IMPROVE- MENTS IN HEAD RESTS FOR BARBERS' CHAIRS to be as follows
Year: 1885

page_text: I, HENRY LACEY PROVIS, of 90 Salisbury Road, Cardiff, in the County of
Glamorgan, Barber, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN HEAD RESTS FOR BARBERS' CHAIRS to be as follows:-
"
According to this invention the vertical spindle or rod of the rest used for
supporting and regulating the position of the head of a person seated in a barber's
shaving chair is furnished with a toothed rack. With this rack gears a pinion
conveniently carried in a ring-shaped bracket screwed or otherwise secured to the
top rail or back of the chair frame. The rest is adjusted vertically by rotating
the pinion accordingly. The pinion is furnished for this purpose with a handle
which is intended to be turned by one hand. Under this arrangement the rest
may be adjusted without necessitating, as is the case with existing rests, the
employment of both hands of the barber.
The upper part of the rest on which the person's head reposes preferably consists
of a strap or band extended across a fork formed at the upper end of the spindle.
With this form of rest greater comfort to the occupant of the chair is afforded
than where the head rests upon a rigid pad or cushion.
Dated this 5th day of September 1885.

page_text: Improvements in Head Rests for Barbers' Chairs.
I, HENRY LACEY PROVIS, of 90, Salisbury Road, Cardiff, in the County of
Glamorgan, Barber, 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 :—
According to this invention, the vertically disposed spindle, rod, or bar of the
head rest is furnished at one side throughout a portion of its length with teeth.
The rack thus formed gears with a pinion carried in a bracket screwed or otherwise
secured to the back of the chair. The bracket may be ring-shaped or of other
convenient form-The rest is operated to move vertically by rotating the spindle
which is fitted with a handle for that purpose. One hand only of the operator
need be used to turn the handle by which the pinion is rotated.
The pad on which the head of the occupant of the chair rests consists of a band
of leather, cloth, or other suitable material, which is suspended from the limbs of
a fork formed at the upper end of the spindle, rod, or bar-By the use of this
form of pad and by suspending the same, as aforesaid, greater ease and comfort are
afforded than by the use of the ordinary rigid pad or cushion.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, Fig. 1 represents
a back view of a head rest constructed and fitted in accordance with this invention―
Fig. 2 represents a part side elevation and part vertical section of the rest.
The bar a of the rest is at one side provided throughout a part of its length
with a series of teeth constituting a rack-With this rack gears the pinion b carried
in bearings in the bracket c screwed or otherwise attached to the back of the upper
rail d of a chair-A portion only of the chair rail is shown in the drawing.
.
By turning the levere the pinion b is made to rotate and the rest raised or
lowered accordingly. As a means of maintaining the rest in the position to which
it may be adjusted, the levere may be hinged above the axis of the pinion b
beyond which it may be extended and curved to form a pin or nose, as seen more
particularly at Fig. 2 of the drawing. By the spring g the pin of the levere is
constantly pressed inwards and tends to act as a stop to the rotation of the pinion b,
the bracket c being pierced at intervals to receive the end of the pin or nose of the
lever, as shown-By exerting pressure in an inward direction, that is to say,
towards the bracket, on the knob of the lever, the lever is tilted on the hinge, and
the end of the nose or pin withdrawn from a hole. The pinion is then free to be
rotated.
One hand only of the operator need be employed to operate the rest.
Other forms of handle and pinion stop may be used besides those shewn in the
drawing.
For the reception of the head of the occupant of the chair the form of pad shewn
in the drawings may be conveniently adopted-It consists of a band of leather,
cloth or other suitable material suspended by the strap to which it is sewn or
otherwise attached-The strap l' is suspended at each end from the limbs a¹ of the
fork formed at the top of the bar a.

page_text: Greater ease and comfort are afforded to the occupant when undergoing the
operation of being shaved than are afforded by the rigid pads or cushions usually
employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is
First. Providing a head rest for barbers' chairs with a series of teeth constituting
a toothed rack and arranging the same to be operated and adjusted by means of a
pinion capable of being actuated from behind the chair by one hand of the operator,
substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
Second. The use in a head rest for barbers' chairs of a band or strap for the
reception of the head of the occupant, the said band or strap being suspended from
the limbs of a fork formed at the upper end of the rod, spindle or bar of the rest,
substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in the accompanying sheet of
drawings.