An Improved Means for Attaching the Handles of Brushes.
Year: 1885

page_text: An Improved Means for Attaching the Handles of Brushes.
I, HENRY CLARKE, of 41 Edwyn Street Leicester in the county of Leicester
Hosiery Foreman do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED
MEANS FOR ATTACHING THE HANDLES OF BRUSHES to be as follows:-
This invention consists of a wood screw with the upper portion flattened to a
convenient thickness to be driven into the Brush handle. At this flattened portion
of the screw, a hole is made to admit of a rivet being driven through the handle,
to prevent the screws from being drawn out. The rivet has a large head at one
end and a ferral rivetted over on the other this arrangement gives strength to the
handle at the bottom portion. The handle is then scerewed into the brush the
screw going into the solid portion, will prevent the handle from being drawn out of
the brush by any other means than unscrewing it. The second modification
consists of a piece of iron flattened to the required thickness at one end of it the
other end tapped to receive a nut, the flat portion is driven into the handle. At
this flattened portion of the screw a hole is made to admit of a rivet being driven
through the handle to prevent the screw from being drawn out. The rivet has a
large head at one end, and a ferrel rivetted over on the other; a hole is bored
through the solid portion of the brush, the tapped end of the screw is put through
the hole and screwed by a nut on the underside of the brush, thus preventing the
handle from being drawn out, only by means of unscrewing the nut.
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page_text: An Improved Means for Attaching the Handles of Brushes.
I, HENRY CLARKE of N° 41 Edwin Street Leicester, in the County of Leicester
Hosiery Manufacturers Foreman do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
AN IMPROVED MEANS FOR ATTACHING THE HANDLES OF BRUSHES," and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:—
My said Invention relates to an improved means of attaching the shafts, or
handles of brushes, and consists of a wood screw, with the upper portion made to a
convenient thickness, to be driven into the shaft, or handle, and by preference, it is
made wedge shaped, at the opposite or flattened end of the screw a hole is made to
admit of a rivet which is driven through the shaft, or handle to prevent the screws
being drawn out, the rivet having at one end a large head, as shown in
figures 1. 2 and 3 of the Drawings herewith, while over on the other side, a plate is
inserted and the end of the rivet is secured by being clenched or made fast in any
convenient manner, this arraingement giving the required strength to the bottom
part of the shaft, or handle, it is then pointed to fit into the hole in the head of the
biush, the screw going into the lower or solid portion, and being firmly screwed
prevents the handle from being drawn out, the second modification consists of a
piece of Iron flattened at one end, to the required thickness to admit of its being
driven into the shaft, or handle, and at the other, or outer end, is a screw which
after having been put through a hole made the required size in the head of the
brush, is tapped to receive a nut, and firmly screwed to the under side of the head,
as shown in Figure 2. The nut can be removed for the purpose of fixing a fresh
head when the one becomes worn, by the ordinary method of loosening the said
nut with a wrench or spanner.
In order that my Invention may be more clearly understood reference is made
to the accompanying drawings, the same letters of reference indicate like parts in
all the figures.
Figure 1 is a view of a brush with the shaft, or handle inserted in the manner
described, the rivet a" being driven into the shaft, or handle a¹ and through the
hole in the flattened portion of the screw b. and clenched to the opposite side on to
the plate c. and screwed in to the solid portion of the head, d. Figure 2 is a
modification of the above. Figures 3 and 4, shows the screws b. with and without
the nut c. It will be well understood that by my Invention the method. now in
use of weakening the head of a brush by making the extra hole which often splits
the head when the nail is driven in, and renders the head of the brush useless
before it is worn out, by the means which I employ this is entirely obviated.

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 claim is
The improved means of attaching handles, to brushes, by the driving of the
wedge shaped portion of the screw, into the shaft, or handle and screwed thereto,
and screwed and fastened to the head substantially in the manner hereinbefore
described, and set forth in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 25th day of Sentember. one Thousand, Eight hundred, and Eighty

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