US1144309A - Broom. - Google Patents

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H. NOPPE & R. IKE

BROOM.

APPLICATION HLED 0cT.24. 1914.

Patented J une 22, 1915.

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HENRY N OPPE AND RICHARD IKE, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

BROOM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 22, 1915.

Application filed. October 24, 1914. Serial No. 868,509.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY NOPPE and RICHARD IKE, citizens of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brooms, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in brooms, and broom construction, and its objects are: first, to provide a means whereby the handle may be readily removed from the brush portion of the broom. Second, to provide a means whereby a handle may be made to serve several brush portions or broom heads, thus enabling the user to substitute a new brush or head for one that has been worn out. Third, to provide a means whereby the upper ends of the brush will be held firmly and securely in place without the necessity of winding the assembled corns that form the brush or head with broom Wire, as in the usual line of broom construction.

lVe attain these objects by the construction and assemblage of parts shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a broom made upon a scale of 1 to 6, showing our device in place. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same on the line a: a: of Fig. 1, but made upon a larger scale for the purpose of showing more plainly the manner of assembling the several parts. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the cap and band that constitute the essential elements of our invention showing the manner of firmly connecting these elements and of securing the handle thereto. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of our cap and band disconnected. Fig. 5 is a cross section of the same on the line 3 y of Fig. 4.

Similar numerals refer to similar throughout the several views.

In the accompanying drawings 1 repre sents the handle, and 2 represents the brush or head of a broom.

Our invention consists in a metal band 4 that is designed to be firmly formed around the upper end of the brush '2, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. This band has a bead formed around its periphery, as indicated at 5, that forms a base to receive and support the lower edge of the cap 3, which is passed down over the rim 11 of the band 4. The band 4 is provided with a bail 6 that is departs signed to support a nut 8. WVe greatly prefer that the inner surface of the band 4 be made convex in cross section, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 as it may, by this means, be made to compress the butts or upper ends of the broom corn that form the brush or head 2, without danger of cutting or wearing it. We have shown this band as made of solid metal, but it will be readily understood that such construction is not actually neces sary, hence we do not desire to restrict ourselves to this construction.

The cap 3 is made of sheet metal, preferably pressed into form, and the lower edge or opening should be made to fit ox er the rim l1 and bear upon the band 4. This cap is provided with a socket 9 for the reception of the end of the handle 1, as shown in the several views. We sometimes form narrow slots, as 10, in the socket 9 as by so doing it may be much more readily pressed from the sheet metal.

The lower end of the handle 1 is made to fit closely but freely in the socket 9, and is provided with a screw 7, that is very firmly secured in its position, for the purpose of securing the handle and cap to the band. hen assembling this device the cap is placed over the rim 11 so the lower edge will rest on the upper surface of the bead 5. The handle 1 is then passed into the socket 9 and the screw 7 is entered into the nut 8 when the handle is revolved to the right until the screw, in engagement with the said nut, draws the handle, cap and band firmly together and forms a rigid connection of these several elements.

To take down the broom it is only necessary to revolve the handle to the left until. the screw 7 has been screwed out of the nut 8, when the several elements of our invention are readily taken apart, though the band 4 is still rigidly secured around the upper end of the brush or head of the broom.

The bail 6 may be placed inside of the band 4, as indicated in Fig. 2, or outside of it, as indicated in Figs. 3, 4 and 5, but we prefer that it be placed outside of the band and be connected by forming slots 17 in the band and passing the angled ends 12 of the bail 6 through said slots, as indicated in Figs. 3, 4 and 5.

While there are various means for connecting the socket 9 with the cap 3, we prefer to form an opening, as indicated at 16, through the crown of the cap and placing a reinforcing plate 14: inside the cap with an upstruck portion as 15 at the crown of this reinforcing plate that will project up through the opening 16 in the cap, and then forming short lugs 18 on the lower end of the socket, which are to pass through slots in the plate 14 and be formed over firmly on the inner or lower surface of the plate, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 5. By this means we are enabled to make a firm, secure and inexpensive connection between these elements.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. In combination with the brush and handle of a broom, a metal band firmly embedded around the upper end of the brush,

a bail secured thereto and having a nut thereon, a cap made to engage said band and a socket projecting upward from the longitudinal center of the cap, a screw firmly seated in the end of the handle in position to be made to pass through the cap and into the nut on the bail to secure the cap and band firmly together.

2. In combination with the handle and brush of a broom, a band secured around the upper end of the brush, a bead formed on the periphery of the band, a bail secured to the band forming a centrally located screw threaded nut, a cap fitted to pass over the rim of the band and rest against the head, a socket on said cap, a handle fitted into the socket, a screw firmly fitted into the end of the handle and projecting downward therefrom in position to be made to pass through the cap and engage the nut on the bail to secure the cap and the band firmly together, thus forming a complete and rigidly contogether.

structed broom substantially as shown and described. l

3. In combination with the handle and brush of a broom, a band securely connected around the upper end of the brush, a bead and an upwardly projecting rim on said band, a bail connected with the band and having a screw threaded nut thereon, a cap fitted to the rim of the band, a socket on the cap, the end of the broom handle'fitted into said socket andprovided with a screw pro: jecting downward therefrom, the screw and the nut arranged to interlock and secure the cap and band firmly together, substantially as. shown and described.

4. In combination with the handle and brush of a broom, a band securely connected around the upper end of the brush and having a slot through each of the two opposite sides, a bail having the ends bent inward and passed throughsaid slots to secure it to the band, a screw-threaded nut formed in said bail, a cap fitted closely over the rim of said band, a reinforcing plate secured in side and laterally of said cap,a socket having lugs arranged to engageslots in the re% inforcing plate to secure the socket firmly theretorthe end of thebroo'fn'. handle secured in the socket,- and-:ascrew'projecting downt ward from the broom handle and made to engage the nut in the bail to secure the broom head, the handle andthe cap firmly Grand Rapids Michigan Octo- HENRY NOPPE.

RICHARD IKE.

In the presence'of t I. J. GILLEY, Grins. F. Hnx'r.

Signed ber 21,1914;

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington,]) .'G;f

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