A NEW OR IMPROVED APPLIANCE TO BE EMPLOYED FOR CLEANING CERTAIN KINDS OF HAIR, METAL, AND COMBINED METAL AND HAIR BRUSHES FOR TOILET USE."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edmund Squire Norcombe, Manufacturer, 129, Bath
Row, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, for an Invention of "A NEW
OR IMPROVED APPLIANCE TO BE EMPLOYED FOR CLEANING CERTAIN KINDS
OF HAIR, METAL, AND COMBINED METAL AND HAIR BRUSHES FOR TOILET
USE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edmund Squire Norcombe
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th October 1881.
EDMUND SQUIRE NORCOMBE, Manufacturer, of 139, Bath Row, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick. A NEW OR IMPROVED APPLIANCE TO BE EMPLOYED
FOR CLEANING CERTAIN KINDS OF HAIR, METAL, AND COMBINED METAL AND
HAIR BRUSHES FOR TOILET USE."
And refers to an implement to be used for cleaning, clearing, or removing from
hairbrushes for toilet use all accumulations of dandriff, scurf, dust, &c., without
softening or injuring the hair, bristles, or wires, or the body or frame of the brush
(which is invariably the result of frequent washing in alkaline and other solutions),
so that after long use the hair or bristles retain their stifness, and the body or
frame its polish and original appearance. This object I effect by rubbing the
hairbrush to be cleaned backward and forward across the said Invention, and the
dirt is removed by the vibration of the bristles in passing across. In describing
the Invention I make it of various shapes or forms, but I prefer making it similar
in shape to ordinary hairbrushes, and construct the bodies or frames of such varied
meterials as are now used in the manufacture of brush frames and handles, so that
it may match in appearance brushes forming part of the requisite toilet implements
of dressing cases, &c., and is comprised of the body and handle which I form by
soldering, brazing, or rivetting together wire, strips, or bars of metal having spaces
between them parallel or at any angle to each other within and to a metal or
other frame similar to a gridiron. I also make it of one piece by either casting,
pressing, moulding, or stamping; or I make the body and handle of seperate pieces
or parts; or I cast or stamp two similar pieces of metal or or other meterial, and
solder, rivit, or lap them together; or I fasten strips or ribs to the body, which
may be either a flat or raised surface; or it may be corrugated, fluted, or ribbed,
and have plain or ornamental handles, and I use any meterial capable of being
moulded, stamped, or pressed when in a plastic state to the shape required; amongst
such materials are indiarubber, vulcanite, ebonite, celluloid, glass, china, &c. In
many cases were metals are used I electroplate the same.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edmund Squire Norcombe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th April 1882.
EDMUND SQUIRE NORCOMBE, Manufacturer, of 139, Bath Row, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick. "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPLIANCE TO BE EMPLOYED
FOR CLEANING CERTAIN KINDS OF HAIR, METAL, AND COMBINED METAL AND
HAIR BRUSHES FOR TOILET USE,"
And refers to an implement to be used for cleaning, clearing, or removing from
hairbrushes for toilet use all accumulations of dandriff, scurf, dust, &c., without
softening or injuring the hair, bristles, or wires, or the body or frame of the brush
(which is invariably the result of frequent washing in alkaline and other solutions),
so that after long use the hairs or bristles retain their stifness, and the body or
frame its polish and original appearance. This object I effect by rubbing the hair-
brush to be cleaned backward and forward across the said Invention, and the dirt
is removed by the vibration of the bristles in passing across. In describing the
Invention I make it of various shapes or forms, but I prefer making it similar in
shape to ordinary hairbrushes, and construct the bodies or frames of such varied
materials as are now used in the manufacture of brush frames and handles, so that
it may match in appearance brushes forming part of the requisite toilet implements
of dressing cases, &c., and is comprised of the body and handle which I forn by
soldering, brazing, or rivetting together wire, strips, or bars of metal having spaces
between them parellell to or at any angle to each other within and to a metal or
other frame similar a gridiron. I also make it of one piece by either casting,
pressing, moulding, or stamping; or I make the body and handles of seperate
pieces or parts; or I cast or stamp two similar pieces of metal or other material,
and solder, rivet, or lap them together; or I fasten strips or ribs to the body,
which may be either a flat or raised surface, or it may be corrugated, fluted, or
ribbed, and have plain or ornamental handles; and I use any meterial capable of
being moulded, stamped, or pressed when in a plastic state to the shape required.
Amongst such meterials are indiarubber, vulcanite, ebonite, celluloid, glass, china, &c.
In many cases where metals are used I electroplate the same.
The accompanying Drawings shews my before described Invention, and are full
size. Fig. 1 represents the ground plan of the "open" or gridiron form, A being
the handle, and B the body formed of bars, wires, strips of metal, or other materials,
Fig. 1a being a transverse section of the same; Fig. 2 represents the handle A
made of one or more pieces of wood, metal, or other material, to which may be
attatched the body B, Fig. 3, by means of screws, pins, rivets, or cement, &c., Fig. 2a
being a transverse section of the handle, and 3 ditto, ditto, of the body B; Fig. 4
represents a transverse section shewing the handle and body made of one piece.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in which
it is to be performed,
I claim a new or improved appliance comprised of a series of ribs or bars and
handle for cleaning hair brushes for toilet use.