Year: 1889

page_text: We WILLIAM HENRY_SWINGLER House Painter of 59 Dymoke Street Balsall
Heath and FREDERICK HENRY AIREY of Excel All Works Vaughton Street South
Birmingham both in the County of Warwick 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 consists in the utilization of a brush handle in combination with
a liquid container, the brush handle forming the stopper of the container in lieu of a
cork.
We will now proceed to describe the nature of our invention reference being had
to the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation of the container and brush combined.
Figure 2 is a plan of figure 1.
Figure 3 is an elevation of the handle on which is formed the plug or stopper.
Figure 4 represents the bristle part of the brush secured to a ferrule.
In carrying out our invention we provide a container of any suitable shape and
configuration which may be made of earthenware, wood, paper-machie or other
suitable material, but we prefer to utilize sheet metal in the formation and production
of our container: when using sheet metal we prefer to form a cylinder as represented
at a, on to which is connected and secured the bottom 6 and at the top end of which
is connected and secured the cover e, the material constituting the cover c is pierced
with a central hole of suitable dimensions, it is next by the use of suitable tools shaped
or otherwise mechanically manipulated to bend down and produce the continuous
vertical flange d, the receptacle so made is then filled with knotting, enamel, paint,
varnish, or any kind of liquid that can be used in conjunction with a brush and which
can be constantly in contact with the brush without materially effecting the chemical
perfection of the liquid or without the liquid materially effecting the ordinary working
perfection of the bristles of the brush emmersed in liquid continuously.
In making the brush we provide a handle as represented at figure 3, this handle
may be made out of porcelain, paper-machie vulcanite, metal, or of any other suitable
material, we consider wood to be the most suitable material, the handle is formed with
a receptacle plug e, and a ferrule plug f.

page_text: We next provide a ferrule g into which is compressed the bristles h, it will be
observed on reference to figure 1, that the bristles oxtend vertically insido the ferrule
to about one half the depth of said ferrule thus leaving the upper portion of the
ferrule in the form of a hollow tapored thimble, rendy to receive the ferrule plug f,
formed on the handle, the ferrulo plug is introduced into the ferrule g in the manner
represented at figure 1, the said tapered plug being driven tightly into the tapered
ferrule
It will be observed that the ferrule 9 when driven on to the plug does not reach
the shoulder j, consequently when the wood or other material from which the handle
is made contracts or shrinks from any cause, reducing the diameter of the plug the
said tapered plug can be driven further into the ferrule g.
On reference to figure 1 it will he observed that the tapered plug e formed on the
handle answers the purpose of a cork or stopper to the container the plug when
inserted into the orifice of the container will extend boyond the upper surface of the
cover ca sufficient distance to permit of the said plug e contracting or shrinking and
being afterwards lowered further into the container, to tighten with and seal the
orifico. The cover c and the flange d can be formed in the process of making when
such container is made out of porcelain or other compressable material.
We do not confine ourselves to the cylindrical configuration of container shown
at figures 1 and 2 as we may vary the shape of the container without departing
from the principal of our invention the essential part of which consists in the
utilization of the handle of a brush to form the stoppor for a liquid container.
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
1st. The invention as illustrated and described for the purpose described.
2nd. The making of a brush by the compression of its bristles into a ferrule in the
manner illustrated and described in conjunction with the attachment of the ferrule
so filled with bristles, to the tapered end of a handle on which is formed a inpered
part suitable to form a stopper when used in conjunction with a liquid container."
3rd. The combination of the tapered plug part of a brush handle with a liquid
container the brush being inserted into the liquid and the plug of the handle passing
into and sealing the orifice of the container.
Dated this 1st day of February 1889.