to the Scalp and other Parts of the Body.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Feb., 1888
Specification Accepted, 29th Mar.. 1888
to the Scalp and other Parts of the Body.
I, ALFRED MUDIE, of 34, Hilldrop Crescent, Camden Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Librarian, do hereby declare the nature of the said 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 improved apparatus or means for applying oil and other
liquids to the scalp and to other parts of the skin covered by hair, the especial object
of the Invention being to apply liquid to the scalp and to such other parts in such a
manner as to avoid general wetting of the hair as is effected when using a sponge and
in other existing methods of applying liquids to such parts.
The said improved apparatus or means is constructed with a comb-like part for
separating the hair and getting at the scalp or skin beneath, the teeth or projecting
parts of which are made of a tubular, pipe-like or other equivalent formation herein-
after referred to as #
hollow," and are each formed with one or more apertures or
outlet holes or openings at or adjacent to the outer end thereof through which the
liquid to be applied to the skin can flow or be propelled, and with a reservoir for
containing the liquid, and which reservoir may be made in one piece with the said
comb like part or may be made separate therefrom and connected therewith, and may
be so formed as that the liquid will flow from the said hollow teeth upon the per-
forated ends of the latter being applied to and drawn along the scalp or skin, or may
be so formed as that the liquid will require to be ejected from the reservoir in which
latter event the reservoir may be formed with elastic or spring sides or as a self
expanding compressible ball or may be otherwise equivalently formed for the purpose,
or may be permanently or detachably combined with a self expanding compressible
ball or equivalent means of compressing the contents of the connected reservoir and
ejecting the liquid therefrom through the said hollow teeth as and when required.
The principle of the Invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawings: in
which Fig. 1. represents an elevation partly in section of a liquid applying combing
apparatus constructed in accordance therewith.
Fig. 2. represents an under plan view of Fig. 1. and Fig. 3. is a side view
thereof.
Fig. 4. is an elevation of a modification in which the comb like part of the device
and the reservoir are separately formed and detachably connected.

page_text: 5. represents the comb like part of the device which may be made of metal or of
any other suitable material, and the teeth, 6, of which may be variously formed
and arranged as may be required or most suitable for any special use and inay
be made in one piece with the part, 5, or,may be separately made and screwed into
or otherwise suitably united therewith.
In accordance with an essential feature of the present improvements, the said teeth
are made of a hollow formation as shown at, 7, in sectional elevation in Fig. 1. and
are each formed with an outlet hole, 8, (or with more than one thereof) at or near the
outer end thereof. The outer end of each tooth may advantageously be chamfered or
bevelled at one side as shown at 9, Fig. 3, or it may be otherwise equivalently formed
with the object of causing one side of the point of the tooth to project beyond the end
aperture, 8, therein, and act as a means of protecting the said aperture from being
closed up by dandriff or other matter in the hair.
10, represents the reservoir for the liquid and which may be made of metal or of
any other suitable material and may also be made of any required shape or form, and
from which the said teeth project, being formed in one piece therewith or screwed
or otherwise suitably fitted into suitable holes formed therein or to which a part
supporting the teeth may be screwed or otherwise detachably or permanently
connected.
If it is required that the liquid should flow from the hollow teeth, 6, upon being
applied to the.scalp or skin and without being ejected or propelled from the reservoir,
then in some suitable part of the device there may be formed a small air inlet hole
or opening, or one or more of the hollow teeth may be continued up into the reservoir
as dotted at, 11, so as to project above the level of the liquid contained therein when
in the position for use.
Or as represented in Fig. 5, the hollow teeth may be adapted or provided with
inner needle like rods, 12, with rounded extremities which normally close their said
outlet apertures and slightly project beyond the teeth, resting on collars, 13, with
which they are formed, and prevent the liquid contained in the reservoir from
escaping from the teeth until the latter are brought into contact with the scalp or skin
when the needle rods are pushed within the hollow teeth thus opening their outlet
apertures and permitting of the flow of the liquid. In the latter modification the
conduits of the teeth are made of a sufficiently enlarged diameter to accommodate
the said needle rods and permit of the desired passage of the liquid when required.
In the modification represented in figures, I, to, 3, of the accompanying drawings
the reservoir is made with a spring side as at, 14, by pressing which the contained
liquid may be ejected from the hollow teeth." In the modification represented in
figure, 4, the reservoir is represented as consisting of a self expanding compressible
ball 10 or as made of thin metal with flattened spring sides, by pressing which the
liquid may be expelled as aforesaid. This figure may also represent a modification in
which the part, 5, may consist of the reservoir and in which the self expanding com-
pressible ball or the flat sided metal part may consist of a detachably connected
ejector for propelling the liquid from the said reservoir through the said hollow teeth
as and when required.
15. represents an inlet opening through which the reservoir may be charged with
liquid and which may be variously placed and arranged. In the modification repre-
sented in Fig. 4. the opening, 15, also acts as the connection of the reservoir and
ejector parts of the apparatus. In such latter case by firstly expelling the air by
compressing the ejector, and then dipping the ends of the teeth into the liquid, the
reservoir may be filled by atmospheric pressure upon the liquid upon the ejector being
released from pressure.
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 liquid applying combing apparatus or means for the purpose hereinbefore
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page_text: apertures at or adjacent to the outer ends thereof, in combination with a reservoir for
containing liquid and from which the teeth project or to which they are connected
and from which the liquid may flow or be propelled substantially as hereinbefore
described.
2. The application and use (in apparatus used for the purpose of the invention)
of a series of hollow teeth formed with outlet apertures at or adjacent to the outer
ends thereof, through which liquid intended to be applied to the scalp or such parts as
aforesaid may flow or be propelled substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 30th day of January 1888.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.