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PATENTED AUG, 28, 1904.
TATTOOING DEVICE,
APPLICATION FILED APR. 19, 1904,
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 No. 768,413. Patented August 23, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES WAGNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.
TATtoolNG DEVICE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,413, dated August 23, 1904.
Application filed April 19, 1904, Serial No. 203,927, (No model.)
To all, whom, it may concern: the ink and a guide for the needle. The sus
Beit known that I, CHARLEs WAGNER, a citi
Zen of the United States, residing at New York
pending end of the needle-bar is of angular
cross-section and is clamped in a socket-cast
city, in the county of New York and State of ing secured to the under side of the electro
New York, have invented certain new and use motor housing-frame. A rod 3 lies in a 55
ful Improvements in Tattooing Devices; and I groove in the needle-bar and carries the
do hereby declare the following to be a full, needle or needles 4 within its tubular part,
clear, and exact description of the invention, while the upper end of said rod is detachably
connected to the armature 5 of the electro
such as will enable others skilled in the art to
O which it appertains to make and use the same.motor 6, whereby this needle or needles is
For tattooing I have produced an electric operated in its perforating function at the
ally-operated device which embodies certain open end of the ink-chamber. The tubular
features of novel and advantageous construc part, which forms the ink-chamber opens into a
tion which will be pointed out in the con side groove at 7 in the bar, and this gives a con
cluding claims in connection with the accom venient external means of supplying the ink.
panying drawings, in which While theink-chamber forms the guide for the
Figure 1 represents a front view of the needle,itisimportant that the movement of the
tattooing device particularly showing the ink needle besteady, and for this purpose I provide
supplying orifice in the needle-bar and the theink-chamber with a plate-spring 8, itsinner
needle-carrying rod and its connected arma end fixed by riveting, its free end terminat 7 o
ture in the positions they occupy when the ing at the open end of the ink-chamber and
needles are perforating and the armature con caused to be pressed against the needle by a
necting the magnet-cores. Fig.2 is a verti set-screw 9 in the wall of the ink-chamber, thus
cal section of the same, the armature and its preventing the wabbling or tremble of the
25 connected needle-carrying rod in the posi needle-carrying rod from being communi 75
tions they occupy when the needle is not per cated to the needle. The flat point of the
forating. Fig. 3 is a rear side view of the spring by its contact with the needle also
same. Fig. 4 is a top view. Fig. 5 is a bot serves to govern and regulate the flow of the
tom view. Fig. 6 shows a vertical section of inkin the operation of the needle and in giving
a needle-bar adapted for a single outlining steady movement thereto prevents the splat
needle. Fig. 7 is an enlarged section show tering of the ink in its delivery at the per
ing the ink-chamber, the needle, and the foration made in the skin. A clamp 10 is
plate-spring for steadying the needle and reg formed on the end of the needle-rod, into
ulating the flow of the ink. Fig. 8 shows the which the needle 32 is set to give it, the de
35 detachable connection of the needle-bar with sired perforating projection. This clamp is
the armature. Fig. 9 shows the needle-bar. formed by screw-threading the end of the rod,
Fig. 10 shows the needle-carrying rod. Splitting it, and providing it a nut 11, so that
The device comprises three separable parts the needle is clamped in a socket, and the
a needle-bar, a needle-carrier, and a housing needle-bar also being clamped in a socket al
frame for the electromotor which operates lows ready separation of the needle-bar from 9o
the needles—and this gives an advantageous the needle-rod to set the needle. The needle
construction for the interchangeability of the bar clamp 12 is a pair of jaws fixed to the under
needle-bar and its needle-carrier in using the side of a frame 13, on which a pair of electro
device with a single perforating-needle for magnets 14 14 are mounted and form the elec
45 outlining or with a plurality of perforating tromotor, the armature for which is pivot 95.
needles for the shading operation, which ally mounted in the upper part of said frame.
gives character to the tattooing. The armature is connected to and actuates the
The needle-bar 1 forms the handle for ma needle-rod, and for regulating the stroke of
nipulating the device and terminates in an in the latter the housing is provided with set
So tegral tubular part 2, forming a chamber for screws 21 21, between the contact-points of Ioo
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which the armature moves, and by adjusting 27 at the left in Figs. 3 and 5. Thence by the 65
the screws is caused to have a greater or less wire 28 it circulates through the connected
stroke. The armature is normally held out magnet-coils. Thence by the wire 29, Fig. 3,
of contact with the magnet-core by a spiral it passes to the insulated adjustable contact
S spring 15, connecting an arm 16 of the mag screw 22, to the leaf-spring 23 on the arma
net with an arm 17, pivotally mounted in the ture 5, thence to the frame 13 through the 7 o
frame and made adjustable by a clamp-screw fulcrum of the armature, and thence to the
18 to give the spring greater or less tension, switch-lever. From the switch-lever the cur
regulating thereby the movement of the nee rent passes to the insulated contact 20 and
Io dle to give a light or a heavy puncture, and thence to the other binding-post 30 by the
this tension of the spring determines the force wire 31 and from thence by the wire 32 back 75
of the blow, so that lessening the tension will to the battery; but these magnet, connections
produce a more forcible blow, and vice versa. can be made in any suitable way to effect the
The movement of the armature causes the operation of the armature. The operation of
5 device to have a slight vibrating movement to the electrical connections are similar to those
give the pricking or perforating movement. in an ordinary electric vibrating bell. The So
The current-wires are connected to the elec current in passing through the iron cores of
tromagnets and to the battery in the usual the coils causes them to become magnetized
manner to operate the armature, and for con and to attract the armature to make contact
2O trolling the electrical current I have arranged
with the iron cores, effecting thereby the sepa
the switch-lever 19 on the under side of the ration of the contact on the leaf-spring and
frame for making connection at the will of the point of the screw 22. This separation
the operator with the insulated contacts 20, demagnetizes the cores, and the coil-spring 15
which connects by suitably-disposed wires acts to draw the armature away from the
25 with the magnets and with the insulated ad cores to again put the contacts in electrical
justable screw 22 and the leaf-spring 23 of the
connection, and in this way the armature is
armature. In Fig. 1 the needle-bar is seen given the required rapidity of vibratory move
as adapted for use with a plurality of needles
ment. Obviously where necessary to effect
for shading, and Fig.6 shows the needle-bar this operation the parts may be insulated from
3o as adapted for use with a single needle for the frame in a well-known way.
outline perforations and in which an ink I claim 95
chamber terminates in a conical guide-point 1. In a tattooing device, the needle-bar ter
33 for the needle. For rendering the needle minating in an integral ink-chamber having
rod interchangeable its upper end is formed an external ink-supply orifice, a needle, and
35 with an eye 24, and the arm of the armature a needle-carrying rod and means for operat
has a slot through which the eye is passed ing the needle-rod. OO
and within which it is secured by a pin 25, 2. In a tattooing device, the needle-bar, ter
so that when the single outlining-needle has minating in an integral ink-chamber having
been used the needle-bar and its needle-rod an external ink-supply orifice, a needle, a nee
4o are removed, and the needle-rod having a plu dle-carrying rod, a plate-spring within the
rality of needles and the needle-bar adapted ink-chamber, means for causing the spring to
for use with a plurality of needles are at exert pressure on the needle and means for
tached for use by the same means, thereby operating the needle-rod.
rendering the needle-bars interchangeable to 3. In an electric tattooing device, a frame,
45 suit a needle-rod having a single needle and a pair of jaws fixed to the base thereof and
a needle-rod having a plurality of needles, having an angular opening between them, a lo
and it will be understood that the needle-bars
clamp-screw for the jaws, a needle-bar hay
are formed at their point to suit a single nee
ing a groove and clamped within said jaw
dle and a plurality of needles. I prefer to opening, a needle-carrying rod terminating
5o make the needle-bar with a groove in its front
in an eye, a pivotally-mounted vibrating ar
side to receive the needle-carrying rod, be mature, a pin connecting the eyed end, of the I I5
cause it is a convenient way of providing an needle-rod with the armature, and an adjust
external orifice for filling the ink-chamber able spring connecting the other end of the
and because it lightens the weight of the de armature and the frame for the purpose stated.
55 vice. 4. In a tattooing device, a frame, a needle
The operator in using the device grasps it bar secured thereto and terminating in an
and supports the electromotor part on the ink-chamber having an external supply-ori
back of his hand and adjusts the switch-leverfice, a needle, a needle-carrying rod, an elec
to the contact 20 to render the current active,
tromotor, an armature connected with the
6o and for this purpose the contact 20 is insu needle-rod and set-screws for controlling the
lated from the frame. The turning of the movement of the armature to regulate the per
switch-lever 19 to the contact 20 causes the forating stroke of the needle.
current to pass from the battery (not shown) 5. In a tattooing device, a needle-bar, a nee
by the wire 26 to the insulated binding-post dle, a needle-carrying rod and adjustable
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means carried by the needle-bar for affording armature away from the cores of the motor,
a lateral bearing-support for the needle and and an arm adjustably pivoted to the frame
means for operating the needle-rod. for adjusting the tension of the spring.
6. In a tattooing device, a frame, a needle, In testimony whereofhave signed my name
5 a needle-bar secured to the frame, a needle to this specification in the presence of two sub- I5
carrying rod, an electromotor, an armature scribing witnesses.
connected with the needle-rod, means con CHARLES WAGNER.
nected with the armature for regulating the Witnesses:
perforating force of the needle consisting of w ALBERT M. KURZMAN,
Io a spring connected to normally maintain the A. B. SPRAGUE.

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