d (or by means of
any analogous contrivance), thus closing the bottom of the receptacle B.
The bottom plate D is attached to the receptacle B at an angle
with the comb A, so as to increase the space between the end thereof
and the comb A as it is raised within the receptacle B, when pressed
on the coat of the animal. The top of the receptacle B is closed by
a moveable lid E, which may be transparent or otherwise. Upon the
comb being passed through the coat of the animal to which it is applied

page_text: the parasites infesting it will be drawn into the receptacle and retained
there, and afterwards removed therefrom as may be desired.
Having thus declared and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which it is to be performed, we would observe
in conclusion, that we do not confine ourselves to the precise form or
details of construction as herein-before described, as variations may be
made therefrom without departing from the principles or main features
of our said Invention, but what we consider novel and original, and
therefore claim as constituting the Invention secured to us by the said
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the construction of
apparatus for combing and cleaning the coats of animals, substantially
as herein-before described and set forth, or any mere modifications
thereof.
In witness whereof, we, the said Daniel Price and Charles Rowe,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-ninth day
of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-eight.
DANIEL PRICE.
(L.S.)
CHARLES ROWE. (L.S.)