US1078556A - Brush. - Google Patents

Description

G. L. ROGERS.

BRUSH.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12,1913.

Patented NOV. 11, 1913,

agg-mwa KM D LlilllllED @TATES AIYAITENTI OFFICE GEORGE L. ROGERS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY IDISSTON & SGNS FILE COMPANY, UF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPO- RATION 0F PENNSYLVANIA.

BRUSH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

t,"?8,556. Patented Nov. 11, 1913. Application filed June 12, 1913. Serial No. 773,323.

To all 'whom it may concern: i which accumulate in the ordinary metal file, 50 Be it known that I, Gannon L. ROGERS, a andthe bristles 5 are used to clean the iile citizen of the United States, residing in after the removal, by the other set of bristles, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented of the hard particles, as hereinbefore mencertain Improvements in Brushes, of whichV tioned. the Yfollowing is a specification. The block Li and the leather strip 6 are 55 This invention relates to certain improvew placed back to back, as shown, and are not ments in brushes used :to-r cleaning files. A connected, so that when the bristles of either brush of this character has two varieties of one of these sections wear the section conbristles, one metallic and stift and the other taining them can be removed and another softer and iiexible. section inserted in the handle. The block 60 rlhe object of this invention is to provide has a longitudinal groove 8 at each side, as a spring handle which will hold the two Shown in Fig. 3, into which extends one of elements to `which the bristles are attached the inturned flanges 10. The other flange of without other fastening means. These 0beach arm engages the portion 9 of the leather jects I attain in the following manner, refstrip 6 beyond the wire bristles 7 and indents 65 erence being had to the accompanying drawthe leather sufficiently to hold the elements ings, in which and 6 irmly in the handle. The handle Figure l, is a plan view of my improved is prei'erably made ot spring metal so that, brush; Fig. 2, is a side view; Fig. 3, is an end When 1t 1S bent mto shape, as shown in Fig. view, and Fig. 4t, is a transverse sectional l, 1t has a tendency to grip the block 4i and 70 View 0f the handle on the line i a, Fig. 1, to hold the bloclr and the leather without Vlhile the invention ie particularly adeptthe use of astenings. Furthermore the ined for use in connection with a double brush tUI'IlGCl flanges gllp tho tWo elements so that for cleaning files, it will be understood that they areY hold to the handle without other the invention can be used in connection with litStoIllIlgS, Wllloh Would be liable to become 7 5 a single brush, or it can be need with e deiidisarranged as the brushes of this character ble brush di'ering in form and texture from are roughly used and any intricate fastening that illustrated in the drawings. CloVlCo Would be objectionable.

Referring to the drawings, l is the handle l Cltlmmade from a single Sheet of Steel bent into In a brush, the combination of a handle 80 the Shape Shown end having 13W@ Spring made from a single piece of sheet metal bent arms 2, 2 bent te ferm the grip Section 3 into shane to form a handheld and two The arme 2, 2 lieve inem-ned flanges 10 et spring arms, each of said arms having two the top and bottom, as illustrated in Fig. 3, lIltUl'lod flanges bent So as to 'form a doveand the grip portion is bent, as illustrated in talletl glQOVG 111 @ach Wm? WO busll lOlOCkS 35 Fig. 4i, so as to make a convenient handheld @floh llitVlIlg e longitudinal groove at each and at the Same time t0 Strengthen this perside, the arms being disconnected at the end tion of the handle, opposite the handle so that the two blocks l is a Wooden block in wliieli the flexible can be forced into the space between the two bristles 5 are secured, arms and the iianges entering the grooves in 9o 6 is a strip oi' leather having the metallic the lOl0Cl$ bristles 7 bent as shown, and made similar to lo testimony Wlioroof, l have signed my what is known in the textile industry es name to this specification, in the presence card clothing. of two subscribing witnesses.

rlllhe bristles 5 are made of any suitable GEORGE L. ROGERS. material, preferably animal bristles, and are Witnesses: more flexible than the bristles 7. The bris- E B- EGBERTS,

W. C. BURKHOLDER.

tles 7 are used to remove all hard particles Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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