US1646848A - Finger and thumb nail buffer - Google Patents

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Oct. 25, 1927.

M. P. BEACH FINGER AND THUMB NAIL BUFFER Filed Dec. 25. 1926 INVENTOR @oq y eac/i BY W Y I ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 25, 1927.

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FINGER AND THUMB NAIL BUFFER.

Application filed December 23, 1926. Serial No. 156,616.

This invention relates to finger and thumb nail buffers. Its object is to produce a compact, flexible buffer, which can be conveniently carried, if desired, in vanity cases or small hand bags, and which, when in use, can be placed first on one hand and then on the other, as a support for the back of the buffer while the thumb and finger nails of the hand on which the buffer has not been placed are polished. My new buffer may be made in various forms and sizes.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof and illustrating the best form of the invention now known to me:

Fig. l is a face plan view of thebufler.

Fig. 2 shows the buffer on a hand in one position of use.

In the illustrated form of the invention, the buffer 1 is made of suitable, flexible material, such as chamois skin, for example. It comprises, at its front end, a finger tip receiving cap 2 formed by folding an end portion of the material upon itself and hemstitching the superposed side margins together at 3, 3. The bufl'er is preferably sufficiently wide to cover two fingers the tips of which are received in the cap, and sufliciently long to extend along the palm of the hand to its wrist band 4, which is shown with two projecting ends that may be adjustably coupled by putting one end through a slide buckle 5 secured to the other end. The wrist band is preferably made of ribbon stitched at 6 to and across the wrist end of thebuifer. The wrist band may be located at different positions along the wrist to keep the bufler lengthwise straight and smooth upon the hand, between the finger cap and the wrist band. Polishing powder may be placed on the buffer face as indicated at 7.

The buffer may be also placed on the back of the hand, if so desired; and it may be made in various other forms, if preferred, the cap being sized and shaped to receive more or less of the length of any desired digit or digits: In any case, a portion of the hand serves as a semi-rigid support for the buffer when it is in use and the hand is straightened. In use, the wrist band is tightened upon a wrist of the user, the digit receiving cap or member and the tightened wrist band then cooperating not only to hold the flexible, extended intermediate portion straight and smooth upon the hand as a semi-rigid support, but also to prevent the flexible, intermediate portion from becoming transversely wrinkled or ridged under alternating, nail bufling strokes of the other hand. The adjustable wrist band adapted to be tightened around the wrist when the intermediate, flexible material is extended from end to end, is an important element for the present article of manufacture, for otherwise the bufling strokes would wrinkle o1 ridge the flexible, intermediate portion and the user would be liable to injure the nail being buffed by striking it against or catch ing it on the wrinkled, ridged, or nonsmooth portions of the intermediate portion.

What I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a flexible, digit nail buffer for use on one hand while the nails of the other hand are being buifed, the buffer having a digit receiving member, an intermediate flexible portion for use as a digit nail bufi'er when flat and smooth on a hand of the user, and an adjustable, tightenable wrist band for then engaging a wrist of the user, said member and wrist band cooperating, when the buffer is in use, to prevent the flexible, intermediate portion from becoming transversely wrinkled under bufling strokes by the user; said intermediate portion, when in use, being supported by the users hand.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a flexible, digit nail buflier for use on one hand while the nails of the other hand are being bufied, the buffer having a digit engaging cap, an adjustable wrist band and an intermediate portion surfaceable with nail polishing powder; said cap being formed by a portion of the buflermaterial and thereto opposed material, the margins of the capforming materials being stitched together; and the wrist band being formed of a separate piece of material stitched to and across the wrist end of the buffer and having projecting, connectible ends.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a flexible, digit nail buffer for use on one hand while the nails of the other hand are being buffed, the buffer having a digit receiving member, an intermediate flexible portion for use as a digit nail buffer, when flat and smooth on a hand of the user, and an ad justable, tightenable wrist band for then engaging a Wrist of the user, said member and Wrist band cooperating, when the bufi'er is in use, to prevent the flexible, intermediate portion from becoming transversely wrinkled under buffing strokes by the user;

said intermediateportion, when in use, being supported by the users hand; and said digit MALLY PEA'BODY BEACH.

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