US371117A - John ames - Google Patents

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J'. AMES, Jr.`

TOP KNUT FOR BLAGKING BRUSHES. i No. 371,117. Patented Oct. 4, 1887.

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JOHN AMES, JR., OF TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH O. BONNER, OF SAME PLACE.

TOP-KNOT FOR BLACKlNG-BRUSH ES.

EBEECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,117, dated October 4, 1887.

Original application tiled July 13, 1:86. Divided and this application filed October 21, 1896. Serial No. 216,878. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, JOHN AMES, Jr., of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Top-Knots for Blacking-Brushes or of Daubers for Blacking Boots or Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

My improvements relate to holders for the circular brush of bristles used for lakingrblacking from a box and depositing itupon boots or shoes to be polished.

The object of my improvements is to better secure the bristles in the holder, and they therefore relate particularly to the improved structure ofthe holder-block, reducing the cost ot manufacture and improving the top-knot.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a shoe'brush, partlyin section, with my improvements applied to it. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of t-he holder. Fig. 3 is a top view of a block detached.

I have filed an application, No. 207,927, of which this is a division, showing a bristle holder made of one piece of wood having a veru tical annular flange or rim surrounding the base of the bristles and serving to hold them in place and tov prevent them being broken down and packed and rendered unfit for use. In my present application I show the same annular liange having the same structure and functions; but my present improvements re late to making the holder of two pieces in a peculiar way, instead of one. device I insert in the cup or cavity formed by the vertical annular flange G a block, G, preferably convex on its top, as shown, specially prepared preferably of suitable soft or plastic material-such, for example, as' hemisiteformed in'dies and hardened. This block is set in the cup of the holder A', the bottom of the cup being made fiat and not bored for bristles on its under side, as illustrated.

The holder is mortised on its under sid when to be'applied upon a brush-handle, as shown at Bin Figs. l and 2; but it need not necessarily be mortised when applied to a mere top-knot handle. Not being bored out either at the bottom or for the bristles, the cupped holder is therefore quite solid and strong.

To secure the block in place I may employ glue G, which will also serve to hold the bris- In my present tles, the glue being put in the cup, and the block, if need be, having its bottom dipped in gluey and inserted in the cup. A screw, H, may be inserted in the center of the block, as usual, serving to secure the top-knot on the handle.

The dies for forming the block G may be simply a cup-shaped lower die and a series of punches or plungers projecting from a concave top or upper die, the dies being a counterpart of the form of the finished block and the upper die being capable of reciprocating movement by any ordinary means.

I prefer to use a convex block G, made of a separate piece, because it makes a better brush. avoids the boring ofthe holder, which weakens it, and is more economical to manuture. Such a top-knot can be cheaply made, and presents a good appearance, and is stronger and will wear longer than the ordinary topknot, even when made of a single piece, according to the plan shown in my said pending application, No. 207,927.

It is a very material improvement in the manufacture of top -knots for blacking purposes to avoid the usual boring, which can be done by the use of my block made of a separate piece and formed in dies. Such a block also prevents the exposure of the bottoms of the bristle tufts, and they are firmly held in place, the glue G' employed being also thoroughly covered and not exposed in any way.

Of course I might bore the holes for the bristle tufts in my block made of aseparate piece; but it would not be economical, although in structure the finished block would be the same as if otherwise perforated. It is also practicable to use some kinds of wood for making my block, and for perforating the block it is better, where it is of suit-able wood or other materials of the nature of wood, to heat them in hot water or by steam prior to punching the bristle-holes. Thick leather blocks might be employed, and also various other materials such as vulcanized fiber, &c.

I make no claim in this application to the vertical annular flange C; but,

Having thus described my improvements, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States,` is- In a blacking-brush, the combination, with IOO a holder, A", having zt cup, as described, that H, to secure the top-knot to the brush, sub- 1o is not bored out at its bottom for bristles, of a stantially as set forth. bristle-block, G, perforated for bristle tufts, In testimony whereof I have hereunto subthe perforations extending entirely through scribed my name. 5 the block and the block set in the eu of the holder and secured there by glue, so Ihat the 'JOHN AMES JR glue employed also serves to glue the bristles Vitnesses: to the block and is covered by the bleek, so as l JOSEPH C. BONNER,

to be protected, and an ordinary holding-screw, AGGIE S. RICHARDSON.

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