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Description

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Reissued May 14, 1867.

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WILLIAM H. COB-Y,.OF NEW YORK, N.-Y., ASSIGNEE BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS OF THOMAS WRIGHT.

Letters Patent No. 59,733, dated November 13, 1866; reissueNo. 2,598, dated May 14, 1867;

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that the following is a full, clear, and exaet description of a new'and useful Improvement on Brooms invented by THOMAs WRIGHT ofthe city, county, and State of New York, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of thisspecification, and in which- Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the improved broom' as constructed for out-door work, showing the double socket for securing the handle.

Figure 2, a top or rear view of the same showing a portion of the upper plate or back broken-away, and illustrating by blue lines the manner of inserting the splints or wires; and

Figure 3 a' sectional view taken as denoted by the line as'ai in fig. 1.

Similar letters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

The nature of-this invention consists in a novel mode of fitting and holding the splints or strips in the head of the broom by means-of apertures formed vin pairs in the base-plate, and united at their tops or inner ends, where the splints are looped to project through either aperture, and where thcy are held by a back plate in their places Said invention also further consists in a double and reverse angular socket attachment for insertion of the handle in'opposite directions to equalize wear of the-broomor brush.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, the broom is here represented us'providedwith a heavy wooden base-plate, A, pierced through with a regular series of apertures arranged in pairs, preferably at equal intervals apart. Small bundles of splints or strips of suitable material, and which may be of metal, of a proper length, are doubled or looped and inserted respectively through the apertures, forming each pair in the series, leaving their free ends projecting equally from thepla t-e to any desired length. When the plate or base A is filled the splints or strips are secured to their places therein by nailing or otherwise fastening a second or back-plate, B,

upon the upper or rear side of the base-plate, so as to cover and bear upon their loops, In order to permit the second-or back-plate to close snugly and neatly down upon the base-plate, grooves or recesses a may be cut in one or the other plates, or in both, thus uniting at their inner ends the apertures in the base-plate, as arranged in pairs, through which the splints or strips are passed, and out of or from which they project, saidgrooves'or recesses a serving to receive the necessary loop-shaped projection of the splints or strips where they are bent over the spaces between each pair of apertures. Upon top of the upper plate of the broom may be secured a-metallic piece, G, having two sockets for a handle formed or placed therein, and so as to project therefrom preferably at similar angles in opposite directions in the same right line. By thislatter construction or provision, which may be applied to different kinds of brooms or brushes, the operator is enabled, when the broom I becomes worn .down in one direction, to transfer the handle to the other side, which admits of wear in an opposite direction and compensating manner, as it were. There wire or HIBtZLlSPllDt-S or strips-are used for the broom, and which should be made from rolled wire, the same may .be formed of flat refuse crinoline springs,

otherwise usually valuelessexcept-ing as old metal, whereby such brooms can be made at a comparatively low cost and increased-durability secured.

What is here claimed as new and useful, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is'

The splints or strips, made of any suitable material, inserted in bundles through apertures formed in pairs in the base-plate of the broom, by looping them as described, said apertures being connected by a groove or recess to accommodate the loop, and thelatter held to its place by a back or upper plate, substantially as shown and described. v WM, H. CORY.

Witnesses: I

HENRY T. Brown, A. LE Gnssc.

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