Improvements in Spoke-brushes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 11th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 16th Mar., 1895
Improvements in Spoke-brushes.
We, GEORGE SHAW and THOMAS SHAW, both of Warre Street, Ashton-
under-Lyne, in the County of Lancaster, Brush Manufacturers, and JOHN PETER
DITCHFIELD, of the same place, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
In the construction of a spoke-brush as hitherto practised two pieces of wood
have usually been employed to form the stock or handle, the two pieces of wood
being secured together after the tufts of fibre or bristles or bass or other material
to be employed in the formation of the spoke-brush have been inserted into their
positions. When a spoke-brush constructed in this manner is in use the wetting
and exposure to which it is necessarily subjected, cause the wood of which its
handle or stock is formed to warp and thus the two pieces of wood of which the
said handle or stock is formed are liable to become separated to some extent so
that the brush becomes damaged and spoiled.
This invention consists in improvements by which the employment of two pieces
of wood in the formation of the handle or stock of a spoke-brush is obviated so
that the objectionable consequences of the method of construction hitherto usually
followed are avoided.
According to this invention, we employ only one piece of wood in the formation
of the handle or stock of a spoke-brush.
In one method of carrying this invention into effect, we drill or bore holes in the
usual manner into the face of the stock or handle from which the tufts of bristles,
fibre, bass or other material to be employed in the formation of the spoke-brush are
required to project. In the sides of the handle or stock we drill or bore other
holes each of which communicates with one of those formed in the face from which
the tufts of fibre, bristles, bass or other material to be employed are required to
project. Grooves are formed in the sides of the stock or handle and the holes
drilled or bored in the sides of such stock or handle are made to cominunicate with
or drilled or bored from the bottom of one or other of the said grooves.
When the
tufts of fibre, bristles bass or other material have been pulled into the handle or
stock, the holes and grooves formed in the sides of such handle or stock are filled
with any suitable cement or material so that the wires or other means by which the
tufts of fibre bristles bass or other material are secured may be protected and so
that the spoke-brush may be caused to present a neat appearance.
According to another method of carrying this invention into effect, we form
grooves in the sides of the piece of wood employed according to this invention to
form the handle or stock of a spoke-brush and make such grooves so deep that
holes communicating with one or other of such holes may be drilled or bored into
the face of such handle or stock in which the tufts of fibre, bristles, bass or other
material to be employed in the formation of the spoke-brush are to be inserted and
after the insertion of the tufts of fibre, bristles, bass or other material into such
holes has been accomplished we fill the said grooves with any suitable cement so
that the spoke-brush may be caused to present a neat appearance and so that the
means by which the tufts of fibre, bristles, bass or other material employed are
secured may be covered or protected.
Dated this Eighth day of May 1894.

page_text: We, GEORGE SHAW and THOMAS SHAW, both of Warre Street, Ashton-
under-Lyne, in the County of Lancaster, Brush Manufacturers and JOHN PETER
DITCHFIELD, of the-same place;-Manager 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 :—
In the 'construction of a spoke-brush 'as hitherto practised, two pieces of wond
bave usually been employed to form the stock or handle, the two pieces of wood
being secured together after the tufts of fibre or bristles or bass or other material
to be employed in the formation of the spoke-brush have been inserted into their
positions. When a spoke-brush constructed in this manner is in use the wetting
and exposure to which it is necessarily subjected, cause the wood of which its
handle or stock is formed to warp and thus the two pieces of wood of which the
said handle or stock is formed are liable to become separated to some extent so that
the brush becomes damaged and spoiled.
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This invention consists in improvements by which the employment of two pieces
of wood in the formation of the handle or stock of a spoke-brush is obviated so that
the objectionable consequences of the method of construction hitherto usually
followed are avoided.
According to this invention we employ only one piece of wood in the formation
of the handle or stock of a spoke-brush.
In carrying this invention into effect we drill or bore holes in the usual manner
into the face of the stock or handle from which the tufts of bristles; fibre, bass or
other material to be employed in the formation of the spoke-brush are required to
project. In the sides of the handle or stock we drill or bore other holes each of
which communicates with one of those formed in the face from which the tufts of
fibre, bristles, bass or other material to be employed are required to project.
Grooves are formed in the sides of the stock or handle and the holes drilled or
bored in-the-sides of such stock or handle are made to communicate with or drilled
or bored from the bottom of one or other of the said grooves. When the tufts of
fibre, bristles, bass or other material have been pulled into the handle or stock, the
holes and grooves formed in the sides of such handle or stock are filled with any
suitable cement or material so that the wires or other means by which the tufts of
fibre, bristles, bass or other material are secured may be protected and so that the
spoke-brush may be caused to present a neat appearance.
In the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a spoke-
brush made according to this invention, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section of such
spoke-brush, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a portion of the stock or handle
of a spoke-brush made according to this invention, and Fig. 4 is a transverse section
of the said stock or handle...
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In.Figs. 3 and 4 (a) (a) are the holes drilled or bored in the usual manner into
the face of the stock or handle from which the tufts of bristles, fibre, bass or other
material to be employed in the formation of the spoke-brush are required to project,
(b)(b).are the holes which we drill or bore in the sides of the stock or handle to
communicate each with one of the holes formed in the said face of the stock or
handle, and (c) (c) are the grooves formed in the sides of the stock or handle, and
with one or other of which the holes (b) (b) formed in the sides of the stock or handle
are made to communicate. The grooves (c) (c) may be formed before or after the
holes (b) (b) are drilled or bored. The holes. (6) serve for the passage of the wires
or other means by which the tufts of fibre, bristles, bass or other material to be
used in the formation of the spoke-brush are pulled into and held in the holes (a) (a)
in the stock or handle which wires or other means will in part lie in the

page_text: grooves (c) (c) when the said tufts of fibre, bristles, bass or other material have
been pulled into the holes (a) (a). When the said tufts of fibre, bristles, bass or
other material have been pulled into the holes (a) (a) the holes (6) (6) and
grooves (c) (c) are filled with any suitable cement or material as is indicated in
Figs. 1 and 2 so that the wires or other means by which the said tufts of fibre,
bristles, bass or other material are secured in the spoke-brush may be protected and
so that the spoke-brush may be caused to present a neat appearance. When the
grooves (c) (c) have been filled with the said cement or other material the stock or
handle of the spoke-brush may be varnished or otherwise treated as may be
desirable.
Instead of placing each of the holes (a) (a) in communication with one or other
of the grooves (c) (c) by means of a hole (6) bored in the stock or handle of the
spoke-brush we may in a modification of this method of carrying this invention into
effect form the grooves (c) (c) so deep that each of the holes (a) (a) shall be made
to communicate directly with one or other of such grooves (c) (c) and after the
tufts of fibre, bristles, bass or other material have been pulled into the holes (a) (a)
we fill the grooves (c) (c) with any suitable cement or filling material so that the
wires or other means by which the said tufts of fibre, bristles, bass or other material.
are secured in the spoke-brush may be protected, and so that the spoke-brush may
be caused to present a neat appearance and afterwards the stock or handle of the
spoke-brush may be varnished or otherwise treated as may be desirable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
:-
A spoke-brush, the handle or stock of which is for the purposes and substantially
in the manner hereinbefore described formed of only one piece of wood having
drilled or bored in it holes (a) (a) to receive the tufts of fibre, bristles, bass or
other material employed in the formation of the spoke-brush, and is provided with
grooves (c) (c) with one or other of which each of the said holes (a) (a) is made to
communicate either by means of a hole (6) or directly and which grooves are filled
with any suitable cement or filling material after the said tufts of fibre, bristles,
bass or other material have been pulled into the said stock or handle.
Dated this Ninth day of February 1895.
HOWARD CHEETHAM,
Manchester, Agent to the Applicants.