Improvements in the Manufacture of Distemper, Whitewash, and other Brushes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 7th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 9th Dec., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Distemper, Whitewash, and
other Brushes.
I, ALFRED LINLEY BURROW, of Whitehouse Street, Hunslet Road, Leeds,
in the County of York, Brush Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to what are known as distemper, whitewash, and other
brushes of similar construction, and has for its objects to prevent the breaking or
splitting of the handles, and to make the bindings more secure.
I take the ordinary handle accustomed to be used for making these brushes, and
before binding the bristles or fibre thereto, I bore a hole laterally through the-
handle a little lower than where the binding is to be placed, in which I insert a.
metal rod or tube, which may fit close to the edges of the handle, and thus prevent
the splitting or breaking of the wood. I prefer however to leave the ends of the
rod or tube projecting slightly from the outer edges of the handle, and to fasten
thereto the bindings of such brushes as are wrapped with wire or string or other
material.
I also propose to apply the system by boring a hole laterally through the handle
above the binding in addition to, and parallel with the one below the binding. The
bristles or fibre are then attached and bound in the usual manner, and the metal rods
or tubes inserted in each hole with ends projecting. I then take metal plates of
suitable size and shape with holes punched to fit and pass these over the projecting
ends of the two rods or tubes, securing them by rivetting or screwing or other
suitable process.
Dated this 4th day of February 1893.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Distemper, Whitewash, and
other Brushes.
I, ALFRED LINLEY BURROw of Whitehouse Street, Hunslet Road, Leeds, in
the County of York, Brush Manufacturer, 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 object of this invention is to prevent the splitting of the handles of the
brushes, and also to make the bindings of the bristles to the handles more secure.
In order to fully explain the said invention I append hereto drawings to which
reference is made in the following description.
Figure 1 represents the handles accustomed to be used for making 2 knot
distemper brushes. The usual indentation marked A in Figure 1 is made for the
purpose of tying the binding round the bristles or fibres.
bore one or two holes laterally through these handles, as shewn in Figure 2 in
the positions marked B and C, which hole or holes are so placed as to be above or
below, or above and below the binding. The bristles or fibres are then tied to the
brush in the usual manner, and I insert into the hole or holes a metal rod or tube
or metal rods or tubes.
The rod or tube or rods or tubes may be so inserted as to be flush with the sides
of the brush, I prefer however to allow the ends of the rod or tube or rods or tubes
to project slightly to enable the bindings to be fastened thereto.

page_text: When I prefer boring two holes through the handle I place at each side of the
brush, and over the projecting ends of the rods or tubes, metal plates as shewn in
Figure 4 with holes made to fit over the projections B and C in Figures 2 and 3
securing them thereto by rivetting, screwing, soldering or other suitable process.
When I prefer boring one hole for the insertion of one rod or tube through
the handle I propose fastening the side plates to the rod or tube as hereinbefore
described, and securing the other end of the side plates by a nail or screw to the
handle as shewn at D in Figure 5.
Figure 3 is a side view of the handle of the brush showing the position of the two
holes B and C.
Figure 6 shews the brush as finished with insertion of two rods or tubes.
The same system of inserting one or two rods or tubes laterally through the
handles is applicable to all brushes made with one, two or more knots of bristles or
fibres, nailed stock brushes or brushes of similar construction.
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 is :-
1. The insertion of metal rods or tubes laterally through the handles of distemper
&c. brushes for the purpose of preventing the splitting or breaking of the handles.
2. The combination of the rods or tubes with the metal side plates and the
fastening of the whole together in the manner herein before described and illustrated
by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Sixth day of November Eighteen hundred and ninety-three.
ALFRED LINLEY BURROW.