Improvements in Powder Puffs.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Aug., 1897-Accepted, 25th Sept., 1897
Improvements in Powder Puffs.
We MANNY EHRENBACHER and PAUL BRÖGELMANN, proprietors of the Firm of
P. Brögelmann & Co., Manufacturers of 115-116 Leipzigerstrasse, Berlin Germany
do hereby declare the nature of our invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
The powder puffs for toilette purposes hitherto known not only have the dis-
advantage of causing a considerable waste of powder, but in applying the latter
they invariably sprinkle the same over the clothes of the party using them, and
then again they cannot be employed without having a separate receptacle for the
powder.
According to the presen invention a powder puff is provided which contains
the powder therein and permits the required quantity only to escape when they
are applied.
And in order to render the present specification more easily intelligible re-
ference is had to the accompanying drawing in which similar letters of reference
denote similar parts throughout the several views :-
Fig. 1 is a view of the puff seen from, underneath with the outer covering
partly broken away,
Fig. 2 a cross section through the same and
Fig. 3 a plan of the same.
The puff consists of the receptacle formed by the flexible annular wall b the
backing g with knob e and the powdering surface a having orifices i. The back
or interior of the powdering surface is covered by a double layer of gauze a¹
to prevent the escape of too much powder and a plate h is provided at the interior
of the receptacle f into which the knob e is screwed by means of its screwed
stem d. The powdering surface may be advantageously formed of deer skin,
and the part 6 may be of any suitable flexible material. Powder is filled into
the receptacle by removing the knob or plug e. But the said knob may be fixed
and another opening formed in the backing for the admission of the powder. The
front or powdering surface may be provided with an ornamental edging as shown
at Figure 1.
In application the surface to which the powder is to be applied may be powdered
by simply pressing the puff against the same, when only the required amount of
powder will be pressed out of the receptacle f by the compression of the chamber
walls b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
1. An automatically operating powder puff of any shape or design, having
formed therein a chamber for the reception of the powder and having perforated
bottom of any suitable soft material lined with anze and a hutton ceramed into

page_text: the backing and forming the means for introducing the powder to the interior
of the said chamber substantially as described.
2. In combination with the puff covered by Claim 1 the arrangement of a
button fast on the backing and a separate orifice for introducing the powder to
the interior of the puff substantially as described.
Dated this 13th day of August 1897.
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Monument Chambers, London, E.C., Applicants' Agent.