Improvements in Brooms.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 6th June, 1895-Accepted, 20th July, 1895
I, JAMES ROSS GILBERT of Park Street, Kissimme City, Osceola County,
Florida, U.S.A., Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
The broom of this invention is formed of an open wire frame head with divergent
sides connected by cross bars, and fibres such as broom corn or palmetto or the like
after being doubled together at the middle of their length are laced or twisted into
the wire head and cross bars the bottom one of which latter forms a clamping bar
for clamping the fibres against the lower outwardly bent edge of the frame. The two
ends of the wire composing the frame are carried up side by side in a central line
above the broom head to form a tang or handle.
Dated this 8th day of September 1894.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Brooms.
I, JAMES ROSS GILBERT of Park Street, Kissimme City, Osceola County,
Florida, U.S.A., Clerk, 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 :-
In the broom of this invention it is desirable to use palmetto in lieu of the
ordinary broom corn but other materials may be employed. The main object of
the invention is to produce a clamp or holder to which the palmetto, broom corn,
or equivalent fibre may be readily and quickly attached and to provide means for
readily replacing the fibre when worn.
In the drawing Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a broom head embodying this
invention. Fig. 2 a vertical transverse section of the same. Fig. 3 a perspective
view of the clamp.
The body portion of the clamp which comprises the yoke 1, the slightly divergent
sides 2, the offset connecting bar 3 and the tang 4, is formed of a single piece of
wire of which the ends 5 lie parallel with and contiguous to one another to form
said tang. The sides are connected by the parallel transverse upper and lower
bars 6, 7, which in practice are prevented from slipping downward by the divergence
of the sides, which they engage by eyes 8. The bar 3 is offset laterally to form a
pocket for the reception of the fibre, a clamping bar 9 being provided to close the
open side of the pocket and hold the fibre from displacement, said clamping bar
being formed with hooks 10 to engage the sides of the clamp. 11 is the fibre
which at the middle of its length is doubled upon itself to form loops which are
engaged by the upper transverse bar 6. The arms of each loop are then crossed
and passed upon opposite sides of the lower transverse bar below which the arms of
the loops are engaged between the offset bar 3 and the removable clamping bar 9.
Di

page_text: The described arrangement of parts secures the fibre without auxiliary fastening
devices and when the fibre becomes worn and useless it may be replaced with facility
after removing the clamping bar.
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
1. A broom clamp having a body portion provided with downwardly divergent
sides connected at their lower extremities by an offset bar forming a pocket, spaced
parallel transverse bars connecting said sides above the said offset bar, and a
removable clamping bar connecting the sides at their lower extremities to close the
open side of said pocket, substantially as described and shewn.
2. A broom clamp comprising a body portion having downwardly divergent sides
and terminating at its lower end in a pocket provided with a removable side and
transversely disposed spaced bars provided with eyes slideably mounted upon said
divergent sides, and adapted to be tightened by drawing them downward, substan-
tially as described and shewn.
3. The combination with a broom clamp provided with parallel spaced bars and
a subjacent clamping pocket, of fibre doubled at the middle of its length and
engaging the upper transverse bar, and having its sides crossed between the said
transverse bars, passed upon opposite sides of the lower transverse bar, and
extending downwardly through said pocket, substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 6th day of June 1895.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.