COMB (a word common in various forms to Teut. languages, cf. Ger. Kamm, the Indo-Europ. origin of which is seen in yoros, a peg or pin, and Sanskrit, gambhas, a tooth)

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COMB (a word common in various forms to Teut. languages, cf. Ger. Kamm, the Indo-Europ. origin of which is seen in yoros, a peg or pin, and Sanskrit, gambhas, a tooth) , a toothed'article of the toilet used for cleaning and arranging the

hair

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

, and also for holding it in place after it has been arranged; the word is also applied, from resemblance in form or in use, to various appliances employed for dressing wool and other fibrous sub-stances, to the indented fleshy crest of a cock, and to the ridged

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of cells of wax filled with honey in a beehive.

Hair

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

combs are of

great

GREAT

antiquity, and specimens made of

wood

, bone and horn have been found in Swiss lake-dwellings. Among the Greeks and Romans they were made of boxwood, and in Egypt also of ivory. For modern combs the same materials are used, together with others such as tortoise-shell, metal, india-rubber and celluloid. There are two

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

methods of manufacture. A

plate

PLATE

of the selected material is taken of the size and thickness required for the comb, and on one side of it, occasionally on both sides, a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of fine slits are cut with a circular saw. This method involves the loss of the material cut out between the teeth. The second method, known as " twinning " or " parting," avoids this loss and is also more rapid. The

plate

PLATE

of material is rather wider than before, and is formed into two combs simultaneously, by the aid of a twinning machine. Two pairs of

chisels

CHISELS

, the cutting edges of which are as long as the teeth are required to be and are set at an angle converging towards the sides of the plate, are brought down alternately in such a way that the wedges removed from one comb form the teeth of the other, and that when the cutting is complete the plate presents the

appearance

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

of two combs with their teeth exactly inosculating or dovetailing into each other. In indiarubber combs the teeth are moulded to shape and the whole hardened by vulcanization.

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