Improvements in, and in connection with Brushes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Nov.,
1897
Complete Specification Left, 14th Mar., 1898--Accepted, 16th Apr., 1898.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in, and in connection with Brushes.
GEORGE EDWARD ASHDOWN, of 35, Northbrook Street, Newbury, Berks, Brush"
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows::
The object of this invention is to facilitate the cleaning of corners or crevices or;
other places, or articles where brushes of the usual shape cannot be used effectively.
I provide this by inserting in the end of the handles of all kinds of brushes a
tuft of bristles, hair, fibre, bass or any other suitable material, drawn or otherwise
fastened thereto with wire, or string, or any metal fastening, or set therein or
thereon with pitch or resin or cement of any kind, or fixed by any combination of
these methods or by any other suitable means.
Dated this 12th day of November 1897.
Improvements in, and in connection with Brusnes.
I, GEORGE EDWARD ASHDOWN, of 35, Northbrook Street, Newbury, Berks, Brush
Manufacturer, 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 relates to improvements in, and in connection with brushes, and
its object is to facilitate the cleaning of corners, or crevices, or other places, or
articles, where brushes of the usual shape cannot be used effectively.
According to my invention I provide all kinds of brushes and the like with a tuft
of bristles, hair, fibre, bass or any other suitable material, by inserting such a tuft
in the ends of the handles.
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This improvement is applicable to all kinds of brushes with handles and the like,
but especially to those known as banister" or "baluster" brushes, both single
or double, and of every known pattern or use, also to "picture' dusters" "*.
"toy'
banisters 'toy' slipper dusters" and the like.
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The improvement will be easily understood by inspection of the accompanying
drawings in which similar letters of reference indicate the same parts of a brush.
Figure 1 is a "single banister" of the usual kind without the said improvement.
Figures 2, 3, 4, and 5 show the tuft of bristles and the like, fitted to the handle
as provided by my invention.
At the end C of the handle B of the brush A a tuft D of bristles or the like is
inserted in such a manner that it forms an extension of the handle.
This tuft D can be made of bristles, hair, fibre, bass or any other suitable

page_text: material, and may be drawn or otherwise fastened to the handle with wire or string
or any metal fastening or it may be set therein or thereon with pitch or resin, or
any preparation of caoutchouc or guttapercha or the like, or cement of any kind,
or fixed by any combination of these methods, or by any other suitable means.
The method of applying the means for the purpose herein referred to, however,
does not in any way alter the idea of the invention: this idea culminating in the
provision of the handles of the different kinds of brushes and the like with means
enabling the operator to clean with one and the same instrument, not only surfaces,
but corners, crevices, or other places, or articles, where brushes of the ordinary
shape cannot be used effectively.
,
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The application of a tuft of bristles, hair, fibre, bass or any other suitable
material to the ends of the handles of all kinds of brushes and the like; substantially
as described above, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The application of the tuft to brushes and the like referred to in the preceding
claim, the material being drawn or otherwise fastened thereto with wire or string
or any metal fastening, or set therein or thereon with pitch or resin or any prepara-
tion of caoutchouc or gutta-percha and the like, or cement of any kind, or by any
other suitable means.
3. The application of the tuft to brushes and the like referred to in the first
claim, the material being fixed by any combination of the methods referred to in
the second claim.
Dated this 12th day of March 1898.