Improvements in Certain Descriptions of Brooms, Brushes, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Certain Descriptions of Brooms, Brushes, and the
like.
I, JOHN MATHERSON, of Bourke, in the Colony of New South Wales, Butcher,
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:—
This invention relates to various kinds of brooms and brushes, more especially
those used for pasting, whitewashing, kalsomining, painting, dusting and sweep-
ing and its object is to provide a more secure, effective, simple and permanent
method than any at present in use for arranging and fastening in the handle the
fibre, hair or other material of which the brush may be made. The hairs or fibres
are formed into bundles of the requisite size each somewhat more than twice the
required length of the brush. In the palm of the handle one or more holes is
bored (hereinafter called the fibre holes) large enough to receive one of the bundles
of fibre or hair which after being passed approximately half way therethrough is
doubled over and secured by wire or other suitable binding which is sewn through
a second set of smaller holes placed on either side of the fibre holes but lower down
on the palm of the handle (and hereinafter called the wire holes). The handle of
my brush is of the ordinary form, having the lower portion of its palm wedge
shaped in the ordinary manner.
Referring to the annexed sheet of drawings.
Figure 1 is front elevation showing complete brush.
Figure 2 is side elevation.
Figure 3 is elevation of handle without fibres or hair.
In Figure 1.
A is face or palm of handle.
A¹ A¹are fibre holes.
A2 A2 are wire holes lying as near as practicable to the lower edge of the
handle piece.
B B is binding of wire (or other suitable binding material) passing through
the wire-holes A2 A2, drawn tightly round the fibre or hair and holding same
rigidly in position. CC are bunches of fibre or hair passing through fibre-holes
AA and bound down securely to the palm of the handle by the wires B B.
In Figure 2 which is side elevation the same letters indicate the same parts as in
Figure with the addition that the wedge edge of the handle (A³) is shown.
In Figure 3, A¹ A¹ are the fibre holes and A² A² the wire holes.
It will be found that the effect of having the centre of each bunch of fibre hair
or bristles securely held in the solid wood of the handle and bound down by the
wires, which also pass through the handle-wood as above described will give to
the brush a durability unobtainable by any other method of fastening.
When it is desired to apply my invention to a round brush it will be only neces-
sary to have one fibre-hole of the requisite shape and size in the palm of the
handle and one pair of wire holes to secure same.
Where the fibre, hair, bristles or other material used is not of sufficient length

page_text: to allow of its being formed into a brush by being doubled over midway as herein
described, it could be sufficiently secured by being formed into bundles of about
half the size of the circumference of the fibre-holes and having the ends of each
bundle passed through the fibre holes (from opposite sides) only sufficiently for to allow
of their being gripped and secured by binding wires or threads. In this case it
might be found desirable to have two sets of binding wires with two sets of wire-
holes, the second immediately below the first.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. In an improved broom or brush a handle having holes such as A¹ bored therein
for the insertion of the hair or fibre, substantially as herein set forth and as illus-
trated in the drawings.
2. In an improved broom or brush, a handle having holes such as A2 bored
therein for the purpose of holding the wire or other material which binds the hair
or fibre to the handle, substantially as herein set forth and as illustrated in the
drawings.
3. In the handles of brooms, brushes and the like the combination and arrange-
ment of one or more fibre holes such as A¹ with a set of wire holes such as A2
substantially as herein set forth and as illustrated in the drawings.
4. In an improved broom or brush the arrangement of the fibre or hair passing
through a hole (such as A¹) in the palm of the handle and being doubled over on
the other side thereof and duly secured by wire or other binding passing through
holes in the handle such as A2, substantially as herein set forth and as illustrated
in the drawings.
5. In the manufacture of brooms, brushes, and the like the combination and
arrangement of a handle provided with fibre-holes such as A¹ and wire-holes such
as A2 with bunches of fibre or hair such as C passing through said fibre-holes and
bound to the handle with wire or other binding passing through the said fibre-
holes, substantially as herein set forth and as illustrated in the drawings.
otod the IXER doy of An 1902
■ated the IXth dow of
1800
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.