Improvements in or relating to Hand Brush and Broom Handle Attachments.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Nov., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 29th Jan., 1897 Accepted, 6th Mar., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Hand Brush and Broom Handle
Attachments.
We, VICTOR ADOLPH PHIZACKLEA LOUIS, and RALPH HUGHES MARTIN,
both of 38 Christchurch Road, Oxton, Birkenhead, County of Chester, Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
The main object of this invention, is the employment of a screw fastener secured
into or through the stock of a brush or broom for attachment of a handle and in
such manner that in one case either end of a handle can be fastened to the stock,
and in the other either end of the brush can have a handle secured to it. By this
means the broom or the brush can be turned about, or end for end to produce
equality of wear and prevent the usual smashing down of the bristles or fibre
sweeping medium, whereby brooms and brushes can be kept longer in use and
they possess better action for sweeping and brushing purposes than those with
fixed handles.
For the purpose of our invention, say, for hand brushes, we make the stock with
upwardly projecting ends, which ends are bored to an angle and to one diameter of
hole for half the thickness of the stock, the hole being at such an angle that the
handle when fitted in is handy for use. From the bottom of this hole and axially
therewith to the face of the stock, we drill a smaller hole and recess the face for
the head of a screw which has a square or equivalent shaped shoulder to prevent it
turning when the handle is being screwed on to the threaded part.
In certain cases, the shoulder of the screw pin can be spike shaped and be first
driven into a solid part of the stock and preferably at the bottom of the first
named hole and then the handle can be screwed in place.
The handle may be of wood or like material, or of open wire coiling terminating
at one end as a screw, the bored hole in the stock serving to locate the handle
firmly.
With broom stocks, we bore a hole centrally and drive a square or other than
round shouldered part of a screw pin into it, and by making the handle hole of
larger diameter at the bottom than at the top we partially charge the hole with
hot pitch, or the like cementitious matter, and when screwing the handle in, the
cavity becomes filled and the handle fixed.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said V. A. P. Louis and R. H. Martin.

page_text: Improvements in or relating to Hand Brush and Broom Handle-
Attachments.
We, VICTOR ADOLPH PHIZACKLEA LOUIS and RALPH HUGHES MARTIN,.
both of 38 Christchurch Road, Oxton, Birkenhead, County of Chester, Manu-
facturers, 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 main object of this invention is the employment of a square shouldered
screw fastener secured into or through the stock of a brush or broom for the
attachment of a handle, and in such manner that in one case either end of a handle
can be fastened to the stock, and in the other either end of the brush can have a
handle secured to it. By this means, the broom or the brush can be turned about
or end for end to produce equality of wear and prevent the usual smashing down
of the bristles or fibre sweeping medium whereby brooms and brushes can be kept
longer in use and they possess better action for sweeping and brushing purposes
than those with fixed handles.
For the purpose of our invention, we make a handle of a brush with both ends
alike and shaped to fit shaped holes in a brush stock, see Figure 1 of the annexed
drawings. We make the stock A, Figure 2, with upwardly projecting ends B, B,
which ends are bored to an angle and to one diameter of hole C for half the
thickness of the stock, the hole being at such an angle that the handle D when
fitted in is handy for use. From the bottom of this hole and axially therewith to
the face of the stock A we drill a sinaller hole E and recess the face at F for the
head G of a screw which has a square or equivalent shaped body or shoulder H
to prevent it turning when the handle D is being screwed on to the threaded
part I.
The handle D can be affixed to the end of hand brush, as at Figure 3, and in
certain cases the shoulder of the screw pin can be spike shaped, as at J Figure 3;
and be first driveu into a solid part of the stock A, and then the handle can be
screwed in place when pushed into the hole C.
The handle may be of wood or like material, or of open wire coiling D, as at
Figure 4, terminating at one end as a screw, the bored hole C in the stock serving
to locate the handle firmly.
With broom stocks, we bore a hole centrally, as at Figure 5, and drive a
square EI (or other than round shouldered) part of a screw pin I into it, and if we
make the baudle hole C of larger diameter at the bottom than at the top, we
partially charge the hole with hot pitch or the like cementitious matter and when
screwing the handle D in the cavity becomes filled and the handle fixed.
By making both ends of the brush stock alike, the handle can be inserted in the
reverse end as the fibres of the old one wear out.
The exposed hole at the opposite end can be closed by a plug or cork easily
removed but it is preferred to fix two screws in position and secure a plug K
therein.
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 invention in hand brushes as set forth i.e. a double ended and double
holed stock, double sized holes at each end, double or single ended handle, square
shouldered screws, as represented in the annexed drawings.

page_text: 2. Making handles for hand brushes of coiled wire as shown, the wire terminating
in a screw, or having a screw fixable therein as described.
3. The invention in sweeping brooms, consisting of square shouldered screws
driven in from base of stock for handle attachment to threaded screw, as described.
and shown.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Victor Adolph Phizacklea Louis and.
Ralph Hughes Martin.