US861657A - Attachment for bridling brushes. - Google Patents

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Nol 861,657. iiAtrBNtrED JULY 30,1907.

JENKINS, DBGD. E. JENKINS, H. H. BEEMAN W. M. BOBNNING. EXEQUTORSL ATTACHMENT FOR BRIDLING BRUSHES.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.1, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LANCASTER Z. JENKINS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA; ELIZABETH JENKINS, HOWARD H. BEEMAN, AND WILLIAM M. BOENNING, EXEOUTORS OF SAID LANCASTER Z. JENKINS, DECEASED.

ATTACHMENT FOR BRIDLING- BRUSHES.

Speceation of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3o, 1907.

Application filed August 1,1906- Serial No. 328,702.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LANCASTER Z. JENKINS, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county oi Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useiul Attachment for Bridling Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a device oi novel construction for retaining the bridleoi a brush in position, the same embodying a clip with which the bridle is engageable and a shank which is located within the errule and interlockingly held therein.

Figure l represents a perspective view ol`: a brush and an attachment for the bridle thereof embodying my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 represents a section of a portion on line x-a Fig, l, the bridle having been removed. Fig. 3 represents a section of a portion at a right angle to Fig. 2. Fig. 4 represents a perspective view of the attachment removed rorn the brush. Fig'. 5 represents a face view of a blank for forming a differently-shaped attachment.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings: A designates a brush composed oi the bristles B, the errule C, the handle D and the bridle E, all of usual form.

F Adesignates attachments for retaining the bridle in position, each of the same consisting of the shank G, the clips H and base J, said shank and clips rising from said Ibase, said clips being bent outwardly from their places of connection with said base, it being seen that the shank is of tapering form, it widening from the base to its upper end, said shank being fitted within the ferrule and lying against the inner wall of the same and being pressed against by the adjacent portions of the bristles within the errule.

The clips H are on the exterior o/the errule, the bends K on their lower ends forming shoulders which abutagainst the bottom edge of the errule, whereby the attachment may be readily seated on the ferrule. In this position of parts, the bristles are forcibly driven into the ferrule, whereby they press the shanks against the ierrule and as said shanks are o tapering form as has been said, they dovetail with the adjacent bristles and interlock therewith, so that the attachments are prevented from being withdrawn at the open or bottom end Oi the ierrule, it being evident that the ends of the bridle are connected with the clips H and thus it is reliably prevented from disconnection from the brush.

The bases J of the attachments are below the open or bottom end of the errule and have the adjacent portions oi the bridle wound around the same and abut against the shoulders K which latter thus prevent any possible slipping of the bridle over the errule towards the handle end of the latter.

The portions of the bridle engaging the clips I-I may be readily removed thereirom and re-applied and in the latter condition may be reeved around the clips so as to be prevented irom slipping thereon.

In Fig. 5, I show a modification where the'attachment is composed oi the shank Gr, clips H and base J slightly different irem that oi the other iigures.

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

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a brush bridle attachment comprising a dovetailed shank, clips out of the plane of said shank, a base from which said shank and clips extend, and shoulders formed at the junction of said clips and base, at the narrower end of said shank, the whole adapted for use with a fel-rule with the shank upon the inner side of the ierrule and the clips upon the outer side thereof and the base disposed beneath the bridle.

2. A brush having a ferrule and a bridle, combined with an attachment comprising a wedge shaped shank disposed within the ferrule, a base extended beneath the lower edge of the ferrule to extend within the bridle, and clips with shoulders at their junction with the base, said shoulders engaging the ferrule upon their inner faces and the bridle upon their under faces, with the end of the bridle secured to said clips.

LANCASTER Z. JENKINS.

Witnesses .Toi-1N A. WinonnsHErM,

S. R. CARR.

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