Improvements in and relating to Brushes and Mops.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Jan., 1898-Accepted, 26th Feb., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Brushes and Mops.
I, JOHN COOPER, Jeweller, of 66, Warston Lane, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, 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:-
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This invention consists of the application of water or other liquid to a brush
and to a mop, so that the brush or the mop can be used for cleansing purposes to
greater advantage than old style brushes and mops are now used.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings
the manner in which my invention is constructed and used.
Figure 1, represents a longitudinal section of brush with hollow handle, shewing
hose and connecting union, in dotted lines at top end of handle.
Figure 2, represents an isometrical view of brush Figure 1, with the handle
broken off and also shewing in dotted lines how the handle may be placed at
end of brush instead of centrally.
Figure 3, represents a plan of the underside of brush shewing the water outlet
holes in brush-plate.
Figure 4, represents a longitudinal section of a tooth brush having a water
feeding arrangement supplied by a flexible bag.
Figure 5, represents a plan of Figure 4.
Figure 6, represents a plan of Figure 8, without mop-handle.
Figure 7, represents a section through Figure 6 on line A-B.
Figure 8 represents a section through Figure 6 on line C--D.
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In carrying out my invention in relation to brushes, I provide a chamber a
as shewn at Figures 1 and 2. I connect to such chamber any suitable hollow
handle which may where desired be surrounded with a wood gripping-cover or
a cover made from felt, rubber, or any suitable material. I secure to the hellow
part any suitable hose connection c carrying any suitable hose or water supply
pipe d. The board plate or other substance e that carries the bristles is pierced
with any desired number of water-holes f as shewn at Figures 1 and 3.
In using my improved brush so constructed the hose or water supply pipe d
is connected to the water service supply, tank supply, or other water supply and
the brush used in the ordinary manner for scrubbing and when so used water
will flow through the holes f and assist in the cleansing of the surface scrubbed.
I do not confine myself to the particular shaped brush shewn at Figure 2 or to
the particular shape of the water chamber therein shewn, as my invention consists
essentially in the combination of water service with any class of brush or mop, the
handle can be placed at the end as shewn in dotted lines at g instead of in the
centre, or the handle can be of any suitable shape secured to a brush of any shape
suitable for washing carriages, bicycles, floors, and any other surfaces.
Figures 4 and 5 represent a suitable method of using water or other liquid with
a tooth brush. I pierce the back of the brush with a main passage h which
extends to the upward entering passage j, I also pierce the supplementary
passages leading into main passage h; holes are pierced through the lower part
of brush as shewn at m.

page_text: I next provide a flexible bag n and also a supply pipe o bent at its forward
end to take into the entering passage j the other end 9 enters the liquid bag.
I provide an elastic ring r to secure the bag to handle of brush. I use the improved
tooth brush in the following manner.
The bag with its pipe o being a separaterremoveable part, the tooth-brush can
where desired be used in the ordinary manner without any liquid supply, but
when used with the liquid supply the bag is held in the hand and the hook end p
passed into the liquid thereby compressing the bag to exclude air and draw the
required liquid up the pipe o into the bag n; the filled bag is next secured to the
tooth brush by means of the elastic ring r or by any other equivalent and suitable
means.
The person using the tooth-brush and its liquid supply would grip the handle
in the usual manner to brush. the teeth, and would also squeeze the filled bag n
occasionally and thus force water or other liquid out of the bag through the pipe o
along the passages hand and out through the delivery holes m.
The holes h and k may be drilled from the outside and the outer entering ends
plugged up, as shewn at s 'Figure 4 and 5.
In lieu of the hose c and its water supply for ordinary brushes I prefer in some
cases to provide the liquid-bag.n and the pipe o. in .connection with all shapes of
brushes in addition to tooth. brushes.
In carrying out.my, invention in relation to mops I provide any ordinary mop
stail, and secure. thereto, the ring-chamber ta plan of which is shewn at Figure 6
from the ring-chamber.t projects three or more supply nozzles.n. On the upper
face of the ring.is provided a hose connection v.to which is connected any suitable
supply pipe.
The ring-chamber when passed over the mop stail is slidden down to the
mop end of the stail as shewn at. Figure 8, the ring-chamber is then secured to the
mop stail by means of the set pin y, which gripsithe iron "ferrule usually, put on
the end of a. mop stail.
In using the improved mop I connect any convenient water supply to the pipe w
so that when thermop is used.in the ordinary manner to mop a floor, a carriage or
other surface, water would flow through the nozzles n into the mop fibre and assist
in cleaning the surface operated on by means of the mop.
In lieu of the ring-chamber t. the supply, pipe wand the water supply from street
water service, I prefer, in some cases to use. the liquid-bag n and the pipe o similar
to the bag and pipe shewn at Figures 4 and 5, .this bag supply will be specially
suitable for combination with small mops such as are used to clean out bottles,
jugs, and such like vessels.
Although I have shewn the water.holes. f as passing through the face of the
brush only, nevertheless I prefer in some cases to provide outlet water holes
through. the edge surfaces of the brush (in. accordance with the shape and configura-
tion of the brush to which water or other liquid is conveyed for use in combination
with the bristles of, the brush.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
člaim is:-
1st. A brush supplied with conduits through which liquid. can flow on to the
bristles as illustrated and described in relation to Figures 1 2. and 3.
2nd. A brush supplied with.conduits through which .liquid.can.flow on to the
bristles together with the self-contained liquid reservoir as illustrated and
described in relation to Figures 4 and 5.
3rd. "The making of brushes of every shape with conduits through which liquid
can flow on to the bristles from a self-contained reservoir attached to the brush.
4th. A mop supplied with conduits-through which liquid. can flow on to the mop
-as illustrated and described intrelation to.Figures 6.7. andr8.
5th. A mop supplied with. conduits through which .liquid can iflow on to the

page_text: mop from a self-contained reservoir similar or equivalent to the bag n shewn at
Figure 4.
Dated this 21st day of January 1898.
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, 67, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.