Year: 1887

page_text: [Communicated from abroad by JULIUS GOCHT (H. & W. Pataky), of Freiberg,
Saxony, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturer.]
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S. M.I.M.E. of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6 Bank Street, Manchester, both in
the County of Lancaster, and 323, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, 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 has for its object a handle-holder for brooms, brushes, etcetera,.
which allows the angle of the brush in relation to the handle to be altered at
pleasure.
Figures 1 to 3 relate to one mode of carrying out this contrivance. Figure 1 shows
a side view, figure 2 a front view, figure 3 a plan of the same.
Figures 4-6 refer to a modified arrangement of this handle holder, figure 4
showing a side view, figure 5 a front view, figure 6 a plan.
The handle holder consists of: a socket A composed of two parts a and a¹ (which
receive the handle) and the adjusting part B, figure 1, and B' figure 4, fixed on the
broom or brush. The socket A and the adjusting part B are connected together by
ineans of a rivet or screw 6 on which they can turn; both parts a and a¹ are provided
in the lower part with three or several corresponding holes c bored at equal distances
from the centre of rotation; these holes can be made to coincide with a hole bored in
the adjusting part B or B¹. When the required degree of inclination of the handle
of the brush has been obtained by bringing a set of holes in A in coincidence with
that in B or B', a pin is introduced through the three coinciding holes for the
purpose of securing A against B or B¹.

page_text: Two essentially different constructions of the adjusting parts are given:-figures
1-3 show one construction B, figures 4-6 show the other construction B'. The
first is convenient for setting the handles of tarring, white washing brushes, etcetera.
In this construction a narrow strip of iron f bent in the shape of an S is fixed by
means of bolt g and nut to the brush, so that both the holder B and socket A can
turn round said bolt g, and be set at any angle to the brush C.
In the construction shown on figures 4-6, the adjusting part B₁ consists of two
cramp-irons and which grip the brush and are pressed against the part C. Both
cramp-irons i and are connected to each other by an ordinary cross piece 1, in the
centre of which the eye piece m is secured by means of the screwed shank n and
nut o.
In this construction also, the back C of the brush with the cramp-irons i, i, can be
set at any angle to the eye-piece m.
Both parts a and a' of socket A can be pressed together by means of ring p and
To prevent pin e being lost, it is provided with a small chain r fixed to
set screw g
the socket A.
If one of the contrivances described in the foregoing be applied to a broom, it can
be set and used in vertical, oblique, and horizontal directions. As the handle holder
is arranged to turn, the whole sweeping surface can easily be used behind stoves,
under pieces of furniture, in corners and crevices, cornices, cupboards; consequently
brushes and brooms can be employed in all directions. The cleaning of outside of
windows from the inside of a building has also become possible. It is no longer
necessary either to use the mode of fastening the handle to the brush, which was
hitherto in use, that is, raising the centre of the back of the brush, boring a hole in it
and nailing securely the handle inserted in the hole.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :—
1st. A handle-holder for brooms and brushes consisting of the parts a and a' con-
stituting the socket A, and of the brush-holder B made of a bent strip of iron-plate
connected to the socket A by a rivet or pin b; the holder B being fixed to the broom
or to the wood of the brush by means of a bolt g, round which both can also turn,
said holder B being further provided on its upper end with openings c which
correspond with openings c bored in the lower part of the handle socket and allowing
by means of a pin e, the handle to be secured at any angle of inclination to the
broom, as practice may require.
2nd. The modification of construction set forth in claim 1, which consists in sub-
stituting to the broom or brush-holder B, a holder B¹, said holder B¹ consisting of two
cramp-irons and embracing the wooden back of the brush and fixed to the
transverse piece 1, which can turn round the eye-piece in and connected with
socket A, substantially as described with reference to figures 4 to 6 of the drawings.
Dated this 19th day of July 1887
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