Improvements in or Appertaining to Brushes Applicable for House or Ship Painting or other.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Appertaining to Brushes Applicable for House
or Ship Painting or other. Purposes.
I, WATKIN FRANK HURNDALL of 12, Rumford Place, Liverpool, in the County
of Lancaster, Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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This invention has for its object a simple method of, and appliance for, binding or
bridling brushes when new, so as to prevent them from being too flexible or
spreading.
At present it is the custom for the painter, before using a new brush, to bind it
round with string. This involves considerable time and trouble, and requires practice
to do it well, and even then the brush is not nearly so stiff, or the bristles as well
supported as by my invention. Instead of binding it round with string, I place over
the bristles of the brush up to the stock or beyond the permanent binding, a binding
or shield or bridling of tinned iron or other suitable metal entirely surrounding and
enclosing the bristles for the required distance beyond the permanent binding. This
shield is attached to the base stock or cap of the brush by two clips projecting from
and formed in one piece with the shield or attached and bent or hinged over the base
or cap of the brush and secured by screws or otherwise thereto. When the brush has
worn down sufficiently, the shield is taken off or replaced by a shorter one, and the
late shield is ready for application to a new brush. To prevent the tin cutting or
injuring the bristles it is filed or curved so that its inside surface shall trend slightly
outward and be rounded off at the end nearest the bristle end of the brush.
The shields can be sold with the brush or separately, can be oval, round or other
shape, and of different sizes to suit the various varieties of brush.
Dated this Ninth day of March 1888.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: or Ship Painting or other Purposes.
I, WATKIN FRANK HURNDALL, of 12, Rumford Place, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, 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:-
This invention has for its object. a simple method of, and appliance for, binding
or bridling brushes when new, so as to prevent them from being too flexible or too
liable to spread out.
At present it is the custom for the painter before using a new brush to bind it
round with string. This involves considerable time and trouble, and requires practico
to do it well, and even then the brush is not nearly so stiff, nor the bristles as well
supported as in a brush to which my invention is applied.
The manner in which the invention may be carried into effect may be
understood by the following description, reference being had to the accompanying
drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a view of a brush fitted with my improved bridling, and
Figures 2 and 3 are respectively side and edge elevations of the said bridling
detached from the brush.
Instead of binding the bristles, A, of the brush round with string, I place over
them, up to the stock A', or to the permanent binding A2, a binding shield or bridling B
of tinned iron, or of brass, or of other suitable metal or material. This bridling or
shield entirely surrounds and encloses the bristles for the required distance beyond
the permanent binding A2. The shield is attached to the base cap or stock A' of the
brush by two or more clips B' projecting from the shield, the said clips being formed in
one with the shield, or attached thereto, and being preferably bent or hinged over the
base of the stock, and secured thereto by screws or otherwise. When the brush has
worn down sufficiently, the shield is taken off or replaced by a shorter one, and the
shield previously used is, ready for application to a new brush. To provent the edge b
of the shield from cutting or injuring the bristles, it may be filed or curved so that
its inside surface shall trend slightly outward.
The clips B may be hooked, rivetted, made in one piece with the shield or
otherwise secured to it. The shield or bridling is preferably made of a bent strip of
sheet metal, united at the ends, as at 6, Figure 3, in any suitable manner. Or the
said ends may be made to overlap a considerable distance, and may be adjustable
one upon the other, being secured in the desired position by a hook and slot, or
other convenient device. In this way the shield may be alapted to brushes of various
sizes...
The shields can be sold with the brush, or separately. They can be oval, round,
or other shape, and of different sizes to suit the various varieties of brush.

page_text: 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
1. In a brush for house or ship painting or other purposes, a rigid shield or bridling
such as B, of thin material, enclosing the bristles for a certain distance beyond
the permanent binding or stock, and securely attached to the said stock or its
equivalent by means of two or more clips B¹, and by screws b or their equivalent,
substantially as set forth.
2. As a new article of manufacture, a brush shield or bridling consisting of a ring
or ferrule B of thin rigid material, adapted to enclose the bristles for a certain portion
of their length, and of two or more clips B' secured to one edge of said ferrule, and
adapted to be fastened to the stock, or to other equivalent part of the brush,
substantially as and for the purpose described.
3. The brush shield or bridling as a whole, constructed substantially as shown and
described.
Dated this 10th day of December 1888.