US1769233A - Brush guard - Google Patents

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C. PISTORIUS July 1, 1930.

BRUSH GUARD Filed March 7, 1929 6 a 2'1 Pistorz'us INVENTOR.

BY 4 fiQATTORNEYS.

Patented July 1', 1930 UNHTED STAT PATENIQFHQE:

CARL PISTORIUS, on NEW YORK, in. Y.

nnusn GUARD Application filed March 7,

' My invention refers to a guard for brushes which serve for the application of liquids in wetting, painting, agitating or mixingoperations.

In perfecting my invention I had various objects in mind, some of which refer, generally, to brushes used for applying pastes or liquids to objects. Other objects of my invention refer in'parti cular to shaving brushes. Some of these objects are, first, to provide a protection on a-brush, preventing a splashing, dripping, running or seeping of the liquid contained in the brush proper onto. the hand of the user; second, to provide yieldable means which retain the brush in its most useful shape; third, to provide a space below and around the brush and the handle into which an excess of fluid contained in. the brush part is conducted, when it is squeezed out of said brush or drains backward from said brush, during the use of the brush; fourth, to provide means to return the fluid from said space into the brush whenever desired; fifth, to provide means to remove my improved guard from the brush so as to allow thorough cleansing and drying of said brush sixth, to provide means on a brush which allow it to be laid down without permitting the brush proper to come into contact with the surface upon which the brush is deposited.

These and other objects I attain by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawing in'which,

Figure 1 shows a sectioned side elevation of a brush to which my improvement is attached.

Figure 2 shows a corresponding top view.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the various views. v

The brush proper consists of the hair or bristles 3, which are suitably retained in a stem 4. The stem 4 is provided with a .protruding rim 5 along its cylindrical'circumference 9. From the end of the stem extends a threaded member 6, which fits into a tapped hole 7 in the handle 8 and by means of which the brush part and the handle are assembled. The handle 8 flares outwardly, in the back, to a point 16 of greatest diameter, the large diameter of the handle at this point 1929. Serial No. 344,986.

serving to give to the'handle a base upon which the brush can firmly stand when set down upon a horizontal surface in the posidrical circumference 9 of the stem of the brush. On one end said sleeve 11 is provided with a bead 12, at the other end it merges into a spherically shaped cup 13. To the cup 13 connects, at the point where said cup surrounds the hair 3 of the brush, the shield :14 which has the shape of a hollow truncated andjthe handle are taken apart. I I am how-- ever not. limited to a brush of the particular shape shown, in the use of my improved guard, but said guard may be slipped over the end of any brush and placed into a position corresponding to the one in which it is shown in Figure 1, since I make my guard out of a flexible andyieldable material, preferably rubber. v p I I When the brush is in use the cup 10 rests, in the position shown, against the rim 5 on the cylindrical circumference 9 of stem 4. Describing in the following a method in which I use my improvements I have, exemplarily, reference to their use wit-h ashaving brush. Shaving cream is placed into the hair of the brush or the brush is dipped into a mixture or solution of soap and the brush is applied to the face of the user. When the end of the brush impinges upon the face of the user'and pressure is exerted, some of the fluid contained in the hair of the brush is squeezedout of said brush and splashes, drips or runs down into the. shield 14 of the guard 10, and it is thus prevented from reaching the hand of the user which grasps and holds the handle 8. The fluidretained by the shield passes into the hollow space on the inside of cup 13 by means of gravity so liquid, but is adapted to receive additional fluids squeezed out of the brush, which also drain down into the hollow space on the inside of the cup 13, as long as the brush is held in a substantially upright position.

. When the user of the brush desires to replenish the supply of a solution or mixture of soap contained in the hair of the brush, he may bring about this replenishing by dipping the brush into his source of supply of such fluid, but he also may simply grip the brush a little higher so that his hand extends around the cup 18, press together the yieldable material out of which said cup is made and thereby forces the liquid contained in said cup into the hair of the brush, whereby the brush becomes wet again. When the purpose for which the brush was used has been accomplished the user may remove the surplus of liquid which has been drained into the hollow space of cup 13, by repeating the operation of squashing said cup so that the llquid 1s forced out of it, he may leave it in there for use at another time, or he may slide the sleeve. part 11 of the guard 10 backward along the properties of the guard allowing the guard to be pulled overthe larger cross section of the handle.

"in the form of embodiment ofmy invention, 1 withoutdeparting from the spiritand scope thereof.

I claim:

An elastic article of manufacture adapted to be removably mounted upon the stem of a brush and to extend over. thebrush member of said brush, comprising means forretaining said article on said stem, an outwardly flared shield encircling and engaging said Ibrush member along a lineremote from saidflstem, and a hollow, collapsible spherically shaped member connecting said means to said shield and closed at its opposite'ends saidstem and brush member respectively. 7 r

Signed at New York, in the county offlNew York and State of New York this 5 day of March A. D. 1929.

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open at that end; then the hair of the brush as wellas the brush may be readily washed and cleaned, if the user desired to do so.

The advantages entailed in the use of my guard, which have been described above in the connection wit-hits use on a shaving brush,

of pertain in like manner to the use of my guard a of the brush together, the paint dripping or flowing backward from the brush is collected in the shield 14 from where it is drained through the body of the brush member into the hollow space on the inside of cup 13; the

, hollow space on the inside'of said cup serves as a storage space from which the painter 7 may readily replenish the supply of paint in the hair or bristles of the brush by squeezing said cup together, preferably holding the brush in a downward position while doing so. When the hair or bristles of the brush or the inside of the guard 10 are to be cleaned, the guard may be pushed backward, towards the handle, sleeve 11 sliding along the cylindrical circumference 9 of the stem 4, or'the flexible and yieldable guard 10 may be entirely removed from the brush, by taking said brush apart, if said brush is constructed in the manner shown in the drawings, or by pulling it off the brush, over thehandle, the elastic

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