Tattoo Guns Machines – A Thomas Edison Invention

When getting a tattoo guns machines and the like are used to accurately apply the design to the skin, creating the tattoo. Whether the device is called a tattoo gun, machine or whatever, depends on location. In America, they are called tattoo machines, and in Europe they are called tattoo guns. In fact, using the term tattoo gun is not desirable in America.

Thomas Edison originally invented the first tattoo gun or machine in 1871, although it was not designed or used for the purpose of tattoos back then. The patent was on an autographic printer. In 1891, Samuel O'Reilly realized that this device could be slightly changed to insert ink into skin, to form a tattoo. O'Reilly patented the tube and needle system of tattoo design.

In today's world, O'Reilly's patent of the tube and needle system is what is used for the tattoo machines and tattoo guns. The tattoo guns accurately control the depth, or how far the needles of the machine travel into the skin during the process of the tattooing. Because of the highly precise control over the needles in the machine, modern days tattoo guns enable the tattoo artists to create a vast variety of intricate tattoo designs.

Before the process of tattooing starts, the skin is cleaned off with alcohol pads or with special tattoo soap. The tattoo machine will have many needles attached to a bar. The needles are then attached to oscillating units or coils that move at a quick pace in and out. The tattooing needles move at a rate of fifty to three thousand times a minute. The more quickly it moves, the less the tattooing process will hurt. In the end, most people say they only felt a stinging sensation while getting tattooed.

 

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