Improved Means of Securing a Sweeping or other similar Brush to its Stail or Handle.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1891-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1891
Improved Means of Securing a Sweeping or other similar Brush to
its Stail or Handle.
I, THOMAS HENDERSON of 80, Teignmouth Street, Oldham Road, Manchester,
Lancashire, Mechanic, do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 means whereby I am enabled to more effectually secure
a sweeping or other similar brush to its stail or handle than heretofore and whereby
the stail has a considerable hold on the respective ends of the brush and this
invention consists in employing a clamping arrangement formed in halves which
clamps and grips the end of the stail, each half having a flat plate fitting
against the stock of the brush with a series of spikes or projections driven into
the wood.
On the accompanying drawings
Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate plan and side views respectively of a brush secured to its
stail in accordance with my invention,
Fig. 3 illustrates one half only of my improved clamping device and
Fig. 4 illustrates the relative positions of the two halves when put together.
In accordance with my invention A. A are the two halves of my improved
clamping device designed to embrace the end of the wooden or other stail B and
formed with flanges Č. C and slots D. D and provided with nuts and bolts E. E;
the flanges C. C when in position being caused to barely meet each other so that
on the nuts E. E being tightened up the two halves of the clamp grip the end of
the stail.
Each half of this improved clamping device is formed in one with a curved
plate F (with perforations F¹ to create lightness) which plates are cast or provided
with a series of spikes or projections G. G as aforesaid."
In order now to secure the brush to the stail the two halves of my improved
clamping device are first securely clamped to the end of the stail by means of the
nuts and bolts E. E, and the spikes G. G of the plates F. F are then brought to
bear against the brush stock and driven into the wood by a hammer or other
equivalent means and in this way the brush is effectually secured to the stail.
In the case of brushes with a flat stock the plates F. F are made flat and the
clamping portion formed at an angle as illustrated in Fig. 5.
This improved clamping device may be made of malleable cast iron or other
suitable material and instead of spikes being used holes may be made in the plates
and screws employed. Holes may also be formed in the flanges C. C instead of
the slots D. D with the bolts E. E passing through them, and the flanges may be
formed at right angles to the length of the brush instead of parallel as already
described.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved means of securing a sweeping or other similar brush to its stail
or handle consisting of A divided clamping arrangement with spiked plates.

page_text: substantially as herein before described and illustrated on the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 20th day of October 1901
JOHN G. WILSON,
Agent for the Applicant.