AN IMPROVED STOCK FOR BROOMS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Coney, of Waterloo Road, in the County
of Surrey, Brush Maker, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED STOCK FOR
BROOMS."
Sealed the 9th May 1862, and dated the 13th November 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Coney at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th
November 1861.
I, FREDERICK CONEY, of Waterloo Road, in the County of Surrey, Brush
Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
STOCK FOR BROOMS," to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to obtain the equivalent of two separate
brooms upon one stick or handle; and my Invention consists in forming the
stock with a head and two sides, as hereafter explained. A hole is made in
the stock for the reception of the stick or handle, the two sides are continued
down at angles, approach or meet at the bottom of the broom, and carry bass,
hair, or other fibre; one side may be filled with bass and the other with hair,
or they may both be filled with similar or different materials suitable for
brooms.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederick Coney in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th
May 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
CONEY, of Waterloo Road, in the County of Surrey, Brush Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Frederick Coney, Her special licence that I, the said
Frederick Coney, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Frederick Coney, 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 "AN IMPROVED STOCK FOR BROOMS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Frederick Coney, 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 Frederick Coney, do hereby declare
the nature of my 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, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
The object of my Invention is to obtain the equivalent of two separate
brooms upon one stick or handle; and my Invention consists in forming the
stock with a head and two sides, as hereafter explained. A hole is made in
the stock for the reception of the stick or handle, the two sides are continued
down at angles, approach or meet at the bottom of the broom and carry bass,
hair, or other fibre; one side may be filled with bass and the other with hair,
or they may both be filled with similar or different materials suitable for
brooms.

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a plan, and Figure 2 is a section
of this broom stock; bass is shewn on one side and hair on the other.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the construction of
broom stocks with a head and two sides, substantially in manner and for
the purposes herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Coney, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of May One thousand eight hundred
and sixty-two
FREDERICK CONEY. (L.S.)
FREDERICK CONEY. (L.s.)