US393377A

US393377A - John p

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Publication number: US393377A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-11-27
Anticipated expiration: 1905-11-27

Description

(No Model.)

J. P. LYBARGER.

EXTENSION HANDLE. No. 393,377. Patented Nov. 27, 1888.

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EXTENSION-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,377, dated November 27, 1888.

Serial No. 256,709. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN P. LYBARGER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Rimer, in the county of Putnam and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Extension-Handle, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of an extension handle for brooms, pitchforks, or other straight to handled implements.

Figure l is a view of my device attached to another handle; Fig. 2, a View of the handle detached; Fig. 3, an end view showing handle and compressing-ring.

The object of my invention is to furnish a cheap, simple, and ever-ready extension-handle for brooin-handles especially, (but it may be attached to other handles,) so that a woman can in a moment attach it to a broom-handle and lengthen it, so that she can reach the ceilings and sweep down the dust that accumulates there. There are brooms made with long straight handles; but these are unwieldydifficult to move around in small rooms among furniture, 8m; but with my extension-handle it can be attached and detached at will and one handle used for any broom about the place. The extension can also be used to lengthen the handle of fruit tree trimmers or 0 other handled devices.

The construction is as follows: A tapering handle, A, hasa tapering hole, G, bored in its larger end for some eight inches, and down through this end are sawed three slots, G.

1 Over the small end of the extension I drop 5 a ring, B, large enough to slip nearly to the larger end of the handle, but not large enough to go beyond it. Near the lower end of the slot I wrap the handle with wire, D, or put a band around it and drive a couple of small 0 staples in or leave a portion of the wire bent out, so that the ring B cannot slip back beyond it. When it is desired to use it, the small end of a broomhandle is inserted in the hole Gin the end of the extension, the 5 ring B resting on the staples or projections E. When the broom-handle has been properly placed, the ring B is slid up toward the large end, clamping the three pieces of the extension tightly on the broomhandle and holding it firmly in position.

What I claim is- The combination, with abroom-handle, of an extension-holder made of one piece of wood flaring at the upper end to keep the slide-ring from sliding up, having aholebored inthe end to receive the end of the broom-handle, the sides being split to allow of expansion, provided with a slide-ring for contracting the same, and being wrapped with wire to keep from splitting and to keep the ring from slipping down, substantially as shown and described.

JOHN P. LYBARGER.

Witnesses:

E. K. CAMPBELL, NED CAMPBELL.