Improved Means for Securing Handles to Brooms or Brushes and similar Articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Mar:, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 4th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 5th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL MULTICATION.
Improved Means for Securing Handles to Brooms or Brushes and
similar Articles.
I WILLIAM HENRY HASLAM of 75 Bradford Street Bolton, in the County of
Lancaster, Yarn Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
The object of this invention is to construct a simple and effective device for
securing handles into the heads of brooms and the like.
I bore a cylindrical or slightly taper hole into the back of the brush or other
article in the usual manner such hole not extending through the wood or other
material.
I make the end of the handle or stail also slightly taper as usual; and for the
purpose of my invention I take a strip of tinplate, or flattened piece of other
suitable metal or material, or combination thereof, of a convenient size (say about
four inches long and two or three inches wide) with the edge of one side slightly
curved, the broadest part being in the centre, and tapered at the ends making the
remaining side, which may also be curved, shorter than the opposite side, and I
punch or pierce near to the shorter side a series of holes in such a way as to leave
rough burrs on the surface (like a breadgrater), or I roughen the said surface in
any convenient manner and I also punch a series of other holes with smooth edges
at or near both ends and along the edge of the longer or curved side.
;
I then roll the said strip into the form of a cylinder or slightly conical tube
(hereinafter called the tube) with its edges overlapping, the roughened or burred
surface being on the outside, and the device is then ready for use.
To fasten in the handle or stail, first place the tube with its roughened or burred
end inside the hole of the brush head, then place the taper end of the handle or
stail inside the tube and drive it home, which will have the effect of expanding
the tube causing the burrs thereon to take a firm hold inside the hole in the brush
head and effectually fix it therein.
The holes in the overlapping edges are so arranged that two or more of them
will always correspond wholly or partially and so allow one or more nails or screws
to be driven through into the stail and thus complete the fixing. If additional
security is desired one or more nails or screws may be driven through any of the
remaining holes into the stail.
Or instead of, or in addition to, the nails or screws above described, the tube
may be secured to the handle or stail by driving a punch or other suitable pointed
instrument into the tube at one or more places, which will force the metal into the
wooden stail or handle and so secure the tube thereon.
Or teeth or projection may be formed upon the upper part of the tube which
can be driven into the wooden stail or handle after the said tube has been expanded
in the head of the brush or other article:

page_text: Improved Means for Securing Handles to Brooms or Brushes and
similar Articles.
I WILLIAM HENRY HASLAM of 75 Bradford Street Bolton in the County of
Lancaster, Yarn Merchant, 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 construct a simple and effective device for
securing handles to the heads of brooms and the like.
The nature of my sand invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed or carried into practical effect will be readily understood on reference
to the sheet of drawings hereunto annexed and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 on the drawings is an edge view and Fig. 2 a side view showing the shape
of the piece of metal forming my improved fastener. Fig. 3 is a side view of the
same when curled or bent into shape for use, and Fig. 4 illustrates the method of
fixing or securing a handle to a brush head by means thereof.
In the brush head a Fig. 4 (or other article). I bore a cylindrical or slightly
tapered hole b in the usual manner such hole not extending through the wood or
other material.
I make the end of the handle or stail c also slightly taper as usual; and for the
purpose of my invention I take a strip of tinplate, or flattened piece of other
suitable metal or material, or combination thereof, of a convenient size (say about
four inches long and two or three inches wide) with the edge of one side slightly
curved, the broadest part being in the centre, and tapered at the ends making the
remaining side, which may also be curved as shown at d Fig. 2, shorter than the
opposite side, and I punch or pierce near to the shorter side a series of holes e in
such a way as to leave rough burrs on the surface (like a breadgrater see Fig. 1)
or roughen the said surface in any convenient manner aud I also punch another
hole as shewn; or a series of holes with smooth edges (see the dotted circles) at
or near both ends and along the edge of the longer curved side.
I then roll the said strip into the form of a cylinder, or slightly conical tube.
(hereinafter called the tube) with its edges overlapping as shown at Fig. 3, the
roughened or burred surface being on the outside, and the device is then ready
for use.
To fasten in the handle or stail, first place the tube d with its roughened or
burred end inside the hole 6 of the brush head, then place the taper end of the
handle or stail c inside the tube and drive it home, which will have the effect of
expanding the tube d causing the burrs e thereon to take a firm hold inside the
hole b in the brush head and effectually fix it therein, as seen at Fig. 4.
The holes in the overlapping edges when more than one are used are so arranged
that two or more of them will always correspond wholly or partially and so allow
one or more nails or screws to be driven through into the stail and thus complete
the fixing. In most cases however I find one hole in the overlapping edge as
shown at Fig. 2 is sufficient as the metal employed is so thin that a nail can readily
be driven through it. If additional security is desired one or more nails or screws
may be driven through any of the remaining holes into the stail.
Or instead of, or in addition to, the nails or screws above described, the tube
may be secured to the handle or stail by driving a punch or other suitable pointed
instrument into the tube at one or more places, which will form a burr and force
the metal into the wooden stail or handle and so secure the tube thereon.
Or teeth or projections may be formed upon the upper part of the tube which

page_text: can be driven into the wooden stail or handle after the said tube has been expanded
in the head of the brush or other article.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved means for securing handles to brooms or brushes and similar
articles, consisting of a thin metal or other plate burred or otherwise roughened,
and bent into a cylindrical or slightly conical form substantially as herein before
described and illustrated by the drawings annexed and used in the manner and for
the purpose set forth.
Dated this 1st day of December 1894.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
.4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.