IMPROVE- MENTS IN CONNECTING BROOMS AND BRUSHES TO THEIR STICKS OR HANDLES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Christopher Longbottom, Estate Agent, of
Bradford, in the County of York, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN CONNECTING BROOMS AND BRUSHES TO THEIR STICKS OR HANDLES."
Sealed the 6th December 1875, and dated the 23rd June 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Christopher Long-
bottom at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 23rd June 1875.
I, CHRISTOPHER LONGBOTTOM, Estate Agent, of Booth Street, Brad-
ford, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said'
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING BROOMS AND BRUSHES TO THEIR
STICKS OR HANDLES," to be as follows, that is to say :——
My Invention relates to improved means of connecting and securing
the sticks or handles to the stocks or bodies of brooms or brushes. For
this purpose I fit on the curved top of a broom or brush, or on the flat
surface if the broom or brush is made flat on the top, a malleable cast-
iron socket or racket made of any other suitable metal. The socket
fits over the hole made in the stock or body, and the socket is made by
preference taper in the interior, but may be made straight. A flange is

page_text: formed on the bottom of the socket and made curved or straight to suit
the top of the stock. The flange is made with lugs, in which fit screws
to fasten the socket to the stock. The socket is either made round and
solid or made with a slot or opening on the side and elastic. The stick
or handle is forced in the socket, forcing the opening or slot to open 5
and firmly grasp the stick and firmly secures the stick or handle to the
stock. A pin can also be used passed through the socket and stick.
I also construct malleable cast-iron sockets (or made of other metal)
formed with a ring and mounted on standards formed with feet which
are screwed to the broom or brush top, the stick or handle is passed 10
through the ring and in the hole in the stock. The ring is made solid
or with a slot or opening, and a pin is also employed passed through the
ring and stick or handle.
I also employ two curved wedges which fit on a taper recess formed
on the stick end; the wedges enter the hole in in the stock. In the 1
bottom of the stick is formed a screw hole in which fits.a screw; this
screw is passed through a nut fitted on the under side of the stock. By
screwing the screw in the stick it forces the stick end in the hole in the
stock and brings forward the curved wedges, firmly securing the stick or
handle to the stock or body and preventing it from getting loose.
filed by the said Christopher Longbottom in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 22nd December 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHRISTOPHER
LONGBOTTOM, Estate Agent, of Bradford, in the County of York, send 20
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc- 30
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Christopher Longbottom,
Her special licence that I, the said Christopher Longbottom, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said

page_text: Christopher Longbottom, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONNECTING BROOMS AND BRUSHES
TO THEIR STICKS OR HANDLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Christopher Longbottom, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Christopher Longbottom, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had
to the Drawing hereto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
The said Invention relates more particularly to long handled brooms
and brushes, and consists in an improved mode of maintaining the
handles in the stocks or bodies; also in fixing the bristles of paint or
other brushes. For this purpose on the curved or flat stock or body of
the broom or brush is fitted a socket made of malleable cast-iron or
other suitable metal. The socket fits over the hole made in the stook,
and is made taper in the interior. A flange is formed on the bottom of
the socket, and made curved for curved stocks, and flat for flat stocks.
The flange is made with ears in which are fitted screws for fastening the
socket to the stock, and on the side of the socket is formed a boss in
which is fitted a screw to secure the handle in the socket; or the socket
is made with a flange cast on the front, through which fits a bolt passing
through the stock of the broom and having a nut and nut lock to
prevent the nut turning.
The flange of the socket of the flat stock can be made with ears
through which fit two bolts passing through the stock and secured by
nuts, with or without nut locks, or with a flange fitted with four
screws.

page_text: For fixing the bristles of paint or other brushes a tapered socket is
employed, the bristles are passed through the tapered hole of the socket,
and by forcing in the handle firmly secures the bristles in the socket.
A screw is used fitted through a boss securing the handle to the socket.
But in order to enable my improvements to be better understood I 5
will proceed to describe the same by reference to the accompanying
Drawing, in which,—
Figure 1 represents a side section of a broom with curved top and
section of socket; Figure 2 represents a side view, and Figure 3 a plan
of the same.
Figure 4 represents a side section of a flat top stock and section of
socket with flat flange bolted to the stock; Figure 5 side elevation, and
Figure 6 plan of the same.
1
Figure 7 represents a side section of a curved stock with sectional
socket and front flange with bolt, nut, and lock; Figure 8 side elevation, 1
and Figure 9 plan of the same; Figure 10 represents a plan of the nut
lock.
Figure 11 represents a section of a paint brush socket.
Similar letters of reference are used in all the Figures to represent
similar parts.
2
A represents the stock; B, the handle; and the dotted lines C the
outside of the bristles. Over the hole D made in the stock A is fitted a
socket E made taper in the interior F; the flange G of the socket,
Figures 1, 2, and 3, is made curved to suit the convex surface H of the
broom head; the flange G is made with cars I, through which screws J 2
are driven into the broom stock or head A, firmly fixing the socket E
to the broom head; the handle B is made taper at the end and is forced
in the socket and securely fixed by the screw K driven through the
boss L; the flange M is made flat to suit the flat stock A, and through
the ears I and the stock are fitted bolts N, secured by nuts P; nut 8
locks Q can be fixed if required; O, thumbscrew secured in the boss L
and forced in the handle B. The thumbscrew can be fitted instead of
the screw K in the different kind of sockets.
The socket, Figures 7, 8, and 9, is made with a front flange G, made
curved to suit the convex surface H, through which and the stock is 3
fitted a bolt N, and on which is secured a nut P having a lock which is

page_text: constructed with a plate R having a spike S to secure the plate to the
stock, and having lugs T formed on opposite sides of the plate R; over
the nut P is passed another plate U, also having lugs V formed on the
opposite sides of the plate U. These lugs by turning the nut P enter
the recesses of the lugs Tand prevent the nut turning, keeping the
socket firmly secured to the stock; two bolts, with or without nut
locks, can be used.
The sockets can be made square instead of round. The socket W,
Figure 11, is made taper, and the bristles X are passed through the
inside, and when full the handle Y is forced in the socket, forcing the
bristles further out and firmly securing them in the socket; a boss Z is
formed on the socket W through which is fitted a screw securing the
handle to the socket, by these means doing away with the present plan
of winding string round the bristles.
Having thus described my improvements and the best means I am
acquainted with for carrying the same into effect I would have it
understood that I do not confine myself to the precise details shewn
and described, as these may be varied without departing from the
peculiar character of the Invention; but what I do claim is, —
Firstly. The construction and employment of inside tapered sockets
with curved or straight flanges screwed or bolted to the stock of the
broom, substantially as described and represented in the accompanying
Drawing.
Secondly. The construction and employment of the nut lock, sub-
stantially as described and represented in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Christopher Longbottom, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of December,
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
) Witness,
CHRISTOPHER LONGBOTTOM. (L.S.)
WALTER JA'. TURNER, C.E.,.
Patent Agent,
Bradford.