US155243A

US155243A - Improvement in handles for whitewash-brushes

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Publication number: US155243A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1874-09-22
Anticipated expiration: 1891-09-22

Description

1. s. LAN DES. Handles for White-Wash Brushes; N0.l55,243 Patented Sept. 22,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

JOHN S. LANDES, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HANDLES FOR WHlTEWASH-BRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155.243, dated September 22, 1874; application filed July 9, 1874.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN S. LANDES, of the city of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Whitewash-Brush Holders, of which the following is a specification:

This is one of the devices to obviate the great difficulty in keeping the brushes for whitewashing firmly on their handles without incurring the risk of splitting the head of the brush, a source of great annoyance and loss of time, besides the shifting, so as to adapt the brush for whitewashin g the ceiling, as well as the walls. This device is simple and eflicient, and deemed novel.

The accompanying drawings clearly show the construction and application of this holder, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the holder, screw-bolt, and the several parts, detached. Fig. 2 shows-its application to the brush for whitewashing the walls; Fig. 3, the same, for whitewashing the ceiling, to show the shifting of the screw-bolt in the slotted holder.

The socket A for the handle H has a perforation, a, for a screw or nail to fasten the socket to the handle. This socket has a slotted prolongation, B, the upper limb bent out at angle of, say,thirty degrees, so as to continue the slot in the vertical and inclined portion of the holder, as shown. The head of brush G has a perforation, centrally, for a headed screwbolt, D, made square near the head d, to prevent turning. A large plate or washer, F, having a square aperture to set under the head and against the Wood to prevent wear or turning, is on the one side; the screw end of the bolt is passed through the slotted holder B, and secured by a thumb-screw, c, and washer E, firmly to the whitewash'brush, in the desired position, as shown by Figs. 2 and 3; and the brush is readily changed by simply loosening the thumb-screw, and sliding the holder up or down, as the case may be, to bring the bolt into the vertical or inclined portion of the slot 1) in the holder B.

t I am aware that various devices are in use,

but I am not aware that any substantially constructed and operated like the one shown and described was ever before known or used.

The socket, with its slotted bent prolongation, is a single casting ofmalleable iron, comes very cheap, simple in application, and of greatest utility.

What I claim as a new casting for the trade as my improved whitewash-holder, is-

The socket A, having a slotted flat head, B, with its upper portion bent out, in combination with a headed screw-bolt, D, plate F, washer E, and thumb-screw c, all constructed and operated substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN S. LANDES.

Witnesses:

W. B. WILEY, J AOOB STAUFFER.