Improved Means for Securing Handles to Brooms or Brushes and similar articles.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Securing Handles to Brooms or Brushes and
similar articles.
I WILLIAM HENRY HASLAM of 75 Bradford Street Bolton in the County of
Lancaster, Yarn Merchant, 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 :-
This invention is an improvement upon the invention for which I obtained Letters
Patent No. 3454 dated February 16th, 1893, the object of the present invention
being to remedy certain objections presented by my former invention and to enable
any ordinary person to apply my invention to any existing brush or broom without
the necessity for special tools or mechanical skill.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference
to the annexed sheet of drawings and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 is a sectional view of a broom or brush head shewing the application of
my invention thereto, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of my improved fastener.
According to my previous invention above mentioned a metal socket or bush was
let into the wood of the broom or brush head, which necessitated the enlargement
of the usual hole, requiring the use of a special tool and a certain amount of
mechanical skill and not only so but the enlarging of the hole sometimes interfered
with the fixing of the tufts of bristles or fibres of which the brush or broom was
composed and caused them to become loose.
According to my present invention the broom or brush head a is only provided
with the ordinary sized hole b and the handle or stail 6* is made taper at the end
and in order to secure the one to the other I provide a metal socket c having a
flange and lugs at the lower end by means of which it is fixed by nails or screws
onto the head a of the brush or broom in such a position that it projects above the
wood and the interior of the socket c forms a continuation of the hole b. The
hole in the metal socket c is taper and provided with an internal screw thread and
it will be evident that any person capable of using a hammer or screw driver can
apply my improved fastener to any existing broom or brush head and that having
done so he can screw the taper end of the handle or stail 6* into it without any
difficulty and this will make it perfectly secure.
In applying my invention to new brush heads in which no hole for the handle
has been cut I make the socket c deeper than that shown on the drawing in order
to hold the end of the handle or stail more securely.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved means for securing handles to brooms or brushes and similar
articles consisting of a projecting metallic socket having a taper screwed hole and
provided with a flange and lugs at the bottom by means of which it can be secured
to an ordinary broom or brush head substantially as hereinbefore described and
illustrated by the drawings annexed.
1000
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.