IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURE. OF BRUSHES FOR TURE CLEANING AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Henry Edwards and Alfred Edwards;
both of Fordham, in the County of Cambridge, Machinists, for the
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURE.
OF BRUSHES FOR TURE CLEANING AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES.”·
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Sealed the 21st April 1871, and dated the 25th October 1870..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Henry Edwards:
and Alfred Edwards at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,.
with their Petition, on the 25th October 1870..
We, WILLIAM HENRY EDWARDS and ALFRED EDWARDS, both of
Fordham, in the County of Cambridge, Machinists, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION
AND MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES FOR TUBE CLEANING AND OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES,"
to be as follows:-
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This Invention consists in constructing brushes for cleaning tubes in.
connection with machinery, so that the bristles, hair, wire, or any other
material that is. used. may be. easily replaced when burnt or worn from.

page_text: using in the operation of cleaning, and this can be accomplished with
great facility and saving of time and expense.
The construction is as follows:-An iron bar or rod with a screw
and nut at one end is fitted with a number of circular discs of metal,
wood, or other suitable material running loosely upon it; these discs
have any number of semicircular notches on either side of them. The
discs are placed upon the rod or bar; the notches on the same when
they are run close together form a series of circular holes, into which
the bunches of bristles, hair, or other material to be used for the brush
are placed; they are then screwed tightly up by means of the screw
and nut before mentioned, and a fixed nut at the bottom of the discs,
and in this manner a brush is formed.
This
mode of construction of hrushes is anplicable to ahimne
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Henry Edwards and Alfred Edwards in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th April 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
HENRY EDWARDS and ALFRED EDWARDS, both of Fordham, in the
County of Cambridge, Machinists, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the. said William Henry Edwards and Alfred
Edwards, Her special licence that we, the said William Henry Edwards
and Alfred Edwards, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said William Henry Edwards and Alfred Edwards, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANUFACTURE OF BRUSHES FOR TUBE CLEANING AND

page_text: OTHER SIMILAR PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we,
the said William Henry Edwards and Alfred Edwards, our executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Henry Edwards and
Alfred Edwards, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement::
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This Invention consists in constructing brushes for cleaning tubes
in connexion with machinery and other purposes (hereafter described),
so that the bristles, hair, wire, or any other material that is used may
be easily replaced when burnt or worn from using in the operation of
cleaning, and this can be accomplished with great facility and saving of
time and expense.
The construction is as follows:-An iron bar or rod with a screw, nut,
or feather at one end is fitted with a number of circular or other shaped
discs of metal, wood, or other suitable materials running loosely upon
it; these discs have any number of semicircular notches formed on
either side of them. The discs are placed on the rod or bar; the
semicircular notches on the discs, when they are run close together
forming a series of circular holes, into which the bunches of bristles,
hair, or other material to be used for the brush are placed or inserted;
they are then screwed up or fixed tightly by means of the screw, nut,
or feather before mentioned, and a fixed nut or feather at the bottom of
the discs, and in this manner a brush is formed.
This mode of construction of brushes is applicable to chimney
sweeping brushes and all other brushes, such as for shoe cleaning,
wheel cleaning, lawn sweeping, and for all other brushes used for similar
purposes and of like description.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention, and the mode
of carrying the same into effect, what we claim and desire to be secured
to us by Letters Patent is, the said Invention for improvements in the
construction and manufacture of brushes for tube cleaning and other

page_text: purposes, substantially as herein described, or any mere modification of
the same.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Henry Edwards and
Alfred Edwards, have hereunto set our hands and scals, this
Twenty-second day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.
WILLIAM HENRY EDWARDS.. (L.S.).
ALFRED EDWARDS.
(L.S.);