Improved Appliances for Fastening the Handles or Stales in Brushes, Brooms and the like Implements.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 11th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliances for Fastening the Handles or Stales in Brushes,
Brooms and the like Implements.
I, LOUISA MALVINA COOPER, of Howe Lane, Castleton, Derbyshire, Spinster, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The construction of a brush or broom-head provides a hole or socket, into
which a tapered handle or stale is forced, no further fastening being provided.
The object of my invention is to provide an effective, cheap and simple devise
for securing the handle or stale to the brush or broom-head.
My invention provides a tapered ring or ferrule, and is constructed out of a
strip of steel or other suitable material-elliptical in shape--with one edge of
greater length than the other-to form the necessary taper, when this strip is
bent into a ring or ferrule, and is in width slightly more than the diameter of the
hole or socket in the brush or broom-head.
Into this strip, I cut or punch two or more rows of teeth or indents, which
project outward when the strip is formed into a ring or ferrule.
The row or rows of teeth or indents nearest the short edge being triangular in
shape and pointed towards the upper or longer edge.
The row or rows of teeth or indents nearest the long or upper edge being cut
or punched in suitable lengths parallel with the width of the strip and having
triangular points.
These points are then bent from the base of the triangle, and made to project
towards the inner diameter of the ring or ferrule.
The short or lower edge is serrated to allow for a portion of the metal being
turned at right angles-to prevent a cutting edge.
I then bend this strip into the shape of a ring or ferrule, with an allowance
between the ends for expansion and contraction, and then harden and temper the
same.
The ring or ferrule may now be partly inserted into the hole or socket of the
brush or broom-head and the handle or stale forced home;-or the ring or ferrule
may be placed upon the handle and both inserted into the hole or socket of the
brush or broom-head.
The lower or triangular row or rows of teeth fastening into the broom-head;
the triangular points of the upper row or rows being simultaneously forced into
the handle or stale by either action-thereby fastening the handle to the head
or vice-versa.
Dated this 10th day of November 1898
LOUISA MALVINA COOPER,
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Appliances for Fastening the Handles or Stales in Brushes,
Brooms and the like Implements.
I, LOUISA MALVINA COOPER, of Howe Lane, Castleton, Derbyshire, Spinster, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
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page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
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The construction of a brush or broom-head provides a hole or socket into which
a tapered handle is forced, no further fastening being provided.
The object of my invention is to provide an effective, cheap, and simple devise
for securing the handle to the brush or broom-head-the method being illustrated
in the attached drawings.
Fig. 1 Represents strip of steel cut to shape.
Fig. 2 Represents same strip of steel with teeth stamped into first shape.
Fig. 3 Is end view of same.
Fig. 5 is perspective view.
My invention provides a tapered ring or ferrule, and is constructed out of a
strip of steel or other suitable material shaped as in Fig. 1-with one edge of
greater length than the other-to form the necessary taper when the strip is bent
into a ring or ferrule, and is of a width slightly more than the depth of the
hole or socket in the brush or broom head.
Into this strip I cut or punch two or more rows of teeth or indents, which
project outward when the strip is formed into a ring or ferrule.
The row or rows of teeth or indents, nearest the short edge, Fig. 2 (C) being
triangular in shape, and pointed towards the upper or longer edge, the row or rows
of teeth or indents, nearest the long or upper edge (B) being cut or punched in
suitable lengths parallel with the width of the strip and having triangular
points (A). These joints are then bent from the base of the triangle and made
to project towards the inner diameter of the ring or ferrule, Fig. 3 (A).
The short or lower edge (D) is serrated to allow for a portion of the metal being
turned at right angles to prevent a cutting edge.
I then bend this strip into the shape of a ring or ferrule (Fig. 4) with an
allowance between the edges for expansion and contraction and then harden and
temper the same. The ring or ferrule may now be partly inserted into the hole
or socket of the brush or broom head and the handle or stale forced home-or, the
ring or ferrule may be placed upon the handle, and both inserted into the hole
or socket of the brush or broom-head. The lower or triangular row or rows of
teeth fastening into the broomhead--the triangular points of the upper row or
rows being simultaneously forced into the handle or stale by either action—
thereby fastening the handle to the head or vice versa.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
A strip of steel with teeth or indents, formed in two or more rows, projecting
outwards from the inner diameter, when the strip is shaped into a ring or ferrule
one row having the sharpened points bent at angles and projecting towards the
inside of the ring or ferrule, a portion of the shorter or lower edge being turned
at angles to prevent a cutting edge, in the manner and for the purposes sub-
stantially herein in stated and illustrated.
Dated this 9th day of September 1899.