Improvements in Brushes for Cleaning Pipes, Tubes, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 20th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 2nd May, 1896
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brushes for Cleaning Pipes, Tubes, and the like.
I ARTHUR RICHARD PAXTON Assistant Poor Rate Collector, of Newthorpe,
Notts, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved brush for cleaning tubes, pipes
bottles and like articles, and has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive
arrangement which will clean them more effectively than the brushes at present
in use.
In carrying out my invention I propose to employ a length of spring wire, which
is bent at the middle so as to form a fork. On the ends of this wire are fitted
brushes preferably formed from thin wire secured in the usual manner, so as to
project radially. Owing to the brushes springing slightly apart both sides of the
tube or other article are in contact with the brush at the same time, and by
moving it up and down, any deposit will be removed. These brushes may be made
of any size from those suitable for cleaning the bore of tobacco pipes, to brushes
of sufficient size for cleaning drains and sewer pipes.
Dated this 30th day of September 1895.
GEO H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in Brushes
ARTHUR RICHARD PAXTON Newthorpe Nottinghamshire Assistant Poor Rate
Collector 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 relates to improvements in brushes for cleaning jugs, bottles, lamp
chimneys, glass rubber and other tubes, tobacco pipes, drains and flues of small
sizes and for other similar and analogous purposes, the object of the present
invention being the production of a brush which is simple in construction, and
more efficiently fulfils its intended purpose than similar means at present in use.
According to this invention the brush bas two sets of bristles and is so con-
structed that opposite sides of the article may be cleaned at the same time.
To effect this object, the holder is provided with a set of bristles or the like at
each end, and is then bent or hinged at the centre so that the two sets of bristles
or brushes may be brought together while a spring at the bend or joint of the holder
tends to separate the two brushes and keep them pressed against the opposite sides
of the article that is being cleaned.
The brush shown in Fig. 1. is designed for general domestic use and is constructed
of a twisted wire stem or holder a which is bent at b preferably in one or more
coils as shown, while the ends of the holder are provided with bristles or wires
which are twisted into the same during the manufacture by the usual means and

page_text: end bristles d may also be provided for cleaning the bottom of bottles and
the like.
In Fig. 2 is shown a brush constructed similarly to the brush shown in Fig. 1
but with the two sets of bristles c in different positions relatively to the bend b.
A brush of this description is especially suitable for cleaning bottles or other
articles having an opening too small to admit two brushes at the same time. A
similar brush may be used for small tubing tobacco pipes and the like, or the
bristles on one end of the holder may be omitted, the remaining bristles being
then pressed to one side of the tube by the action of the holder on the other side
of the tube. When brushes of the kind herein referred to are used for tobacco
pipes or similar articles having an offensive smell, the bristles may be omitted and
the wires wrapped with any suitable material which may be destroyed after each
operation, or wire or asbestos bristles may be used, such bristles being cleansed
by fire.
When the double brushes are used for bottles and the like, the holder bis
preferably crossed before the brush is inserted, in order to obtain a greater
separation of the two brushes when inside the bottle.
In another modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the brushes have bristles on one
side only. These bristles may be mounted on wood or other convenient backing e
which is suitably attached to the holder and this latter may be of twisted wire
coiled to form a spring, or the holder may be bars of suitable section binged
together and held apart by one or more springs. A brush of this description is
particularly suitable for the flues of cooking ranges, and other similar purposes.
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 -1
1. A brush in which the bristles or their equivalent are carried by a spring
holder which is arranged to press the bristles on the opposite sides of the articles
being cleaned, constructed and arranged substantially as herein shown and described,
and for the purposes declared.
Dated this 10th dox of Fahre 1905
Dated this 10th
day of
February 1906.
W. H. POTTER, F.S.P.A.,
Newcastle Chambers, Nottingham, Patent Agent.