Improvements in Sweeping and other Brooms and Brushes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1891
Complete Specification Left 22nd June. 1891-Accepted, 25th July, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sweeping and other Brooms and Brushes.
I, HANS LUDVIG MÖLLER, of No. 1, Thornhill Gardens, Sunderland, in the
County of Durham, Timber Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in sweeping and other brooms and brushes,
and consists in the adaptation to, and use in, the manufacture of these goods, of
heather, ling, or birch, which in pursuance of my invention is gathered up into knots
of a suitable size, and these knots are set or fastened into the head in any well
known way.
These knots may be set with or without thrum, in pitch, glue, cement, or resin
and oil. They may be pegged in, or drawn with wire or twine or fastened.with
staples, or any other suitable and equivalent device for either of the above recited
methods may be adopted.
Dated this 20th day of February 1891.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sweeping and other Brooms and Brushes.
I, HANS LUDVIG MÖLLER, of No. 1, Thornhill Gardens, Sunderland, in the
County of Durham, Timber Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in sweeping and other brooms and brushes;
and consists in the adaptation to, and use in, the manufacture of these goods, of
heather, ling, or birch, which, in pursuance of my invention is gathered up into
tufts or knots of a suitable size, and these knots are set or fastened into the head in
any well known way.
The knots may be set with or without thrum, in pitch, glue, cement, resin and oil,
or in any other adhesive substance. They may be pegged in or drawn with wire or
twine, or fastened with staples or any other suitable and equivalent device; for
either of the above recited methods may be adopted.
In order that my invention, and the means by which it is to be carried into
practical effect, may be thoroughly understood, I will now describe them in detail,
referring in so doing to the accompanying figures which are to be taken as part of
the Specification and read therewith.
Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional clevation of a sweeping brush, showing the knots
or tufts wound and set in pitch or other suitable cement.
Fig. 2 is a view of a single knot ready for setting.
Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of a sweeping brush, shewing the knots
wound and fixed in the head, each with a pair of staples.
Fig. 4 is a detail view illustrating a further method of fixing the knots, i.e., by
two pegs driven obliquely through the root of the knot, but in planes at right
angles with each other.
These are shewn as
A is the stock or head, and a, a, the knots or tufts.
composed of heather, but ling or birch may be used. bis the winding, and c,
the cement. d, d are the holding staples, and e, e, the holding pegs.
I have illustrated three methods of fixing the knots in the stocks, not that my

page_text: invention concerns itself with such fixing, but to indicate that the material, the
adaptation of which, and use in manufacture of sweeping brooms and brushes, forms
the subject of the present invention, may be easily and properly fixed by any of the
methods of fixing known to the trade.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
The combination with a stock, of tufts or knots of heather, ling, or birch, as set
forth.
Dated this 19th day of June 1891.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.