An Improvement applicable to Brushes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 24th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 7th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement applicable to Brushes.
We GEORGE HOWARD and JAMES HOWARD both of Rock Street New Mills in
the County of Derby Painters and Decorators do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is applicable principally to brushes known as "Turk's-head"
brushes used for washing, liming, painting, and other purposes, but it is also
applicable to other forms of brushes used for similar purposes, the object of the
invention being to enable the head or brush-stock to be firmly and securely attached
to, and also set at any required angle to the handle, or in a direct line with it when
required.
For the purposes of our invention we make a metallic socket (preferably conical)
for attaching to the end of the handle by means of metallic screws or otherwise.
The top of this socket is made in a circular form with flat sides.
This flat head fits in a notch in a bell shaped piece of metal, and is connected
thereto by a central pin so as to form a hinge; above the pin we tap a screwed
hole parallel to the pin into which we insert a metal screw the end of which takes
into holes in (or presses against the sides of) the flat head, so that by loosening
the said screw the bell piece may be turned on the hinge pin to any angle and then
fixed by tightening the screw.
The wooden brush-stock is fixed by screws to the flat end or face of the bell
shaped piece.
It will be obvious that slight modifications will have to be made in the exact
form of this appliance to suit the different forms of brush, but the principal feature
will always remain the same ciz. a jointed metallic attachment connecting the
brush stock to the handle and capable of being adjusted and fixed at any angle
required.
Dated this 27th day of January 1891.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement applicable to Brushes.
We GEORGE HOWARD and JAMES HOWARD both of Rock Street New Mills in
the County of Derby Painters and Decorators, 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 is applicable principally to brushes known as "Turk's-head "
brushes used for washing, liming, painting, and other purposes, but it is also
applicable to other forms of brushes used for similar purposes, the object of the
invention being to enable the head or brush-stock to be firmly and securely attached
to, and also set at any required angle to the handle or in a direct line with it when
required.
The nature of our said invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference to
the annexed sheet of drawings and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 on the annexed drawing is a side view of my improved appliance as adapted
Turk's-head" brush, part of the handle being broken away. The brush is
to a

page_text: represented as fixed at an angle of about forty five degrees, the dotted lines showing
the other positions in which it can be fixed.
Figs. 2 and 3 are detached views of portions of the same as hereinafter
referred to.
For the purposes of our invention we make a metallic socket a Fig. 2 (preferably
conical) for attaching to the end of the handle a¹ by means of metallic screws or
otherwise. The top of this socket is made in a circular form with flat sides as shown
at Fig. 2.
j
This flat head fits in a notch in a bell shaped piece of metal e Figs. 1 and 3 and
is connected thereto by a central pin so as to form a hinge (see Fig. 1); above the
pin we tap a screwed hole (Fig. 1) parallel to the pin into which we insert a
metal screw the end of which takes into holes in (or presses against the sides
of) the flat head so that by loosening the said screw d the bell piece c may be turned
on the hinge pin to any angle as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 1 and then
fixed by tightening the screw.
1.
The wooden-brush stock e is fixed by screws to the flat end or face c' of the bell
shaped piece Fig. 3.
It will be obvious that slight modifications will have to be, made in the exact
form of this appliance to suit the different forms of brush, but the principal feature
will always remain the same.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
A jointed metallic attachment connecting the brush stock to the handle and
capable of being adjusted and fixed by a screw at any angle required substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawing annexed.
Dated this 23rd day of October 1891.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.