AN IMPROVED METHOD OF SECURING BROOKS OR BRUSHES TO THEIR HANDLES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Martin, Fustian Cutter, of the City of
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of
" AN IMPROVED METHOD OF SECURING BROOKS OR BRUSHES TO THEIR
HANDLES."
Sealed the 15th February 1876, and dated the 5th October 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Martin at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th October 1875.
I, WILLIAM MARTIN, Fustian Cutter, of the City of Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF SECURING BROOMS OR BRUSHES TO
THEIR HANDLES,” to be as follows :—
•
At the bottom end of the broom or brush handle I place or fix a ferrule
of brass or other metal, such ferrule having a screw thread turned on its
exterior. The handle is then inserted in the broom or brush head by
sorewing the ferrule into the socket, the socket being made rather

page_text: smaller than the ferrule to enable the screw to cut its way into the wood
and thereby hold the broom or brush head perfectly secure.
The ferrule may be fastened to the handle by a screw. or rivet, or
any other suitable means.
By this improvement the broom or brush head cannot fall off the
handle, and a source of much inconvenience and annoyance is thereby
avoided.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Martin in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th April 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
MARTIN, Fustian Cutter, of the City of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Martin, Her special
licenco, that I, the said William Martin, my executors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Martin,
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 METHOD OF SECURING BROOMS OR BRUSHES TO THEIR HANDLES,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Martin,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
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 1, the said William Martin, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is

page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
The object of this Invention is to prevent the annoyance now
experienced by the falling off of the broom head, for when once the
ferrule is fixed to the handle it will last out numbers of broom heads
and remain to the last the one length, it being only requisite to
unscrew out of the one head and screw into the other.
At the bottom end of the broom or brush handle I place or fix a
ferrule of brass or other metal, such ferrule having a screw thread
turned on its exterior. The handle is then inserted in the broom or
brush head by screwing the ferrule into the socket, the socket being
made rather smaller than the ferrule to enable the screw to cut its way
into the wood and thereby hold the broom or brush head perfectly
secure.
The ferrule may be fastened to the handle by a screw or rivet, or any
other suitable means.
By this improvement the broom or brush head cannot fall off the
handle, and a source of much inconvenience and annoyance is thereby
avoided.
And in order that my said Invention may be properly understood
reference is made to the annexed Drawing, wherein Figure 1 represents
my broom handle fixed in a broom; Figure 2 shews the handle out of
the broom, shewing ferrule with screw thread thereon; and Figure 3
shews section of same.
Having thus described the nature and object of my said Invention, I
declare that what I claim and desire to be secured to me by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent is, the improved method of securing
brooms or brushes to, their handles, substantially as herein-before
described and shewn on Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Martin, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this First day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
WILLIAM MARTIN.
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