IMPROVEMENTS IN BRUSHES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Titterton, of No. 70, Margaret Street,
Cavendish Square, in the County of Middlesex, Brush Maker, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BRUSHES."
Sealed the 14th October 1853, and dated the 14th April 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Titterton at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 14th April 1858.
I, GEORGE TITTERTON, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BRUSHES" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in a new mode of preparing the bristles or
other similar materials employed in the manufacture of brushes.
Hitherto the mode commonly practised has been to use the bristles or
other materials in the same state in which they were when taken from
the animal upon which they grew, except being sorted and otherwise
treated, as commonly practised, but still having the roots thereon, so
that when they were attached to the back of the brush the roots stood
uppermost, and, being necessarily blunt, did not readily penetrate the
hair or other substance to be brushed; this objection has, however,

page_text: been considerably lessened by manufacturers arranging the ends of the
bristles in such manner as that they are at different heighths, thus
Still, however, the ends have been suffered to remain blunt; and the
object of this Invention is, therefore, to remedy this objection, by
pointing and sharpening the ends of the bristles or other materials
employed, which may be done upon the edge of a revolving stone or
other similar mcans, either before the brush is made or afterwards;
and this mode of treating or preparing bristles applies also to horse
hair, whalebone, whisk, bass, cocoa nut fibre, or any other material or
substance employed in the manufacture of brushes of whatever kind,
and will be found an important improvement in those brushes in which
it is essential that the bristles thereof should penetrate the part to be
brushed readily and without inconvenience; and I would observe that
as it is the pointing of the bristles or other materials or substances
employed which constitutes this Invention, I lay no claim whatever
to any new mode of attaching such said bristles or other materials or
substances to the backs of brushes, but employ any of the means in
known and common use for such purpose.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Titterton, in the Great Seal Patent Office,
on the 14th October 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
GEORGE TITTERTON, of No. 70, Margaret Street, Cavendish Square,
in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth 1 year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Titterton, Her special licence
that I, the said George Titterton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Titterton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no

page_text: others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BRUSHES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
George Titterton, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Titterton, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof (that is to say):
My Invention consists in a new mode of preparing bristles, whale-
bone, whisk, bass, horse hair, cocoa nut fibre, or other material or
substance to be employed in and for the manufacture of brushes. The
mode hitherto practised of preparing bristles or other similar materials
or substances has been to cut them square, and in that state to fix
them in the back of the brush, with the square ends outwards; the
objection to which is, that the bristles or other materials or substances
will not penetrate readily the part to be brushed by reason of the ends
thereof being blunt. And the object and intention of my said Invention
is to obviate this objection by pointing the ends of the bristles or other
materials or substances, so as to make them sufficiently sharp, and,
herefore, capable of penetrating readily the part to be brushed. And
effect the pointing of the bristles or other materials by grinding them
pon the edge of a revolving wheel, composed either of pumice stone,
uff leather covered with emery, or other suitable grinding substance
r material; and such pointing operation may be performed either
efore affixing the bristles or other materials or substances to the back
f the brush, or afterwards; but I prefer pointing them before fixing
hem, and finishing them afterwards.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be and may be performed, I desire it to be
distinctly understood that I do not claim as of my Invention any new
mode of attaching bristles or other similar materials or substances to
the backs of brushes, but proceed in the manner usually practised
by brush makers for effecting the same.
And I claim as of my Invention of improvements in brushes the
pointing of the ends of the bristles, whalebone, or other similar
materials or substances to be employed in the manufacture of brushes,
for the purpose of enabling such parts to penetrate readily into the
substances to be brushed, as herein-before particularly described and
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Titterton, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
GEORGE TITTERTON. (L.S.)
Witness, RICHARD HANCOCK,
Brush Manufacturer,
Borough Walls, Bath.