US570358A - John s - Google Patents

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(No Model.) v r J. s. WILLIAMS. ATTACHMENT FORBROOMS. I No. 570,358. Patentedocti-z' 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN S. \VILLIAMS, OF KREBS, INDlAN TERRITORY.

ATTACHMENT FOR BROOMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,358, dated October 27, 1896.

Application filed February 3, 1896. erial No. 577,895. (No model.)

the straws of the said brush-section more or less tightly together, rendering the broom adaptable for any kind of work, such as carpet-sweeping, scrubbing, &c., and insuring a longer life for the broom.

, Another object of the invention is to con-' struct a clamp which will engage with the handle as well as the brush portion of the broom, and which may also be used for suspending the broom from any desired support, and also to construct the clamp in such manner that it will not only serve as a brace for the brush portion of the broom but will lend elasticity thereto, especially when the broom is used for Vigorous sweeping.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved attachment, and Fig. 2 is a detail view of a handle whereby the attachment and the broom with which it is connected may be hung up.

In carrying out the invention the attachment may be said to consist, primarily, of a clamp A, adapted for adjustable engagement with the brush portion of the broom, jaws B adapted for engagement with the handle-section of the broom, and arms 0 and C, serving to connect the jaws and the clamp, the said arms being also adapted to regulate the adjustment of the aforesaid clamp.

The entire device is preferably made of spring-wire of a suitable size. The jaws B are ordinarily constructed with concaved inner faces, and where the arms 0 and 0 connect with the said jaws the wire is twisted upon itself, as shown at 12 and 13, since each arm is usually made of two strands of wire. The jaws B may be opened out or closed, as may be desired, through the medium of slides 10, which have vertical movement in corresponding members of both jaws, and a hook or an eye 11, or its equivalent, may be connected with one of the aforesaid slides 10, in order that the attachment and the broom to which it is connected may be hung up, so as to preserve the working surface of thebrushsection of the broom in proper condition.

At a point between the upper twisted surfaces 12 and 13 of the two arms 0 and O and the lower ends of these arms the said arms are provided with twisted surfaces 14, and each arm is bifurcated below the lower twisted sections, as shown in Fig. 1. The members of the bifurcated end of the arm 0 are designated, respectively, as 15 and 15 while the members of the opposing arms 0 are designated as 16 and 16. The members of the arm C may be drawn together or permitted to spring apart at their lower ends through the medium of a slide 15 having movement upon the two members 15 and 15, the slide being provided at its ends with suitable eyes to receive the said members, and a corresponding slide 16 is employed in c0nnection with the members of the opposing arm 0'.

The wire forming the member 16 of the arm 0' is at the lower end of the said member bent upon itself to form an eye 17, and the wire is then carried horizontally beyond the opposing member 16, forming a horizontal section 17 terminating at its inner end in an eye 17. The horizontal section 17 constitutes a portion of the clamp A, and it'is made to pass loosely through an eye 18, formed at the lower extremity of the opposite member 16 of the said arm O. Afterthe eye 18 is formed the wire is carried loosely through the eye 17 and after extending out wardly a predetermined distance the strip of wire 18 forming the continuation of the said arm member 16 is bent upon itself and returned, terminating at its inner end in an eye 18. The eye 18 is looped from another eye 19, formed at the lower extremity of the member 15 of the arm 0, and after the eye 19 is made the wire 19 is carried through an eye 20, formed at the lower end of the member 15" of the said arm 0, which strand 19 terminates in an eye 19 The continuation of the wire 2O from the eye 20 is passed loosely through the eye 19 and is then bent upon itself and returned, terminating in an eye 20, which is in looking engagement with the eye 17 first described. Therefore the stretches of wire 17, 18, 19, and 20 constie tute the clamp A, and it is evident that when the bifurcated sections of the arms 0 C are drawn together at their lower ends the clamp A will be contracted in size, and that it will naturally expand or increase in size, owing to the spring character of the material, when the bifurcated ends of the arms 0 and O are permited to separate.

In operation the slides 10 of the jaws are drawn downward,permitting the jaws to separate, while the slides 15 and 16 of the arms are carried upward, so as to permit theclamp to expand to its fullest extent. The handle of the broom is then passed upward through the clamp A between the arms O and .O, and likewise between the jaws B, and the entire device is then adjusted down the handle until the clamp is brought over the brush-section of the broom at the desired point. The slides of the jaw are then carried upward to close the same to a contact with the handle, and the slides of the arms are forced downward until the material of the brush-section of the broom will be drawn together as tightly as may be required for the character of the work to be performed.

If in practice it is found desirable the wire or cord used for tying the brush-section of the broom may be cut and the clamp used instead. When the clamp is so employed, the brush of the broom may be worn practically until the handle is reached.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A broom attachment,com.prising a clamp formed of two sections, sliding one upon the other, arms rigidly secured to the said sections, and means for drawing the arms together or allowing them to spring apart to contract or expand the clamp, substantially as described.

2. Abroonlattacl1inent,comprisinga clamp formed of two sections sliding one upon the other, bifurcated arms rigidly secured to the sections. and slides on the members of the arms whereby the sections of the clamp can be adjusted by moving the slides up or down on the arms, substantially as described.

3. A broom attachment, comprising two arms having bifurcated lower ends, a clamp integral with the members of the arms and formed of two sections sliding one upon the other, each section being formed by two members, one of each arm, and means for contracting and expanding the clamp, substantially as described.

4. A broom attachment, comprising two arms having bifurcated lower ends, a clamping-section formed on the lower ends of the members of each arm, said sections having an interlocking and sliding connection with each other, and slides on the members of the arms, substantially as described.

5. In a broom attachment, a clamp adapted to embrace the brush-section of the broom, arms connected with the said clamp, adapted to receive between them the handle of the broom, means, substantially as shown and described, for increasing or decreasing the .size of the clamp, adjustable jaws attached to the said arms, and a suspension device where by the clamp and the broom carried thereby may be hung from a common support, as and for the purpose specified.

6. The combination, with a clamp constructed in adjustable sections,.of arms bifurcated at their lower ends and provided with extensions at said ends, forming adjustable sections of the clamp, slides to draw the bifurcated portions of the arms together, and adjustable jaws connected with the said arms, as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN S. WILLIAMS. Witnesses:

JNo. SHIPLEY, FRANK INNS.

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