IMPROVEMENTS IN BROOMS OR BRUSHES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Martin, of the City of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Fustian Cutter, for the Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS
IN BROOMS OR BRUSHES."
Sealed the 27th November 1865, and dated the 30th May 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Martin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 30th
May 1865.
I, WILLIAM MARTIN, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Fustian Cutter, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BROOMS OR BRUSHES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates especially to long-handled brooms employed for
sweeping, whitewashing, coloring, and other purposes, and consists in an
improved mode of maintaining the handles to the stocks or bodies of the
brooms. At the bottom of the handle I fix a screw of wood, or metal, or other
substance, and in the stock or body of the broom I fix a nut, also of wood, or
metal, or other substance, and when the screw is turned into the nut the
handle is firmly held to the stock or body. The aforesaid screws and nuts are
intended to be made of various sizes to gauges, so that when the broom or

page_text: brush is worn out the nut can be fixed to a new stock or body, and the original
screw held in it; or the screw may be made on the handle itself, and the nut
cut in the broom head:
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Martin, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th November 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
MARTIN, of the City-of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Fustian
Cutter, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Martin, Her special license that I, the said William Martin,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I; the said William
Martin, 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 BROOMS OR
BRUSHES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
Martin, 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 six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Martin, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the figures and letters on the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings (that is to say):-
--
This Invention relates especially to long-handled brooms employed for
sweeping, whitewashing, coloring, and other purposes, and consists in improved
inodes of maintaining the handles to the stocks or bodies of the brooms or
brushes:

page_text: Figs. 1 and 2 of the Drawings are front and end elevations, and Fig. 3, &
cross section of the stock or body of a broom provided with my improvements,
a representing the stock; b, the handle; and the dotted lines the outside of
the bristles. At the bottom of the handle I fix a screw c of wood, or metal,
or other substance, and in the stock I fix a nut d, also of wood, or metal, or
other substance, and when the screw is turned into the nut the handle is firmly
held to the broom. The aforesaid screws and nuts are intended to be made of
various sizes to gauges, and applied to brooms or brushes of various descrip-
tions, so that when the broom or brush is worn out the nut can be removed
and afterwards fixed to a new broom or brush, and the screw on the handle
screwed firmly in it.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood
that I claim the improvements in brooms and brushes as herein described and
illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Martin, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of November; in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Signed; sealed, and delivered by the
within-named William Martin, in
the presence of
G. SEPTIMUS HUGHES,
Patent Agent,
Manchester.
WILLIAM MARTIN. (L.S.)