Improvements in Fastenings for Head Rests of Barbers' Chairs, and for other like purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Feb., 1895.
Complete Specification Left, 6th Sept., 1895 Accepted: 12th Oct;}
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION:
Improvements in Fastenings for Head Rests of Barbers' Chairs, and
for other like purposes.
JAMES WALTON Clarke 222, Great Dover Street, Borough, London, S.Eº
Shop Fitter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
The object of my invention is to provide a simple aud efficient fastening attached'
to head rests on chairs used by barbers, photographers, dentists or for other like
purposes.
To carry out my invention I attach to the slide a rack fitted with an improved
buffer. The slide is passed through guides fixed to the chair. One of the guides is
titted with a double toothed springless pawl which pawl is hung so that it auto-
natically drops on to the rack and fixes the rest to any desired height thus
entirely dispensing with the objectionable spring in ordinary use.
To release the slide a trigger (or some such suitable device) attached to the
pawl is pressed which lifts the pawl out of the rack and allows the slide to be
lowered.
A further improvement is a buffer made of india rubber or some other suitable
flexible material which is fixed to the rack and forms a buffer stop for the rack to
fall upon.
Dated this 28th day of February 1895.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Head Rests of Barbers' Chairs, and
for other like purposes.
JAMES WALTON CLARKE 222 Great Dover Street Borough London S.E.
Hair-dresser's Saloon Fitter 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 my invention is to provide a simple and efficient fastening attached
to headrests on chairs used by barbers, photographers, dentists and for other like
purposes.
To carry out my invention I attach to the slide, a rack fitted with an improved
buffer. The slide is passed through guides fixed to the chair, one of the guides
is fitted with a double toothed springless pawl, which pawl is hung so that it
automatically drops on to the rack and fixes the rest to any desired height thos
entirely dispensing with the objectionable spring in ordinary use.
To release the slide, a trigger (or some such suitable device) attached to the
pawl is pressed, which lifts the pawl out of the rack, and allows the slide to be
lowered. A further improvement is a buffer made of india rubber, or some other
suitable flexible material which is fixed to the rack and forms a buffer stop for the
rack to fall upon.

page_text: Fig. 4. a sectional plan on X X Fig. 3 showing my invention more particularly
to an enlarged scale.
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 construction of a springless fastening attached to headrests on chairs used
by barbers, photographers dentists etc. substantially as described.
2. A buffer attached to headrests or slides substantially as described.
Dated this 6th day of September 1895.
JAMES WALTON CLARKE,
JAMES WALTON CLARKE,