Improvements in Brushes and Caps for Gum, Paint, and like Vessels.
Year: 1888

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brushes and Caps for Gum, Paint, and like
Vessels.
ARTHUR HUGO HARRISON Thornley South Norwood Hill London S.E. Gentleman
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My patent is to consist of a lid to be placed on a vessel containing paste, gum,
glue, paint, or other fluid matter; and a brush with which the said fluids are to be
applied. The object of my patent is to remove from a brush; thus in use, the
superfluous amount of any of the above mentioned fluids by. the action of lifting the
brush from the vessel; and so to avoid the trouble of scraping the brush against
the sides of the vessel, and also to preserve the sides from a deposit.
The lid may be made of any material, it is constructed with two apertures
connected by an open channel or slot, one of these apertures being larger than the
other. The brush being inserted through the larger aperture can be made to pass
through the channel and withdrawn through the smaller aperture, which last being
made approximately the size of the brush would remove from it all superfluous
matter. In order that the fluid matter may the more readily fall back into the
vessel, I would have a flange protruding, downwards round the aperture through
which the brush is drawn out of the vessel. I do not bind myself to this particular
design, I can make my aperture or apertures in any desirable form, such as channels
or semicircles radiating from the centre: the principle 1 do bind myself to is that
the lid cleans the brush as it is withdrawn from the vessel. The brush employ
would in most cases have the lower part of its shank sufficiently slender to pass
through any required channel. At the top of the slender portion I would fix a disc
removable at pleasure and of sufficient size to prevent dust and dirt entering the
vessel, this disc would support the brush in the liquid matter, being made so as to
rest on the lid. I would arrange that the handle end of the brush should be the
heavier end, and this being so, the brush might be laid down without soiling the
surface on which it was laid, by reason of the disc.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brushes and Caps for Gum, Paint, and like
Vessels.
ARTHUR HUGO HARRISON Thornley South Norwood Hill London S.E. Gentleman
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
My patent consists of a lid for placing on a vessel containing paste, gum, glue,
paint, or other fluid matter, and a brush with which the said fluids are to be applied.
The object of my patent is to remove from a brush thus in use, the superfluous
amount of any of the above mentioned fluids by the action of lifting the brush from
the vessel, and so avoid the trouble of scraping the brush against the sides of the
vessel, and also to preserve the sides from a deposit.
The lid may be made of any material; it is constructed with two apertures, as
shewn at Fig. Ia & b connected by an open channel or slots;
one of these
apertures being larger than the other a. The brush being inserted through the
larger aperture b. can be made to pass by the channel and withdrawn through the
smaller aperture a; which last being made approximately the size of the brush,
removes from it all superfluous matter. In order that the fluid matter may the
more readily fall back into the vessel, I make round the aperture through which
the brush is withdrawn, a flange shewn in the sectional view at f Fig. Il which
protules downwards towards the liquid. By this means the lid is made to clean
the brush. I do not bind myself to the particular design described, I can make one
aperture or more in any desireable form such as channels, or semicircles radiating
from the centre. In some cases I prefer to make one aperture similar to that shewn
at c Fig. Ill & in others to that shown at e Fig. IV.
In the former case the brush is cleaned of its superfluous fluid by being drawn
up through the channel and in the latter by being drawn up through the loop 1.
The loop is constructed by fixing a piece of bent wire or strip of any material by
its two ends to the sides of the lid, the bent portion being placed across an
aperture of any size or contour made in the top of the lid and supported if
desirable by an opposite portion of the lid as shewn at o Figure IV. The principle
I do bind myself to, is that the lid cleans the brush as it is withdrawn from the vessel.
The brush I employ would in most cases have the lower part of its shank (see
Fig. V) sufficiently slender to pass through any required channel.
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Above the shank I fix a disc or cover as shewn at which can be moved along
the brush into any desired position.
The object of this disc or cover, which may be of any form, is to cover the
apertures or channels in the lid and thus prevent dust and dirt entering the vessel.
The disc or cover also supports the brush in the liquid matter so that the brush
end can remain in the liquid at any desirable depth. I can also make the handle
end of the brush heavier than the brushing end, so that when the brush with disc

page_text: or cover attached is laid on the ground the heavy end will fall to the ground and
the wet end rise from it, the intervening disc or cover acting as a fulcrum and
thus preventing the brush soiling the ground on which it is laid.
By the term brush I wish to include all manner of rubbers or apparatus for
applying liquids to surfaces of any description.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the said is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. The construction of lids, of gum glue, paint, or other containing vessels, as
substantially set forth and described for the purpose of releiving brushes or rubbers
of their superfluous fluid when lifted out of the aforesaid vessels.
2. Attaching a moveable cover to brushes or rubbers when used in connection with
any lids that come within the definition of claim 1; for the purpose of covering the
apertures in the aforesaid lids & keeping the wet end of the brush off the ground
when laid down.