Improvements in or relating to Wire or like Brushes..
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 18th May, 1899-Accepted, 5th Aug., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Wire or like Brushes..
I, CARL HERMANN FEUSTEL, Merchant, of Zwickauerstrasse 4, Lengenfeld,
Saxony, in the Empire of Germany, 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:-
The present invention relates to a wire or like brush-such as used in carding
and similar machines and for analogous purposes-provided with a view of increas-
ing its usefulness and facilitating the handling of it, with a curved lower surface
over which the card clothing, or material provided with teeth or bristles is drawn,
and over which it can be stretched after it has been widened in consequence of
use, the card clothing being so held by spring clamping strips or clamps on the
edges of the upwardly bent holding plates that neither the plates nor the teeth
are injured in any way. The invention is illustrated by way of example in the
accompanying drawings in which:-
Figure 1 is a vertical section
Figure 2 a transverse section, and
Figure 3 a plan view;
whilst Figures 4, 5 and 6 represent a card or wire brush holder different from the
first only in that the lower surface is flat.
On the back of the block a (Figures 1-3) the lower side of which is curved, a
plate g of sheet metal with its ends bent upwards at right angles is secured to the
holder by means of screws m. The two ends or sides of the block a are each
provided with a sheet metal plate b, c, provided with teeth or projections d,
of which one plate bis movable and connected to a
In this metal slide a horizontal spindle h can rotate, said spindle being guided
metal slide i.
in the upright flanges of the plate g of which flanges one is provided
with a screw thread. By means of a screw thread on
has a slit for a screw-driver, the plate b can be moved to or fro on the
the rod, which
block a according to requirements. By this means the brush support e, placed
over the curved under surface a, and clamped to the teeth d of the plates b
and c, by the spring clamping strips f, may be more or less tightened and stretched.
The handle is so curved that a convenient handling of the brush holder is
possible, and is so fixed by screws to the block a that it completely covers and
protects the tightening device. In the toothed brush holder represented in
Figures 4, 5, and 6 the back or block on which the brush material is arranged
s formed by the adjusting plates b and c themselves, which can slide transversely
on each other in grooves of ledges o provided at their sides (Figures 5 and 6).
The brush material e is tightened in this case by means of the screw / turning
n an angular part y arranged on the plate c and guided in a block i screwed to
he plate b, and provided with a screw thread, the brush material being secured
o the edges of the plates b and c, which edges are provided with teeth d. The
andle k is shaped in the same manner as in the previous case.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. A wire or like brush comprising adjustable tightening plates, such as b and c
provided with teeth or projections at the edges on which the brush material is
fastened and secured by clamping strips substantially as described.
2. A wire or like brush of the kind described, comprising a screw spindle h,
by means of which the adjustable plates can be moved relative to each other for
the purpose of removing or tightening the brush material more or less, according
to requirements, substantially as described.
3. A wire or like brush of the kind described comprising a curved wooden
block such as a with the object of increasing its usefulness and handiness,
substantialy as described.
4. The complete wire brush substantially as described or illustrated in
Figures 1, 2 and 3, or in Figures 4, 5, and 6 of the accompanying drawings.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.