AN IMPROVED MEANS OF SECURING HANDLES TO SWEEPING BRUSHES to be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: We, BAMBER BARON of Avenue Parade, Accrington, Lancashire, Commercial
Clerk, and RICHARD WALTON KENYON of Ewbank Works, Accrington aforesaid
Machine Maker, do hereby declare the nature of our invention for "AN IMPROVED
MEANS OF SECURING HANDLES TO SWEEPING BRUSHES to be as follows:-
"
Our Invention has reference to certain means to be employed for attaching
handles to the heads of sweeping brushes commonly called long brushes.
As is well known one end of a rod is placed into a recess formed in the brush
which is afterwards made secure by a nail, but in practice it is found such handle
soon gets loose and requires fastening again.
The object of our Invention is to provide a ready and permanent means of
fastening the handle into a brush, and this we accomplish by the employment of a
bush or ferrule which we place onto the bottom end of the handle, and fasten it
thereon by screw or other suitable means. Projecting from the bottom of the
ferrule is a screw which may be cast with the ferrule or otherwise, and after the
handle has been attached to the ferrule it is put into the ordinary hole formed in
the brush, and the projecting screw made to enter into the wood of the brush
whereby it is easily connected.
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By this means handles are readily and permanently attached to the brush, and
when it is necessary to remove the handles all there is to do, is to unscrew the
ferrule from the brush, and it will be ready for connecting to another.
Instead of having a screw projecting from the bottom of the ferrule as explained
above, the bottom of the said ferrule may be made square or angular, and a screw
thread formed thereon after the manner of a tap in stocks and dies, so that when
it is being screwed into the hole in the brush head, the tap will cut its own thread
therein and make itself secure; or an ordinary screw thread may be formed at the
foot of the ferrule and screwed into the brush head.
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page_text: We, BAMBER BARON of Avenue Parade, Accrington, Lancashire, Commercial
Clerk and RICHARD WALTON KENYON of Ewbank Works Accrington aforesaid
Machine Maker do hereby declare the nature of our invention for "AN IMPROVED
MEANS OF SECURING HANDLES TO SWEEPING BRUSHES" and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :—
Our invention has reference to certain means to be employed for attaching
handles to the heads of sweeping brushes commonly called long brushes."
As is well known one end of a rod is placed into a recess formed in the brush
which is afterwards made secure by a nail, but in practice it is found such handle
Boon gets loose, and requires fastening again.
The object of our invention is to provide a ready and permanent means of
fastening the handle into a brush, and this we accomplish by the employment of a
bush or ferrule which we place onto the bottom end of the handle, and fasten it
thereon by screw or other suitable means.
Such being the nature and object of our invention, we will now proceed to
describe the same more fully, and for that purpose make reference to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings illustrative thereof.
Figure 1 is elevation of one of our improved ferrules which it will be seen is
made with a screw a, which screw a may be cast to the ferrule, or it may be loose
and made to pass through a hole in the bottom of the said ferrule.
In using this ferrule it is first fastened to the bottom of the brush handle A by
screw or nail b when the bottom of the ferrule is put into the ordinary hole
formed in the brush B, when the projecting screw a is screwed into the brush head,
and made secure thereby.
In Figures 2 and 3 we have shewn another form of ferrule, where it will be seen
that the bottom of the ferrule is made angular, and a cutting screw thread c formed
thereon after the manner of stocks and dies, so that when it is being screwed into
the hole in the brush head, the tap will cut its own thread therein, and make itself
secure; or an ordinary screw thread may be formed at the foot of the ferrule as
shewn in Figure 4 and screwed into the brush head.
By this means handles are readily and permanently attached to the brush, and
when it is required to remove the handles, it is only necessary to unscrew the
ferrule from the brush and it will be ready for connecting to another brush head.
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 as our Invention is;
Firstly. A brush ferrule having a screw at the bottom thereof, substantially as
described and shewn in Figure 1.
Secondly. A brush ferrule having a cutting screw thereon as described and
shewn in Figures 2 and 3.