The Tube-in-the-Back Fountain Brush: Turn the Tube and the Jets Become a Soak

A scrubbing brush dipped in a bucket runs dry in seconds, and a hose beside it floods the floor. Annie B. Landreth of Bristol, Pennsylvania, received US 757,628, dated 19 April 1904, for a fountain brush "of great simplicity of construction": a recess bored lengthwise into an ordinary brush's back with openings to its face, and a perforated tube on a cock that slides in; a square plate on the tube sits in a square depression, so the holes can face the openings or be turned a quarter turn against the recess walls. This rung compares the jet with the turned-away flow, then bores a scrub brush, fits a tube and tap, and measures both settings.