Improvements in or relating to Brushes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 2nd Jan., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Brushes.
I EDUARD FRIEDRICH FLÜGGER Merchant of 19 Rödnigsmarkt Hamburg
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:—
This invention relates to brushes for the use of painters and others, in which the
bristles or the like are bound on a stock or handle by a binding of thread or other
equivalent material. In the improved brush this binding is made in several separate
and independent parts so that any part may be removed or replaced without
disturbance of any other part of the said binding. A clamp of metal preferably
wire is also employed as hereinafter stated to prevent any of the bindings slipping
towards the point of the brush.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. is a side elevation of the improved brush.
Fig. 2 is a central section.
The bristles are placed around the central block which may be of cork
fastened on the handles and they are secured by the binding A. This binding
consists in the present case of three parts aa a² each made independently of the
others out of binding thread. The thread is fastened in the usual manner and each
part abuts on the next part so that the whole binding A is of about the same width
as the binding heretofore used. Either of the bindings a a¹ or a² may be removed
without interfering with any of the others. As the narrowness of each band may
tend to allow the band to slip towards the point of the brush, the wire fastener B
is arranged to prevent such slipping. This fastener consists of a thin wire which is
passed through a hole in the handles and is bent so that its ends lie parallel with
the bristles, passing outside the ring 7 as shown. The bindings are then wound
and the ends of the wire B which project beyond the last binding at are bent
back over the binding as shown in Fig. 1 and prevent the latter from slipping
towards the point of the brush.
As the bristles wear away the bindings a a¹ a³ may be removed one by one, after
bending up the ends of the wire; when the band (a) has been removed the wire
is bent down again over the remaining bindings as shown in Fig. 2.
In connexion with the above method of binding the central block or cork k may
be made partially removable by providing it with lateral incisions at a ². If the
nail by which the cork is fastened on the handles is driven in by a punch the
upper piece of the cork may be broken off so that the head of the cork may be
brought to a level with the binding at or a².
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is;-
1) In a brush, a binding A composed of a series of independent bindings a a' a²
severally removable, in combination with the fastener B arranged as and for the
purpose described.
2) In a brush, the combination with a binding A consisting of severally removable
independent parts, of a centre block k having incisions a al for the purpose described.
Dated this 30th day of November 1891
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.