An Improvement in Hand Brooms and Brushes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1890
Complete Specification Left 10th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Hand Brooms and Brushes.
I, JAMES SMART HURLEY, of 613, Graham Street, Birmingham, Warwick-
shire, Jewellers Tool Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention has reference to those hand brooms and brushes which have a
handle at one end of the broom or brush body this handle serving for holding
the broom or brush when in use.
It is well known that the bristles or fibre of hand brooms and brushes of this
kind wear down soonest at and near the outer end of the body whilst those nearer
to the handle are sometimes hardly worn at all, thus rendering the broom or brush
useless before all the bristles or fibre are worn away.
The object of this invention is to enable the said hand brooms or brushes to last
longer in wear by so constructing the same that the bristles or fibre at both ends of
the body will be worn down alike.
In carrying out this invention instead of making the handle part of the said hand
brooms and brushes in a piece with or immovably fixed to the body part as hereto-
fore make the handle separate from the body and removably attach the handle
and the body together preferably by screwing one end of the handle into a screw
threaded hole at either end of the body.
When it is found that the bristles or fibre are wearing down at the outer end of
the body more than at that end next the handle, the latter can be reversed by
removing it from the body and screwing it into the other end thereof, so that that
end of the body which was next the handle will now be the outer end and the
bristles or fibre will be worn down equally at both ends.
Instead of removably securing the handle to the body by screwing as above
described other suitable means may be employed which will permit of the handle
being removed and its position reversed as above described.
Dated this 10th day of June 1890.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Hand Brooms and Brushes.
1, JAMES SMART HURLEY, late of 61, Graham Street, Birmingham,
Warwickshire, now of 50%, Summer Row, Birmingham, aforesaid, Jewellers' Tool
Maker, 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 has reference to those hand brooms and brushes which have a handle
at one end of the broom or brush body this handle serving for holding the broom or
brush when in use.
It is well known that the bristles or fibre of hand brooms and brushes of this
kind wear down soonest at and near the outer end of the body whilst those nearer
to the handle are sometimes hardly worn at all, thus rendering the broom or brush
uscless before all the bristles or fibre are worn away.
The object of this invention is to enable the said hand brooms or brushes to last
longer in wear by so constructing the saine that the bristles or fibre at both ends of
the body will be worn down alike.

page_text: I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawing on which
Fig. 1 represents a hand broom or brush constructed according to this invention;
Fig. 2 represents the same when partly worn out and
Fig. 3 shews the brush represented by Fig. 2 with the handle reversed.
In carrying out this invention instead of making the handle part A. of the said
hand brooms and brushes in a piece with or fixed to the body part B as heretofore,
I make the handle A separate from the body B and removably attach the handle
and the body together by screwing one end A2 of the handle into a screw threaded
hole B at one end of the body; or into a similar screw threaded hole B³ at the
other end of the body.
When it is found that the bristles or fibre are wearing down at the outer end of
the body more than at that end next the handle (as shewn in Fig. 2) the handle A
can be reversed by removing it from the body B and screwing it into the hole B³
at the other end thereof (see Fig. 3) so that that end of the body which was next
the handle will now be the outer end, thus making the brush nearly equal to a new
one, and when the brush is worn out the bristles or fibre will be worn down equally
at both ends. A. small screwed plug C may be used to close that hole in which the
handle is not.
I prefer to leave a slightly taper plain part a between the screwed end A2 and
the shoulder A3 of the handle which when the handle part is screwed into the
body B fits into the screw threaded hole B2 or B³ and thus makes the handle fit
very securely.
Although I have only illustrated my invention as applied to a hand sweeping
broom, still it is to be understood that my invention is not limited to this as my
invention can be similarly applied to all kinds of hand brooms or brushes which have
a handle at one end of the body.
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 :-
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The improvement in hand brooms and brushes to make them last longer in wear
herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, which
improvement consists in making the handle and body detachable from each other
and so that the handle can be fixed to either end of the body in the manner herein-
before described and illustrated.
Dated this 9th day of March 1891.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.