Improvements in the Manufacture of Brooms.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 19th Jan., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by THE PENINSULAR BROOM COMPANY, of
92, West Larned Street, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America,
Manufacturers.]
Improvements in the Manufacture of Brooms.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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:-
The invention consists in the novel method of manufacturing brooms, and the
method consists in the steps employed in forming the body of the broom, and
further in the steps employed in securing the covering and body corn to the handle
and in applying the covering to the body, as more fully hereinafter described.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is an end elevation of the clamping machine in which the body is formed
and showing the frame in position.
Fig. 2 is a view of the receiving block of the clamp, as shown in Fig. 1, the
corn and handle being in position the ends of the frame bent to form books to
engage over the handle.
Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the corn compressed ready to receive the frame.
Fig. 4 is a cross section on line xx Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is a plan showing the broom with the body covering secured thereto.
Fig. 6 is a cross section through Fig. 5 taken at the bridle or frame.
Fig. 7 shows the covering turned over the body and
Fig. 8 shows the finished article.
In the present state of the art it is necessary to use skilled labor at all steps,
first, to bind the corn to the handle while revolving, by a binding wire,―next, to
form the shoulders on the body to give the desired shape and finally to apply the
covering and sew the broom.
In manufacturing the broom I employ a clamping machine as shown in Fig. 1
comprising the base A, the stationary recessed jaw B and the movable jaw C
baving suitable actuating devices. The jaw C is, composed of two separated bars a
as shown in Fig. 4. In the sides of the stationary jaw B are guide slots b.
D is a metallic bar rod or strip bent into U shape, or into the shape of a staple
and of a size between the lugs thereof equal to the desired width of the broom.
The staple or frame D thus formed I engage into the guide ways in the stationary
jaw of the clamping machine and in this frame I place the butted ends of the corn,
from which a broom is to be manufactured.
I next insert the butt end of the handle E into the corn as near the center
thereof as possible. I then form on the ends of the frame hooks or bends F.
The movable jaw C of the clamp is provided with a central notch G. The
movable jaw of the clamp is then brought over the corn in a stationary jaw and
power applied to compress the corn as shown in Fig. 3. The ends of the frame
are then bent down over the corn with the hooks engaging over the handle, as
shown in Fig. 6, and power is applied to the frame between the bars a of the
clamp to press it tightly upon the compressed corn in the clamp.
This I preferably do by employing a hammer or die, striking hard upon the
frame to give it the desired shape.

page_text: I next drive suitable staples c into the haudle over the ends of the frame, thus
holding them in proper relation to the handle.
The body of the broom is then released from the clamp and the opposite side is
treated in the same manner. Thus will produce a rigid frame or bridle secured to
the handle and tightly clamp the corn thereto, beside giving it the desired shape,
the cross-section thereof being substantially as shown in Fig. 6.
The ends of the body corn are evened before securing them by the frame to the
.handle.
The covering may now be applied to the frame in any desired manuer to produce
the finished article shown in Fig. 8.
The covering is shown at G Figs. 4 and 5 with the parts extending upwardly
parallel with the handles. It is applied to the handles either before or after the
body is secured as may be found expedient. When the cover and body have been
properly secured the former is turned over the latter, as shown in Fig. 7, and then
properly secured in place on the handle by means of a ferrule as shown at H in
Fig. 7 and firmly secured or in any other suitable manner.
It will be observed in forming the body I first compress the corn in an open
frame, then form the frame around the corn and handle, clamping it thereon and
finally securing the covering over the body. This I consider broadly to be my
invention.
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. The herein described method of manufacturing brooms which consists in first
compressing the corn around the end of the handle, in an open metallic frame, next
in forming the frame around the butts of the compressed corn to clamp the corn in
the frame, securing the frame to the handle, and finally applying the cover upon
the body.
2. The herein described method of manufacturing brooms which consists in first
compressing the corn around the end of the handle in an open frame, next in
forming the frame around the butts of the compressed corn to clamp the corn in
the frame, securing the frame to the handle, securing the cover to the handle above
the body with the points extending upwards, and finally turning the cover over the
body and securing the same thereto.
3. The method of forming broom heads which consists in securing the covering
to the handle at a point above the lower end thereof with the points extending
upward, securing the body to the handle below the butts, and finally securing the
covering over the body.
Dated this 18th dow of December 1901
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.