USRE7238E - Improvement in curry-combs - Google Patents

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W. E. LAWRENCE.

CURRY-COMB.

Reissue-d July 25', 1876.

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UNITED STATES PATEN OFFICE.

WILLIAM LAWRENCE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGN OR TO THE'LAWRENOE CURRY-COMB COMPANY,

OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CURRV-COMBS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,585, dated May 5, 1874 reissue No. 6,605, dated August 24, 1875; reissue No. 7,238, dated July 25, 1876; application filed July 10, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, WILLIAME.LAWRENOE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Curry- Uombs, of which the following is a specification: The object of this invention is a curry-comb in which the tooth-plates are strengthened and connected together and to the handle, and a supplementary central grasp above the. back is provided, as fully described hereafter.

1n the drawing, Figure '1 represents a ver- I tical section on the linear m, Fig. 2. Fig. 2is a back View of the same. Fig.3 is a face view, and Fig. 4. is a perspective View, of one of the comb-bars detached.

A is a frame, which is, by preference, made of Wire, the portions a a supporting and connecting a series of U-shaped comb-bars, C, (see Figs. 1 and 4,) each comb-bar being provided with the usualtoothed plate or flange,

and with a narrower plate or flange, b, which,

when said bars are in position, bears against the adjacent bar andtends to stiffen the same.

The bars 0 are, by preference, stamped up of sheet metal, and when the same are secured in the frame A they produce a closed-back comb, as shown in Fig. 2. The rods a pass through holes in the flanges, as seen in Fig. 1, and are secured by bending their ends over, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or by any other suitable means. The handle is connected to the comb by rods or braces d d, which either form part of the frame A, or may be made separate from the comb, and connected to it in any desirable manner and over the back of the comb. On the same vertical plane or line m w as the side handle, extends a bar, 0, which serves to brace the handle, and constitutes a support for the hand and a supplementary central grasp at the back of the comb. D l) are knockers, which are cast are riveted to the backs of the bars 0, as shown in Fig. 2.

I claim 1. The currycomb, containing toothed plates and contiguous plates without teeth to strengthen the toothed plates, substantially as specified.

2. A comb bar or plate for a curry-comb, made in a trough shape, with teeth upon the wider flange a, and the'other flange b plain, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, in a curry-comb, of a series of U-shaped comb-bars and rods passing through the flanges of the comb-bars, and connecting the latter to each other and to the handle, substantially as set forth 4. A currycomb, provided with a handle, B,

and with a central grasp and support for the hand above the back of the comb, and in a line with said handle, substantially as set forth.

5. A curry-comb in which the handle is braced by a bar extending from the end of the handle to the front portion of the comb, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WM. E. LAWRENCE.

Witnesses:

U. E. L. HoLMEs, Y F. D. BAKER.

separately, and

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