Im- PROVEMENTS IN SECURING HANDLES TO BRUSH OR BROOM HEADS."
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Peel, of Godwin Street, Bradford, in the
County of York, Brush Manufacturer, for the Invention of "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN SECURING HANDLES TO BRUSH OR BROOM HEADS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Peel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on tho
8th October 1875.
I, JOHN PEEL, of Godwin Street, Bradford, in the County of York,
Brush Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING HANDLES TO BRUSH OR BROOM Heads,”
to be as follows:-
Hitherto the rod or handle has been secured to the ordinary sweeping
brush or broom head in a very insecure and unsafe manner. The usual
mode adopted is to bore a parallel hole into the back of the brush or
broom head, a little less in diameter than the size of the rod or handle;

page_text: then to drive the rod or handle tight into the hole, and secured therein
by means of driving a nail through the head into the handle, which has
a tendency of splitting the wood forming the head or handle. After the
brush or broom has been in use a short time the rod or handle becomes
slack and is with difficulty tightened again. Other methods have been
adopted, but they are of an expensive and complicated nature.
The object of my Invention is to secure in a simple and inexpensive
manner the rod or handle to the ordinary sweeping brush or broom head
without having a tendency to split the wood by the use of nails, and in
such a manner as to render it impossible for the head to come off whilst
sweeping; and when the head does become slack the rod or handle can
be readily tightened and made quite safe.
I accomplish these advantages in the following manner:-In the back
of the ordinary brush or broom head made of wood or any other suitablo
material I bore a conical or taper hole, the diameter being largest outside
and reducing with a gradual taper to the bottom of the hole, in which
is then chased a screwed thread the length of the hole. The end of the
rod or handle is turned to the same taper as the hole in the brush head
and a corresponding screw chased in such a manner that when the rod
or handle is screwed into the brush or broom head the end of the rod or
handle will be about, say, one-half inch from the bottom of the hole
formed in the brush or broom head. It will be easily understood that
when the rod or handle becomes slack in the head of the brush or broom
by simply screwing the rod or handle a little further into the head the
same will be made quite safe and secure without any damage to the head
or handle.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said John
Peel in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th May 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN 80
PEEL, of Godwin Street, Bradford, in the County of York, Brush Manu-
facturer sond amenting

page_text: year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Peel, Her special
licence that I, the said John Peel, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Peel, my executors,
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, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN
SECURING HANDLES TO BRUSH OR BROOM HEADS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John Peel, 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
seven calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said

page_text: sweeping; and when the head does become slack the rod or handle can
be readily tightened and made quite safe.
I accomplish these advantages in the following manner :-In the back
of the ordinary brush or broom head made of wood or any other suitable
material I bore a conical or taper hole, the diameter being largest outside
and reducing with a gradual taper to the bottom of the hole, in which
is then chased a screwed thread the length of the hole. The end of the
rod or handle is turned to the same taper as the holo in the brush head
and a corresponding screw chased in such a manner that when the rod
or handle is screwed into the brush or broom head the end of the rod or
handle will be about, say, one-half inch from the bottom of the hole
formed in the brush or broom head. It will be easily understood that
when the rod or handle becomes slack in the head of the brush or broom
by simply screwing the rod or handle a little further into the head the
same will be made quite safe and secure without any damage to the head 1
or handle.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do
not limit myself to the precise details herein described and represented
in the Drawings, as the same may be varied without departing from the 1
nature of my Invention; but I claim as my Invention a new and
improved arrangement of securing the rod or handle to the head of a
brush or broom, in the manner herein-before described and illustrated in
the accompanying Drawings,
Fig. 1 is a section of the wood portion of a brush or broom head cut
longitudinally through the centre; Fig. 2 is an elevation of a brush rod
or handle.
In Fig. 1 A, A, is the block forming the brush or broom head with
the conical or taper hole B in the centre, in which are chased the screw 3
threads O, C, C. In Fig. 2 D is the brush rod or handle, the end D' is
turned the same taper, and the screwed threads C², C³, C³, chased the
same pitch to fit hole B and threads C, C, O, in Fig. 1. When the rod
or handle is screwed into brush or broom head the end of rod is, say,
ono half inch from the bottom of hole, so that when the rod becomes 3

page_text: slack it can be tightened by screwing the same further into the
head.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Peel, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord
1876.
Witness,
JOHN WAUGH,
Engineer & Patent Agent,
Bradford.
JOHN PEEL. (L.S.)