Improved Means of Actuating Shaving Brushes or Sticks of Soap to Advance and Retire the same to and from their Cases or Handles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 14th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 20th Jan., 1394
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Actuating Shaving Brushes or Sticks of Soap
to Advance and Retire the same to and from their Cases or
Handles.
I, BENING ARNOLD of 72 Baker Street, London in the County of London
Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improved means of actuating shaving brushes or sticks
of soap to advance and retire the same to and from their cases or handles, the
shaving brush or stick of soap being thereby readily adapted for use and quickly
and securely restored to its case.
I will proceed to describe my invention in its application to a shaving brush
premising that the same means are equally applicable to the actuating of a stick
of soap.
I attach the brush to a sliding socket or carriage arranged so as to be capable
of moving in a longitudinal direction within a tube or casing and I enclose the
whole within an outer tube or covering having a spiral groove or flute formed
therein.
The brush socket or carriage is provided with suitable studs or projections
which extend through longitudinal grooves formed in the inner tube, and engages
within the spiral groove or flute formed upon or in the outer tube or covering.
To the bottom of the inner tube is attached by a screw or otherwise a suitable
cap by means of which the tube can be rotated in either direction.
In order to reduce the friction and to prevent the soap from entering between
the inner and outer tubes I form suitable bearing rings within each end of the
outer tube for the inner tube to revolve upon and I provide the latter with a flange
at its upper end of a width sufficient to close up the annular space between the
inner and outer tubes. By turning the cap the inner tube is caused to revolve
carrying with it the brush socket or carriage which in its turn is driven out or
withdrawn by the studs which traverse in their spiral grooves or flutes formed in
or upon the outer tube.
When the brush is withdrawn the top may be closed by a cover of any desired
form.
I may obtain the same result by the use of ordinary tubes not having exterior
flutings. In these I cut spiral slots and cover them with a sleeve.
Dated this 15th day of February 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Actuating Shaving Brushes or Sticks of Soap
to Advance and Retire the same to and from their Cases or
Handles.
I, BENING ARNOLD of 72 Baker Street London in the County of London, Jeweller,
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 improved means of actuating shaving brushes or sticks

page_text: of soap, to advance and retire the same to and from their cases or handles, the
shaving brush or stick of soap being thereby readily adapted for use, and quickly
and securely restored to its case.
I will proceed to describe my invention in its application to a shaving brush,
premising that the same means are equally applicable to the actuating of a stick
of soap. And in order that my invention may be the better understood, reference
is had to the accompanying sheet of drawings upon which :-
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Figure 1 represents an elevation of a shaving brush with the cover removed and
the brush extended ready for use.
Figure 2 illustrates the same with brush withdrawn and cover in place.
Figure 3 is a vertical section shewing general construction and method of
actuating or propelling and withdrawing the brush.
Figure 4 is a transverse or cross-section of the brush and case, on line 1-2.
I attach the brush A to a sliding socket or carriage B arranged so as to be
capable of moving in a longitudinal direction within a tube or casing C, and I
enclose the whole within an outer tube or covering D, having one or more spiral
grooves or flutes E formed therein.
The brush socket or carriage B is provided with suitable studs or projections F
which extend through longitudinal grooves G formed in the inner tube C, and
engage within the spiral grooves or flutes E formed upon or in the outer tube or
covering D; or I may provide friction rollers in lieu of the studs F and I may
form the groove G in the inner tube by folding back the edges of the opening as
shewn in Figure 5.
To the bottom of the inner tube C is attached by a screw or otherwise a suitable
cap H by means of which this tube can be rotated in either direction.
In order to reduce the friction and to prevent the soap from entering between
the inner and outer tubes I provide suitable bearing-rings I within each end of
the outer tube D, or at any convenient position therein, for the inner tube C to
revolve upon, and I provide the latter at its upper end with a flange K of a width
sufficient to close up the annular space between the inner and outer tubes, or I
may form an internal bead upon the outer tube D in lieu thereof. I may also
provide the brush socket or carriage B with bearing rings I if necessary.
By turning the cap H the inner tube C is caused to revolve and the brush
socket or carriage B thereby made to travel in a longitudinal direction by the
studs F, which traverse in their spiral grooves or flutes E formed in or upon the
outer tube D. When the brush A is withdrawn, the top may be closed by a cover
of any desired form.
I may obtain the same result by the use of ordinary tubes not having exterior
flutings. In these I cut spiral slots and cover them with a sleeve.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is ;-
1. The use in a shaving-brush or soap-stick-holder capable of being expelled
and withdrawn from a case, of the bearing-rings I in combination with or without
the flange K, as and for the purposes described.
2. A shaving brush or soap-stick-holder constructed combined and arranged as
described and shewn on the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Fourteenth day of December 1893.