Improvements in the Attachment of Broom Handles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application. 29th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 29th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Attachment of Broom Handles.
I, JOSEF SCHMITZ-SCHLAGLOTH, Merchant, of 21 Domstrasse, Cologne,
Germany, do hereby declare the nature of my present invention to be as
follows:-
The present invention relates to an improved broom handle attachment and its
object is to provide a device whereby the handle may be more securely attached
to the back of the broom or besom and, if required, conveniently and easily removed
from the same.
To attain this object, in addition to inserting the end of the broom handle
into a conical hole in the back of the broom, a plate of wood or metal is attached
to the handle by means of a sleeve or mutilated sleeve or the like and screws, said
plate being adapted to lie flat on the back of the broom when the handle is in
position in the same and being secured to the said back by means of suitable thumb
screws or the like.
Instead of being attached to the handle by a sleeve the said plate may be made
in two halves clamped on to the broom handle by means of screws.
Dated the 29th day of February 1892.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Attachment of Broom Handles.
I JOSEF SCHMITZ-SCHLAGLOTII of 21 Domstrasse, Cologne German Empire,
Merchant 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 :-
The object of this invention is to effect in a secure manner the fixing of the
handle in brooms and especially in the so-called scrubbing brooms by using a con-
necting piece that may easily be undone, besides the usual method of introducing
the pointed handle into the conical hole of the back of the broom.
This connecting piece, which may constitute a special commercial article by
itself, is made in such a way that it seizes a portion of the handle whereas it comes
into contact with a sufficiently large portion of the surface of the back of the
broom to have a firm base. The fixing of the connecting piece (which may easily
be undone) to the back of the broom & the handle is effected by screwing or some
similar means.
The accompanying drawing shows the application of the invention in two
different ways.
In Figs. 1 and 2, a represents the connecting piece made of metal (sheet iron)
which grasps part of the handle and has its base resting on the surface of the back
of the broom to which, as well as to the handle, it is fixed by means of screws d, d,
so that being easily undone, anyone can with facility effect a secure connection*
between the handle and the broom.
According to the method shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the connecting piece, which is
made of wood, consists of two parts a and a', of which a seizes a portion of the
handle and a¹ is fixed to the back of the broom c by means of screws d, d, and also
grasps a portion of the handle. By twisting the screws d', d', entering through a

page_text: and catching hold at a', it is easy in this case, to fix the handle by pressing and
to undo it in the same manner.
When by long use the screw holes in the handle and the back of the broom
have become too large, a second hole for the handle is to be found on the opposite
side of the roof-shaped back e permitting the connecting piece and the handle to be
fixed on it.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
The construction and application, for the purpose of securing more firmly the
handle and permitting of its being changed in scrubbing and other brooms,
of a peculiarly formed connecting piece which may be fixed easily both to the
back of the broom and to the handle and be undone, substantially as set forth.
Dated the 29th day of November 1892
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.