An Improved Portable Shampooing Apparatus.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 19th June, 1890-Accepted, 19th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Shampooing Apparatus.
I, HENRY JOHN GARBUTT of 22 Yonge Park, Finsbury Park, London, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
The object of this invention is to construct or arrange a portable Shampooing
Apparatus from a combination of compressible bag or its equivalent, india rubber
tubing metal branch a distributor or rose, and a suction tube for immersion in the
water to be used for the purpose.
The above apparatus is affixable to a standard or other support and can be arranged
close to or upon an ordinary washstand, so that the water in the wash bason can be
used, or the suction tube can be inserted into a separate vessel, such as a jug
containing water, either hot or cold.
For the purpose of my invention, I fit a suction tube at the lower end with a
splayed out or other nozzle and its upper end I secure to a compressible bag in
which ball or other valves are arranged to act in opposite directions. Above this bag
1 arrange another bag of elastic material which acts as a governor between the
compression bag and the outlet tube or branch leading therefrom, the outer end of
which provided with a finely perforated spreader or rose.
The person using the apparatus has only by successive and rapid squeezing the
bag suck up the water and force it through the outlet, under which his head is
already in position.
Dated this 15th do L 1000
H. GARDNER,
Per R. Core Gardner,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Henry John Garbutt.
H. GARDNER,
Per R. Core Gardner,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Henry John Garbutt.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Portable Shampooing Apparatus.
I, HENRY JOHN GARBUTT, of 22 Yonge Park, Finsbury Park, London, Gentleman,
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:-
The object of this invention is to construct or arrange a portable Shampooing
Apparatus from a combination of compressible bag or its equivalent, india rubber
tubing metal branch a distributor or rose, and a suction tube for immersion in the
water to be used for the purpose.
The above apparatus is affixable to a standard or other support and can be arranged
close to or upon an ordinary washstand, so that the water in the wash-basin can be
used, or the suction tube can be inserted into a separate vessel, such as a jug
containing water, either hot or cold.
For the purpose of my invention, I fit a suction tube at the lower end with a
splayed out or other nozzle and its upper end I secure to a compressible bag in
which ball or other valves are arranged. Above this bag I arrange another bag of
elastic material, or an air vessel which acts as a governor between the compression
bag and the outlet tube or branch leading therefrom, the outer end of which is
provided with a finely perforated spreader or rose.

page_text: The person using the apparatus has only, by successive and rapid squeezing of the
bag, to suck up the water and force it through the outlet under which his head is
already in position.
Several examples of the application of my invention are shown on the annexed
drawings specially adapted for private use but are equally applicable by hairdressers
and others for shampooing purposes.
According to the drawings.
Figure 1 represents my invention adapted to the "back" of an ordinary washstand
by a clip device.
Figure 2 shows it supported by a tripod on a wash-basin, the tripod legs being
simply lodged thereon.
Figure 3 illustrates the apparatus supported by a swing bracket attached to a wall
and over a fixed washstand or slab.
Figure 4 shows the apparatus supported by a pedestal with a telescoping branch
for regulating the height and turnable on the support for adjustment to suit the
position of the wash-basin.
Figure 5 shows the apparatus attached to a non-telescopic support but adjustable
circularwise to suit the position of the wash-basin.
Figure 6 represents the apparatus without a support but capable of being held by
a handle affixed to a branch of the outlet tube.
Figure 7 shows a modified form of the apparatus represented on the previous
Figure as regards the expansible bag a hollow globe being substituted and serving as
an air compression vessel.
Figure 8 represents a couple of apparatus on separate supports standing on a
washstand and having two suction tubes for hot and cold-water respectively and with
one outlet common to both.
A, suction nozzle.
B, suction tube.
C, compressible bag provided with non-return valves.
D, short connection.
E, expansible or governor bag.
F, branch tube connecting expansible bag with outlet.
G, outlet tube.
H, water rose or spreader.
I, I, supports affixable in any suitable manner according to the position the
apparatus has to be arranged.
J, handle in lieu of support to enable the operator to use the apparatus at any
position.
The operation is as follows:-
The person desiring a shampoo sets the apparatus at the desired position on or to a
washstand or other article and immerses the suction nozzle into water in a basin,
or other vessel, and places his head under the rose or spreader H. He then by rapid
successive compressions of the bag forms a vacuum in the same, and the water
rises into said bag and passes into the expansible bag E or the air vessel and from
thence along the tubes F, G, to the rose or spreader H.
It will be understood that the suction nozzle and tube can be inserted in any vessel
arranged alongside and may contain hot or cold water, or a combination as desired,
or, as in the case of the apparatus shown at Figure 6, it can be held in one hand of
the operator while he squeezes the bag C with the other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The portable Shampooing Apparatus hereinbefore described and substantially as
shown in the annexed drawings.

page_text: 2. In combination with a compressible bag and an expansible bag or air vessel, a
rose or spreader for shampooing purposes as described with reference to the annexed
drawings.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Henry John Garbutt.