Improvements in Attaching Handles to Brooms, Brushes, Mallets, Hammers, and like Articles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 31st July, 1894-Accepted, 1st Sept., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attaching Handles to Brooms, Brushes, Mallets,
Hammers, and like Articles.
I, SAMUEL ABRAHAM ROTHSCHILD, of 11, Silk Street, in the City of
London, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improved means for attaching handles to brooms,
brushes, mallets; hammers and like articles in a simple and expeditious manner.
In carrying out my invention I employ two plates of suitable metal and curved
so as to adapt themselves to the surface of the handle to be fixed; the lower ends
of the plates are provided with teeth or projections extending outwardly and the
upper part of the plates are provided with teeth projecting inwardly.
To fix a handle in a broom or other article the ends of the plates are placed in
the usual hole for receiving the handle and a ring is passed over the plates; the
handle is then inserted between the plates, the end passing into the hole in the
usual manner. By then sliding the ring along the plates outwardly from the broom
or other article the said plates are drawn tightly against the handle, the teeth on
the inside of the plates entering the handle while the teeth on the lower part of the
plates enter the sides of the hole whereby the handle is firmly fixed in position.
A suitable stop is provided to limit the play of the ring.
I have described my invention as applied to attaching the handles to articles of
wood; it will, however, be obvious that the arrangement may be applied to articles
of metal such as hammer-heads, in which case the projections on the lower ends of
the plates would be adapted to enter grooves or slots in the hole in the head in
which the handle is placed.
It will be obvious that this arrangement of attaching handles will also allow of
the handles being expeditiously removed when required.
Suitable means may be provided for preventing the ring from shifting when in
its closed position.
Dated thin 14h d
Nauber 1802
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Attaching Handles to Brooms, Brushes, Mallets,
Hammers, and like Articles.'
1, SAMUEL ABRAHAM ROTHSCHILD, of 11, Silk Street, in the City of London,
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 relates to improved means for attaching handles to brooms,
brushes, mallets, hammers and like articles in a simple aud expeditious manner.
In carrying out my invention I employ two plates of suitable metal and curved
so as to adapt themselves to the surface of the handle to be fixed; the lower ends
of the plates are provided with teeth or projections extending outwardly and the
upper part of the plates are provided with teeth projecting inwardly; over the
plates slides a ring.

page_text: To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a broom having the handle attached thereto
according to my invention:
Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2, Figure 1 ; and,
Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3, Figure 2:
Figure 4 is a similar view to Figure 2 but illustrating the method of fixing the
.handle to the broom:
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Figures 5, 6 and 7 are respectively a front elevation, a side elevation and a plan
of one of the toothed curved plates I employ according to my invention:
Figure 8 is an elevation illustrating a slight modification; and,
Figure 9 is a section on the line 9-9, Figure 8.
a represents the broom, and 6 the broom handle of the usual construction ;.
c, c represent my two plates, usually made of iron, and curved as shewn so as to
adapt themselves to the handle b; d, d are the outwardly extending teeth or
projections on the lower ends of the plates c, c aud e, e are the inwardly projecting
teeth on the plates.
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To fix a handle in a broom (or other article) the ends of the plates c, c are
placed in the usual hole for receiving the handle as shewn in Figure 4, the
ring g having first been passed over the plates c, c; the handle b is then inserted.
between the plates as far as it will go. By now sliding the ring along the
plates c, c outwardly from the broom the plates will be drawn tightly against
the handle, the teeth e, e on the inside of the plates entering the handle while
the teeth d, d on the lower part of the plates enter the sides of the hole fas clearly
shewn in Figure 2 whereby the handle 6 will be firmly fixed in position as in
Figure 1. i is a stop on one of the plates c to limit the play of the ring g.
When it is required to prevent the ring from shifting from its closed position I
advantageously provide it with a bayonet slot ; adapted to be turned onto a pin k
on one of the plates c as shewn in Figures 8 and 9.
I have described my invertion as applied to attaching handles to articles of wood;
it will, however, be obvious that the arrangement may be applied to articles of
metal such as hammer-heads, in which case the projections on the lower ends of the
plates would be adapted to enter grooves or slots in the hole in the head in which
the handle is placed.
It will be obvious that this arrangement of attaching handles will also allow of
the handles being expeditiously removed when required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what mauner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
:-
1. Attaching handles to brooms, brushes, mallets, hammers and like articles by
means of toothed curved metal plates and a ring arranged and operating as herein-
before described.
2. The described means for attaching handles to brooms, brushes, mallets,
hammers and like articles, such means consisting of two curved plates such as c, c
having outwardly and inwardly projecting teeth such as d, d and e, e in combination
with a ring such as g, the said parts being arranged and operating substantially as
hereinbefore described.
3. Providing the ring g with a bayonet slot adapted to be turned over a pin on
one of the plates c to hold the ring in its closed position substantially as described.
4. The manufacture and use of the improved means for fixing handles to brooms
and other articles as herein before described and illustrated in the several figures
of the accompanying drawing.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.