US124365A - Improvement in whisk-brooms - Google Patents

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HENRY A. LEE, OF NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOHN F. LEE, JR, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN WHlSK-BROOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,355, dated March 5, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY ALPHEUS LEE, of 85 Murray street, New York city, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Whisk-Brushes or Brooms, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to the handle portion of a whisk-brush or broom. So far as my knowledge extends such brushes heretofore usually have been constructed in one of three ways. First, with a wooden handle, to which the neck of the broom was united by wire, the straw extending up the handle a distance sutticient merely to secure the straws to the handle. Second, with a core enveloped by wire to bind the straw to the handle, the straw extending the entire length of the handle. Third, a core covered by cloth or other fibrous or flexible material and wrapped with the binding-wire. These plans have all proved unsatisfactory in practice, owing to the rusting and slipping of the wire, the wearing of the flexible fibrous material, and the roughness of the handle.

The objects of my invention are to obviate these objections, and to provide a neat, orna mental, cheap, and durable handle. My invention consists: First, in a metal casing to cover the handle of a broom. Second, in combining with a broom-handle, a cap covered with cloth or other fibrous material.

The accompanying drawingreprcsents a view in elevation of so much of a whisk-broom embodying my improvements as is necessary to illustrate my invention, the sleeve or casing being shown in section.

The corn-straws A are shown as secured to the handle or core B by wire 0 in the ordinary manner. The straws and wire may, however, extend the whole length of the stock instead of part way only, as in the drawing. A cap, D, covers the neck of the broom to protect the binding-wire. The broom thus far described was patented to me October 10, 1871, and my present application constitutes animprovement on that patent. The core or handle of the broom is inclosed in a sleeve or casing E, in this instance spun up out of sheet metal and extendin g the entire length of the handle. This sleeve may be made plain, if desired but I prefer the corrugated form shown in the drawing, as it gives a neater finish to the broom and aifords a firmer grasp to the hand. The corrugations,

however, may be longitudinal, circumferential,

or spiral, if preferred. The casing may extend the entire length of the handle, as shown, or only part way thereof. It may likewise be made in one piece with the flange or collar,

,or in sections separate from the handle and from each other, the latter construction being cheaper to manufacture, and equally effective. The casing may be secured to the core by any well-known means. I prefer to cover the end of the handle with a cap, F, covered with cloth or other equivalent material, and to fasten this cap or button to the handle by a screwor nail, which may have a hook or ring on its head, as

this mode of construction gives a handsome linish to the broom, and is a cheap and excellent way of making it. Buttons are old, and cloth covers have been used for covering the ends of brush-handles but the two have to my knowledge never before been combined. The cloth alone is difficult to apply and soon becomes loose; but by combining the two I am enabled to apply the cap securely and cheaply.

I claim as my invention 1. A metal casing for whisk-broom handles, constructed substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the broom, flanged collar, and easing, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the handle, casing, and cap, substantially as set forth.

4. A cloth-covered metal cap, constructed and applied to a whisk-broom handle, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereuntosubscribed my name.

HENRY A. LEE.

Witnesses:

Jon I. PEYTON, Enwn. O. Davmsow.

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