Improved Means for Fastening the Handles of Brooms and Brushes in the Heads thereof.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 26th June. 1894
Complete Specification Left, 26th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 27th Apr. 1895
Improved Means for Fastening the Handles of Brooms and Brushes
in the Heads thereof.
I CYRUS SLATER, of 55, Belgrave Road, Oldham, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improved means for fastening the handles of brooms, and
brushes in the heads thereof, and has for its object to allow of the heads of such
brooms or brushes being reversed or turned round so as to present to the front those
bristles which were at the rear to compensate for the wear and tear of the brushes
constituting the front sweeping part, which as is well known get worn down to a
more considerable degree than those bristles that are in the rear of the head.
According to my invention, I provide a metal or other socket, terminating in an
enlarged base, the socket proper preferably being oblique or slanting in relation to
the position of such base.
Said socket is designed to receive the broom or brush-handle which would be
secured therein by means of screws or their equivalent and the base of such socket
is vertically pierced to receive set or similar screws.
The bottom surface of the socket-base, is smooth, and adapted to rest upon a
circular or other plate formed upon or fixed to the upper part of a bent plate or
saddle, and raised somewhat above same, such bent plate or saddle being designed
to fit upon or straddle the upper part of a broom or brush-head.
The socket portion is secured to the raised plate of the saddle aforesaid, by
means of set, thumb or the like screws which pass through the holes provided
therefor in the socket base as beforementioned into corresponding holes in the
raised plate of the bent plate or saddle, which latter is fixed to the broom or brush-
head, by screws or any other suitable means.
By the above arrangement, the socket-portion can be unscrewed from the lower
or saddle-plate, and the broom or brush-head then turned round or reversed, so as
to bring the rear portion of the bristles or sweeping part of such broom or brush-
head, to the front.
Dated this 26th day of June 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
12, Basinghall Street, London,
Improved Means for Fastening the Handles of Brooms and Brushes
in the Heads thereof.
I, CYRUS SLATER, of 55 Belgrave Road, Oldham, Gentleman, 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:-
My invention relates to improved means for fastering the handles of brooms and
brushes in the heads thereof, and has for its object a mode whereby both ends of
the hair composing the broom or the like may be fully worn.

page_text: Referring to the drawings in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts,
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of one portion of my invention, and
Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the other part of my invention, whilst
Fig. 3 is also a sectional elevation shewing my improved fastening attached to a
broom.
a is a casing made of any suitable metal or material having at the part a' any
suitable number of holes a², to receive screws a³ or the like, whereby the attach-
ment a is fastened to the broom or the like d. To a is fastened (or formed integral
therewith), a plate of suitable shape preferably circular bearing any suitable
number of holes 61 (preferably three), for the purpose of fixing thereto the piece c.
These plates b and c may be fastened together by set-screws 62 as shewn in Fig. 3,
or any equivalent means may be employed.
The part a is screwed or attached to the broom d in any suitable manner, the
plate is attached to the plate b, and the handle e is placed in the cylindrical part
of c, and secured in place preferably by a screw as shewn in Fig. 3.
When one side of the hair 11 of the broom is worn considerably, the set-screws
or the like are removed, and the plate c (with the handle e) is reversed, the bolts
or the like being then replaced, thus allowing the part of the hair to be worn
in turn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
CLAIMS.
1. The improved means for securing the handles of brooms, brushes and the like
to the heads thereof, substantially as hereinbefore set forth and described with
reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings.
2. The combination of the portion a, with the plate c, for attaching handles to
the heads of brooms, brushes and the like, substantially as described with reference
to the accompanying sheet of drawings.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.