Improvements in Brushes or Brooms.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1890–Accepted, 3rd May, 1890
Improvements in Brushes or Brooms.
We, CHARLES HARDY of Willingham Street, Contractors Foreman, and JOSEPH
HEWINS of Eleanor Street, Contractor, both of Great Grimsby, in the County of
Lincoln, 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 improvements in brushes and brooms and has for its object
a means whereby the whole, or approximately so, of the hairs, bristles, fibre, bass,
whalebone, or other substance or material of which the brush or broom may be
constructed, can be used in the life or wear of the said brush or broom, and we attain
this end in and by the following manner.
To facilitate the explanation of our invention and the method of constructing the
same we have appended the accompanying sheet of drawings in which Fig. 1 is a side
view of a finished brush or broom fitted with a handle and plug for purposes to
be hereinafter fully explained and which forms the essential feature of our invention.
Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same with handle and plug detached to shew
how their respective positions upon the head or stock of the brush or broom may be
reversed at will. Fig. 3 is a smaller view of a similar brush shewing how such
brushes usually wear when the handle is a fixture as is the case with those in general
use, and Fig. 4 is the same as Fig. 3 with the handle fitted to the opposite or worn
end of the brush.
In carrying out our invention we provide at each end of the stock, or head of the
brush or broom A a slightly tapered hole a and a furnished with an internal or
female screw thread, into either of said holes is screwed the handle 6 provided with a
male screw thread to fit therein. A plug c also provided with a male screw thread is
screwed into the other hole at the opposite end of the stock or head A, said plug c
being intended in its use to keep out dirt and dust from the hole in which it is at any
time placed, ready to receive the handle b when it is desired the respective positions
of each shall be changed. The finished brush or broom according to our invention is
shewn by Fig. 1.
Brushes or brooms of this type, that is to say, with the handle fixed at one end,
invariably wear unevenly as shewn by Fig. 3, and are generally discarded when they
reach this stage of their life, as practically useless for brushing the dirt or dust out
of corners and crevices, but such brushes made and constructed according to our
invention do not wear thus unevenly as the position of the handle b and the plug c
can easily be changed at will so as to be reversed upon the head A as shewn at Fig. 4,
and the use of said brush continued until the hairs, bristles or other material used
are worn fairly and evenly away.
Although for the purpose of illustration we have chosen to describe our invention
adapted to a brush the hairs or bristles of which are fixed to the head A in a manner
known as "set" we wish it distinctly understood that, our invention is equally
applicable to brushes or brooms where the hairs or bristles or the like are attached to
the head by means of string or wire and known as "drawn,” and we may adapt our
invention and its application to hair, clothes, flesh, bath, or any other kind of brush
or broom having a handle at one end only without departing from the principle
thereof.
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 what
we claim is
In an improved brush or broom the combination of a brush head A with threaded

page_text: holes a and a¹, the screwed handle band plug c, substantially as and for the purposes
herein described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 25th day of March 1890
FREDK. WALKER & HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicants.