US555854A

US555854A - Brush-handle attachment

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Publication number: US555854A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-03-03
Anticipated expiration: 1913-03-03

Description

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G. DAVENPORT. BRUSH HANDLE ATTAGHMBNT.

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PATE T GEORGE DAVENPORT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO CHARLES II. FORBES AND PETER II. RUTTER, OF SAME PLACE, AND IIENRY RUTTER AND \VILLIAM F. RUTTER, OF ATLANTIC CITY, NEWV JERSEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 555,854, dated March 3, 1896.

Application filed April 1 9, 1 8 9 5.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE DAVENPORT,

a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Brush-IIandle Attachments, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompan ying drawings.

My invention relates to brushes; and it consists of novel devices for attaching a brush to its handle whereby said brush can be supported at any desired angle relative thereto, means being also provided for readily adjusting and locking said brush in the desired position, so as to enable the user to use the same upon surfaces and in places ordinarily difficult of access.

It further consists of novel details of construction, all as will be hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 represents a sectional view of a brush embodying my invention and a portion of a handle to which the same is applicable. Fig. 2 represents a perspective view showing the back of said handle and a plate mounted thereon.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a brush-handle, the same having its upper portion B beveled at an angle thereto.

C designates a stud which passes through the upper portion of the handle, and has a shoulder or head D thereon, which contacts with a plate E, which is secured to the disk F in any suitable manner, said plate E having attached to it the slotted ears G, in which is secured the back head of the brush II by means of the bolt J, which passes through the slots of said ears and the body of said brush. The said disk has a series of holes K in its periphery which are adapted to register at intervals with the bent end L of the catch or spring M, which has one end N fixed to said handle, while its other end is held in position and guided by means of the staple or similar device P. The said stud and bolt C and J are provided with thumb-nuts of the usual Serial No. 546,295. (No model.)

construction, which can be readily manipulated, thehandle A being provided with a ledge Q, which serves as a bearing for the ad jacent thumb-screw.

The operation is as follows: Then it is desired to adjust the brush relatively to the handle, the nose or end L of the spring is pressed in toward the handle, so as to be out of engagement with the holes in the disk. The latter can then be readily rotated, and when it has reached the desired position or angle relative to the handle the end L of the catch is allowed to spring into the hole adjacent thereto, and the brush will be locked in position, the thumbnut on the stud C being then tightened.

It will of course be evident that a plate may be interposed between the beveled end of the brush-handle A andthe disk F, if desired, and that the plate E may be attached to said disk in any convenient manner other than that shown Without departing from the spirit of my invention, and I do not therefore desire to be limited in every instance to the exact construction I have herein shown and described.

Having thus described my invention, what 7 5 I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A brush-handle having a beveled end, a disk, a plate with slotted ears secured to said disk, a headed stud passing through said plate, disk and handle and having a nut thereon bearing against said handle, said parts being combined substantially as described.

2. A brush-handle having a beveled end, a disk having slotted ears connected therewith, a headed bolt passing through said disk and handle, a nut on said bolt bearing against said handle, and means connected with said handle engaging said disk for holding the same in place, said parts being combined substantially as described.

3. The handle A having the beveled end B, the disk F, mounted thereon having holes therein, the plate E secured to said disk, ears attached to said plate, the stud C having a head D contacting with said plate, and the spring or catch M having the end L adapted through said disk and handle, a nut 011 said IO to engage a hole in said disk in combination bolt bearing against said ledge and a spring with the brush having its head fitted between secured to said handle adapted to engage in said ears and the bolt J passing through slots openings in said disk, said parts being 00m- 5 in said ears and head, substantially as de-' bined substantially as described.

scribed. GEORGE DAVENPORT.

4. A brush-handle having a beveled end, lVitnesses: and a ledge on one side, a disk having ears JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM,

connected therewith, a headed bolt passing E. II. FAIRBANKS.