IMPROVEMENTS IN BRUSHES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John George Hinde, of No. 74, Worcester Street,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Brush Manufacturer, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BRUSHES."
Sealed the 12th July 1864, and dated the 21st January 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John George Hinde at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st January 1864.
I, JOHN GEORGE HINDE, of No. 74, Worcester Street, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Brush Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BRUSHES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in brushes. In the con-
struction of some description of brushes straps are affixed to the backs in order
that in holding a brush the hand of the user may pass between the strap and
the back of the brush, and in such brushes the straps have been usually fixed
by their ends to the sides of the brushes.
Now according to the present Invention in the making a brush in order to
its receiving a strap, a passage is formed from side to side of the back through
which the strap is passed, and the ends of the strap are attached together by a
buckle or otherwise; when making the back of a brush of two parts I prefer to
form this passage from side to side of the brush by forming a groove of the
proper depth and width in one of such parts, or a corresponding groove may
be formed in both the parts; and when making the back of three parts, the inner

page_text: part may be composed of two pieces, the inner edges of which two pieces in
making the back of a brush are kept apart a distance somewhat greater than
the width of the strap.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John George Hinde in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th July 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
GEORGE HINDE, of No. 74, Worcester Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Brush Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John George Hinde, Her special licence that I, the said John George
Hinde, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said John George Hinde, 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 BRUSHES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said John George Hinde, 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 In-
vention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, 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 I, the said John George Hinde, do hereby
declare the nature of the said. Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in brushes. In the con-
struction of some descriptions of brushes, straps are affixed to the backs in order
that in holding a brush the hand of the user may pass betwen the strap and
the back of the brush; and in such brushes the straps have been usually fixed
by their ends to the sides of the brushes.

page_text: which the strap is passed, and the ends of the strap are attached together by a
buckle or otherwise; when making the back of a brush of two parts I prefer
to form this passage from side to side of the brush by forming a groove of the
proper depth and width in one of such parts, or a corresponding groove may
be formed in both the parts; and when making the back of three parts, the
inner part may be composed of two pieces, the inner edges of which two pieces
in making the back of a brush are kept apart a distance somewhat greater
than the width of the strap.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows an end view, Figure 2 a longitudinal section, and Figure
3 a plan view of the brush constructed in the manner I prefer for carrying out
Invention.
my
In the brush shewn in the Drawing the back is made of three parts; one
part a has the bristles or material of which the brush is composed applied to
it in the ordinary manner, and the part 6 separates the part a from the outer
part c of the back. The middle part 6 is made in two pieces, which, as above
described, are separated the one from the other, so as to leave a space between
them; a passage is thus formed from side to side of the back of the brush
through which a strap may be passed; the ends of the strap are by preference
attached together by a buckle, as shewn in the Drawing. In place of a passage
suitable for receiving a strap being formed through the back of a brush in the
manner shewn in the Drawing, a passage through the back of the brush may, as
before stated, be formed by making the back of the brush in two parts and
forming a groove of the proper width and depth in one of such parts, or corre-
sponding grooves may be formed in both parts, or the passage through the back
of the brush may be otherwise formed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John George Hinde, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
JOHN GEORGE HINDE. (L.S.)