Improved Means and Appliances for Fanning Out or Spreading the Tuft Ends in Broom and Brush Stocks.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 11th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 17th Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means and Appliances for Fanning Out or Spreading the
Tuft Ends in Broom and Brush Stocks.
I, JOHN GEORGE HORSEY, of Corcelles, Bromley Grove, Shortlands, Kent,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, the fanning out or spreading the fibre, or other
material used in brooms and brushes by appliances which can be drawn, or be
pushed into the centres of the tufts as they are being inserted into the stock by.
hand, or by machinery.
The appliances are of metal, cane, or other flexible or easily bendable material,
or are of hooked form to engage under the wire, string, or other body by which the
tufts are secured in the holes in the stock. Each appliance has a shaped head, and
the stem is of such length (single or double) that the head appears just above the
face of the stock and spreads the fibres of the tuft circularwise, or what is known
as fanned out.
I purpose first to cut flat or equivalent shaped ribband metal to the required
formation, and to feed the strip mechanically transversely under the binding wire,
so that the action of a plunger rod can carry both into the hole, or the separated
appliances can be fed by hand, or otherwise into position for the plunger rod to act
upon them while securing the binding wire in place.
If the appliances be of the double kind, the heads are formed from the two
stems by a flattening over process, so that the half heads look towards or away.
from each other, the stems partaking of a curved form to give the heads an
outwardly springy action, and if single with hooks, the heads are bent over at right
angles to the stem. These single appliances are more particularly applicable to
hand drawn brooms and brushes as they can easily be hooked on to the drawing
wire, and be pulled in tight.
By this invention, ordinary tufts of bristles, bass, or other fibres instead of
standing up straight, as at present, from the stock become spread, and are more
useful for the ordinary purposes for which brooms and brushes are employed.
Dated this 11th day of Annil 1002
:
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said John George Horsey.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said John George Horsey.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means and Appliances for Fanning Out or Spreading the
Tuft Ends in Broom and Brush Stocks.
I, JOHN GEORGE HORSEY, of Corcelles, Bromley Grove, Shortlands, Kent,
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 has for object, the fanning out or spreading the fibre, or other
material used in brooms and brushes by appliances which can be pushed, or be
drawn into the centres of the tufts as they are being inserted into the stock by
hand, or by machinery.
My invention will be understood by the following description with the aid of the
annexed drawings in which corresponding letters of reference agree.

page_text: Figure 1 represents a blank which can have the two wings A, A, of each
end B, B, bent outwardly for the edges to meet, and then the body C to be
doubled, as at the perspective elevation Figure 2.
Figure 3 shows three blanks of a modified form such as can be produced by
stamping, or roller cutting, and which when severed and folded, as at the
perspective elevation, Figure 4, constitute one of my appliances. Each blank is
stamped with a semi cone or swelling A, A, to constitute the fanner or spreader
of the tufts when pushed or drawn into a brush, or broom stock.
Figures 5 and 6 are views of a solid headed spreader, say a malleable casting
with the body bent loop fashion.
Figure 7 is a narrow blank, the semi cone being stamped similar to that shown
at Figure 4.
Figure 8 shows this narrow appliance in a folded condition.
Figure 9 is a similar view to Figure 4 with the exception that the outer edges of
the body are rounded off.
Figures 10 and 11 are views of a single plate with solid cone head, the outer
ends being rounded like that of Figure 9.
Figure 12 represents a folded wire, the top portions being loop shaped to form
a circle for fanning or spreading the fibres when the appliance is forced into the
brush or broom stock.
All of the foregoing appliances may be forced into stock D, or short steel
wires E with pointed ends can be forced in with the appliance, so that when the
pressure is removed, the wires which have been bowed by the forcing tool rebound
and the points enter the side walls of the holes and fix themselves and the
appliances in place, or if the bodies are slightly wider than the meter of the
holes the forcing tool will cause the ends F of the appliances to tearnto the wood,
and in that case will fix themselves.
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The appliances if provided with narrow bodies, Figures 7 and 8, can be drawn
into the holes by an attendant in the usual way of drawing.
I prefer that the fauning cones A, A, be above the holes in a broom stock D,
or by countersinking the holes and using short appliances they can be set in for
the heads A to be flush with the face of the stock D.
The various appliances hereinbefore referred to and shown may be employed in
any desired manner, and as examples of their application I represent on Sheet 2
of the annexed drawings, Figures 13 to 21, the positions they are intended to
occupy, and in which drawings the same letters of reference to the figures on
Sheet I are applicable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The appliances shown at Figures 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 on Sheet 1
of the annexed drawings for fanning out or spreading the tuft ends of fibres of
broom or brush stocks, as set forth.
2. The use of appliances, foldable or not, with cone or equivalent shaped heads
for fanning or spreading of fibres of brooms or brushes, such appliances being
shaped for forcing into the holes of the stock to fix themselves and also the tufts,
or to be drawn in to fix the tufts, substantially as shown at Sheet 2 of the annexed
drawings.
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