Improvements in Brushes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 6th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 9th Aug., 1887.
PROVISIONAL
Improvements in Brushes.
I CHARLES ADOLPHUS WATKINS of 9 and 10 Greek Street Soho Square in the
County of Middlesex Brush Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows:-
My Invention relates principally to what are known as flatting and dusting brushes
or brushes of the class used by house painters for example. and has for its object to
render the brushes capable of wearing evenly by dispensing with the forked or hollow
form of the interior consequent upon the space left by the insertion of a handle in the
knot of bristles in the ordinary manner.
According to my Invention I bind the knot of bristles to form the brush and to the
binding I attach strips or projections which extend beyond the root end of the knot of
bristles. I may cement the said root end with any suitable cement. The handle is
placed with its end against the root end of the knot of bristles and the strips or
projections are secured to the said handle. The bristles and handle are then forced
into a ferrule or collar which is secured thereto in
1
suitable way.
insert in
the root end of the knob of bristles (before the handle is applied and preferably after
cementing) short pegs of wood or other material preferably arranged around the
centre which is left all bristles the brush being afterwards completed as hereinbefore
described.
any
may
I prefer to bind the knot with wire and to bind with and solder thereto the strips or
projections and then to solder the wire the strips or projections and the ferrule all
together but I do not necessarily limit myself to this mode of performing my Invention.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1886.
J. HENRY JOHNSON,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London,
Agent for the said Charles Adolphus Watkins.

page_text: Improvements in Brushes.
I, CHARLES ADOLPHUS WATKINS of 96 Clerkenwell Road late of 9 and 10 Greek
Street Soho Square in the County of Middlesex, Brush Manufacturer 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:-
My Invention relates principally to what are known as painting flatting and dusting
brushes or brushes of the class used by house painters for example and has for its
object to render the brushes capable of wearing evenly by dispensing with the forked
or hollow form of the interior consequent upon the space left by the insertion of a
handle in the knot of bristles in the ordinary manner.
I will describe my Invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.
According to my Invention I bind the knot A of bristles to form the brush which
binding may be effected by wire as at a afterwards soldered together, and to the
binding a I attach strips a or projections which extend beyond the root end of the
knot of bristles. The strips are shewn as consisting of pieces of tin bound up with
the bristles with the long end projecting as shewn by the dotted lines in Figure 1 and
then turned down as shewn in full lines. The brush so far formed is shewn in Figure 1.
I may cement the root end of the knot A with any suitable cement. The handle B is
placed with its enlarged end B2 against the root end of the knot of bristles as shewn
in Figure 2 and then a ferrule or collar C is placed over the enlarged end of the
handle and the butt end of the bristles and secured thereto by pins a³ or the like
passing through strengthening strips a secured to the ferrule, and through
the strips or projections a² into the enlarged end of the handle B2. The knot of
bristles and the ferrule is thus secured to the said enlarged end B2 of the handle and
the brush completed as shewn in section in Figure 3 and in elevation in Figure 4.
1 may insert in the root end of the knot of bristles (before the hadnle and ferrule is
applied and preferably after cementing) short pegs of wood or other material
preferably arranged around the centre which is left all bristles the brush being after-
wards completed as hereinbefore described. These pegs are shewn at D in Figure 3
and also in Figure 5 which is a view of the butt end of the knot of bristles before it
put on the handle.
is
prefer to bind the knot with wire and to bind with and solder thereto the strips
or projections and then to solder the wire, the strips or projections, and the ferrule
all together but I do not necessarily limit myself to this mode of performing my
Invention.
I also prefer to make the ferrule C of wire coiled together to the shape of the
ferrule and afterwards soldered but this and other details may also be varied.

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.―
1st. A brush in which the handle does not enter the knot of bristles or the like but
in which the butt end of the knot of bristles abuts against the end of the handle the
two being secured together substantially as herein before described.
2nd. A brush of the kind hereinbefore described and claimed wherein the knot of
bristles or the like is bound and furnished with strips a² which are secured to the
handle and over the whole of which a ferrule is placed as described and illustrated.
3rd. A brush of the kind hereinbefore described and claimed having pieces D
arranged in the knot of bristles or the like as described in combination with a handle
abutting against the butt end of the knot of bristles or the like both being secured
together substantially as described and illustrated.