A Brush for Cleaning Bottles, Flasks, and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 10th June, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Brush for Cleaning Bottles, Flasks, and the like.
I, HENRY WILLIAM DE BLONAY, of 9, Rue Verdaine, Geneva, Switzerland,
Chemist, 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 has for its object a brush for cleaning bottles of all kinds.
It possesses a great advantage over those actually in use in that it can reach all
parts of the inner surface of the vessel to be cleaned.
The bristles or hairs of the said brush if secured as hereinafter described may
be easily replaced.
The brush is represented in the accompanying drawings in which:
Figure 1 is a general view of the brush.
Figure 2 is a view showing the mechanism for manoeuvring the brush, properly
so called, and the method of securing the hairs.
Figure 3 is an end view in plan.
Figure 4 is a face view of the sleeve enclosing a joint formed of a worm and
worm wheel.
Figure 5 is an end view of the said sleeve the brush carrier rod being broken
away.
The brush is composed of the following parts:
A is a tubular rod at one end of which a handle B is mounted, and at the other
end a sleeve C containing the joint. The tubular rod has within it a round
rod D connected at one end to the handle B₁ and having upon its other end a
worm E which gears with a worm wheel F situated at the extremity of the rod G
of the brush H, properly so called. The brush H is maintained in the sleeve C
by means of a pin I passing through the centre of the pinion F.
To actuate the brush the rod D is rotated; this rod by means of its worm E
actuates the worm wheel F', carried by the extremity of the brush carrier G, and
causes it to successively occupy the positions indicated by dotted lines in Figure 2.
The hairs are fixed to the brush carrier G as follows:-
The brush carrier G is for this purpose pierced with a longitudinal hole J which
communicates with a transverse hole K also formed in the brush carrier which
has, at its lower end, a helicoidal groove in which the hairs L are held fast by
means of a metal wire M in the manner shown in Figure 2.
The hairs N at the end of the brush are mounted upon the brush carrier and
are fixed there by means of a metal wire 0, bent into a loop P each end of which
passes into the longitudinal hole J and comes out at each side of the hole K as
shown in the drawing.
This wire once threaded firmly retains the hairs of the brush which pass into
its loop.
As will be seen the hairs are very easily fixed and when done with may be
replaced without any difficulty.
The method of using the brush will easily be seen from the drawings.

page_text: The article may be made of any suitable material and the details of construction
may be varied.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. A brush for cleaning bottles, flasks or the like consisting in the combination
of a tubular rod having within it another rod, provided at one end with a handle
and at the other with a worm, with a brush carrier provided with hairs at one end
and a worm wheel at the other the worm wheel gearing with the worm of the rod.
2. The method of mounting the hairs on the brush carrier substantially as
described and shown in the drawings.
Datod this 15th day of Anvil 1800