IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING, HANDLES TO BROOMHEADS BRUSHES, MOPS, AND GARDEN IMPLEMENTS
Year: 1885

page_text: Mops, and Garden Implements.
SAMUEL HENRY SUTTON General Dealer 13 Temple Street Birmingham do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN SECURING,
HANDLES TO BROOMHEADS BRUSHES, MOPS, AND GARDEN IMPLEMENTS to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in Fixing a screw in the Hole which is made in a Broom-
head, or Stock for the reception of the Handle as follows. I make a small hole in
the flat side of the Stock sufficiently large to insert a screw, but not large enough
to admit the head of the screw, the head acting as a nut. I also make a hole in the
curved side of the stock, to admit a part of the Handle as now used, the Handle
has also a hole made up the Centre to receive the thread of the screw, I make a
groove in the side of the handle so that when it is screwed into the stock, a plug
may be fixed in the groove and so prevent the stock from turning round and
coming off, the screw which is of Steel, Iron, or Wood, has a round or square head
which head may be made slanting or straight, with one or more projecting points,
underneath the flange of the head so that when the handle is being screwed in the
stock, the projecting points will wedge themselves into the Wood and so prevent
the screw from turning round at the same time as the handle, these points will
only be necessary when the head of the screw is round.
Dated this 20th dots of noor

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Mops, and Garden Implements.
.I SAMUEL HENRY SUTTON of 13 Temple Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick General Dealer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN
IMPROVEMENT IN SECURING HANDLES TO BROOMHEADS, BRUSHES, MOPS, GARDEN
IMPLEMENTS 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 for its object a new method of Securing handles to Brooms,
Brushes, Mops, and Garden Implements, which will save a great deal of trouble
and consequent annoyance, and at a fractional cost.
My Invention consists in fixing a screw in the hole which is made in a Broom-
head for the reception of the handle as follows.
:
I make a small hole in the flat side of the stock sufficiently large to insert a
screw, but not large enough to admit the head of the screw, the head acting as
a nut.
:
I also make a hole in the curved side of the stock to admit a part of the handle
same as now. used, the Handle has also a hole made up the centre to receive the
thread I also make a groove on the outer side of the handle so that when the
handle is screwed into the stock a plug, may be fixed in the groove, and the stock
and so prevent the stock from having a tendency to twist and become loose.
The screw which may be made of Steel, Iron, wood or any other suitable
substance, may have a round, or any odd shaped head, and may be made slanting
or straight, with one or more projecting points under the Hange of the head so
that when the handle is being screwed into the broomhead, the projecting points
will wedge themselves into the wood, and so prevent the screw from turning round
at the same time as the handle is being screwed in.
Or the head of the screw may have one or more holes to insert screws or nails.
Or the screw may have two nuts or washers, one to be screwed up to the stock
on the inside, and the other on the outside end of the screw against the flat side
of the stock, and the screw may have one part of the thread right handed, and the
other part left handed, so that it would tend to tighten itself when tending .to
turn.
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"Or any other plan may be adopted for making the screw a fixture in the
broomhead.
For Securing handles to Mops I make a long screw with a fixed washer, which
may be screwed on or cast with the screw.
I then place a loose washer of any suitable substance against the fixed washer,
the substance of which the mop is made is then placed over the screw, I then place
over this another loose washer and over this I rivet down the end of the screw and
so secure all the parts together to form the mop. A hole is made in the centre of
the handle same as before.
For Securing handles to Garden Implements I cast a Socket of Metal or Iron,
with a tail piece for Securing any kind of Garden Implement as now used.

page_text: I then make a square hole in the end of the Socket, and insert the screw,
as a fixed washer, from the inside, and rivet it on the outside.
which
I also make one or more holes in the end of the washer to insert nails or screws
ndways into the handle, when it is screwed into the Socket to prevent the handle
rom turning round and so becoming loose.
In order that my Invention may be clearly understood, I have appended here-
nto a sheet of drawings shewing the method I have adopted for securing handles
o Broomheads, Mops, and Garden Implements.