IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BROOMS AND BRUSHES
Year: 1875

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Charles Richardson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th November 1875.
I, CHARLES RICHARDSON, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manager of Brush Works, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BROOMS
AND BRUSHES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of the improvements, herein-after described,
in the manufacture of brooms and brushes.
In manufacturing brooms and brushes according to my Invention I
take bristles or other fibre or material of which the broom or brush is
to be made, the same having been prepared or dressed in the usual
manner, and I secure the said bristles or fibres in small bunches or
bundles to a flexible tape or ribbon woven upon the said bunches or
bundles in the manner herein-after explained. The bristles or fibres
thus secured to the tape or ribbon are made into a broom or brush by
coiling or wrapping the tape or ribbon around the edge of the stock or
board of the broom or brush, and securing the said tape and bristles or

page_text: fibres as herein-after explained. In weaving the said tape or ribbon,
and in securing the base of the bundles of bristles or fibres therein, I
use a loom similar to that employed in weaving ribbon, the shuttle of
the loom carrying a fine iron wire or other wire instead of a thread, the
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said wire constituting the weft in the tape or ribbon woven, the warp
being made of strong threads or twine, when by operating upon the
treadles of the loom alternate warp threads are raised and lowered, a
bunch or bundle of bristles or fibres is inserted between them, and the
⚫ shuttle is thrown so as to carry the weft wire between the two layers of
warp threads.
By the further operation of the loom the bristles or fibres are grasped
between the warp threads, the said threads being tightened upon the
bristles or fibres by means of the batten of the loom.
By the further operation of the loom any number of bundles or
bunches of bristles or fibres may be secured side by side in the woven
tape or ribbon. The tape or ribbon thus carrying the bristles is made
into a broom or brush by being secured in one, two, or more layers to
the stock or board of the broom or brush, the said tape and bristles
being fixed to the stock or board by means of headed small nails or
tacks, one or more of the said nails or tacks being driven through each
of the bunches or bundles of bristles. The said nails or tacks not only
secure the tape and bristles to the stock or board, but by their heads
press upon and hold the bristles or fibres tightly in the woven tape while
the stem of the nail or tack passing through the middle of the bunch or
bundle of bristles expands and tightens the said bunch in the loop in the
woven tape or ribbon. Brooms and brushes made in this way do not
require the bunches of bristles or fibres to be secured by pitch or other
adhesive matter, while a very short length of the bristles or fibres is
required for holding them. Further, no boring of holes in the stock
or head is required, and the maximum length of the bristles is made
available.