IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANU- FACTURE OF BRUSHES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Thomas Hughes, of the Firm of Hughes
and Son, Patent Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, for the In-
vention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BRUSHES."-A communication from abroad by Albert
Milton White, of Thompsonville, County of Windham, United
States of America.
Scaled the 9th November 1869, and dated the 24th May 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Thomas Hughes
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 24th May 1869.
I, EDWARD THомAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent
Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE
MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES," a communication to me from abroad by Albert
Milton White, of Thompsonville, County of Windham, United States of
America:-
This Invention relates to improvements in machinery for making
brushes for which a Patent was granted to me bearing date June 13th

page_text: 1867, No. 1730, the object being the adaptation of the machinery to
making brushes of irregular form or in which the tufts are set at
different angles. To this end the Invention consists in combining with
a device for forming and setting the tufts mechanism for adjusting
the body of the brush so that the tufts will be set therein at the proper
angle.
To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use this Invention
I will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings, in which Fig. I. represents a side view of the attachment, and
Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 detached views to illustrate the operation.
The apparatus is first applied to a machine for boring the brush
back. A is the rest or base of the adjustable apparatus; B, a vertical
spindle made adjustable in the said base so as to be raised or lowered
in any convenient manner, the upper end of the said spindle being of a
ball shape, as denoted in broken lines, Fig. 1. To this ball a table or
plate C is attached so as to turn freely on the said ball. In Fig. 1 the
table is represented as swinging up or down and to the right or left, as
denoted in blue, and is guided by a segment D fixed to the table and
passing through the spindle. The table is adjusted to any desired
point or inclination and then secured by means of the segment.
a which passes
Centrally on the ball of the spindle is formed a point
up through the table for the purpose of adjusting the brush body for
forming or setting the tufts. A holder E is formed, as seen in Fig. 5,
into which the blank or body of the brush is securely fixed. The
opposite side of the said holder E is perforated or indented in a form
corresponding to the brush to be made, each indentation representing the
position of the holes to be bored and the tufts to be set in the body of
the brush, as represented in Fig. 2, and in section Fig. 3, the brush
back being fitted to the holder, as seen in Fig. 5. The table is inclined
to the position required, say, for setting the outer row of tufts, then
the brush holder is set on to the table so that the point a will enter one
of the perferations or indentations in the back of the holder, as seen in
Fig. 4, then by the boring apparatus the brush back F is bored at that
point and upon an inclination corresponding to the inclination of the
table C. The outer row, or as many holes as are desired, are bored in
the back of the brush at this inclination; then for a different inclination
the table is newly set, and thus any desired inclination of the perforations
may
be made in the brush back. In like manner the brush back upon

page_text: the same holder, or another corresponding, is placed beneath the tuft
setter and the tufts inserted in like manner as the holes were bored,
the position being governed by the point .
Instead of adjusting the table as first described and shown in Fig. 1,
the segments may be worked by a worn, and the worms may be operated
directly from the mechanism of the machine, so that co-operating with
the machine the irregular form or inclined tufts may be set into the
brush automatically guided.
The connection of this apparatus with the machine for making it
so automatic will be readily conceived by persons skilled in the use of
such machines, it being simply a chain of gears giving to the worm
respectively and at the proper time the necessary revolution to turn
the table. The spindle B is made adjustable vertically so as to raise
or lower the table as may be required for boring or tufting the back.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Thomas Hughes in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 13th November 1869..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent Agents, 123,
Chancery Lane, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, Her special
licence that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE, OF BRUSHES,"
a communication to me from abroad by Albert Milton White, of Thomp-

page_text: sonville, County of Windham, United States of America, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement (that is to say):-
This Invention relates to improvements in machinery for making
brushes for which a Patent was granted to me bearing date June 13th
1867, No. 1730, the object being the adaptation of the machine to
making brushes of irregular form or in which the tufts are set at
different angles. To this end the Invention consists in combining with
a device for forming and setting the tufts mechanism for adjusting the
body of the brush so that the tufts will be set therein at the proper
angle.
To enable others skilled in the art to construct and use this Invention
I will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings, in which Fig. 1 represents a side view of the attachment, and
Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 detached views to illustrate the operation.
The apparatus is first applied to a machine for boring the brush back.
A is the rest or base of the adjustable apparatus; B, a vertical spindle
made adjustable in the said base so as to be raised or lowered in any
convenient manner, the upper end of the said spindle being of a ball
shape, as denoted in broken lines, Fig. 1. To this ball a table or plate C
is attached so as to turn freely on the said ball. In Fig. 1 the table is
represented as swinging up or down and to the right or left, as denoted
in red, and is guided by a segment D fixed to the table and passing
through the spindle. The table is adjusted to any desired point or
inclination and then secured by means of the segment. Contrally on
the ball of the spindle is formed a point a which passes up through the
table for the purpose of adjusting the brush body for forming or setting
the tufts. A holder E is formed, as seen in Fig. 5, into which the blank
or body of the brush is securely fixed. The opposite side of the suid

page_text: holder E is perforated or indented in a form corresponding to the brush
to be made, each indentation representing the position of the holes to be
bored and the tufts to be set in the body of the brush, as represented in
Fig. 2, and in section Fig. 3, the brush back being fitted to the holder,
as seen in Fig. 5. The table is inclined to the position required, say,
for setting the outer row of tufts, then the brush holder is set on to the
table so that the point a will enter one of the perforations or indentations
in the back of the holder, as seen in Fig. 4, then by the boring apparatus
the brush back F is bored at that point and upon an inclination corre-
sponding to the inclination of the table C.
holes as are desired, are bored in the back of the brush at this inclination,
then for a different inclination the table is
desired inclination of the perforations may be
In like manner the brush back upon the same holder or another corrc-
sponding is placed beneath the tuft setter and the tufts inserted in like
manner as the holes were bored, the position being governed by the
point a.
The outer row, or as many
newly set, and thus any
made in the brush back.
Instead of adjusting the table as first described and shewn in Fig. 1,
the segments may be worked by a worm, and the worms may be operated
directly from the mechanism of the machine, so that co-operating with
the machine the irregular form or inclined tufts may be set into the
brush automatically guided.
The connection of this apparatus with the machine for making it so
automatic will be readily conceived by persons skilled in the use of such
machines, it being simply a chain of gears giving to the worms respec-
tively and at the proper time the necessary revolution to turn the table.
The spindle B is made adjustable vertically so as to raise or lower the
table as may be required for boring or tufting the back. Or the above
arrangement may be modified by attaching to the table C the semi-
circular pieces b, c, which rest in corresponding semicircular slides
aflixed to the bracket d, as seen in Figs. 6 and 7, the table C being
inclined to the required angle by operating the lever e which is made
sufficiently thin to act as a spring, a pin on the lower end of which
takes into holes in the quadrant and remains firmly secured in the
required position until the knob or handle of the said lever is pulled
outwards and the pin thereby disengaged from the holes in the quadrant.
Having fully described this Invention what I claim as new and useful
and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,―

page_text: First. The table C arranged upon a universal joint on the spindle B
or bracket d so as to be adjusted to present the brush back to the bit
or tufting apparatus, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set
forth.
Second. The holder E perforated or indented corresponding to the
design of the brush to be produced so as to be adjusted upon the
point a on the table, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Thirteenth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine