AN IMPROVED METHOD IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES AND BROOMS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John George Horsey, of No. 93, Southwark
Bridge Road, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, for the Inven
tion of "AN IMPROVED METHOD IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES AND
BROOMS."
Sealed the 24th February 1871, and dated the 30th November 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John George Horsey
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 30th November 1870.
I, JOHN GEORGE HORSEY, of No. 93, Southwark Bridge Road, in the
County of Surrrey, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES AND
BROOMS," to be as follows:-
The said improvement relates to all kinds of brushes and brooms
which are formed by inserting into stocks or blocks of wood, metal, or
other suitable substances tufts or knots of bristles, bass, fibres, and
other similar materials fastened by a 'peculiar method to such stocks or

page_text: blocks. I do this by employing expanding springs or holders made of
metal or other suitable material, the points or ends of which shall when
inserted into the holes or perforation in the stock or block be turned
point towards the mouth or entrance of such holes or perforations, and
when so inserted or driven into their proper place expand and stick
into or press against the sides of such holes or perforations. The
holes may be drilled either with rough or smooth sides, but I prefer to
make them with an ordinary & well-known expanding drill, which will
form a sharp shoulder or recess round the hole or perforation towards
the entrance of the hole, into or against which shoulder the points or
ends of the spring or holder for the tuft or knot pressės or sticks by
force of its expansion. If I drill the holes with smooth or rough sides
but without the shoulder I prefer to make sharp points to the springs or
holders for more firmly pressing against or sticking into the sides of the
holes or perforations. I prefer to use an expanding drill in the event of
forming a shoulder or recess round the holes of ordinary construction,
but fitted with a wing or projecting cutter to be thrown out when the
proper depth of hole is arrived at, and so cut away the enlarged portion
of the hole and form'the shoulder or recess.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John George Horsey in the Great "Seal "Patent
Office on the 30th May 1871.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
GEORGE HORSEY, of No. 93, Southwark Bridge Road, in the County of
Surrey, Gentleman, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of November, in the
year of our Lord' One thousand 'eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her Heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John George Horsey, Her special
licence that I, the said Jolin 'George Horsey, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John George
"Horsey, my exécutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
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page_text: exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED 'METHOD IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES AND "BROOMS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said John 'George Horsey, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed 'in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John George Horsey, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say:―
The said improvement relates to all kinds of brushes and brooms
which are formed by inserting into stocks or blocks of wood, metal, or
other suitable substances tufts or knots of bristles, bass, fibres, and other
similar materials fastened by a peculiar method to such stocks or blocks.
I do this by employing expanding springs or holders made of metal or
other suitable material, the points or ends of which shall, when inserted
into the holes or perforations in the stocks or blocks, be turned point
towards the mouth or entrance of such holes or perforations, and when
so inserted or driven into their proper place expand and stick into or
press against the sides of such holes or perforations. The holes may be
drilled either with rough or smooth sides, but I prefer to make them
with an expanding drill which will form a sharp shoulder or recess
round the hole or perforation towards the entrance of the hole, into or
against which shoulder the points or ends of the spring or holder for the
tuft or knot press or stick by force of their expansion. If I drill the
holes with smooth or rough sides, but without the shoulder, I prefer to
make sharp points to the springs or holders for more firmly pressing
against or sticking into the sides of the holes or perforations. I use an
expanding drill of a construction understood by mechanics in the event
of forming a shoulder or recess round the holes of ordinary construction.
The drill being fitted with a wing cutter which will be made to project
or to be thrown out when the proper depth of hole is arrived at, and so
cut away the enlarged portion of the hole and form the shoulder or

page_text: recess.
And to more fully explain my Invention reference is had to the
accompanying Drawings.
A, A, is a block shewing three holes a, a, a, drilled in by an expanding
drill to receive the tufts or knots C, D, E,; b, b, b, b, b, b, are the
shoulders or recesses cut by an expanding drill to receive the points or
ends of the springs or holders B', B³, B³. F, F, is a block shewing a
hole drilled by an ordinary drill to receive the tufts or knots C, D, E,
encircled by the springs or holders B¹, B³, B³, the points of which are in
this case sharpened to stick into or press against the sides of the drilled
hole f. h, h, h, in Figure D are wires or strings wound round the
material through which the spring B' will be passed. In order to insert
the tuft after the springs are adjusted as shown in C, D, and E, they are
doubled downwards, and the loop end is passed into the holes and
pressed in until the points of the springs fix in the sides or catch in at
the shoulders b, b.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention, I
claim, the method of securing the tufts or knots separately in the stocks
or blocks of brushes by a spring or holder with expanding ends, so as to
stick out, rest upon, or press against the rough, smooth, or shouldered
sides of the holes or perforation in the stocks or blocks of brushes, such
points or ends to be turned towards the entrance or opening of the hole
or perforation, substantially as before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John George Horsey, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of May One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.