AN IMPROVEMENT IN BRUSHES AND BROOMS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louisa Monzani, of Greyhound Place, Old Kent
Road, in the County of Surrey, Widow and Administratrix of Willoughby
Theobald Monzani, late of Saint James' Terrace, Bermondsey, in the
said County of Surrey, Gentleman, deceased, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN BRUSHES AND BROOMS;" being the same Invention as that
for which Letters Patent were granted to her said, late Husband on the
20th day of June 1854-A communication.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by. the said Louisa Monzani at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on the
14th October 1854.
I, LOUISA MONZANI, of Greyhound Place, Old Kent Road, in the County of
Surrey, Widow and Administratrix of Willoughby Theobald Monzani, late of
St. James' Terrace, Bermondsey, in the said County of Surrey, Gentleman,
deceased, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN BRUSHES AND BROOMS" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the application of vulcanized india-rubber
as an elastic material on those parts of brushes and brooms which in use are
liable to be moved or struck against skirtings, and other parts of buildings and
places or things, which are to be dusted or cleansed thereby; by which appli-
cation of vulcanized india-rubber, noise will be prevented in the use of such
brushes and brooms, and the skirtings and other parts of buildings, places,
or things will not be injured by the hard parts of brushes and brooms, as
heretofore.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and
of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said Louisa Monzani in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th May 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUISA
MONZANI, of Greyhound Place, Old Kent Road, in the County of Surrey,
Widow and Administratrix of Willoughby Theobald Monzani, late of Saint
James Terrace, Bermondsey, in the said County of Surrey, Gentleman,
deceased, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Louisa Monzani, Her special licence that I, the said Louisa Monzani,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Louisa Monzani, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN BRUSHES AND BROOMS," being a communication from my said late husband
Willoughby Theobald Monzani, upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Louisa Monzani, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louisa Monzani, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof (that is to say):-
This Invention has for its object the application of vulcanized india-rubber
as an elastic material on those parts of brushes and brooms which in use are
liable to be moved or struck against skirtings, and other parts of buildings and
places or things which are to be dusted or cleansed thereby; by which-appli-
cation of vulcanized india-rubber, noise will be prevented in the use of such
brushes and brooms, and the skirtings and other parts of buildings, places,
or things will not be injured by the hard parts of brushes and brooms, as
heretofore.

page_text: Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a plan and side view of a scrubbing brush constructed
according to the Invention; Figure 2 shows a plan and a side view of a brush
for dusting or sweeping; and Figure 3 is a broom, having the improvement
applied thereto. In each of these Figures a, a, is a strip or fillet of vulcanized
india-rubber, fixed at each of those parts where a brush or broom when in
use is likely to strike or rub against the skirting or other parts of a room, or
building or things therein, when the same are being cleansed or dusted by the
use of such brushes or brooms. I would remark that the forms of the brushes
and brooms may be varied, and they separately are not new, and the form of
the piece of vulcanized india-rubber in each case may be varied.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louisa Monzani, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Ninth day of April, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-five.
Witness,
GEO. PITT,
4, Old Square.
LOUISA MONZANI. (L.B.)