AN IMPROVED MODE OF BINDING UP. BROOMS, TOGETHER WITH THE MACHINE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Stevens, Manager of the British & Foreign
Office for Patents, No. 1³, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MODE OF
BINDING UP. BROOMS, TOGETHER WITH THE MACHINE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE."
_ A communication from abroad by Perrin de Caderousse, of 42, Rue
Laffite, Paris, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 25th January 1861, and dated the 8th August 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Stevens at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th August 1860.
I, CHARLES STEVENS, Manager of the British & Foreign Office for Patents,
No. 13, Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the-nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF
BINDING UP BROOMS, TOGETHER WITH THE MACHINE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE," (&
that it has been communicated to me from abroad by Perrin de Caderousse, of
42, Rue Laffite, Paris, in the Empire of France,) to be as follows:-
The improvement consists in substituting ligatures of tin, zinc, or other suit-
able metal for the cane or osier bindings at present employed, & which, not
being strong and becoming easily unfastened, the broom is soon destroyed.
These metal ligatures or fastenings on being adjusted to the broom give a
solidity not hitherto obtainable. They are fixed to the broom by means of a
machine for that purpose, which is composed as follows:-A large table about

page_text: 8 feet long by 3 feet 4 inches wide, is supported on a small framework; two
strong clasps are placed at each extremity of the table, the section of the clasps
having the form and size of the ligatures to be formed, cords are adjusted to the
end of the arms of the clasps & pass over pullies placed at each side of the table,
and are then attached to the treadles by which the workman sets the clasps in
motion. Designs cut out and paintings give an elegant finish to the bindings
or ligatures, the plates of which are closed by soldering, as the case may
require..
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Stevens in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th
February 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE, PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
STEVENS, Manager of the British & Foreign Office for Patents, 1B, Welbeck
Street, Cavendish Square, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
"WHEREAS Her most Excellent-Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Stevens, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Stevens, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Stevens, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term 'therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man; an Invention for "AN IMPROVED MODE OF
BINDING UP BROOMS, TOGETHER WITH THE MACHINE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE," (a
communication to me from abroad by Perrin de Caderousse, of 42, Rue Laffitte;
Paris, in the Empire of France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Charles Stevens, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing.under my, or their, or one of their bands and seals, should particu-
larly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Stevens, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
-per-

page_text: formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
The object of the present Invention is an improved method of tying up
brooms, by substituting tin, zinc, or other suitable metallic ligatures (see Figs.
3 & 6 in the annexed Drawings) for the cane and osier bindings hitherto used,
which, being of little strength and becoming easily unfastened, cause the broom
to be soon destroyed. The improved metallic bindings are adapted to the
broom by means of a machine constructed for the purpose, and give it a strength
and firmness not hitherto attainable. The bindings may be ornamented with
carvings, as represented, Fig. 6, or may be painted in various figures.
The machine employed (represented end view, Fig. 1, and longitudinally,
Fig. 2) consists of a table, A, about 8 feet long by 3 feet 4 inches wide, sup-
ported on a light framework, as indicated in the Drawings. At each end of
this table two strong clasps are placed, (a, Figs. 1 & 2, and in detail, Figs. 4
& 5,) the inner sections of which correspond with the form and dimensions of
the bindings to be employed. Cords, B, are adjusted to the extremities of the
arms of these clasps, and pass over the pullies C, fixed to the cross beam D,
then over the pullies E, placed at each side of the table, and are finally
attached to the treadles F, by means of which the workman sets the clasps in
motion.
The plates of the ligatures may be soldered in various manners, according to
requirement.
Having thus described my Invention, and the manner in which the same
may be carried into effect, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent
is, the employment of metallic ligatures or fastenings for binding up brooms,
together with the apparatus employed in the operation, as above described and
represented in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Stevens, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventh day of. February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
CHARLES STEVENS (10)
CHARLES STEVENS (1)