Improvements in and relating to Adjustable Handles for Brushes and other Articles.
Year: 1893

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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Adjustable Handles for Brushes
and other Articles.
I, WILLIAM ADAM FABER, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 187
Varet Street, in the City of Brooklyn, County of Kings and State of New York,
one of the United States of America, 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 :-
My invention has reference to adjustable handles, and has for its object to
produce a very simple and economical device of this description which shall be
capable of ready manipulation and not liable to get out of order.
In the accompanying drawing-
Figure 1 is an elevation of the handle;
Figure 2 a back view of a floor brush fitted for attachment to the handle;
Figure 3 a broken sectional elevation of the handle and brush secured together;
Figure 4a perspective of my improvement illustrating a slight modification
thereof;
Figure 5 a broken sectional elevation of the construction shown at Figure 4, and
Figure 6 a front elevation of the construction shown at Figure 5, but showing a
modified form of locking bolt.
Similar numbers of reference denote like parts in the several figures of the
drawings..
The handle is made in two sections 1, 2, which are assembled end to end within
a socket 3. This socket is a light casting split at each end as seen at 4, twin
ears 5, 6, being provided at the split portions, through which ears thumb screws 7
are passed, whereby said portions may be drawn together to bind the handle
sections.
In adjusting the length of the handle, it is merely necessary to back the screws,
thereby allowing the socket to distend by reason of its resiliency, and then, after
adjusting the sections 1, 2, to give the required length, to tighten the screws.
At the upper end of the section is secured a ferrule 8 having projecting
laterally therefrom a bracket 9 to which latter is pivoted at 10 the fixture 11,
which latter is secured to the back of a brush 12 or other utensil to be used.
the rear end of this fixture is formed a notched disk 13, which is engaged by any
suitable pin or locking device carried by the ferrule 8, to secure the brush or
utensil at any angular adjustment desired.
At
The fixture 11 may be secured to the back of the brush by screws a, as shown at
Figure 4, in which instance the position of the brush with respect to the fixture is
fixed and not adjustable; or, as shown at Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the front end of the
fixture may terminate in a squared portion 14 in the rear of which latter is a.
shoulder 15 extending circumferentially around the fixture, said part 14 being
adapted to enter a squared opening 16 in a metal socket 17 secured to the back of
the brush. A screw pin 18 extending through the socket and adapted to be driven
against the fixture 11 in the immediate rear of the shoulder 15, secures said fixture
in position within the socket. The advantage of this last described construction is
that the brush or utensil, may readily be fixed at any angular adjustment with
respect to the fixture 11. In the present instance this adjustment is limited by a
square opening in the socket, but it will be obvious that by making this opening
polygonal with the fixture corresponding, the brush or utensil may have very many
positive adjustments.

page_text: There are several ways in which the ferrule 8 may be equipped with means for
engaging the notched disk 13 to lock the handle to the fixture 11, but this is a very
minor feature of my invention, and although I have shown several ways for
accomplishing this, I do not desire to be limited in this respect.
Referring to Figures 1 and 3, I lock the handle and fixture in any angular
adjustment by means of a screw pin 19 passed through the bracket 9 into the
notches in the disk 13.
Referring to Figures 4 and 5 it will be seen that the handle and fixture are
locked together by means of a swinging bolt 20 pivoted to the front end of the
ferrule 8 and engaging with the notched disk, while at Figure 6 is shown a bolt 21
fitted within housings 22 at the end of the ferrule and having a coiled spring 23
around the same in the usual manner to effect the normal projection of the bolt
within the notches within the disk.
It will thus be seen that various angular adjustments of the brush or other
utensil with respect to the handle may be effected with great facility.
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. In an adjustable handle, the combination of the notched disk rigidly secured
to a brush or other utensil, the ferrule to which said disk is pivoted, and means
carried by the ferrule for interlocking with said disk to secure the brush or utensil
in its angular adjustment, substantially as set forth.
2. In an adjustable handle, the combination of the disk adapted to be secured to
a suitable utensil and provided with notches, the ferrule having laterally extending
ears between which said disk is pivoted, and a locking pin or bolt carried by the
ferrule and adapted to engage with said notches, substantially as set forth.
3. In an adjustable handle, the combination of the socket split at the ends and
having twin ears at such split portion, the thumb screws extending through said
ears, and the handle sections inserted within said socket end to end, substantially
as shown and described.
4. In an adjustable handle, the combination of the ferrule, the fixture having at
the rear end a notched disk pivoted to said ferrule, means carried by the latter and
interlocking with said disk for securing the fixture in various angular adjustments,
the front end of said fixture having a polygonal shaped part adapted to fit within a
correspondingly shaped socket carried by the brush or other utensil, and means
carried by said socket for securing the fixture thereto, substantially as set forth.
5. The combination of the handle, the ferrule secured to the end thereof and
having the laterally projecting bracket, the fixture pivoted to said bracket and
having at its rear end a notched disk and at its front end a squared portion, the
shoulder around said fixture immediately behind said squared portion, a locking
pin or bolt carried by said bracket and capable of engagement with said disk, the
socket secured to the brush or other utensil and having an opening conformed to
said squared portion, and the pin passed through the socket and adapted to be
driven against the fixture behind said shoulder, substantially as shown and
described.
Dated this Fifth day of December 1893.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.