Improvements in the Construction of Certain Painting Brushes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Certain Painting Brushes.
We, ERNEST NEILD KENT, of 11 Great Marlborough Street London, Brush
Maker, and HYPPOLITE BESSON of 63 Alexandra Road, Hornsey, Middlesex,
Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention relates to those painting brushes which are ordinarily constructed
with a socket wood against the base or root of the bristle, in a suitable binding of
string, wire or a metal ferrule and through which a handle is driven.
Our invention consists in making the bristle, horse-hair or fibre more secure in
the ferrule or binding of a painting brush, by forcing wedges, nails, pegs or any
such form to obtain efficiency through the back of the socket-wood into the bristle,
horse-hair or fibre, so as to cause the bristle, horse-hair or fibre to become com-
pressed against the binding and top of the handle, relatively to the volume and
number of the pegs, nails, wedges or any such form forced in. The top of the
handle inside the bristle (or other material) may have a metal ring or ferrule to
resist compression.
Dated 13th day of December 1893.
.
ERNEST NEILD KENT.
HYPPOLITE BESSON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Construction of Certain Painting Brushes.
We, ERNEST NEILD KENT, of 11 Great. Marlborough Street, London, Brush
Maker, and HYPPOLITE BESSON, of 63 Alexandra Road, Hornsey, Middlesex,
Mechanical Engineer, 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 :-
Our invention relates to those painting brushes which are ordinarily constructed
with a socket wood against the base or root of the bristle, in a suitable binding of
string, wire or metal ferrule and through which a handle is driven.
Our invention consists in making the bristle, horse-hair or fibre more secure in
the ferrule or binding of a painting brush by forcing wedges, nails, pegs or any
such form through the back of the socket-wood into the bristle, horse-hair or fibre,
so as to cause the bristle, horse-hair or fibre to become compressed against the
binding and top of the handle to a degree dependent on the volume and number of
the pegs nails wedges or any such form forced in the top of the handle inside the
bristle (or other material) may have a metal ring or ferrule to resist compression.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a longitudinal section and Figure 2 is an end view of a brush
constructed according to this invention.
Figures 3, 4 and 5 are end views of similar brushes of different shapes.
a is the handle, b is the socket wood, c is the ferrule or binding, and d is the
bristle. With the exception of the small holes e through the socket wood all these
parts are exactly similar to those ordinarily used for brushes of this class and up
Univil

page_text: to a certain point the method of manufacture also is the same: that is to say, the
end of the knot of bristles is dipped into cement and the knot is passed into the
ferrule, the socket wood is put into place and secured and then the conical handle
is driven into the central hole in the socket wood thus wedging the bristles against
the ferrule. In place however of the brush being now considered finished as would
heretofore have been the case we according to this invention before the cement has
set further secure the bristles by driving pegs f amongst them through the socket
wood from the outside, the amount of the compression of the bristles against the
ferrule and handle being regulated by employing more or less pegs.
Figure 6 is a longitudinal section of a modification in which the handle does not
pass through the socket wood but is secured after the brush has been made by
beading over the edge of the ferrule.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we are
aware that it has before been proposed to fix pegs on the inner face of the socket
wood which pegs were forced amongst the bristles by the act of putting the
socket wood into place and we wish it to be understood that we, do not claim this
method of manufacture but what we claim is ;
1. In the manufacture of brushes, boring holes completely through the socket
wood for the reception of wedges nails pegs or the like substantially as described.
2. Forcing wedges, nails, pegs or the like through the back of the socket wood
into the bristle, horse-hair or fibre substantially as described.
3. The construction of brushes substantially as described.