IMPROVED SLEEVE FOR CONFINING THE BRISTLES OR HAIRS OF PAINT BRUSHES OR OF BRUSHES SIMILARLY CONSTRUCTED
Year: 1885

page_text: We GEORGE HENRY CROWTHER of Westgate, painter, and WILLIAM ISHERWOOD
of Hope joinery Works, Westgate both of Cleckheaton, in the County of York,
do hereby declare the nature of our invention for an "IMPROVED SLEEVE FOR
CONFINING THE BRISTLES OR HAIRS OF PAINT BRUSHES OR OF BRUSHES SIMILARLY
CONSTRUCTED, to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to an improved sleeve or binder for holding together the
bristles or hairs in paint or other brushes by means of a collar or short tube of
india-rubber or other elastic material.
To carry out our invention, instead of the temporary wrapping of string or the
ferrule of sheet metal hitherto used to hold together the hairs or bristles of new
[paint or other brushes which hairs or bristles are too long for use until worn
shorter.
We make use of a collar of india-rubber or other elastic material which is by
preference passed over the tapered end of the brush handle and brought down.to
the required position on the bristles. The elasticity of the collar compresses the
bristles, and holds them firmly together.
By this means the long bristles of new brushes are held in a more compact
form, and as the bristles wear away the indiarubber collar may be slipped back as
required, to leave the necessary length of bristles projecting.
This improved collar is to take the place of the temporary wrapping of string
or other material which it is usual to form upon new brushes, but is not intended
as a method of securing the bristles to the handle.

page_text: We, GEORGE HENRY CROWTHER, of Westgate, painter, and WILLIAM ISHERWOOD,
of Hope Joinery Works, Westgate, both of Cleckheaton, in the County of York,
do hereby declare the nature of our invention for AN IMPROVED SLEEVE FOR
CONFINING THE BRISTLES OR HAIRS OF PAINT BRUSHES OR OF BRUSHES SIMILARLY
CONSTRUCTED and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention relates to an improved sleeve, or binder, for holding together the
bristles or bairs in paint or other brushes, by means of a collar, or short tube of
indiarubber, or other elastic material.
To carry out our-invention, instead of the temporary wrapping of string, or the
ferrule of sheet metal hitherto used to hold together the hairs or bristles of new
paint or other brushes, and at the same time to regulate to a convenient length the'
projecting hairs or bristles which are left at liberty, and which would otherwise be
too long for use, until worn shorter, or otherwise shortened, we make use of a sleeve,
or short tube of india rubber, or other clastic material, which is by preference
passed over the tapered end of the brush handle, and brought down to the required
position on the bristles, or hairs. The elasticity of the sleeve compresses the bristles
and holds them firmly together.
By means of this improved sleeve, the long bristles or hairs of new brushes are
held in a more compact form, and as the bristles or hairs wear away the india-
rubber sleeve may be slipped back as required, to leave the necessary length of
bristles or hairs projecting.
This improved sleeve or collar is to take the place of the temporary wrapping of
string or other material, which it is usual to form upon the bristles or hairs of new
brushes, but the sleeve or collar is not intended as a means of fastening or uniting
the bristles or hairs to the handle.
In order to enable our invention to be fully understood, we will proceed to
describe the same, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure+1
represents an elevation of a new or unused paint brush, to which the improved.
sleeve is applied, Figure 2 an elevation of a paint brush that has been partially
worn, and upon which the sleeve is slipped back, to allow the required length of
bristles or hairs to project. Figure 3 represents the improved sleeve. >
Similar letters are used in reference to similar parts in each of the figures.
The new or unworn brush representod at Figure 1, has the sleeve B passed down
to the line E E, whereby the required length of bristles or hairs C is allowed to
project, for the purpose of taking up the necessary quantity of paint. Although the
bristles or hairs are held together by the sleeve, the elastic nature of the material
of which the sleeve is forined, allows the bristles to bend with each stroke of the
brush, and does not hold them perfectly rigid from the handle to the line E E, but
at the same time the bristles or hairs are held together, and are not allowed to
spread too widely, or to take up too much paint, as would be the case with new

page_text: brushes, unless the bristles or hairs were confined or held together to a regulated
length.
The handle of the brush is represented at A and the top line of the sleeve B
at D D.
In Figure 2 a partially worn brush is represented, upon which the elastic
sleeve B is slipped back, as far as the line E E, and when the bristles or hairs are
worn sufficiently short, the sleeve may be removed altogether.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
An improved sleeve or collar of indiarubber or other suitable elastic material,
applied in the manner described, for the purpose of confining, and regulating, the
projecting, or working length, of the bristles, or hairs, of paint brushes, or other
brushes of similar construction; in the manner, and for the purpose, hereinbefore
set forth, or any mere modification thereof.
Dated this Second day of July 1885.
TURNER & BAKER,
Agents for the Applicants,
Town Hall Chambers, Bradford (Yorks.)