US405502A - John e - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

J. E. POINDEXTER.

HAIR SINGER( No. 405,502. Patented June 18, 1889.

l UNITED STATES lIATENT OFFICE.

JOHN E. POINDEXTER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO JOSEPH E. SMITH AND GEORGEM. RANDOLPH, OF SAME PLACE.

HMRI-SINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 405,502, dated June 18, 1889.

Application filed January 3l, 1889.` Serial No. 298,241. (No model.)

To all wiz/m, it may concern: the domeecap to its seat. The dome-cap is Be it known that l, JOHN E. PONDEXTER, surmounted by the elongated burner-tube 24, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Misthe flaring base of which is securely attached souri, have invented a certain new and useto or may be made integral with the dome- 55 5 ful Improvement in Hair-Singers, of which cap from which it rises.

the following is a full, clear, and exact de- 12 represents a draft-tube, whose iiaring scription, reference being had to the accomcurved mouth 13 secured within the perfopanying drawings, forming part of this speciration 14C in the side of the tubular column, cation. and whose outlet discharges on line with the 6o 1o This invention relates to an instrumentfor outlet of the burner-tube.

producing a sudden flash to singe and thus All parts of the structure above described stop the tubular pores of fresh-cut hair to preare composed of brass or any other suitable vent wastage and weakening of its roots; and material. the invention consists in features of novelty 15 represents the iiat wick that passes 65 15 hereinafter fully described, and pointed out through the slot 16 in the disk S into the alcoin the claims. hol-tank, and in front or above is curved Figure I is an elevation of my singeing-inaround the draft-tube 12, as it (the wick) is strument. Fig. II is a vertical section taken elevated and comes in contact between the on line II II, Fig. l, and shows the instrument same and the buriier-tube that surrounds it, 7o zo in the position for using, and also shows the the curved flaring base of which guides the air-chamber, the pneumatic valve, airtub ev wick in its ascent and conducts it around said that supplies the draft for the flash, and the tube, so that as it rises or projects from the elastic rubber bulb that controls the air-vent burn er-tube the part that carries the flame is to the burner; and Fig. III is a vertical secin a circular or tubular form 17, within which 75 tion taken on line IH III, Fig. Il, and shows the draft-tube discharges the air for the efthe air-port to the valve, the air-tube that fecting of the flash.

supplies the burner, and the aperture through 18 represents an open port in the dome-cap which the wick is passed. Vfor the entrance of air into the initial air- Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the chamber 19 within the dome-cap. 8o 3o pedestal base, in which and in the tubular ex- 2O represents two corrugations that project tension 2 the tank is located that holds the outward from respectively near the base, or alcohol 3. A transverse partition-wall Ll and somewhat removed therefrom, and from near longitudinal one 5 separate the alcoholtank the top of the tubular column, and between from the airchamber G, and the tank and airsaid corrugations around said column is seated 85 3 5 chamber together are inclosed in a tubular the expanded hollow rubber bulb 21,the said column 7, which has an air and spirit tight corrugations holding the said bulb to its workconnection with the pedestal. At the forward ing position on the tubular column, between. end of the longitudinal partition 5 a transwhich and the expanded rubber bulb is an verse disk S closes in both the alcohol-tank operative air-chamber 22,from whichbypress- 9o 4o and the air-chamber. ure upon said bulb a draft of air is forced 9 represents a dome-cap, whose inner edge through the tube 12 to revivify the flame on its within the upper or forward end of the the burner to effect a sudden flash. The said tubular column that projects beyond the air-supply for this purpose enters in through transverse disk 8. Two pins 10, that project the open port 1S into the initial air-chamber 95 inwardly from opposite edges of the said exwithin the dome-cap, and from that passes tension of the tubular column, enter the anthrough the flutter-valve port into the sec gle-slot 11 in the domeecap when said cap ondary air-chamber 6, from which it passes is seated, and when the cap is slightly turned through the o pen port 25 into the third or opsaid pins enter the angle-extension of the erative air-chamber 22. roo

5o slot, so that the pins and angleslots form to- 2G is the flutter-valve, that closes the port gether tightbayonetmjoints that safely hold 23 when by the pressure of the operators hand on the rubber bulb there is effected a reactionary movement of the draft at said port, and 27 is the screw that attaches said Hutter-valve to the transverse disk 8. The flutter-valve is shown in full lines closed on said port in Fig. Il at the time of the pressure of said bulb and in broken lines in said figure in its inoperative position. Then the pressure having been removed from said bulb, the bulb expands to its normal position, the valve opens, and the current of air freely pours or is drawn by suction t-hrough theopen ports into the succeeding air-chambers.

28 are the screw-Stoppers, that close the supply-ports 29, through which the alcohol-tank is replenished.

.Now, if there is a supply of alcohol in the tank and the wick at the nozzle of the burner is lighted, (the blaze of which in its normal condition is but a faint gli mmer,) then by pressure of the hand of the operator on the rubberbulb the current of air is forced backward and immediately closes the flutter-valve of the port 23, so as to utilize a requisite portion f the volulne of air that is ,stored in the operative airchamber within the bulb to project a current through the mouth 13 of the tube l2 and said tube l2 to and through the nozzle of the burner, thereby effecting a quick reviviiication of the previously glimmering blaze, thus producing a sudden flash, which is as quickly withdrawn when the pressure of the operators hand on the bulb is removed.

Now I will describe the useful functions of the instrument. Hair is no exception to the -rule that everything that lives and grows continuously lighted, as there is but a glim- (whether animal or vegetable) is supplied with tubular and porous channels, through which the nutritious elements that support life and minister to its growth are supplied to the farthermost extremities of its being. Now, as each hair is a tube having the abovenamed recuperating functions, which nature carefully guards (as she does all things well) by hermetically sealing the ends of said tubes, and whereas each time the hair of the head is cutits hermetically-sealed terminals are decapitated and each hair terminates in an open tube, which, by the exuding of its nutritious supplies, is too great a draw on the physical energies -of the root, until in course of time nature again steps in and again seals the tubulous pores through which the waste is incurred. In the meantime the loss of energy to the roots is very large, and men, the hair cf whose heads is more frequently cut than is that of women, are much more subject to baldness in consequence. This prelude appears necessary to a rightI understanding of the functions of my hair-singer. During the active part of the day in the barber-shop the lamp of the instrument may be mer of light at the burner, and therefore but a minimum of waste, until the light is revivifed by the forced draft as the operator presses the rubber bulb and forces the air through the tube l2, which discharges at the burner, reviviies the blaze, and produges the required sudden flash. After the hair is cut and placed in a suitable condition to operate on, the operator holds the instrument in about the position shown in Fig. Il, with the lighted burner at the nozzle in a suitable position to the hair on which it is to operate; then by the pressure of the operators hand, as described, on the rubber bulb, and the consequent instantaneous Iiash that it produces, the tubulous terminals of the hair are slightly singed, and thus contracted, so as to hermetically seal the tubes and immediately stay the waste that would otherwise ensue.

I claim as my inventionl. In a hair-singer, the combination of the tubular burner, the draft-tube that discharges at the nozzle of said burner, the wick that projects from between said tube and tubulous burner, and the operative rubber bulb u that enforces the discharge of air through the draft-tube to revivify the blaze at the burner and produce an instantaneous flash, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a hair-singer, the combination of the tubular column having corrugations, the transverse and longitudinal partitions, the transverse disk having a wick-slot, the domecap having tubulous burner, the draft-tube, and the rubber operative bulb, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a hair-singer, the combination of the tubular column, the transverse and longitudinal partitions, and transverse disk S within said column that, with the surrounding column, inclose and separate the alcoholtank and secondary air-chamber, the domecap E), that incloses the init-ial air-chamber, the bayonet-fastening that secures said domecap to the tubular column, the corrugations 20, that project from said column, the rubber operative bulb that is seated between said corrugations around the tubular column and incloses the operative air-chamber, between which and the secondary air-chamber is provided an open port 25, the burner-tube 24, the draft-tube with its fiaring mouth, through which the air is discharged from the operative air-chamber to the nozzle of the burner to revivify the blaze, the domecap being provided with an open supply air-port, the

transverse disk 8 being provided with a Hut ter-valve port that communicates between the initial and the secondary air-chambers, the flutter-valve that operates to open and close said port, the feed-ports through which the tank is replenished, and the screw-stoppers that close said ports, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN E. POINDEXTER.

In presence 0f- BENJN. A. KNIGHT, SAML. KNIGHT.

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