An Improvement in the Construction of Spoke Brushes (Brushes for Cleaning the Wheels and other Parts of Vehicles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 29th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 7th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 12th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Construction of Spoke Brushes (Brushes for
Cleaning the Wheels and other Parts of Vehicles.)
EDWIN HAWLEY & ALFRED SMITH 8 Lower Hall Lane, Walsall Staffordshire
Brush Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
An improvement in the making of 'Spoke' brushes (a brush used for the cleaning
of wheels and carriages).
Our invention consists in the attachment to the wood stock of a bed of leather.
This bed of leather projects a little beyond the wood stock all round-and being
soft prevents, (when the brush is used), the hard wood coming in contact with the
varnish of the carriage.
The bristles pass through the bed of leather, which is about a quarter of an inch
thick into the wood stock.
The paint and varnish of the vehicles are therefore protected by our invention.
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EDWIN HAWLEY.
ALFRED SMITH.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Construction of Spoke Brushes (Brushes for
Cleaning the Wheels and other Parts of Vehicles.
We, EDWIN HAWLEY and ALFRED SMITH, of Hall Lane, Walsall, in the County
of Stafford, Brush Manufacturers, 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 :-
Our invention consists in an arrangement whereby we so place a bed of leather
underneath the wood stock that the said leather prevents the hard wood stock coming
in contact with the spokes of the wheel being cleaned. The paint and varnish of the
wheel or carriage is therefore protected by our invention.
In carrying our invention into effect we construct brushes as illustrated in the
accompanying drawing where Figure 1 is an elevation of our brush shewing the
leather bed beneath the fibres or bristles. Figure 2 is a section of the arrangement
and Figure 3 is a section of our improved brush with the leather brought round the
frame for additional protection to the vehicle.
A is the leather pad or bed, B is the stock or frame and C, C, are the bristles, fibres,
or hairs of the brush.
We attach the leather A to the stock or frame B, by shellac, glue, pegs, screws, or
any well known or ordinary method, taking care when employing pegs that they shall
be well recessed and sunk beneath the surface of the leather, in order that no
scratching may be caused to the paint or varnish upon the wheels or other part of the
vehicle which it is desired to cleanse. By this our improved system of constructing
spoke brushes we are enabled the more expeditiously to cleanse and remove all dirt
and foreign matter from carriage and other wheels without causing the paint or
varnish upon them to be injured. The surface beneath the bristles and the corners of
the stock which are rubbed somewhat rapidly against the spokes of the wheel or other
portions of the vehicle, being covered or encased with leather no scratching or
abrasion of the surfaces is produced.

page_text: Sometimes we employ india-rubber, gutta-percha, or other suitable yielding com-
position, instead of leather, for the same purpose of protection as hereinbefore described
when applying leather only to our improved brushes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is. to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
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The construction of brushes having a leather or yielding pad or bed attached
or secured to the stock as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and substantially
as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for Applicants.