US287187A

US287187A - Sab ah b

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Publication number: US287187A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-10-23
Anticipated expiration: 1900-10-23

Description

(No Model.) 4

S. B. STANTON.

BRUSH HANDLE.

Patented'Oot. 2.3, y18.83.;

.g l 0 l mmm UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SARAH B. STANTON, OF NEV YORK, N.,Y.'

BRUSH-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 287,187, dated October'23, 1883,

Application tiled April 24, 1883. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom iv' may concern:

Be it knownthat I, SARAH B. STANTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brush-Handles, of which the following is a specification, refer- Ience being had therein to the accompanying drawings. y

My invention relates to extensible handles for brushes and my improvement consists in the constructions hereinafter pointed out and claimed.

The object of my invention is to produce a brush with a sliding` handle which shall be extensible, so that the end of the brush which is most used may be changed with relation to the handle, and one in which the handle may be closed or nearly closed into the back of the brush.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan partly in section, of a brush with slidingv extensible handle, the handle. being in two pieces.- Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same form of brush and handle. 3 is a plan, partly in section, of a bruslrbaclc with sliding extensible handle made in one piece. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of a modification of Fig. 3.'

A represents the brush block or baclnwhich may be of any usual form and construction. I have shown an oval form as being well adapted to illustrate my invention. The bristles B are secured in this block in any well-known manner. brush from end to end. This slot may be in the brush-block proper, or in the cap or back, which is usually put on as a iinish to the block. In the slot b, I place a handle, c, made somewhatlonger than the brush-body. Thislength may be obtained by making the handle in two parts, as at c c', so that the parts may slide one upon the other and telescope, as it were, into the handle. The parts c c have stops d d at their inner ends, to engage with each other. They may also have slight projections lc k at their outer ends, which serve as catches, by which the handle may be drawn out. Vhen the handle c c', made in two pieces, as shown in Figs. l and 2, is placed in the slot b, the stops -13 t" on the brush-back prevent the handle from sliding out.

A slot or groove, b, extends through the or groove, c2, extending nearly its (whole length, and is held from slipping outl of the back by a screw or pin, e, passing through the slot and into the biuslrwood. The slot need not extend entirely through the handle c, but may be merely a groove inthe back or face of and terminating near the ends of the handle, and the screw or pin e may have a head projecting slightly into this groove. At Fig. 4 I show this sliding handle in one piece, held in the slot b in the brush-back by means of springcatches f, which have projections g, adapted to engage in notches h in the brush-back. The. spring-catches f may be secured to the handle c by screws or pins f f:

The operation of my device is as follows: When it is desired to close the handle into the brush-block, the ends of the handle c are pressed in, and the handle is nearly or quite concealed in the brush-block. To draw out the handle at either end, in the form shown in Figs. 2 and 3, it is only necessary to give a slight pull to that end of the handle, and as one end of the handle is drawn out the other will slide into the brush-block. V,/lhe fit should be such that the parts will beheld in place by friction. To draw outthe'handle, Fig. 4, the springs f must both be pressed in, raising projections g out of engagement with notches z..

As shown in Fig. 3, the handle c has a slot The handle c is then slid along until the catch y, which is within the handle, engages with the notch hat the other end of the brush-back.

By my improved construction of handle, the handle may be shifted from end to end of the brush as one end wears more than the other, thus enabling the brush to be used for a longer time than if one end only were subject to wear;

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tially as described, so as to be capable of inoving longitiidinally in a right line in the back and of projecting froni either end of the brush, as stated.

2. The combination, with the slotted or grooved back of a biuslnof a slidingihandle, as c c, made in two parts, said parts having projections, as Z d', which inay engage with each other, whereby the projection of one part of the handle will draw in the other portion, as set forth.

3. The brnsh-back having,` groove or` slot b and projections or stops i at the end of v SARAH B. STANTON.

W'itnesses:

Holman STnTsoN, FREDERICK EGNER.