US938937A - Barber-chair attachment. - Google Patents

Description

T. G. AITKEN.

BARBER CHAIR ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION mum MAY 19. 1009;

Patented Nov. 2, 1909.

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BARBER-CHAIR ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 2, 1909.

Application filed May 19, 1909. Serial No. 497,024.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THoMAsG. Airman, a citizen of the United States, residing at Deming, in the county of Luna and Territory of New Mexico, have invented new and useful Improvements in Barber-Chair Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to barber chair attachments, and has for an object to provide an attachment of this character which will consist broadly of a tray which is adjustably connected with the back of the chair and provided at its center with a neck receiving portion through which the neck of the customer whose hair is to be out can be disposed in order that the head will be located immediately above the tray whereby during the cutting operation of the hair it will be free to fall into the tray thus obviating its having to be swept from the floor as will be readily understood.

A still further object of my invention resides in the provision of a sack or receptacle connected with the tray and arranged to re ceive the cut hair where it may be stored until a suflicient quantity has been deposited therein, after which the sack may be removed and replaced by an empty one.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent as the nature of the invention is better set forth, and it will be understood that changes within the scope of the claims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Inthe drawing, forming a portion of this specification and in which like characters of reference indicate similar parts in the several views :-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of the chair showing my present attachment applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail 'top plan view of the'tray. Fig. 3 is a detail section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig. a is a detail section taken through a portion of the tray showing the manner of connecting thereto the neck band. Fig. 5 is a detail section of a portion of the tray showing the manner of connecting the sack or receptacle thereto.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, there is shown the back A of a barbers chair which in this instance has secured thereto a plurality of brackets or guides 1 in which a standard or shank 2 is adjustably mounted as shown. One of the brackets or guides carries a set screw 3 arranged for frictional engagement with the standard or shank as will be readily understood so that it can be held in its adjusted position. A tray 4 is shown and comprises sections 5 and 6 which are dished upon their upper surfaces as shown. The sections 5 and 6 are hinged to each other as shown at 7 and one section carries a clasp or retaining element 8 adapted for engagement with the other section of said tray so that the tray can be held in its operative position or in true circular form as herein illustrated. The sections 5 and 6 are provided with semi-circular recessed portions or passages 9 which are disposed opposite to each other, and the walls of said recesses or passages have extending therefrom a plurality of buttons or fastening devices 10. A neck band 11 is carried by the tray and may be connected thereto in any suitable manner but in this instance the said band is shown as having formed therein a series of buttonholes through which the heads of the buttons 10 may be passed so that the said neck engaging band can be held in its operative position.

The sections5 and 6 of the tray are provided with passages 12, and adjacent to the said passages, and upon the under faces of the sections are disposed hooks 13 which receive eye members 14 carried by a sack or receptacle 15 as illustrated. The sack or receptacle 15 thus has its upper open end disposed immediately in line with the passages 12 formed in the sections 5 and 6 of the tray and the sack is normally located behind the back A of the chair. The standard or shank 2 is provided at its upper end with a right angularly extending portion 16 secured in any suitable manner to either of the sections 5 and 6.

In operation, whenit is desired to cut the hair of a person, the sections 5 and 6 of the tray are first disengaged from each other at the clasp end and the neck band 11 engaged with one of the sections, after which the other section may be swung into its operative position as shown in Fig. 2 and the band 11 adjusted to entirely surround the neck as will be appreciated. In the operation of cutting hair it will be seen that the hair will be free to fall when out upon the tray 4:, whereupon, the hair can be swept or otherwise deposited into the sack or receptacle 15.

I claim 1. The combination with a chair of the class described, ofatray comprising hingedly 4a A device or the class described com connected neck encircling sections, said secprising a tray having a centrally located tions having dished upper surfaces, and a neck receiving passage, and a receptacle reneck band removably engaged with the tray. novably connected with the tray, said tray 2. The combination with a chair of the having a passage formed therein connnuniclass described, of a neck encircling tray concating with the said receptacle. nected with the chair for vertical adjust- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature ment. in presence of two witnesses. 3. A tray of the class described compris- THOMAS G AITKEN.

ing pivotally connected neck encircling seclVitnesses: tions, and a receptacle supported by said sec- SUSIE CONNOLLY, tions. C. W. 000K.

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