An Apparatus for Holding Scouring-cloths and Scouring-brushes to Facilitate the Use of the same.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Oct., 1888
Specification Accepted, 16th Nov., 1888
COMPLETE STECIFICATION.
An Apparatus for Holding Scouring-cloths and Scouring-brushes to
Facilitate the Use of the same.
I, CHRISTIAN STEENSEN, of Christiania, in the Kingdom of Norway, Timber
Merchant, 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:-
This invention relates to an apparatus for holding scouring-cloths and scouring-
brushes to facilitate the use of the same.
The apparatus comprises two spring-rods to which cross-pieces or jaws are fastened,
the distance apart of which can be adjusted by means of a cap or ferrule; that is to
say, by altering the position of the cap or ferrule on the spring-rods, the latter
can be caused to approach each other and thereby bring together the jaws
which, by their pressure will thus hold a scouring-cloth or scouring-brush placed
between them.
In order that the brush or cloth may assume the most advantageous position
against the object which is to be scoured, and act in the most advantageous
manner, the spring rods are suitably curved and constructed so that one of
them or both can be shortened or lengthened in a fixing-piece provided for that
purpose.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood, I will describe how it can
be carried into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which
Figure 1 is an elevation of an apparatus for holding scouring-cloths and scouring-
brushes constructed according to my invention, only a portion of the handle being
shown.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
Figures 3 and 4 show a section and an end view of the cap or ferrule, whereby the
distance between the springs is adjusted.
Figure 5 is a view of the opposite end of the cap or ferrule with the handle in cross
section.
Figure 6 is an elevation of the fixing-piece for the springs with the handle in cross
section, and
Figure 7 is a section of the said piece.
Similar letters in all the figures indicate similar parts.
The two jaws which compose the holder consist of two spring-rods a, a¹ of tempered
steel, annealed iron, or other suitable material, and to each spring is fixed at a right
angle a cross-piece band & respectively so that the springs and the poles form
T-shaped pieces.

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The poles are placed at an acute angle to each other, and are caused to grip the cloth
or brush by being brought towards each other.
The cross-pieces b, are provided with teeth or tongues c, c' which besides
serving to clamp the cloth, prevent it or the brush from sliding out of the
holder.
The cap or ferrule d which, by being moved over the spring-rods a, a regulate
the distance between the jaws, are preferably fixed at the end of the handle e, they
may however be loose. The cap or ferrule is provided with slots or holes for the
passage of the spring-rods.
The fixing piece is provided with similar slots or holes in which the ends of the
rods are placed and with screws g for holding them fast; the distance apart and
relative position of the jaws is adjusted by varying the distance between the cap
or ferrule and the fixing piece and also by adjusting the spring-rods in the different
holes of the ferrule and fixing-piece, thereby distancing the rods more or less from
each other, at the same time, if required, one rod can be shortened or lengthened in
proportion to the other.
The extreme positions of the rods will be either when the innermost holes of the
cap or ferrule and the fixing-piece are used and the rods are screwed fast together
within the handle, or when the outermost holes of the cap or ferrule and fixing-piece
are used, the rods being then placed entirely outside the handle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what
I claim is
(1.) In apparatus for holding scouring-cloths or brushes the arrangement of two
spring-rods, each of which is provided at one end with a cross-piece with or without
teeth, the other ends of the rods being secured together in a handle by a fixing-piece
so that they form an angle with each other, the fixing-piece being moveable or fast,
and the rods encircled by a cap or ferrule, which by being moved over the rods brings
the same together and keeps them in the required position.
(2.) In apparatus for holding scouring-cloths and brushes the herein described rods
held together by a fixing-piece in such a manner that they form an angle with each
other, and can be moved and secured as required and thereby be shortened or
lengthened, the fixing-piece being moveable in a handle, at the end of which is placed
a cap or ferrule, through which the rods pass and which cap or ferrule by being moved
over the same is adapted to press them towards each other and keep them in the
required position.
(3.) In apparatus for holding scouring-cloths or brushes, the herein described cap
or ferrule and fixing-piece provided with two or more holes, which allows the rods to
be placed together within the handle or to be placed outside the same, the fixing-piece
being provided with screws for fixing the rods.
(4.) In apparatus for holding scouring-cloths or brushes the herein described cap or
ferrule when arranged loose upon and moveable over the rods in combination with the
fixing-piece held fast to the handle.
(5.) The improved apparatus for holding scouring cloths or brushes herein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 3rd day of October 1888
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury. London,
Agents for the Applicant.