Improved Mop or Brush.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 17th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 21st Apr., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Mop or Brush.
We, ARTHUR SMART, trading as Arthur Smart and Company, and STUART
MATHEWS, both of 10, Wapping, in the City of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Waste Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide improved mops or brushes and
consists of an improvement or improvements of the mop, or brush, covered under
Letters Patent No. 16390 of 1891 of Charles Whiteside.
According to the present invention, strips, strands, or pieces of textile material,
hair, feathers, bristles, rubber, or other suitable material or substance are secured
to a head having parallel sides (or slightly tapered) by wire or other bands or
hoops driven or put on under pressure over the end of such head, they being made
of such a size as to cause the material to be tightly pressed onto the head. The
bands or hoops are then further secured by staples, hooks, or other suitable
fasteners.
The centre of the head may have a hole in it or be hollowed out, in which space
a central body of strips, strands, or pieces of the material used may be secured by
a washer in any known suitable way.
The heads may be secured onto their handles by an iron or other metal socket
suitably fastened thereon, or in other suitable ways..
Dated this 16th day of June 1893.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15. Water Street, Liverpool, Applicants' Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Mop or Brush.
We, ARTHUR SMART, trading as Arthur Smart and Company, and STUART
MATHEWS, both of 10 Wapping, in the City of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Waste Manufacturers, 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 for its object to provide improved mops or brushes, and
consists of an improvement or improvements of the mop or brush covered under
Letters Patent No. 16390 of 1891 of Charles Whiteside.
According to the present invention, strips, strands, or pieces of textile material,
hair, feathers, bristles, rubber, or other suitable material or substance are secured
to a head having parallel sides (or slightly tapered) by wire or other bands or
hoops driven or put on under pressure over the end of such head, they being made
of such a size as to cause the material to be tightly pressed onto the head. The
bands or hoops are then further secured by staples, hooks, or other suitable
fasteners.
The centre of the head may have a hole in it or be hollowed out, in which space
a central body of strips, strands, or pieces of the material used may be secured by
a washer in any known suitable way.
The heads may be secured onto their handles by an iron or other metal socket
suitably fastened thereon, or in other suitable waye.

page_text: This invention is illustrated in the drawings hereto annexed, in which
Figure 1 is a sectional elevation, and Figure 2 is a cross section through same.
Referring to the drawings, a is the head of the mop, are the textile strands or
strips, or other substance, and care.the wire rings by which they are beld on the
head. is a special central metal ring for holding the strips or strands at the
end of the mop head, as exists with mop described in the Specification of
the Patent No. 16390 of 1891.
The head portion a of the mop is provided with a collar or shoulder a', whilst
the outside edge or side of the body running at right angles thereto is practically
parallel.
The strands or strips are passed over the metal rings c in the manner set
forth in the before cited Specification No. 16390 of 1891, but in this case the distance
between the inner edges of the rings c and the side of the head a is such as to
put the strands or strips in very considerable compression when on, and besides this,
the rings with the strips or strands on them are pressed firmly up against the
shoulder a'.
In the mop shewn, two rings c, with material held thereby, are shewn, but
according to circumstances or requirements, more rings than these may be used;
or only one may be used.
In the drawings, the head a is shewn secured to its handle by a metal socket e,
which has flanges e' on it to which the head is fastened by screws, as shewn.
In
In securing the strands or strips on the head a, they are passed over the ring c
first, before placing on the head, (which of course is done from the back thereof)
and being in an uncompressed state, the aperture within will be smaller than this
part of the head, and will not pass on without force being applied, and in getting
them onto the head they are therefore forced on by means of the application of
blows of a hammer or the like, or by mechanical or other suitable pressure.
this action the fibres or strands will be put in compression, and are forced formerly
against the shoulder as described. They are then fixed there by the staples d. In
a mop thus constructed, with its fibres, strands, or strips, applied and held as
described, the said fibres of the strand are well secured, and in use, will not become
loose or pulled out.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The herein described improved mop or brush, consisting of a head having
parallel or a practically parallel portion and a shoulder, metallic rings around
which the said strands or strips are passed, and by which they are held on said
head, said rings being constructed as specified and forced on over stid body, and
held in position by means as described; substantially as herein set forth with
reference to and as shewn in the drawings hereto annexed.
Dated this 17th day of March 1894.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicants' Patent Agents.