Improvements in Joints or Connections for Brush Handles and other articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 20th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 2nd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Joints or Connections for Brush Handles and
other articles.
We WILLIAM JOHN HALL. of 16 Market Place St. Helens in the County
of Lancaster Architect and Surveyor HENRY GIBBON of 91 Raglan Street
St. Helens aforesaid Engineer and Millwright and WILLIAM TYRER of Vicarage
Place Prescot in the said County Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates
1. To the attaching or fixing of handles or shanks to brushes brooms or mops.
2. To the attaching or fixing ends or caps to cornice or other poles.
3. To the attaching or fixing of ferrules hoops thimbles caps or handles to
walking or other sticks including umbrella sticks.
4. To the attaching or fixing of legs to chairs tables stools or desks.
5. To the attaching or fixing of hat coat wardrobe or other pegs to wood or other
material.
6. To the connecting or coupling pipes or tubes such pipes or tubes being made
of wood malleable cast rolled or wrought iron steel brass lead or other suitable
material and may be used
7. For other purposes not before described.
The invention consists of
1. A plate made of malleable cast rolled or wrought iron steel brass or other
suitable material so constructed as to form in the centre thereof or elsewhere in the
said plate as required a circular hole of such size or dimensions as may be required
or suitable for any of the purposes before referred to, the circumference of the
circular hole of such plate being fitted or formed with a knife edged cutter for the
purpose of forming such a thread or screw as will grip and hold fast any handle
or shank which may be screwed or inserted into or through the same as may be
required or necessary to obtain the purchase or rigidity required. The plate is
fastened by screws or nails or studded to the broom head or other article.
2. A ferrule hoop thimble cap or ring made of any of the materials before alluded
to and of any size having the inner circumference fitted or formed with a knife
edged cutter for the purposes or purpose of forming such a thread or screw as will
grip or hold fast any article or thing which may be screwed into or through the
same as may be necessary to obtain the purchase or rigidity required.
any
3. A ferrule hoop thimble or cap of any size or dimensions and made of of
the materials aforesaid fitted with two or more if required knife edged cutters
working in obverse directions so that by turning by hand or otherwise a right and
left hand thread or screw is formed at the end or ends of pipes tubes sticks or poles
required to be coupled or brought together and fastened as may be necessary.
Dated this 18th day of Auril 1801
WM. JNO. HALL.
HENRY GIBBON.
WM. TYRER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Joints or Connections for Brush Handles and
other articles.
We MARY CARRICK HALL (administratrix of William John Hall of 16 Market
Place St. Helens in the County of Lancaster Architect and Surveyor) HENRY
GIBBON of 91 Raglan Street St. Helens aforesaid Engineer and Millwright, and
Timing Q77

page_text: WILLIAM TYRER of Vicarage Place Prescot in the said County Gentleman 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 device for jointing or coupling together various
articles, such, for example, as a broomstick to a brush, broom or mop head; an end
or cap to a cornice or other pole a ferrule, hoop, thimble or handle to a walking,
umbrella or other stick legs to chairs, tables, stools or desks and hat, roat,
wardrobe or other pegs to wood or other frames.
In the drawings :-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the joint or coupling for fastening a handle to
a broom head;
Figure 2, a transverse section through the broom head and joint or coupling:
Figure 3 shows the tapered end of a broom handle.
Similar letters refer to similar parts in these figures.
A, is the broom head; B, the broom handle tapering at the end as shown;
C, the sloping hole in the head for the handle; D, an annular plate. The hole in
the said plate is made a little smaller than the diameter of the handle; and the
edges thereof are formed with a cutting edge, and in spiral form like a screw
thread, the end d being preferably elevated rather above the surface of plate D,
while the opposite end of the spiral is approximately on, or below, the level of
the said plate. The result is that, when the tapered end of the handle is pushed into
the hole in the plate and rotated, the spiral cutting edge or blade of the plate, acting
as a screwing die, will cut into the handle and form a screw thread thereon, the spiral
cutting deeper and deeper into the handle as the taper becomes gradually larger in
diameter. Thus the brush handle is firmly and rigidly held and gripped fast in
the brush head A by means of the spiral blade or screwing die of the plate D, and
if, owing to long use or wear, the handle should become loose, all that is necessary
is to give the handle another turn or part of a turn, when it will be as firm as
before. The best pitch for the spiral we have found to be from one eighth to one
quarter of an inch. The plate D is fastened by screws, nails, or studs to the
head A.
The mode of applying the joint or connection for securing together caps to
cornice-poles, ferrules or handles to walking sticks, legs to chairs, tables and stools,
and hat pegs to rack or frames and other like articles, will be almost identical with
that above described, except that the surface of plate D is shaped to suit the
article to which it is attached.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:—
1. A joint or coupling for brush handles or other articles, consisting of a plate
having a hole formed with a spiral cutting edge or blade, that is adapted to bite
the article to be jointed by forming a screw thread thereon.
2. In a screw joint or coupling, the combination, with the plate D, of the spiral
cutting edge or blade d adapted to bite and firmly grip the article to be jointed,
substantially as set forth.
Dated this 19th day of January 1892.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.