CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN BRUSHES, ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO PAINTERS" BRUSHES
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Greenslade, of the City of Bristol, of the
firm of Edward Acraman Greenslade and William Greenslade, of Bristol,
aforesaid, Brushmakers, and James Wood, of Saint Pancras, in thé
County of Middlesex, Working Brushmaker, for the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN BRUSHES, ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO PAINTERS"
BRUSHES."
Sealed the 31st July 1857, and dated the 7th February 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Greenslade and
James Wood at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 7th February 1857.
We, WILLIAM GREENSLADE, of the firm of Edward Acraman Greenslade and
William Greenslade, and JAMES WOOD, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN BRUSHES, ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE
TO PAINTERS' BRUSHES," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in making a saw. cut, or saw cuts, opening or
openings in the handle at or near the brush part thereof, and introducing
into the said say
Saw cut or saw cuts, opening or openings, a plate or plates of
metal or other similar or suitable substance. The plate or plates thus intro-
duced in the handle are made to pass into the brush part, the said brush
part having wire, string, or other binders or bands, into which brush part
the same is firmly wedged; the binders or bands having for further security
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page_text: or not having, metal clipping pieces fastened to the handle. By this means
the brush will be more perfectly secured to the handle and have the required
shape given to it.
The important features in this Invention are considered to be the saw cut
or saw cuts, opening or openings, conjoined with the plate or plates, by which 5
means the handle may be firmly wedged and secured into the brush part.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Greenslade and James Wood in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 5th August 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
GREENSLADE, of the City of Bristol, of the firm of Edward Acraman Green-
slade and William Greenslade, of Bristol, aforesaid, Brushmakers, and JAMES
WOOD, of Saint Pancras, in the County of Middlesex, Working Brushmaker,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen, Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date. the Seventh day of February, in the year. of our Lord
. One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her.reign;
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
William Greenslade and James Wood, Her special licence that we, the said
William Greenslade and James Wood, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said William Greenslade and James Wood,
our 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN BRUSHES,
ESPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO PAINTERS' BRUSHES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said William Greenslade and James Wood, our executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one
of, our or their bands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in. what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed, in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent..
.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Greenslade and James Wood,
do hereby declare the nature of the said 'Invention, and 'in, what manner

page_text: the same.
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof:-
(I.) The nature of this Invention, as hath been heretofore set forth in the
Provisional Specification left and recorded on application for the said Letters
Patent, consists in producing or:having in the handle of the brush,, near the
brush part thereof, a saw cut or saw cuts; opening or openings, and in intro-
ducing into the same a plate or plates of metal or other similar or suitable
substance, which, as thus introduced into the handle, is or are made to pass
into the brush part, baving wire, string, or other binding or banding, into
which brush part the same is or are firmly wedged or tightened up; the
binders or bands having for further security, or not having, metal'clip pieces
fastened to the handle. By this means the brush will be more perfectly
secured to the handle and have the-required shape given to it.
The important features in this Invention, are considered to be the saw cut
or saw cuts, opening or openings, conjoined with the plate or plates, by which
means the handle may be firmly wedged or secured into the brush part..
(II.) We make a peg or handle of the usual character, either round, oval,
or any other required shape; and produce or make.a. saw cut, slit, or opening
(or two or more,saw cuts, slits, or, openings, crossing or not crossing each
other), and extending a sufficient distance down, the peg or handle, commencing
at the large or brush end, to allow us to do what is thereafter described,
and this single slit or opening might be thus represented
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; into which
opening or openings we put a flat plate or plates of metal, or a flat piece
or pieces of other suitable material, such plate or plates, piece or pieces,
being of thickness sufficient to fit tightly, and just as deep or wide one way
as the binding of the brush part is to be deep or wide, and so placed in the
slit or slits, opening or openings, as to project as far beyond the peg or
handle as the bulk of the brush part when bound to the peg will allow.
The single plate or piece might be thus represented I
; the notch at
O each end being for the reception of the binding or banding. The brush part
(that is, the collection of bristles or other matters used,) is then tied or bound
round with string, wire, or other suitable material, the binding passing over
the ends of the aforesaid plate or plates, piece or pieces. The peg or handle
is then driven or passed down the brush part from the thin end to the thick,
and thus the plate or plates, piece or pieces aforesaid, which being only as
deep or wide one way as the binding of the brush part, is or are made to

page_text: *pass along the slit or slits, opening or openings, to the thick part of the peg.
This being done, the portion of the said slit or slits, opening or openings,
from the bush part upwards towards the thin end of the peg, is or are filled
up with wood or any other suitable material
For better security the plates may be pinned or secured to the handle,
and there may be 'clips, that is, pieces of metal or other suitable materiál
; the point being that at which it is pinned, nailed, or secured:
of this form
,to the peg or handle, and that the point where the binding passes over
the said clip, which clip. is thus jammed in and secured between the binding
and brush part, the turned-up part of the clip near **, which is produced
by turning the clip over in that manner at the bottom of the binding..
(III.) Having now particularly described the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we, declare that we claim
as our Invention, within the purview of the said Letters Patent, the improve-
ments in brushes, especially applicable to painters' brushes, the nature whereof
is described in the outset (I.) of this Specification thereof...
. In witness whereof, I, the said William Greenslade, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Third day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven...
WILLIAM GREENSLADE. (L.S.)