Improvements in and relating to Paint and other Brushes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 29th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 3rd May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Paint and other Brushes.
I, JOHN HARVEY DICKSON, of Townsend, St. Albans, in the County of Hertford,
Contractors Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to paint brushes and the like.
"
Paint brushes and the like as heretofore manufactured are frequently provided with
bristles which are longer than required in use in order to allow for a certain amount
In using such brushes, it is sometimes desirable to
" bridlo the bristles
by means of wire or string. Such bridles, however, are inconvenient, and frequently
become detached.
of wear.
The object of my invention is to manufacture a brush with a bridle so constructed
that portions of it may be removed from time to time as the bristles wear, and which
cannot become accidentally detached.
The bridle is advantageously composed of a piece of thin sheet metal which is bent
and secured around the bristles to form a kind of ferrule and provided with a series of
rows of perforations so that strips or pieces may be torn or severed from the said plate
as the bristles wear.
In some cases I find it advantageous to make the ferrule having the perforations in
one piece with the ferrule proper by which the bristles are permanently held.
By using extra long bristles in connection with my improved bridle I am enabled
to provide a brush which will wear for a much greater length of time than brushes as
heretofore manufactured.
Dated the 23rd day of July 1000
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Paint and other Brushes.
1, JOHN HARVEY DICKSON, of Townsend, St. Albans, in the county of Hertford,
Contractors Agent, 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:-
My invention relates to paint and like brushes.
Paint and like brushes as heretofore manufactured are frequently provided with
bristles which are longer than are required for practical use, in order to allow for a
certain amount of wear. In using such brushes, it is sometimes desirable to "bridle
the bristles by means of wire or string; such bridles, however, are inconvenient, and
frequently become detached.
The object of my invention is to manufacture a brush with a bridle so constructed
that portions of it may be removed from time to time, as the bristles wear, and which
cannot become accidentally detached.
My bridle is advantageously composed of a piece of thin sheet metal, which is bent
and secured around the bristles to form a kind of ferrule, and provided with a series
of rows of perforations, so that strips or pieces may be torn or severed from the said
bridle as the bristles wear.
In some cases I find it advantageous to make the ferrule having the perforations
in one piece with the ferrule proper by which the bristles are permanently held.
By using extra long bristles in connection with my improved bridle I am enabled

page_text: to provide a brush, which will wear for a much greater length of time than brushes as
heretofore manufactured.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which―
Figure 1 is a front elevation; and
Figure 2 a perspective view of an ordinary paint brush, provided with my improved
bridle, which is shewn made in one piece with the binding ferrulo proper.
Figure 3 is a front elevation of a smaller paint brush, commonly known as a sash-
tool, provided with a similar bridle.
Figure 4 represents the brush shewn in figure 3, but after the same has been
used and the bristles worn down and shewing how a strip of the bridle can be
removed.
Figure 5 is a similar view to figure 4 but shewing the bridle made separate from
the binding ferrule.
Figure 6 is a perspective view of a bridle adapted for application to an ordinary
brush handle.
Similar letters in all the figures represent similar parts.
a represents the usual wooden handle, and 6 the bristles of the brush. c represents
my bridle composed of thin sheet metal and which, as shewn in figures 1, 2, 3 and 4,
is formed in one piece with the ordinary ferrule d by which the bristles are bound
together and held to the handle a; but in figure 5 it will be seen how the
bridling ferrule c can be made separate from, but attached to, the hinding ferrule d;
e, e represent rows of perforations dividing the bridle into what may be termed a
number of strips, the said perforations allowing the strips to be torn or severed from
the bridle, as the bristles wear. Figures 4 and 5 shew the top strip being severed for
this purpose.
Although I have described my improved bridle as being provided with perforations
to allow of the strips being severed, it will be obvious that the bridle might be indented;
or otherwise adapted to allow of strips being severed therefrom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is;-
(1) A bridle for paint and like brushes formed of suitable material, such as thin
sheet metal, such bridle being adapted to be secured around the bristles so as to form
a kind of ferrule and provided with a series of rows of perforations or otherwise
formed, to allow of strips of the bridle being torn off or severed as the, bristles of the
brush wear.
(2). A bridle for paint and other brushes formed of thin sheet metal and forming.
part of, or attached to, the ordinary binding ferrule of the brush, the said, bridle being
perforated or otherwise adapted to allow of strips being torn off or severed in the
manner and for the purpose set forth.
(3) The combination with a paint or other brush, of a bridle formed of suitable.
material, such as thin sheet metal, and perforated or otherwise adapted to allow of strips
being torn off or severed, substantially as, hereinbefore described and illustrated in. the
several figures of the accompanying drawing.
قييم
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.