Improvements in or connected with Brooms and Brushes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st July, 1894-Accepted, 25th Aug.. 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Brooms and Brushes.
I, HENRY EDWARD HARBIN of Preston, near Yeovil, in the County of
Somerset, Colonel 2nd Volunteer Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to brooms and brushes more especially of the character
used for stables yards or the like purposes-my present improvements not being
necessary to be applied to what I may term domestic brooms and brushes such as
housemaids' brushes and other soft brushes used for sweeping carpets etc., etc.
My present invention is as follows-and I will proceed to describe same as
applied to an ordinary yard or stable bass broom such brush being constructed in
any well-known or suitable manner.
On one part of the block or body carrying the bristles I arrange and mount a
scraper advantageously consisting of a piece of metal or other suitable material
vertically disposed and fixed in position by screws or otherwise suitably mounted
so as to act as a scrapèr as and for the purposes hereinafter described.
I also arrange and mount on the said block or body part either a separate brush
advantageously extending over one end as well as the top thereof or I may form
this part as a brush by arranging and mounting therein in any suitable manner
short stiff tufts of bass or any other suitable material either arranged in tufts or
otherwise to form a rough kind of boot brush.
Thus a brush or broom constructed according to my present invention affords a
ready means thereon for the person using such broom to scrape his (or her) boots
or equivalent on the scraper thereon and also brush said boots against the said
tufts or boot brush formed or arranged on the upper and end part of said broom
while the opposite end of the body of the said broom is left clear as at present so
as to enable such broom to be knocked against the floor wall etc. to shake off
adhering matter.
If desired the broom can be inverted and the scraper used as an auxiliary to the
ordinary bristles. .
A brush or broom thus arranged and constructed according to my present
invention will be found very advantageous for use in places where dirt or foreign
substance is liable to adhere to the boots of the person using such brush for
instance.in stables where moss litter is used, etc., etc.
If desired the said auxiliary brush arrangement may be used without the scraper
or vice-versa.
Dated this 1st day of February 1891
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Brooms and Brushes.
I, HENRY EDWARD HARBIN of Preston, near Yeovil, in the County of
Somerset, Colonel 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, 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 brooms and brushes more especially of the character
used for stables yards or the like purposes-my present improvements not being
necessary to be applied to what I may term domestic brooms and brushes such as
housemaids' brushes and other soft brushes used for sweeping carpets, etc., etc.
My present invention is as follows-and I will proceed to describe same as
applied to an ordinary yard or stable bass broom such brush being constructed in
any well-known or suitable manner.
On one part of the block or body carrying the bristles I arrange and mount a
scraper advantageously consisting of a piece of metal or other suitable material
vertically disposed and fixed in position by screws or otherwise suitably mounted
so as to act as a scraper as and for the purposes hereinafter described.
I also arrange and mount on the said block or body part either a separate brush
advantageously extending over one end as well as the top thereof or I may form
this part as a brush by arranging and mounting therein in any suitable manner
short stiff tufts of bass or any other suitable material either arranged in tufts or
otherwise to form a rough kind of boot brush.
Thus a brush or broom constructed according to my present invention affords a
ready means thereon for the person using such broom to scrape his (or her) boots
or equivalent on the scraper thereon and also brush said boots against the said
tufts or boot brush formed or arranged on the upper and end part of said broom
while the opposite end of the body of the said broom is left clear as at present so
as to enable such broom to be knocked against the floor wall etc. to shake off
adhering matter.
If desired the broom can be inverted and the scraper used as an auxiliary to the
ordinary bristles.
A brush or broom thus arranged and constructed according to my present
invention will be found very advantageous for use in places where dirt or foreign
substance is liable to adhere to the boots of the person using such brush for
instance in stables where moss litter is used, etc., etc.
If desired the said auxiliary brush may be dispensed with and the brooms made
with one scraper only or with two scrapers one on each side of the handle; or on
the other hand the scrapers may be dispensed with and the brooms made with two
auxiliary brushes one on each side of the handle, or one auxiliary brush only on
either side or where both scraper and brush are used according to my present
invention the scraper and brush may be fitted in any suitable manner on the
block on either side of the handle or both scraper and brush on
thereof.
one side

page_text: Dare the tufts mounted on the top and end of the back B and forming the
auxiliary brush or boot brush herein before referred to.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination with a broom or brush of the character herein before
described of a boot scraper mounted on one part of the back or body carrying the
bristles and an auxiliary brush or series of tufts carried on another part of said
back or body substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore
described.
2. The improved stable broom or brush having a scraper C and auxiliary
brush D on the back of said brush combined and arranged to act substantially in
the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 20th dow of Iul 1801
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.