Improved Means for Attaching Handles or Stails to the Heads of Brooms, Brushes, and similar Articles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 19th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 30th Aug., 1893-Accepter, 30th Sept., 1393
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Attaching Handles or Stails to the Heads of
Brooms, Brushes, and similar Articles.
We SQUIRE GREEN of 2 Peel Terrace Stretford Gentleman and HUGO EWALD
WOLLMER of 32 Manley Road Manchester Manager, both in the County of
Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The principal object of this invention is to provide means for firmly attaching
the handles or stails to the heads of brooms and brushes, but the invention is also
applicable for other similar purposes where it is desirable to firmly attach a handle
or stail of wood to any other similar tool or utensil.
For the purpose of this invention we make in the end of the handle or stail three
or more radial saw cuts crossing each other and of a convenient depth, say for
example, one inch; and in the centre thereof we bore in the direction of the axis
of the handle or stail a taper hole of a slightly greater depth, and we provide a
taper or conical peg of hard wood or other suitable material to fit into the same and
of such a length that the thick end of the same projects.
The usual hole is bored in the brush head or other tool or utensil partly through
the same and when the split end of the handle or stail (with the taper peg in it) is
driven into the hole the thick end of the peg coming against the bottom of the hole
causes the split end of the handle or stail to be expanded in all directions outwards,
and thus to become firmly fixed in the hole in the brush head or other article, and
owing to the number of the saw cuts or slits the liability to split the end of the
handle by driving in the taper peg is reduced to a minimum.
Above the inner end of the taper peg and clear of the saw cuts we make a hole
or slot transversely through the handle or stail so that when it is required to
remove the same a metal or other wedge can be forced therein which coming
against the smaller end of the peg will force the same outwards and thus release
the brush head.
Dated this 18th dow of July 1893
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Attaching Handles or Stails to the Heads of
Brooms, Brushes, and similar Articles.
We SQUIRE GREEN of 2 Peel Terrace Stretford, Gentleman, and Hugo EWALD
WOLLMER of 32 Manley Road Manchester Manager, both in the County of
Lancaster, 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 :-
The principal object of this invention is to provide means for firmly attaching
the handles or stails to the heads of brooms and brushes, but the invention is also
applicable for other similar purposes where it is desirable to firmly attach a handle
or stail of wood to any other similar tool or utensil.
The invention will be readily understood from the following description on
reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings on which
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the handle or stail and peg detached, Fig. 2 is an
underneath end view thereof with the peg removed, and Fig. 3 is a sectional
elevation shewing the handle fixed into a broom head.

page_text: For the purposes of this invention we make in the end of the handle or stail a
three or more radial saw cuts 6 crossing each other and of a convenient depth, say
for example, one inch; and in the centre thereof we bore in the direction of the
axis of the handle or stail a a taper hole of a slightly greater depth and we
provide a taper or conical peg d of hard wood or other suitable material to fit into
the same and of such a length that the thick end of the same projects as seen at
Fig. 1.
C
The usual hole is bored in the broom head e or other tool or utensil partly
through the same and when the split end of the handle or stail a. (with the taper
peg d in it) is driven into the hole the thick end of the peg d coming against the
bottom of the hole causes the split end of the handle a or stail to be expanded in
all directions outwards, and thus to become firmly fixed in the hole in the broom
head e or other article, and owing to the number of the saw cuts or slits b the
liability to split the end of the handle a by driving in the taper peg d is reduced to
a minimum.
Above the inner end of the taper peg d and clear of the saw cuts we make a hole
or slot f transversely through the handle or stail a so that when it is required to
remove the same a metal or other wedge g shewn dotted on Fig. 3 or other con-
venient instrument can be forced therein which coming against the smaller end of
the peg d will force the same outwards and thus release the broom head e.
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 :-
1. The combination with the handle or stail of a broom or other similar article
formed at one end with a number of slits or cuts crossing each other and with a
central hole or recess, of a taper peg, a recess being formed in the broom-head or
other article so that when the slit end of the handle is forced therein it will be
expanded in all directions and will be firmly secured thereto, substantially as
herein before described and illustrated by the annexed drawings.
2. The combination with a recessed broom head of a handle one end of which is
made with a number of slits or cuts crossing each other and with a central hole
into which fits a taper peg, a transverse hole or slot being made across the inner
end of the said central hole so that the peg can be forced outwards substantially
as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated by the annexed
drawings.
Dated this 29th day of August 1893.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.