US181455A

US181455A - Improvement in brooms

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Publication number: US181455A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1876-08-22
Anticipated expiration: 1893-08-22

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UNITED STATES JOHN E. LEE, JE., OE BROOKLYN, NEWI YORK, AssIeNoE To oHAELEs E.

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IMPRovEMENT IN BRo'oMs.

Speciication forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,455, dated August 22, 1876; application tiled December 21, 1875.

` are made capableof being packed more compactly Afor shipment, and a single handle can be used for several brooms, thereby avoiding the cost of a large portion of the handles which purchasers and users of brooms would require when the broom is made upon the handle and inseparable from it.

. The object of my present invention is to produce a construction which shall render brooms of this class more rm and reliable, less liable to derangement by rough usage in the insertion of the handle, simple in their structure, easy of construction, and neat in appearance.

One part of my invention consists in the combination, with other parts of a broom, of a tapering socket in the upper part thereof to receive the handle, and a cap which surrounds the head or upper end of the broom, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth. An-

other part of myinvention consists in the combination, with other parts -of a broom, of a tapering socket, a cap, and a binding wound around the head of the broom, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth. Another part of said invention consists in the combination, with other parts of a broom, and with a cap and tapering socket, of a connection between the said cap and the said tapering socket, whereby the said socket is prevented from being driven down out of place into the broom, substantially as hereinafter set forth; and said invention also consists, in part,

in the combination, with the brush of the broom, the socket, and the cap, of a flange or outwardly-projecting top, tirmlyafxed to or made a part of the said socket, and extending outward over the top or someadjacent portion of the said cap, whereby the said socket is prevented from being driven in out of place,

forth.

Figure 1 is a side View of a broom constructed according to my invention, the handle being omitted and the lower part of the brush' broken off. Fig; 2is a similar view, with the lexception that a portion of the upper part of the broom is represented as being broken away, and the tapering socket and cap repre' sented in section.

A is the brush of the broom, which is formed in most respects in the same manner as ordinarily practiced, and stitched as usual. Instead, however, of the top of the brush part ofthe broom being formed upon a permanent handle, as more ordinarily practiced, it is here formed upon a tube or socket, B, tapering '.on the inside thereof', to give a conical aperture, as shown, for the after insertion of the conical end of the handle. In the drawings this socket or tube B is represented as' being madeof sheet met-al, and consequently being conical externally as well as internally. C is a cap, which surrounds and covers the head of the broom. This cap is represented as being made to it snugly around the top of the socket B at its upper end, and the top of the socket is turned over the edge of the cap, for the purpose of preventing the socket from being driven into the broom farther than it should be by the driving' of the handle when it is inserted into the socket. socket can be so turned over by a proper set, or by spinning in a lathe after the broom is formed and the cap put on.

The brush of the broom is formed upon the socket by winding it on with wire or twine, or some other equivalent, wire being preferred, as shown by small circles or dots at a, -in the manner usually practiced in forming the head The top of the embodied. Some `slight 'variations`may, however, be made inthe details of construction Without at all departing from any of the principles 0r essential features of the invention; and, again, other moderate deviations from theexact description I have given may be made, and the principal portions ofthe inven- `tion yet retained. For example, the top of the cap might be turned over with the top ot' the socketV to secure the parts together; the` top of the cap and the top of the socket might be secured to each other by soldering, o'r possibly by riveting; or the top ofthe socket might be turned farther outward, to meet and rest upon the inwardly-projecting ange 'of the cap, or in some recess in it. Said cap may also be made of any ofthe forms shown or mentioned in the reissued Letters 'Patent No.` 4,706, granted to Henry A. Lee `andrnyself January 9,1872, or any other form adapted to. the `purpose may be used. Ido not, however, mean to be understood as recon] rnending these deviations as being more advautagcous'than` the construction I have described, nor, indeed,

asbeing `equally good.

`[claim as `my invention-f 1. The combination, lW' `h `the brush of` a broom, of an internally-taperingsocket to re- 'and the said socket, substantially ashereinbeforeset forth.

et. `The combination, with the brush of aV broom, of a taperingsocket forthe handle, a, cap, and an `outward projection fro'inthe `said socket over thesaid'cap,substantial1y as here-. V inbefore set forth.

v JOHN n. LEE, JR.

Witnesses):

GaAs. F. LINDE, THOAS. P. HOW.