Improved Extension Handle Appliance for Brushes, Brooms, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Extension Handle Appliance for Brushes, Brooms, and
the like.
I, ARTHUR SAUNDERS, of 3, Southampton Row, Holborn, London, W.C.,
Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to what may be termed an extension handle for feather
brushes, Turk's head and other brooms, brushes, or implements for household
dusting or washing purposes and is designed to provide a simple means of
attaching a supplementary handle to the handle of any brush or similar domestic
implement so as to enable walls, ceilings, windows, pictures, and other surfaces
or ornaments not easily accessible to be reached with ease, the special object of
the invention being to enable the extension handle to be quickly and securely
attached to a handle of any size in such a way that the latter will not be liable
to be injured, as frequently happens with the appliances now in use.
The invention consists of an extension handle terminating in a socket large
enough to receive a full size broom handle but provided with an internal clamp-
ing device capable of being contracted to any required extent so as to permit of
attachment to, say, the cane handle of a light feather brush. This clamp com-
prises a pressure plate extending longitudinally through the socket, which when
the socket is at its largest, is received in a recess formed in the side of the socket
the plate then virtually forming a part of the acting circumference of the socket
to which the plate conforms in transverse curvature. The clamping plate is
adapted to be forced inwards by means of a thumb screw screwing through a
correspondingly tapped hole in a boss formed on the side of the socket, the screw
bearing against the back of the plate at about the middle of its length and being
so connected to it as to move the plate both inwards and outwards. The
clamping plate is guided in its motion so as to remain always parallel to the side
of the socket, by means of guide pins attached to the back of the said plate and
working through holes in bosses on the sides of the socket.
Dated this 1st day of July 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Extension Handle Appliance for Brushes, Brooms, and
the like.
I, ARTHUR SAUNDERS, of 3, Southampton Row, Holborn, London, W.C.,
Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
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page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
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My invention relates to what may be termed an extension handle for Turk's
head and other brooms, feather and other brushes, or implements for household
dusting or washing purposes, and is designed to provide a simple means of attach-
ing a supplementary handle to the handle of any long handled brush, broom, or
similar domestic implement, so as to enable walls, ceilings, windows, pictures
and other surfaces or ornaments to be reached with ease, although situated at
such a height from the floor as not to be otherwise easily accessible, the special
object of the invention being to enable the extension handle to be quickly and
securely attached to brush, broom, or other handles of various sizes in such a way
that the handle to which the extension is applied will not be liable to be injured
as frequently happens with appliances now in use.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming part of
this specification, Figure being a longitudinal section and Figure 2 a cross
section of the improved clamp or holder adapted to receive handles of various
sizes.
The invention consists of an extension handle a to which is affixed, by its
neck portion 6 of reduced diameter, a socket b of large enough diameter to receive
within it a full sized broom handle and of sufficient length to enable a firm grip
and secure joint to be obtained. For this purpose the socket is provided with
an internal clamping device whereby the space within the socket is capable of
being contracted to any required extent so as to permit of attachment to, say,
the cane handle of a light feather brush. This clamp comprises a pressure
plate extending longitudinally within the socket b, said plate being straight in
the longitudinal and curved in the transverse direction to correspond to the cir-
cumference of the socket b. The socket is a malleable iron casting of cylindrical
form with an internal recess d, at one side adapted to receive the plate c within
it, the plate then virtually forming a part of the acting circumference of the
socket. The clamping plate c is adapted to be forced inwards by means of a
thumb screw e screwing through a correspondingly tapped hole in a boss f formed
on the side of the socket the screw bearing against the back of the plate cat
about the middle of its length so as to press it inwards.
In order to prevent the screw e wholly unscrewing from the boss f it may
have a washer et rivetted on to its inner end after the screw has been screwed in
through the boss. Or the reduced end of the screw may pass through a hole in
the plate c and be rivetted over on the face of the plate so that the screw will be
sc connected to the plate as to move the plate both inwards and outwards. The
clamping plate is guided in its motion so as to remain in all positions of adjust-
ment parallel to the opposite side of the socket by means of parallel guide pins g
rivetted to the said plate, the pins projecting from the back of the plate and
working through guide holes in bosses on the socket. By curving the plate c
as described and making it of a length equal to several times the full diameter
of the socket the pressure is so distributed that the clamp may be tightly screwed
up without injuring the handle of the brush or broom to which it is applied.
It will be obvious that by unscrewing the pressure screw the plate c may be retracted
until it lies in the recess thus admitting of the socket receiving a broom handle
of the largest size generally used, and by screwing in the screw the plate c may
be pressed inwards so as to securely grip a feather brush or other handle of much
less diameter than the socket.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is: :-
The herein described extension handle appliance consisting of a socket such
as b affixed to a handle and provided with a clamping plate such as c extending

page_text: the full depth of the socket and guided by pins such as 9 and adapted to be
pressed inwards by a thumbscrew such as e the socket being formed with an
internal recess in its side adapted to receive the plate c when fully retracted, all
substantially as specified.
Datad this 4th day of Anal 1800
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London.