US1068776A - Carpet-beater. - Google Patents

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P. P. JOHNSON. CARPET BEATER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9, 1912.

Patented July 29 s E s s E N n W ATTO R N EY UNITED STATES FRANK P. JOHNSON, OF DANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARPET-BEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 9, 1912. Serial No. 696,217.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK P. JOHNSON, citizen of the United States, residing at Danville, in the county of Montour and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Carpet-Beater, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has reference to improvements in carpet heaters, and in themethod of making the same, and its object is to provide a cheaply constructed andeffective carpet beater so well balanced that the operation of the device is greatly facilitated.

The carpet beater of the present invention comprises an active portion made of one piece of wire of suitable gage so arranged as to produce an expanded beating head possessing suflicient elasticity, but at the same time well braced against liability of breakage, and the terminal portions of the wire strand of which the beating head is constructed are twisted into a ferrule adapted to receive and retain the handle and so arranged as to provide an elastic sustaining means for the head of suflicient stiffness to permit the delivery of vigorous blows.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, with-the further understanding that while the drawings show a practical embodiment of the invention it may assume other practical forms so long as they do not mark any material departure from the salient features of the invention with respect to the carpet beater as a device or to the manner of producing it.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a view of'a carpet beating head of the present invention at an intermediate step in the manufacture thereof. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing further progress in the manufacture of the carpet beating head. Fig. 3 is a view of the completed head with the handle in position to be inserted in the ferrule.

In the production of the carpet beater of the present invention a single piece of wire of appropriate length is employed, and sincemany carpet heaters are made in succession, it is customary to take off the wire from a roll. In the manufacture of the head a single piece of wire 1 is formed intermediately with a short bend 2, and then the wire is formed on each side of the bend 2 into a series of return bends 3. The wire is then twisted together for a short distance, as indicated at l, then spaced apart as shown at 5, and again brought together and twisted, as indicated at 6, in which stage of the manufacture the two ends of the wire strand extend approximately in opposite directions.

substantially perpendicular to'the plane of that portion of the beater head made up of the return bends 3, such portion of the head being in the form of a substantially flat and laterally extended or expanded loop. The two twists 4 and 6 with the intermediate part 5 are now bent in a manner to extend across the loop defined by the bends 3 until the terminal extensions of the twist 6 lie transversely of the interior of the bend 2, after which the free terminal portions at the end of the twist 6 are additionally twisted as indicated at 7 to embrace the middle portion of the bend 2, and then the terminal portions are finally twisted into a ferrule 8 adapted to the reduced end 9 of a handle 10, the latter being of appropriate length and diameter for the purpose. The ferrule 8 is substantially a helix made up of two portions of the wire wound together and will closely embrace the end 9 with sufficient grip to prevent accidental displacement.

The head made up of a single piece of wire has its marginal portions in the shape of large crimping and is intermediately stiffened by the twisted parts substantially diametrical of the head, while the part 5 together with the marginal portions of the head form an expanded beating portion. That part of the ferrule 8 where joining the twisted part 7 provides a certain elasticity which permits the head to spring with reference to the handle, so as to impart to the fabric to be beaten a more effective blow than would result if the parts were stiff and unyielding, while the expanded form of the head serves to dislodge dirt from an extended area at each blow of the beater.

The degree of elasticity of the ferrule 8 is due to the length of said ferrule over the length of the reduced end 9 of the handle 10, the ferrule being sufiiciently longer than the end 9 to cause the desired flexibility of the beater.

Since the entire beater head is made of a single piece of wire there are no ends to unhook or come loose during the use of the device.

Patented July 29, 1913.

Whatis claimed is z? t l 1. A carpet beater provided with a head formed of a single piece of wire bent intermediately into a laterally ekpanded 100p terminating in a portion having the wire of the head twisted together and extending substantially diametrically across theloop and joined to the opposite side by a twist and the terminal portions of the wire being formed into an elastic ferrule for the reception of a handle. 1

2; A carpet beater provided with a head formed of one piece of Wire having a short intermediate bend and from thence extending'in the form of an expanded loop and then brought together and twisted, the twist= ed portion being continued in a substantially diametric direction across the loop to the intermediate bend and there locked to the loop by twisting about the bend, the remainder of the wire being twisted into an elastic ferrule for the reception of a handle.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK P. JOHNSON.

Witnesses JoHN A. WEITZEL, LEWIS L. MAINZER.

Ciiii ies at this patient may be obtained ior ijye teen t s eaql i by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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