US568267A - Broom-head - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

S. A. MCIVER & E. M. DEBRUHL.

BROOM HEAD.

Patented Sept. 22, 1896.

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SAMUELL A. MOIVER AND EDWVARD M. DEBRUHL, OF L ONGSTREET,

' LOUISIANA.

BROOM-HEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,267, dated September 22, 1896.

Application filed June 27, 1896. Serial No. 597,219. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, SAMUELL A. MoIvER and EDWARD M. DEBRUHL, citizens of the United States, residing at Longstreet, in the parish of De Soto and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Broom-Heads and we do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in broom-heads, and the object of the said invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive means for holding the straws of a broom or brush in such a way that the said straws may be removed at pleasure andreplaced by others or rearranged.

The said invention possesses the novel construction and combination of parts as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

To more fully describe the invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the improved broom-head in its open position attached to a broom-handle, part of which is broken away; and Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of a broom provided with the improved head with a portion of the handle broken away.

Similar letters refer to similar parts thro ughout both views.

This improved broom-head is composed of two metallic clamp-plates A and B, hinged together by the link 0. These plates A and B are preferably tempered slightly to give them the proper degree of resiliency. The plate B is provided at one end with a row of teeth and at that end bent, as at b, to form a channel inclosing a portion of the link 0 and directing the points of the teeth 6' upward in a plane perpendicular to the plate. This plate 13 is provided with the upright pieces b and the tongue b which latter portion is rigidly secured to the flattened portion d of the broom-handle D. A bolt E passes through the tongue 11 and the broom-handle. The plate A, in shape similar to B, is also provided with a row of teeth a at one end, extending across the plate, and is in a similar manner bent, as at a, forming a channel which incloses a portion of the link 0. The plate A is provided with apertures a to receive the uprights b and the tongue at with the aperture a to receive the bolt E.

In Fig. 1 plate A is shown opened. In this opened position straws may be inserted between the rows of teeth until the space Within the link 0 is entirely filled, the ends of the straws near the broom-handle being prevented from flaring out at the sides by the upright pieces b hen the straws are thus placed, the plate A is closed down until the bolt E passes through the aperture d when the thumb-nut c is screwed on the bolt and the plate then drawn down by means of the thumbnut until the tongue a comes in contact with the flattened portion 01 of the broomhandle. In thus closing the plate A the teeth a are brought near the teeth I), which securely clamps the straws so inserted between them. The teeth a and b are not made sharp enough to cut the straw, nor is the pressure between the said teeth sufficient to break the straws.

The amount of pressure between theteeth may be varied by turning the thumb-nut 6. Hence the device is not confined to the use of a certain quantity of straws, but brooms of difierent sizes may be made at pleasure by changing the quantity of straw.

The extreme simplicity of the device immediately suggests itself, owing to the small number of parts composing it, the plates A and B being stamped from single pieces of metal.

It is obvious that the employment of the above-described broom-head is not confined to house-brooms, but may be applied as well to whisk-brooms, dusting or whitewash brushes,

1. In a broom-head, the combination with a plate having upright projections on each side thereof, said plate terminating at one end in a row of teeth and bent back upon itself at said toothed end to form a channel, a link carried by said plate in said channel, a second plate having apertures to receive the said upright pieces and also terminating at one end in a row of teeth and bent so as to engage the other side of said link and means for retaining said plate in a position parallel to the first plate, substantially as described.

2. I11 a device of the character described the combination with a plate rigidly attached at one end to the broom-handle, having upright side pieces near that end and terminatin g at the opposite end in a row of teeth and bent at said toothed end to form a channel,

tures in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUELL A. MOIVER. EDWARD M. DEBRUIIL. \Vitncsses:

M. M. BANNERMAN, J. L. COURTNEY.

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