Improvements in the Manufacture of Brushes, Mats, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1897-Accepted, 22nd May, 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Brushes, Mats, and the like.
I JOHN FREDERICK COOKE FARQUHAR, of George Street, Parramatta, in the Colony
of New South Wales, Engineer, WALTER JOSEPH GILES, of George Street,
Parramatta aforesaid, Tobacconist, and EDWARD MARSHALL of George Street,
Parramatta, aforesaid, Hotel Proprietor, 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:-
This invention relates to certain improvements in brushes mats and the like whereby
is produced a brush or mat or the like which can be more easily and more thoroughly
cleansed than such articles heretofore in use.
These improvements in the manufacture of brushes mats and the like consist first
in so constructing them that they may be uncoiled or unroiled or unfolded or taken
apart in a length or a series of lengths of tufts for cleansing purposes and again
coiled rolled folded or put together into the original form. These improvements
consist secondly in the particular combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter
specifically set forth.
But in order that this invention may be clearly understood reference will now be
made to the drawings herewith in which
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hair or flesh brush constructed out of an
endless length of tufts according to this invention.
Figures 2 and 3 are reverse plans of mats or brushes constructed of endless lengths
of tufts. the first compressed into a rigid frame after being folded or rolled or coiled
and the second held by wires after being folded or rolled or coiled,
Figure 4 is a side elevation of part of a length of "stock" containing tufts and
Figure 4 is a plan of the same.
Figure 5 is a similar view to Figure 4 of a modified construction of "stock" length
and Figure 5A is a plan of same.
Figure 6 is a similar view to Figures 4 and 5 showing a further modification of
stock length and Figure 6A is a sectional elevation of the same.
Referring to Figures 4 and 4ª the "main" stock length C is made of leather or
canvas or other flexible and suitable material having therein cuts or slots through
which is reeved a subsidiary stock length or drawing band C 1 of leather or suitable
material which forms loops or draw pieces C2 in which are placed as ordinarily the
tufts D of bristles or wires. The tufts D are made as ordinarily and have a drawing
wire D 1 passing through the head of the tufts so as to prevent the bristles or wires
from being pulled outwardly. There may be also as shown a lower wire D 2 for
similar purposes.
Referring to Figures 5 and 54 the main stock length C is punctured only and the
tufts D are fastened thereto by cords or wires E reeved through said punctures having
also the draw wires D1 and D2 to prevent the withdrawal of the tufts or the bristles
or hair forming the same.
In Figures 6 and 6ª the main stock length C is supplemented by a subsidiary stock
length or band C1 which is sewn thereto at one edge as at C5. The bristles or
wires D are then placed between the two stock lengths either in tufts or in a
continuous row and the stock lengths C and C1 sewn together through the bristles or
wires as at 2 and 3 there being if necessary or desirable à drawing wire through the
ufts or the continuous row of bristles.

page_text: It will be seen as shown in Figures 2 and 3 that a continuous length of the main
stock length C with band C1 or with wires E may be folded or rolled or coiled in
many ways and squeezed or pressed into a rigid frame to form a brush or mat as in
Figure 2 or be fastened by screws, rods or wires to form a brush or mat as
in Figure 3. To form a brush as in Figure 1 the main stock length C and band C1
(as shewn in Figures 6 and 6) is rolled upon itself and terminates in a tongue
as C4 which passes through and is fastened by a buckle C 3.
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Brushes or mats or the like may be rolled up as shown in Figure 1 or they may
be made in oblong oval circular or any other frame in like manner to those shown
in Figures 2 and 3. They may be fitted with movable solid backs with or without
handles and they may be strengthened in any manner desirable. In use for cleansing
the brushes or mats or the like the "stock is detached from the buckle (as in
Figure 1) or from the frames (as in Figures 2 and 3) by pressing therethrough and
it is uncoiled unrolled unfolded or taken apart in a continuous length or lengths
or series of lengths when the tufts of bristles wires or the like may be easily and
thoroughly washed or otherwise cleansed. It is to be understood that we do not
confine ourselves to any particular shape or size of brushes mats or the like
constructed according to this invention nor to any particular shape or size of the
component parts of such brushes mats or the like so long as the nature of our
invention be retained. Instead of the leather or canvas or other material having
perforations therein for holding the tufts it is contemplated that hairs or bristles
should be firmly held in elastic or semi-elastic material. This elastic or semi-elastic
material may be of such description that when heated the tufts or bristles may be
inserted therein or that such material may be poured or cast around the tufts so that
when the material is cooled the tufts will be firmly held. Preparations of india
celluloid or similar material would answer this purpose and might be used as the
"stock" of brushes constructed according to this invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
First. A brush or mat or the like constructed or made up out of a length, or a
series of lengths, of tufts or bristles, wires, or the like coiled or rolled or folded or
put together and retained in place by an easily detachable fastening or frame
substantially as herein described and explained.
Second. In a brush or mat or the like a "stock" of leather or canvas or the like,
suitable flexible material for holding the tufts and adapted to be coiled or rolled or
folded upon itself substantially as herein described and explained.
Third. In a brush or mat or the like the particular combination and arrangement
with "stock" lengths of flexible material, of holding bands or cords and tufts
adapted to partake of the flexibility of said stock length substantially as herein
described and explained.
Fourth. In a brush or mat or the like, stock lengths, holding bands or cords, tufts,
and drawing wires made up and combined together substantially as herein described
and explained and as illustrated in the drawings.
Dated this Twelfth day of February One thousand eight hundred and ninety-
seven.
HERBERT COATES,
J. F. C. FARQUHAR.
WALTER J. GILES.
EDWARD MARSHALL.
Taylor Street, Parramatta.
W. Lloyd Wise,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.