Improvements in or relating to Brooms.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1894
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Complete Specification Left, 7th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 12th Jan., 1895
I WILLIAM HENRY BENNETT Station Road Ash Vale Plasterer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a device to be applied to the heads of brooms which will
serve to clean or scrape away any hard substance which may stick to the floor and
which cannot be removed by the ordinary broom.
The device consists of a scraper in the form of a straight or curved plate with
an edge sufficiently sharp to remove any ordinary substance without cutting the
floor. This plate is fixed by a flange and a number of small screws, to the head of
the broom, on the upper part. When required the broom is simply turned over,
the edge of the plate being underneath, and the scraper is then applied. The
scraper is preferably shorter than the head of the broom, and forms part of a circle
in cross section with a flange along one edge.
Dated this 5th day of March 1894.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to Brooms.
I WILLIAM HENRY BENNETT of Station Road, Ash Vale, Plasterer 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 a device to be applied to the heads of brooms, which
will serve to clean or scrape away any hard substance which may stick to the floor,
and which cannot be removed by the ordinary broom.
The device consist of a scraper in the form of a straight or curved plate with an
edge sufficiently sharp to remove any ordinary substance without cutting the floor.
This plate is fixed by a flange and a number of small screws, to the head of the
broom, on the upper part. When required the broom is simply turned over, the
edge of the plate being underneath, and the scraper is then applied. The scraper
is preferably shorter than the head of the broom.
In order that this invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a side view of the head of
the broom with attachment, Fig. 2 is a front view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a
perspective view of the complete broom.
A is the head of the broom with handle B, fitted to it in the ordinary manner.
The attachment C in the form of a curved plate is fitted to the head A by means
of the flange c, and the screws or small nuts c¹ which pass through the flange and
fix it on the head.
The scraper C projects preferably for a short distance at about right angles to
the head and flange, and is then bent over so that when the broom is reversed the
edge will be in a convenient position for scraping the floor.

page_text: With this arrangement there is no necessity to employ any separate scraping
device to remove hard substances which may have stuck to the floor, and the person
using the broom need not stoop to remove such substance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of iny said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
(1.) An improved attachment for brooms, consisting of a curved plate fixed at
one side to the head in such a manner that it can be used as a scraper, substantially
as described.
(2.) An improved device for use with brooms, consisting of a scraper in the form
of a curved plate having a flange by which it can be fixed to the head of the broom,
and adapted for use as a scraper, substantially as described.
(3.) The improved broom having a scraper fixed on its head, substantially in the
manner described and shown in the accompanying drawings, and for the purposes
specified.
Dated this 6th day of December 1894.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.