IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EM- 17
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John George Horsey, of Nos. 55 and 57, Broad
Wall, Stamford Street, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EM-
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said John George Horsey at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 21st June 1872, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
GEORGE HORSEY, of Nos. 55 and 57, Broad Wall, Stamford Street, in
the County of Surrey, Gentleman, send greeting.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for
THE MACHINERY OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN THE Manufacture oF BRUSHES AND
BROOMS," and have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my exe-

page_text: cutors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the
same, and have made solemn Declaration that I am the true and first
Inventor thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John George Horsey, do
hereby declare that the following Complete Specification, under my hand
and seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed in and by the follow-
ing statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
My Invention relates to all kinds of brushes and brooms which are :
formed by inserting into stocks or blocks of wood, bone, or other suitable
substances tufts or knots of bristles, bass, fibres, and other similar
materials fastened by a peculiar method to such stocks or blocks.
In my Patent for "An Improved Method in the Manufacture of
Brushes and Brooms," 1870, No. 3145, I have described several methods
of fixing the tufts or knots of bristles, bass, fibres, and other similar
materials to stocks or blocks, and with reference to the Drawing attached
to the Specification of the said Patent, Figure F. shows a block having
the hole to receive the tuft drilled by an ordinary drill; I have also
shown several modes of applying the wire that fixes the tufts into the 2
block. B shews a curved piece of wire. I can also use by means of
the machine herein-after described a straight piece of wire.
My Invention relates to the description of punch I use in order to
insert the bass or fibre into the stock of the brush or broom, and which
I have shown in detail in the Drawing accompanying this Specification. 2
Figure A. is a side view of punch about to descend, having doubled
the bass or other fibre ff, and having received the wire (painted red).
u, a, is the fixed or proper punch; b, b, are sliding sides terminating
with forked ends d, d, which hold the bass or fibre as at c.
The action of the punch may be thus described:-Having received its 3
wire and fibre (as in Figure A.) it descends upon the stock of brush or
broom g, g. The forked ends d, d, of sliding sides b, b, first come into
contact and can descend no further. The punch proper a, a, then
descends into the hole or perforation of stock h, carrying with it the

page_text: wire and fibre, and securing them both therein, then ascends again to
receive another wire and tuft or knot. To prevent the sliding sides b, b,
at once rising upon the return upwards of the punch I put a spiral
spring upon the bar e, or other similar or equivalent mechanical arrange-
ment. Upon the descent of the punch, and when the sliding sides b, b,
come into contact with the stock of the brush or broom, this spring is
compressed by a stop piece at the top, which stop piece is fixed above
the punch proper a, a¹, and moving therewith; and upon the punch
proper a, a, rising again to the position drawn in Figure A. both punch,
sliding sides, and spring ascend together.
There are several methods of attaching these sliding sides to the punch.
To describe one method I cut a groove or slot through the punch proper
a, a², and rivet the two sliding sides together through it by a pin running
or sliding up and down in it. Upon the rising of the punch (after
depositing knot or tuft in the stock) it is the bottom of this slot or groove
coming into contact with the said pin or rivet that takes up the sliding
sides with the punch proper a, a¹.
The opening c between the forked ends of the sliding sides may
shown in Drawing, or square as shown at i.
be as
Figure B. is a front view of punch in same position as in Figure A.
Figure C. shows punch when quite down to full extent. The dotted
line across would be the surface of stock of brush g, g, the end of the
punch may be either flat or curved as at k; if curved I would adopt a
curved form as described in my said former Patent.
The dotted lines at 7 and 1, Figure B., shew the position of the feeding
table. The fibre or bass is fed from 2 in tufts or knots of the required
thickness and lengths before being doubled, and the wire is fed from A,
and is cut to the required lengths. The wire is placed cross wise over
the centre of the bass or fibre before it is doubled, the forked ends of the
sliding sides and the punch then carry the two down together, doubling
the bass or fibre as shown in Figure A.
The punch a is fixed into the plunger at a³, Figure A., and is worked
up and down either by hand, or by steam, or other motive power.
The feeding apparatus for passing the bass or fibre under the punch
and for cutting and passing on the wire over the bass or fibre are well

page_text: known and need no particular description, and are not claimed by me;
but what I claim is, the form of punch with the sliding sides, for the
purpose substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John George Horsey, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of June, One 5
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
JOHN G. HORSEY. (L.S.)