Improvements in Brooms and Brushes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brooms and Brushes.
WILLIAM HUNTER METCALF, Shopkeeper, Lockton, near Pickering Yorkshire,
and GEORGE HOGGARD, Joiner, Lockton, near Pickering, Yorkshire, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The broom, or brush head is composed of two flat bars of wrought iron, cast
iron, or wood; cut or made to any desired length, thickness, or width, according
to the required size; the most useful size for sweeping is :-Two bars, each six
inches long, two inches broad, and half an inch thick; bevelled on the outside
edges, with one cr two holes through each end of both the bars, opposite to
each other, to insert bolts or screws, the sweeping or brushing material is then
placed between the bars, and firmly screwed together. A socket is fastened to the
centre of the bar at the back, in which the handle is placed, and this completes
the simplest form of the invention. In hair brushes one, two, or more bars are
placed between the outer bars to separate the hair into any desired number of
divisions, instead of the old method of making holes, which saves time, and
material.
The chief object of this invention is :-Its simplicity, strength, and durability.
Every one of these heads can be taken to pieces and refilled by the purchaser,
with the same kind, or any other suitable kind of material, and the afore-said
broom and brush heads will last a lifetime by being refilled when the old sweeping
or brushing material is worn away.
Dated this 3rd day of November 1892.
WILLIAM HUNTER METCALF.
GEORGE HOGGARD.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brooms and Brushes.
WILLIAM HUNTER METCALF, Grocer, Lockton, near Pickering Yorkshire
and GEORGE HOGGARD Joiner, Lockton, near Pickering, Yorkshire, 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 broom and brush heads are made of wrought iron, cast iron, or wood, and
can be applied to all kinds of brooms and brushes: each and all of which, can be
taken to pieces and refilled. They are made of two flat bars of wrought iron,
cast iron, or wood, cut or made to any required length, breadth, or thickness
Fig. 1. a. in proportion to the size of the broom or brush required, one or two holes
are made in each end, of each bar opposite to each other to insert bolts or screws b.
A socket is welded, or riveted, or screwed to the bar at the back of the broom c, or
brush to place a handle in for sweeping; the sweeping material is then placed
between the bars d and the screws or bolts e are tightened to the required tension
For hair
holding the head and sweeping or brushing material firmly together.
sweeping brushes, shoe, or black lead brushes (aud for other purposes) several bars
Fig. 2. g. are placed between the outer bars to divide the hair into any required
number of divisions being firmly screwed together has the hair is placed between
them one after another o in succession until a sufficient number is arrived at and
completed with a cap at each end and also one on the top i, and finished according
to fancy.

page_text: For paint brushes and the like a tube is made of iron or wood, in two halves
Fig. 3. k. and fastened at the sides by pins, or small screws 1, the hair fixed in the
bottom of the tube m, and the handle fitted into the top end of the tube n and
finished to taste.
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 :-
The invention of fixing together, broom, and brush heads, by bolts, screws, or
pins all and every kind of which can be taken to pieces and refilled, by the same,
or any other suitable kind of material, by any ordinary person.
Dated this 26th day of January 1892.
WM. H. METCALF.
G. HOGGARD.