Improvements in Brooms and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1889
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piete Specification Left, 23rd Aug., 1890-Accepted, 4th Oct., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brooms and the like.
We, ALFRED WATSON of No. 8 First Avenue, Bush Hill Park, Enfield, Electrical
Engineer, and ROBERT JOSEPH HOOPER-RASTRICK of No. 30 Lavender Gardens,
Lavender Hill, Wandsworth, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The novel device according to our invention comprises two cylinders, preferably of
wood, bored longitudinally through their centres, and having one end of each cylinder
rounded off, the tufts forming the broom or brush being disposed over the entire
surfaces and upon the rounded ends of the cylinders.
The socket, into which takes the broom handle, is preferably of metal, and has a
perforated dise formed thereon, the diameter of which corresponds with the diameters
of the cylinders aforesaid. The flat ends of the two cylinders are placed against the
perforated disc, and a bolt passed through the centre of said cylinders and disc, and
the whole secured together by means of a nut or equivalent.
As the tufts forming the broom or brush wear away, the cylinders may be rotated
sufficiently to allow of new tufts being presented for use, and as the cylinders are
preferably made interchangeable, worn heads may be easily and replaced with new
cylinders.
The tufts disposed upon the rounded ends of the cylinders serve to protect the
furniture of a room from being bruised during the operation of sweeping.
Dated this 24th day of November 1889
EDGAR GEORGE,
27, Bow Lane, Cannon Street, E.C., Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brooms and the like.
We, ALFRED WATSON of No. 8 First Avenue, Bush Hill Park, Enfield, in the
County of Middlesex, Electrical Engineer, and ROBERT JOSEPH HOOPER-RASTRICK
of No. 30 Lavender Gardens, Lavender Hill, Wandsworth in the County of Surrey,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, reference being also had to the accompanying sheet of
drawings in which :-
Figures 1 and 2 represent respectively front and end elevational views of a broom
made up in the manner to be hereinafter described.
Figures 3 and 4 are similar views to Figures 1 and 2 but without the tufts of hair
or equivalent.
Figure 5 is a longitudinal sectional elevational view of the broom-head and handle
socket.
Figure 6 is a sectional elevational view of the handle, socket and disc to which the
broom head is attached; and
Figure 7 shows a sectional elevational view of the various parts of the broom and
method of securing them together.
The device according to our invention comprises two cylinders A B preferably of
wood, bored longitudinally through their centres as shown in Figure 7 and having
one end a of each cylinder rounded off; the tufts 6 forming the broom or brush
being disposed over the entire surfaces and upon the rounded ends of the cylinders.
The socket C into which takes the broom-handle c is preferably of metal, and has a
perforated disc D formed thereon, the diameter of which corresponds with the
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page_text: diameters of the two cylinders A, B, aforesaid. The flat ends d of the two cylinders
being adapted to either side of the perforated disc D, a bolt E, (Figure 7) is passed
through the centres of said cylinders A, B, and disc D, and the whole secured
together by means of a nut e, (Figure 2) or equivalent.
As the tufts & forming the broom or brush become worn or otherwise damaged, the
nute may be loosened and the cylinders A, B, or either of them, may be sufficiently
rotated to allow of new tufts being brought into the necessary position for use; and,
inasmuch as the cylinders are preferably made interchangeable, they my, when worn
out and become unserviceable, be removed and new cylinders substituted therefor.
Tufts being disposed upon the rounded ends of the cylinders, as illustrated at
Figures 1 and 2, serve to protect the furniture of a room from being bruised or
otherwise damaged during the operation of sweeping.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The improved broom or brush having interchangeable parts substantially as herein
described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated thin
do of Ant 1000
EDGAR GEORGE,
101, London Wall, E.C., Agent.