US430628A - Curry-comb - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

A. G. DECKER.

CURRY COMB.

No. 430,628. Patented June 24, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER O. DECKER, OF KEOKUK, IOIVA.

CURRY-COMB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,628, dated June 24,1890.

Application filed July 17, 1889. Serial No. 317,759. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER C. DECK- ER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Keokuk, in the county of Lee and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curry-Combs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to curry-combs, and is designed particularly to render them more flexible and consequently less harsh to the skin than those of the ordinary construction.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved comb; Fig. 2, an end view; Fig. 3, a longitudinal sectional View, and Fig. 4 a bottom plan view.

A indicates the main body or back of the comb, made of any flexiblematerialsuch as leather, coarse woven fabric, or the like though I prefer to employ leather. Riveted or otherwise pivotally secured to the back in lines parallel to its sides is a series of cup-shaped disks 0. or, provided with teeth b, the object of so placing the disks being to enable the back to assume more readily a curvature convex or concave either in the direction of its length or breadth, as shown in dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 3.

Secured to the back or body A is a loop or handle B, and within said loop or handle is a block 0, of wood or other material, so shaped on its upper surface as to readily fit in the palm of the hand, and thus, in connection with the loop B, insuring afirm grip for the hand. A small portion of the under surface of block 0 is made fiat, so as to permit of rigid attachment to the main body orback' A, and from this fiat portion it is given an upward inclination toward each end, forming approximately one continuous curve to allow for the upward curvature of the bodyA.

By making the disks (4 a rotatable and the back of the comb flexible I am enabled to use the comb on many parts of the animals body where a rigid non-yielding brush could not be used to advantage, the teeth of the disks passing over windgalls or like protuberances without injuring them, because of the disks being able to rotate.

IVhile I have shown and described the disks as being placed in parallel lines, I do not confine myself to that arrangement. The

important points to be observed are that the disks shall be free to rotate and that they be not close enough together to interfere with each other when the body is curved, and if these points be duly provided for other details may be varied.

While, asjust stated, the best results are secured by making or applying the disks so that they may rotate, measurably good results may be secured with a comb in which the disks do not rotate. As a matter of fact, the disks of my comb when first applied to the back are practically non-rotatable, but soon Wear sufficiently to permit them to turn or rotate upon their rivets.

In using the term disk I do not wish to be understood as meaning to limit or restrict myself to a circular plate, but mean to i11- clude under such general expression square, hexagonal, or other polygonal plates when applied in the manner shown and described, 4

in contradistinction to those plates or bars extending entirely across the back, and thereby preventing the flexure of the back in all directions.

The comb is found to give excellent results in practice, and is light, cheap, and durable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A curry-comb consisting of a flexible back and a series of independent toothed plates secured thereto and separated each from the others by continuous open spaces extending from end to end and from side to side of the back, substantially as set forth, whereby the back is adapted to yield or bend in all directions.

2. In a curry-comb, the combination of a flexible back and toothed disks applied thereto, a loop or handle, and a block within said handle and secured to the body.

In a curry-comb, the combination of a flexible body provided with a series of toothed disks, a loop or handle 13, a block (I, secured within said handle to the body and having its ends inclined, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

- ALEXANDER O. DECKER.

IVitnesses: I

W. J. SonLorrEE, J. G. GARRETSON.

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