An Improved Handle-securing Device.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 11th Feb., 1899
An Improved Handle-securing Device.
I, WILHELM LOUIS HENRY PAPE, Locomotive Superintendent, 177, Gruner
Deich, Hamburg, Germany, 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 the construction of a device by means of
which handles can be secured to any kind of article in use, such as brooms,
india-rubber brushes for scavengers, etc., without using nails or such like. The
device is so made that it can be used over and over again without any appreciable
tear and wear.
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood I have
hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings which shows, by way of
example, a convenient mode of carrying out the invention.
On the drawings:-
Fig. 1 shows, in vertical section, the device applied to a broom.
Fig. 2 shows the device in elevation.
The device consists essentially of a metal socket a whose upper part is made
with an inner quick screw-thread which tapers slightly as shown and whose
lower part is made with an outer quick screw-thread which also tapers slightly.
In order to give increased elasticity the socket a may be split for a part of its
length and be provided with a stiffening rim 6 at its upper end for the purpose
of preventing the parts of the socket opening out. A broad ring c is screwed upon
the lower part of the socket and this ring is provided with holes d in order that
it may be turned by means of a suitable key capable of catching in the said
holes.
The modus operandi is as follows:-
The handle e to be secured (see Fig. 1) has its lower end screwed into the upper
part of the socket a. In order to fix the handle as tightly as possible the socket a
may be warmed slightly before the handle is screwed into it. The article to be
secured to the handle, say the head (f) of a broom as shown on the drawing, is
now screwed on to the lower part of the socket a (which part is screwed
externally as before explained) as far as the ring c. The ring c is then screwed
down so as to bear upon the back of the broom-head.
In this manner the handle is firmly secured to the broom-head whilst at the
same time it is prevented from coming out of its socket, especially is this the
case when the wood swells under the action of damp.
The handle with its socket can be easily removed from the broom-head by
first screwing back the ring c and then screwing off the head f.
The handle as well as the socket can be used with any new broom and in this
manner the small first cost of the device is compensated for.

page_text: 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 consider novel and desire to claim is:-
A device for securing handles to broom-heads and similar articles characterized
by a socket (a) which is slightly tapered and which is provided at its upper
end with an inner screw-thread and at its lower end with an outer screw-thread
upon which latter a broad ring (c) is screwed, substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to the drawings annexed
Dated this 9th day of January 1899.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
, 100, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.