US195639A - Improvement in brooms - Google Patents

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W. H. PATON. BRooMs.

No. 195,539l Patented senza/g77 WTHvw/mu: www@ i er:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. PATON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ALLEN L. WOOD, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMEN'l IN BROOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 195,639, dated September 25, 1877 application iiled February 22, 1877.

To all 'whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WiLLIAM H. P TON, of New York city, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements relating to Brooms, of which the following is a specification:

Flat brooms of the ordinary construction, made with broom-corn, are ordinarily too limber when new; or, in other words, the broomcorn is unsupported for so great a length that a vigorous use of the broom tends to demoralize and destroy it. It is undesirable to permanently connect the broom-corn together much lower down than is ordinarily done, because as the broom wears away a freedom of motion of the strands is desirable up to the same point as is now allowed. A temporary fastening or connection has been sometimes made below the permanent fastenings by means of strings or other crude appliances.

My invention is designed as a substitute therefor, and is a removable elastic bridle, with a rigid bar on each side, peculiarly adapted to serve the intendeduse, and equipped with appliances by which itmay be instantly and conveniently attached and detached. It also allows of being readily changed in position up and down on the broom.

rEhe accompanying drawings form a part of this specification, and represent what I consider the best construction of my device.

Figure l is a side elevation, and Fig. 2is a plan view.

Similar letters of referenceindicate like parts in all the figures.

A A are parallel bars or stretchers of hard wood. B B are str/ips of tinned wire, secured to the pieces A by rivets C, and D1 D2 are end straps which connect the pieces A together. The strap D1 is permanently fastened by the rivet O at that end engaging with it 5 but it is quite elastic. The strap D2 is detachable at one end. Its elasticity allows the detachable end to be readily drawn out from under its strap B, and be again inserted at pleasure. E is a hook which is adapted to engage in a hole in the end of the strap D2.

To disengage my device from a broom, the hook E is drawn out from the hole in the strap D2, and the latter is sprung out from its position under the strap B. This allows the bars A A to be sprung apart to a sufficient extent by the elasticity of the strap D1, and the device may then be removed from the broom on which it has been previously used and applied upon a new one. The construction allows the spreading strands of the broom-corn to be readily compressed together, and the whole can be confined by a ready insertion of the cross-strap D2 under the strap B, and the hook E to be engaged.

I believe that the device may be used with some success in the condition just describedthat is to say, without any fastenings. The weight of the device being slight, the friction of vits contact, gently compressing together the broom, may be sufficient to hold it in place; but I greatly prefer the peculiar fastenings formed by the stout bent wires G G.

Each is formed with an angular bend near its free end, adapted to be thrust into the edge of the broom above. One hook, G, is engaged in a hole near the lower edge of the strap D1, and the other similarly to the strap D2. Both are looped to form a permanent engagement; but are capable of turning thereon, as will be readily understood.

They are bent in such form that prior to the insertion of their angular ends into the broom, and even afterward, the elasticity of the straps D1 D2 is available to force them in.

|lhe wires G G may be of steel or hard iron, so that their own elasticity is also available for this purpose.

My device may be shifted up and down upon the broom. In ease any serious difficulty is found in shifting up as the broom wears away, the device can be opened and shifted up in the open condition and again secured together.

The material may be varied. Thus,thefasten ing-wires may be hard brass or German-silver. So may the straps D1 D2 and B. The pieces A may be metal or other suitable material instead of wood. The metals may be plated or variously decorated.

The bars A, when made of wood with considerable width, as shown, avoid the liability to cutting of the broom material, to which curing-hooks G G, adapted to serve as and for the purposes herein specified.

3. The side bars A, suitably fastened, and adapted to be secured to a broom, substantially as and for the purposes herein specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of February, 1877, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WM. H. PATON.

Witnesses:

THOMAS D. STETsoN, Cms. C. STETSON.

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