Improvements in Brooms.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th May, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1893-Accepted, 26th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brooms.
WILLIAM HAWKE, Plumber 11 Truro Road, St. Austell, Cornwall, HENRY
SARGENT, Carpenter 11 Truro Road St. Austell Cornwall do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Our invention relates to improvements in brooms and is designed to enable a
a broom to be used in such a manner as that by reversing the position of the head
or stock in relation to the position of the handle from time to time the bristles.
or fibres may be worn away equally instead of wearing more on one side of the
broom than on the other thus prolonging the life of the broom. We construct the
the head or stock in two parts which we distinguish as the top and. bottom.
The handle is screwed to the top so that it may be rocked or moved from side to
side of the top aud is held in the desired position by a pin. The bristles or fibres
are inserted in bottom in the usual manner and bottom and the top are held together
in any convenient manner, with ordinary wood screws by preference. The handle
is square at its lower end and is held in a slot of rectangular section in the top, it
rocks on a pin secured to the underside of the top. The top and the handle are
intended to serve for several bottoms. The bottom will constitute articles of com-
merce separately from the tops and handles and when a broom has become worn
out i.e. when the bristles are worn down it will only be necessary to withdraw the
screws and separate the two parts: a new bottom may then be screwed to the old top.
Dated this 10th day of May 1893.
WILLIAM HAWKE.
HENRY SARGENT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brooms.
WILLIAM HAWKE Plumber 11 Truro Road, St. Austell Cornwall, HENRY
SARGENT Carpenter, 11 Truro Road, St. Austell, Cornwall 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 :-
Our invention relates to improvements in brooms and is designed to enable a
broom to be used in such a manner as that by reversing the position of the head or
stock in relation to the position of the handle, from time to time, the bristles or
fibres may be worn away equally instead of wearing more on one side of the broom
than on the other, thus prolonging the life of the broom. We construct the head
or stock in two parts which we distinguish as the top and bottom.
The handle is secured to the top so that it may be rocked or moved from side to
side of the top and is held in the desired position by a pin. The bristles or fibres
are inserted in the bottom in the usual manner and the bottom and the top are held
together in any convenient manner with ordinary wood screws by preference. The
handle is square at its lower end and is held in a slot of rectangular section in the
top, it rocks on a pin secured to the underside of the top, the top and the handle
are intended to serve for several bottoms. The bottoms will constitute articles
of commerce separately from the tops and handles, and when a broom has become
worn out i.e. when the bristles are worn down it will only be necessary to withdraw
the screws and separate the two parts; a new bottom may then be screwed to the
old top.
In order that our invention may be better understood we have attached hereto a
sheet of drawings illustrating the same.

page_text: Figure 1. represents a top showing the handle in position.
Figure 2. represents a bottom.
Figure 3. is a vertical section through the handle.
Figure 4. is a similar section but showing the handle rocked over to the opposite
side and
Figure 5. is a view of the under-side of the top.
We screw or otherwise fix to the lower end of the handle C a ring or tube E
through which a pin D is passed. The pin D is secured to the underside of the
top in any convenient manner, we find staples, as I, to answer very well. The
handle is thus securely attached to the top.
The handle C rocks upon the pin D in the slot K and when the broom is in use
it will be in one or other of the positions shown in Figure 3. and 4. in either of
which positions it will be retained by the removable pin F which is passed through
a hole prepared to receive it in the central part L of the top B and at the same
time passes through the handle C which prevents it moving. Two holes will be
required as shown at F and G in Figures 3 and 4, the pin F being inserted in one
of the holes.
The bottom A is attached to the top B by screws H; any convenient number of
screws may be used, four are shown in Figure 2.
When the broom has been used with the handle in one position it will probably
be found that the bristles have become worn more upon one side of the
broom than upon the other side. The pin F may then be withdrawn. The handle C
rocked over to the opposite position and the pin inserted in the corresponding
hole G. The use of the broom with the handle in such new position will cause
the bristles which previously had received the least wear, to receive the most wear.
It is therefore obvious that by our invention a broom will not only last longer
than a broom of ordinary construction but it can be made to wear evenly. When
the bristles are worn to such an extent as that the broom is useless the screws H
may be withdrawn, the bottom and the top separated and a new bottom may be
attached to the old top.
Having now particularly described and ascertained our said invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is :-
The combination of parts constituting a broom the position of the handle of
which may be reversed, the head or stock being made in two parts so that the
bottom part may be removed from the top part and replaced by another bottom
part all in the manner and for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated
by the drawings.
Dated this 24th day of June 1893
WILLIAM HAWKE.
HENRY SARGENT.