Improvements in Means for Fixing Broom Handles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Nov.. 1894
Con plete Specification Left, 16th May. 1895-Accepted, 22nd June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Fixing Broom Handles.
WILLIAM CLODE, Musician of 248 Lodge Road, in the City of Birmingham,
and JOHN SMITH, Jeweller of 47 Tenby Street North, Birmingham aforesaid, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in means for fixing handles to brooms,
and consists, in one part, of a sheet metal inside-wormed socket, having a flange
at its mouth end and adapted to pass into and be secured within the hole in a
broom stock, whilst the other part of the connection consists of an outside-
wormed ferrule or shoe, having a dange at its open end and whose outside-wormed
body part is made to take within the wormed inside part of the screwed socket
as aforesaid.
A rubber ring comes under the flange of the ferrule part, and is adapted to bind
or lock the one part to the other on the said ferrule part being screwed home into
the socket.
Thus, assuming that the socket part is fitted to the stock of a broom, and that
the sheet metal ferrule is secured to the end of a broom stail by small screws or
other means, the connection of the stail or handle to the broom can be expeditiously
and efficiently effected.
Dated the 27th day of November 1894
WILLIAM CLODE,
JOHN SMITH,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
Improvements in Means for Fixing Broom Handles.
We, WILLIAM CLODE, Musician, of 248 Lodge Road, in the City of
Buminghain, and JOHN SMITH, Jeweller, of 47 Tenby Street North, Birmingham
aforesaid, 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 means for fixing handles to brooms,
and consists in one part of an inside wormed metal socket, having a flange at its
mouth end and adapted to pass into and be secured within the hole in a broom
stock, whilst the other part of the connection consists of an outside-wormed ferrule
or shoe, preferably having a flange or beading at its open end, and whose outside
wormed body part is made to take within the wormed inside part of the screwed
socket as aforesaid.
A rubber ring may come under the flange of the ferrule part, and is adapted to
bind or lock the one part to the other on the said ferrule part being screwed home
into the socket.
Thus, assuming that the socket part is fitted to the stock of a broom, and that
the metal ferrule is secured to the end of a broom stail by small screws or other

page_text: means, the connection of the stail or handle to the broom can be expeditiously and
efficiently made.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a broom in which the haudle
is connected to the stock by metallic connection fittings made according to our
improvements.
Figure 2 represents upon an enlarged scale, a transverse section of the said
metallic connections and the parts of the stail and stock, with the outside
screwed ferrule of the one part taking into the inside screwed ferrule of the
other part.
Figure 3 represents a side elevation of the ferrule or shoe separately, Figure 4
is a vertical section of the same and Figure 5 a topside plan thereof.
Figure 6 represents a side elevation of the inside screwed and flanged socket,
adapted to receive the worms of the outside screwed ferrule, Figure 7 is a vertical
section of the same and Figure 8 a topside plan thereof.
Figure 9 represents a ferrule or shoe having a straight top edge instead of a
beaded one.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawings.
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a is the stock or head of the broom, with a hole or sinking a¹ in the middle
of it fitted with an inside screwed socket b, with flange b', through holes in which
small pegs b³, may pass for affixing and preventing the same from rotating.
an outside screwed ferrule or metallic shoe, adapted to take upon the attachment
end d', of the stail or handle d, and be there affixed either by small pegs or screws
passing through small holes c', or by indentious in the metal, and to screw into the
screwed socket b, fitted or let within the stock of the broom.
Instead of the bottoms of the socket and ferrule being closed as represented
they may be made open.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
First. Metallic connection fittings for securing broom stails or handles to stocks,
consisting of an inside screwed socket part let within the stock and an outside
screwed ferrule or shoe part at the attachment end of the stail, with the one
part adapted to take and worm within the other part, substantially as described
and set forth.
Dated this 16th day of May 1906.
WILLIAM CLODE,
JOHN SMITH,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.