An Improvement in or applicable to Brushes used for Cleaning Cycles and for like Purposes.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 21st July, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 14th Apr., 1898--Accepted, 4th June, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or applicable to Brushes used for Cleaning
Cycles and for like Purposes.
I, WILLIAM HIGGINBOTHAM, of 93, Mill Street, Macclesfield, in the County of
Chester, Brush Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This improvement relates principally to the double conical brushes having a
large brush at one end and a smaller one at the other with a handle in the centre
used for cleaning the chain and other parts of cycles and for similar purposes.
The brushes have hitherto been made with both brushes permanently fixed into
the handle, and an objection to their use has been that when using either end of
the brushes for cleaning purposes, the other brush was in the way and liable to
soil the hands or clothing of the user. The nature of my said invention and the
manner in which the same is to be performed or carried into practical effect will
be readily understood on referance to the annexed sheet of drawing and the
following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 is a side view of my improved double conical cycle brushes, and Fig. 2
is a similar view with one of the brushes removed.
a is the handle B the large brush and c the small one.
Each of these brushes is made separatly and independently of the other, the wire
outside the brush being twisted closely so as to form a screw as shown at D (Fig. 2)
by means of which the brush can be firmly attached to the handle and detached
therefrom a milled edge disc e being soldered on to the wire for convenience of screw-
ing and unscrewing, the object of the invention being that while one handle serves
for both brushes, either one of them may be unscrewed and removed so as not to
be in the way whilst the other one is being used for cleaning purposes.
An Improvement in or applicable to Brushes used for Cleaning
Cycles and for like Purposes.
I, WILLIAM HIGGINBOTHAM, of 93, Mill Street, Macclesfield, in the County of
Chester, Brush 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:—
This improvements relates to the double conical brushes having a large brush

page_text: at one end and a smaller one at the other, with a handle in the centre used for
cleaning the chain and other parts of cycles and for similar purposes.
The brushes have hitherto been made with both brushes permanently fixed into
the handle, and an objection to their use as been that when using either of the
brushes for cleaning purposes the other brush was in the way and liable to soil
the hands or clothing of the user.
The nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be per-
formed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on refering to
the drawing left with the Provisional Specification.
Fig. is a side view of my improved double conical cycle brushes, and Fig. 2
is a similar view with one of the brushes removed.
a is the handle B the large brush and c the small one.
Each of these brushes is made seperately and independently of the other, the wire
outside the brush being twisted closely so as to form a screw, as shown at 1) Fig. 2
by means of which the brush can be firmly attached to the handle and detached
therefrom, a milled edge disc e being twisted in with the wire by means of two
holes drilled through the disc to allow the wire to pass through, for convenience
of screwing and unscrewing; the object of the invention being that while one
handle serves for both brushes either one of them may be unscrewed and removed,
so as not to be in the way whilst the other one is being used for cleaning purposes.
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:-
The double conical brush with the brushes made removable substantially in the
manner and for the purposes herein before set forth.
Dated this 13th day of April 1898.
WILLIAM HIGGINBOTHAM.