Improved Means for Attaching Handles to Broom Heads and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 24th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 30th May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Attaching Handles to Broom Heads and
the like.
We, EDWIN JAMES NOWELL Engineer, 46 Coborn Road Bow, London and
JAMES THOMSON AYTON, Auctioneer and Valuer, 2, The Mount, Whitechapel
Road, London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to an improved means for attaching handles to broom
heads and the like, the object being to readily and securely attach the handle to a
broom head or the like and the same is carried out as follows:-
A piece of bent wire is driven through the broom head or apertures in same so
that the wire will pass out at each side of the socket hole. The ends of these
wires are bent inwards towards each other so that when the handle is driven into
the socket the bent ends are driven into the handle. The bent ends of the wire
which enter the handle may be serrated and pointed the serrations preventing the
bent ends from leaving or becoming detached from the handle.
Dated this 19th day of December 1895.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.
Improved Means for Attaching Handles to Broom Heads and
the like.
We EDWIN JAMES NOWELL 46 Coborn Road, Bow London Engineer and
JAMES THOMSON AYTON 2 The Mount Whitechapel Road London Auctioneer
and Valuer, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved means for attaching handles to broom
heads and the like, the object being to readily and securely attach the handle to a
broom head or the like and the same is carried out as follows:-
A piece of bent wire is driven through the broom head or apertures in same,
so that the wire will pass out at each side of the socket hole, the ends of these
wires are bent inwards towards each other so that when the handle is driven into
the socket the bent ends are driven into the handle. The beut ends of the wire
which enter the handle may be serrated and pointed, the serrations preventing the
bent ends from leaving or becoming detached from the handle. Referring to the
annexed drawings
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through line x-y in Figure 2.
Figure 2 is a plan view of my invention.
a is a piece of wire which passed through the broom head c as shown, and the
bent ends a' are serrated as shown at c¹. After the handle d has been driven into
the socket e in the broom head c the bent ends a¹ of the wire a are driven into the
handle d thus securing the same in the socket e.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is.
1. In means for attaching handles to brooms and the like, a bent piece of wire,
connecting the broom head and handle together, said piece of wire having serrated
bent ends, which are driven into the broom handle after same has been driven into
the socket of the broom head, substantially as described and illustrated herein.
Dated this 22nd day of April 1896.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.