IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PAINTING BROOM HANDLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Thomas Brandon, of the City of Toronto, in the
County of York, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, Mechanical Engineer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PAINTING BROOM
HANDLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Charles Thomas Brandon at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd August 1877.
CHARLES THOMAS BRANDON, of the City of Toronto, in the County of York,
in the Province of Ontario, Canada, Mechanical Engineer. “IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR PAINTING BROOM HANDLES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES."
My Invention has relation more particularly to a machine designed to paint
broom, mop, and other similar handles, croquet sticks, &c., in a series of variegated
bands of colour, regular or irregular in width, as desired; and my Invention
consists of a pair of shafts mounted in a frame, and provided with a number of discs
of rubber or other suitable material, of regular or irregular width, placed at a
distance apart to correspond with design to be painted. In connection with these
rollers adjustable colour pans are used, into which the face of the discs dip, the
excess of colour being removed as the discs revolve by scrapers. The discs are
revolved by the simple adhesion of the cylinder to be painted, which cylinder is
caused to rotate by the operator passing the face of his extended hands lightly over
it, as more particularly described herein-after.
In the accompanying Drawings Figure 1 is a cross section; Figure 2, a plan;
and Figure 3, a side view of a machine embodying my improvements; Figure 4 is
a view of the machine in which two additional rollers are used as spreaders of
colour on the painting discs.
A is the machine, consisting of the bottom plate B and the two journal
plates C, C, secured together in a substantial manner; D, D, are shafts working in
suitable bearings on the plates C, C. On these shafts at intervals, to correspond
with the design to be painted, rubber discs E are secured. The discs on one roller
are placed alternately with the discs on the other roller, in order that the colour of
the bands may be varied; F are colour pans placed under the discs, each disc

page_text: being served from a separate pan. These pans are supported upon independent
adjustable tables G at each side, in order that the level of the colour in the pans
may be raised as the colour is used. The tables are raised by the screws H,
drawing the wedges I forward under the reversed wedge blocks g on the under
side of the tables. The position of the discs on the shafts may be arranged to
leave a space between the bands unpainted, or the bands may be made to overlap
simply by placing the discs closer together; I prefer to allow the shafts to rest in
the bearings without any capping over them, simply held by their own weight, in
order that they may be readily removed for cleansing purposes or when it is desired
to change the pattern.
In Figure 4 an extra set of discs J are shewn between the pans and the painting
discs; these discs serve for spreading the colour on the painting discs when very
fine work is required, but for ordinary commercial work the scrapers K, shewn in
Figures 1, 2, & 3, will be found amply sufficient.
In operation the handle to be painted is placed in the hollow between the discs E,
the end butting against a stop; the handle is then turned by the operator who
places the face of his extended hands on the handle at each side of the machine,
and by a horizontal movement of the hands combined with a gentle pressure causes
the handle to rotate. The friction of the handle on the rollers E is sufficient to
make them revolve, applying the colour in their revolution to the handle. A
single revolution will generally be found sufficient, but more colour can be applied
by moving the hands back and forward.
It will be observed that motion to the machine is given direct from the hands of
the operator without the aid of any additional power, the discs answering readily
to the movements of the hands. The operator is thus kept with the cylinder to be
painted always in the grasp of his hands until it is finished; a great saving of time
by this arrangement being effected.
I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,-
1. The shafts D, D, provided with the alternately placed discs E, of regular or
irregular widths, and placed at regular or irregular distances apart, substantially in
the manner and for the purpose set forth.
2. In combination with the shafts D, D, provided with the alternately placed
discs E, the adjustable tables G, G, and independent colour pans F, arranged and
operating substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
3. The combination with the discs E of the colour scrapers K, substantially as
shewn and described.
4. The combination with the tables G, G, provided with the wedge blocks g
of the wedges I, I, and operating screws H, H, arranged and operating substantially
as described.
5. The frame A, shafts D, D, with alternately arranged colour discs, scrapers K,
pans F, and adjustable table, all combined and arranged to form a machine for
painting cylindrical bodies, such as broom handles, croquet pins, &c.
In witness whereof, I the said Charles Thomas Brandon, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, the Fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
C. T. BRANDON. (L.S.)