Improvements relating to Broom and Brush Making Machines.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 4th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 6th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Broom and Brush Making Machines.
I JOHN GEORGE HORSEY of Corcelles, Bromley Grove, Shortlands, Kent,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
For the purpose of my invention I mount a brush stock in a frame or holder and
by connection through rods to a distant point I can regulate the swing of the
holder from a point corresponding with that described by the desired circum-
ferential line of the angles at which the tufts of fibres are to appear from the
surface of the brush stock when completed.
This frame or holder has a template which is provided with recesses following
a given make of brush or broom. Behind the template is a pivot or fixed stop for
entering the recesses as desired.
The template is suspended from a counterpoise and its free connection with the
frame enables it to be moved to any position so that the holes need not be bored
to any fixed order as with mechanical boring machines.
The drill or boring tool is controlled by a foot pedal and a cam block determines
the depth of the holes.
The stock holder is applicable to tuft filling machines by moving it over a
curved bed plate for longitudinal and for transverse filling corresponding to the
angles at which the holes had been bored or drilled.
1002
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said J. G. Horsey.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Broom and Brush Making Machines.
I, JOHN GEORGE HORSEY, of Corcelles, Bromley Grove, Shortlands, Kent,
Manufacturer, 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 :-
For the purpose of my invention, I mount a brush stock in a frame or holder
and by connection through rods to a distant point, I can regulate the swing of the
holder from a point corresponding with that described by the desired circumferential
line of the angles at which the tufts of fibres are to appear from the surface of the
brush stock when completed. This frame or holder has a template, which is
Behind the
provided with recesses following a given make of brush or broom.
template is a pivot or fixed stop for entering the recesses, as desired. The template
is suspended from a counterpoise, and its free connection with the frame enables it
to be moved to any position, so that the holes need not be bored to any fixed order,
as with mechanical boring machines. The drill or boring tool is controlled by a
foot pedal, and a cam block determines the depth of the holes.
The stock holder is applicable to tuft filling machines by moving it over a
curved bed plate for longitudinal, and for transverse filling corresponding to the
angles at which the holes had been bored or drilled.

page_text: Figure 1 of the annexed drawings is a side elevation of my machine as hereinbefore
described, and showing the arrangement for vertical radial boring.
Figure 2 plan diagram of the horizontal radial movement of the holder.
Figure 3 a detached view of the stock holder or clamp.
Figure 4 a back view of the holder and its frame. Figure 5 a plan thereof.
Figures 6, 7, and 8, are side elevation, end elevation, and plan respectively of the
stock holder suitable for use in a tuft inserting machine, showing an arrangement
for bringing the various angled holes in the stock in a vertical position in the tuft
inserting machine.
A, A, are pedestals free to be moved to and fro by hand on the base or table B.
The upper end of the pedestals carry a rocking bar C, in which the arms D, D,
have their fixture when adjusted. The ends E, E, of these arms have counter-
poise F, F, and the opposite ends G, G, have the stock frame H secured. The
ends G, G, also carry a template I which has as many holes or indents in it as
there are to be made in the stock J, which is clamped in the frame H, Figure 3,
by the right and left hand screw rod K. The rocking bar C has an upright L
connected to a horizontal bar M suspended from another bar N by the tee piece P,
the bar N being free to be moved in a slot of the plate Q from overhead, all of
such appliances are in balance by the counterpoise F, F. R is a bracket with a
fixed pointer S, and it is back to this pointer that the template I can be drawn to
fix the stock at the proper position for the hole to be made. The attendant then
presses down the pedal T for the cam block U to throw the augur V forward and
make the hole. The attendant has control of the ends G, G, and can depress, or
raise them to suit the indent in the template, into which the pointer S has to be
arranged.
The pointer S is directly horizontal with the centre line of the pivotal bar C,
so that as the attendant raises or lowers the frame G, the face of the stock is
inclined at a vertical angle, proportionate to the distance the template is from its
pivotal point C. The holes made by the augur all along the edges can be made at
any angle that may be desired by adjusting the rod D in the bar C. The stock
is also inclined at a horizontal angle from the pivotal point N as indicated by the
dotted lines, Figure 2, and is adjustable by moving the rod M in or out of the
tee P.
With reference to Figures 6, 7 and 8, the stock holder is clamped in the frame H,
and has a duplex radial action sideways over the curved bars a, a, upon which the
frame H is supported by the wheels b, b. The frame H and curved bars a, a, move
bodily endways in the slots c of the side frame d, d. The radii of the curved
bars a, a, and of the slot c is the same as that used in connection with the vertical
and horizontal movements respectively of the frame H in Figure 1.
By adopting the above apparatus in connection with a tuft inserting machine, I
am enabled to cause the stock in the holder H to incline its face at any desired
angle for the purpose of bringing the various angled holes, bored by the
apparatus, herein before described, vertically under the plunger of the tuft inserting
machine.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The apparatus hereinbefore described and shown for adjusting brush and
broom stocks for the holes to be bored radially from one or more fixed points as
set forth.
2. Giving a radial motion vertically, and a radial motion horizontally at will of
an attendant, to a brush or broom stock carrier, prior to the hole being bored by
a movable augur controlled by a cam, as described with reference to the annexed
drawings, or any equivalent thereof.
3. Constructing a frame adapted to be moved from two fixed centres the angular
movement being adjustable for presenting the face of a brush or broom stock at a

page_text: desired vertical or horizontal angle to the augur, as and for the purpose described
and substantially as shown on the drawings.
4. The employment of the clamping appliance claimed as part of the before
mentioned machine in which the stocks can be moved and the holes presented to a
tuft filling machine, the clamp being movable on a duplex curved bed, the curves
of which are struck from the same radii from two centres at which the stock is
bored, as set forth with reference to Figures 6, 7, and 8 of the annexed drawings.
The 4th day of December 1902
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said J. G. Horsey.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said J. G. Horsey.