US1339767A - Duster attachment for brooms - Google Patents

Description

D. R. KELLY.

DUSTER ATTACHMENT FOR BROOMS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. I4, 1919.

Patentd May 11,1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT onniron.

DANIEL R. KELLY, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, LASSIGNOR TO JAM-ES PETER MURRAY, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

DUSTER ATTACHMENT FOR BROOMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1920.

Application filed August 14, 1919. Serial No. 317,439.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DANIEL R. KELLY, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Duster Attachments for Brooms, of which the following is a specification.

The ordinary corn broom is not well adapted for such purposes as sweeping hard wood floors or dusting walls, and my object is to devise an attachment to the broom which will perfectly adapt it for the sweeping and dusting of hard smooth surfaces.

I attain my object by means of the constructions hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of the attachment laid out;

Fig. 2 a perspective view showing the attachment applied to a broom; and

Fig. 3 a plan view of a modification of the clamping means.

Fig. 4: is a vertical section of the broom provided with the device constructed according to Fig. 3.

In the drawings like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures.

1 is a flat piece of textile fabric of suffi cient length to be folded around the bottom of a broom and the ends brought up around the sides to a position toward the top of the broom. This piece of fabric is preferably slightly tapered each way from the middle. At the middle one or more heavy transverse fringes of threads 2 are attached to the fabric. In the preferred arrangement the center portion of the fabric is reinforced by securing one or more reinforcing strips 3 of textile fabric thereto. This not only gives increased durability to the article, but also gives a certain amount of stiffness to the center part, which maintains it evtend ed toward the sides of the broom and pre vents it wrinkling up, and fringes 2 in this case are secured to the fabric at each edge of the reinforcement.

The ends of the strip of fabric are provided with means for clamping the ends against the sides of the broom. In the simplest construction a wire 4 is secured in a casing at each end, the ends of the wire projecting beyond the lateral edges thereof. At each end an open link 5 is engaged with an eye formed on the end of one wire and is adapted to engage over 'a knob 6 formed by bending up the end of the opposite wire. By means of these links and wires the attachment is readily connected with or disconnected from the broom as desired.

In the modified construction the wire engaging each end of the fabric is doubled, the parts being indicated by the numbers 7 and 8 in Fig. 3. The parts 8 are integrally connected as shown and serve to embrace the broom. The ends of the fabric may be caught between the parts 7 and 8 at each side respectively or the parts 7 may be passed through the casings of the fabric ends. The ends of the parts 7 at one side are connected by means of an open link 9 engaging an eye formed on one of the parts 7 and engaging over a knob formed by bending the end of the other'part 7. At the other side an open link 11 is engaged between the parts 7 and 8 at one side and is adapted to engage over a hook 12 formed by bending the opposite parts 7 and 8 where they are folded back the one on the other. It is preferable when the form used in Fig. 3 is used to provide a thickening at each end of the fabric to prevent it being pulled through between the parts 7 and 8 when the attachment is clamped on the broom.

The attachment constructed substantially as described will be found to satisfactorily attain the object of my invention as set out in the preamble of this specification.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A cluster attachment for corn brooms and the like comprising a flat piece of textile fabric adapted to be folded around the bottom of a broom, provided at each end with a casing and at the middle with a heavy transverse fringe of threads; a spring wire in each casing having projecting ends; and means whereby the ends of the wires may be releasably connected to clamp the ends of the fabric against the sides of the broom.

2. A duster attachment for corn brooms and the like as set forth in claim 1 in which either side embracing the fabric at that side and the inner parts of the Wire clasping the broom between them. 10 Signed at Toronto this 1st day of August,

DANIEL R. KELLY.

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