Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1886.
Complete Left, 10th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 11th Mar., 1887.
I WILLIAM JOHN PAYNE of 136 Crystal Palace Road Dulwich in the County of
Surrey Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to brushes and more especially to paint brushes and others of
a similar nature and the object thereof is to fit an appliance to these brushes whereby
the hairs or bristles or similar parts of the brushes can be stiffened and strengthened
or relaxed and made softer at pleasure very easily and quickly.
To carry out this object I make a sleeve of the proper length and of the desired
shape and size in transverse section having regard to the particular brush to which the
same is to be applied which sleeve is preferably made of metal. This sleeve may
either be a continuous or closed sleeve or may have one or more slots cut continuously
or otherwise in its length. An arm or prolongation is fitted to this sleeve so bent or
otherwise formed as may be required for each brush. The sleeve is passed over the
hairs or bristles or similar parts of the brush in any convenient manner or when as is
very suitable one continuous slot is cut lengthwise in the sleeve the two parts thereof
can be opened out and passed transversely round the hairs bristles or similar parts when
these two parts of the sleeve can be brought together again or thereabouts. The
sleeve can be passed so far along the hairs bristles or similar parts of the brush as to
give the same the desired stiffness or softness and to retain the sleeve in this required
position the arm or prolongation is so fitted as to be capable of being secured to the
handle of the brush in this position by studs and slots or recesses or by hooks and eyes
or screws or pegs or tacks or otherwise as may be convenient and a series of these
attachments are provided whereby the sleeve can be retained in any of the required
positions.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement Pertaining to Brushes.
I WILLIAM JOHN PAYNE of 136 Crystal Palace Road Dulwich in the County of
Surrey Gentleman 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 relates to brushes and more especially to paint brushes and others of
a similar nature and the object thereof is to fit a simple and cheap appliance to these
brushes whereby the hairs or bristles or similar parts of the brushes can be stiffened
and strengthened or relaxed and made softer at pleasure very easily and quickly.
In the accompanying drawing I have shewn two views of one of the most common
kinds of paint brushes fitted with an extremely convenient and suitable form and style
of this my appliance.
I make a sleeve A of the proper length and of the desired size and shape in trans-
verse section having regard to the particular brush to which the same is to be applied
or that is to say by way of example when the brush is circular in transverse section as
is shewn in the drawing the sleeve A also is circular in transverse section and is of
about the size or diameter of the butt or base of the handle B and this sleeve A is
preferably made of metal and can very conveniently be somewhat tapered as shewn.
The sleeve A may be either a continuous or closed sleeve or may have one or more
slots cut continuously or otherwise in its length or may be otherwise fitted as may be
desired in each particular case also having regard to the particular brush to which the
same is to be applied. I shew in the drawing a most convenient and suitable method
of fitting the sleeve A and more especially so when the same is to be applied to a brush
circular in transverse section according to which method one slot is cut continuously
in the length of the sleeve A or that is to say the sleeve A is a split sleeve and the
two parts of the sleeve A so divided are caused somewhat to overlap as shewn at A¹.
One or more arms or prolongations E are fitted to or formed with the sleeve A so bent
or otherwise formed as may be required for each brush in manner as is hereinafter
explained.
The sleeve A is passed over the hairs bristles or similar parts F of the brush or
when the sleeve A is made as shewn in the drawing the two parts thereof may be
opened out and be passed round the hairs bristles or similar parts F when these two
parts may be brought together again and if desired caused to overlap as aforesaid.
The sleeve A can be passed so far along or be placed so near the ends of the hairs
bristles or similar parts F of the brush or can be drawn back or be placed so near the
roots of the same or the handle B of the brush as to give these hairs bristles or similar

page_text: parts F the desired stiffness or softness and to retain the sleeve A in this required
position the arm or arms E is or are so formed as to be in close proximity to the
handle B and is or are so fitted as to be capable of being secured to the handle B in
this position by studs and slots or recesses or by hooks and eyes or by pegs or tacks
or by racks and teeth or as shewn by screws or otherwise as may be convenient by
any usual appliances or devices and a series of these attachments are provided whereby
the sleeve can be retained in any and all of the required positions.
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
The combination with a brush of the sleeve A fitted with the arm or arins E
substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and declared.