US74224A - Improved bbush-bkidle - Google Patents

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GEORGEHERGESHEIMER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND CORNELIUS V. FORT, OF SAME PLACE;-

team jatent' No. 74,224, dated February 11, 1868.

IMPROVED, BRUSH-BRIDE.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, Gnome Hsncnsnnnunn, of the cityand county of Philadelphia'and State of Penn- .sylvania have invented a new and improved Brush-Bridlef and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation: of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which-F Figure 1 is a perspective view of a brush with my bridle attached. I

Figure 2 is.a perspective view of a brush with my bridle'attached, but made in a diflercnt form.

Figures 3 and 4 are views of my bridle detachedfrom the brushes. p

The object of my invention is to overcomethe diificulty experienced by painters and others in'regnlating the stifi'n'ess ofthe bristles of their brushes, and, at the same time, toobtain proper flexibility, which cannot be done by the present process of bridling with twine or wire without great loss of time. It is also to prevent brushes from becoming foul, or the dropping of paint from the brush.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will nowjproceed to describe its construction and operation.

I make my bridle in two forms-A and B, figs. 3 and 4. l3ridle Ais made in a circular form, and of vulcanized or soft rubber, of a thickness of'ahout one-sixteenth of an inch, the length and diameter of a suflicient size to suit. the brush to which it is to be applied. Bridle B is made of the same material and in the same manner, with the exception that, at the lower end, I forth a suction-cup, S (Land flange, F L, to catch thepaint or other material, when the brush is being used, in a position to cause it (the paint) to flow towards the handle. When a brush is procured'new, it has to be bridled from one tonne and a. half inch below what is calledby the trade the made part of the brush. This is now done by twine. Now, it becomes necessary, when the brush is in constant use, to unbridle and bridle twice a day. If this is neglected the brush mats and fouls, and, in a short time, wears out in the centre' and becomes useless. Anotherinconvenience is the continual change neces- .sary to regulate the brush 'to the style of painting, some work requiring a stifiland othera loosebrush, there fore causing great inconvenience and loss of time, by the bridling and unbridling, to regulate it. All this I entirely overcome.-

. Another advantage of my invention is the spring given to the brush, and the expansion allowed by the elasticity of the rubber. When a. brush has been used, and left over night without cleaning,-the water in which the brushes are allowed to'remain swells the twine, and draws the bristles up tight, and makes the brush hard and d-iflicult to clean.

The advantages of the above-described suction-cup S C and flange F L areiobvious. In painting ceilings, or work where it is necessary to have the brush at a higher point than the handle, the paint is apt to run down tbe'handle of the brush and drop off on the floor or carpet. Now, by my arrangement, the material will fall on flange FL, and thence flow into cup SO, and remain until the bridle is removed.

In applying the'bridle, the handleof the brush is inserted, andthe bridle drawn down over the shoulder, until it assumes the position shownin figs. 1 and 2,'thc stilfncss of the bristles being regulated by raising or lowering thebridle. v

Having thus described my invention, its construction and operation, what Iclainr as new, and desire to secure by LettersPatent of the United States, is i r The arrangement of brush-bridle B, with the suction-cup S G and flangeF L, constructed and operating in the manner and for the purpose as herein set forth and described.

GEORGE HERGESHEIMER. Witnesses:

SAMUEL L. TAYLOR,

OnAnLEs H. Evans.

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