An Improved Device Applicable to Brushes for Painting, Varnishing, or similar other Employments or Purposes.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1887.
Complete Left, 15th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 23rd Sept., 1887.
An Improved Device Applicable to Brushes for Painting,
Varnishing, or similar other Employments or Purposes.
We THOMAS MURGATROYD, of Cold Shaw, Haworth, Yorkshire, Painter and JAMES
TURNER of Cross Roads, near Haworth aforesaid Painter do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows, that is :-
Heretofore it has been customary to wrap the bristles or hairs of brushes for
painting, varnishing, etc., with string or wire down to within a suitable distance from
their outer or loose ends, unwinding the same so as to shorten the distance thus
wrapped as the said bristles or hairs have become shorter by being worn, the same
being well known in the trade as a bridle.
The act of said wrapping being tedious as well as requiring considerable time to
perform, is entirely avoided by the application of our invention, which consists of a
piece of sheet metal formed to clasp the said bristles or hairs in a suitable manner,
having a hook or hooks attached thereto and suitable openings made therein so as to
be enabled to be altered to suit the variable thicknesses of the brush to which it is
applied, or in some instances to suit various or several sizes of brushes.
As will be seen this metal clasp may be slided or moved bodily to recede from the
outer ends of the bristles or hairs as they become shorter as above described, and may
be held in any of these positions by a hook or hooks laying hold of the brush's handle
or by being nailed or tacked thereto.

page_text: Varnishing, or similar other Employments or Purposes.
We, THOMAS MURGATROYD of Cold Shaw, Haworth, in the County of York,
Painter, and JAMES TURNER of Cross Roads near Haworth aforesaid, Painter, 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:-
Heretofore it has been customary to wrap the bristles or hairs of brushes for
painting, with string or wire down to within a suitable distance from their outer or
loose ends, unwinding same so as to shorten the distance thus wrapped as the said
bristles or hairs have become shorter by being worn, said wrappings being well known
in the trade as "bridles." The act of said wrapping being tedious as well as
occupying considerable time in performance, is entirely avoided by the application of
our invention, and in order that this said invention may be more readily understood
we have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof wherein fig. 1 is a
side view of a common and well known kind of paint brush with our improved bridle
attached, fig. 2 being a similar view of another well known kind of brush also with
our bridle attached, and figs. 3 and 4 are detail drawings of said bridle, while fig. 5 is
a perspective view thereof.
The bridle consists of a piece of sheet metal a shaped as shown by fig. 3 so that it
might be made to clasp the bristles or hairs of the brush; said piece of sheet metal a
having a hook e formed thereon (or if desired two or more hooks might be attached
or formed thereon), and openings d made therein so that when said piece a is made
to clasp the bristle or hairs 6 said hook c may be made to enter one or the other of the
openings d and lay hold of the one of the intervening parts e; in this manner since
several openings are made therein said bridle is made to suit the variable thicknesses
of brushes to which it might be applied, or in some instances to suit various or several
sizes of brushes.
As will be seen this bridle a may be slided or moved bodily to recede from the
outer ends of the bristles or hairs b as they become shorter as above described, and
may be held in any one of these positions by a hook or hooks f laying hold of the
brush's handle or by being nailed or tacked thereto.
.
The bridle a is formed of the shape illustrated by fig. 3 when in its opened or
unbent state so that when bent as for clasping the bristles b it is of a taper cylindrical
form in order to clasp more firmly the outer ends of said bristles b. To enhance the
durability and strength of said bridles the books c and the intervening parts e are
made double the thickness of the other parts as shown by figs. 4 and 5.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim is :—
1. The metal clasp a constructed as described, having a hook e attached thereto
and openings & made therein, said hook e being to lay hold of the intervening parts e
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
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2. The metal clasp a constructed with the hook e and the intervening parts e double
the thickness of the other parts, in combination with a brush substantially as and for
the purpose specified.