Abstract: A cleaning implement comprises an elongate hollow tube. Bristle wires are bundled together and inserted fully into the tube, leaving a portion of the bristle wire projecting beyond a first end of the tube. The projecting portion of the bristle wire is trimmed to form a wire bristle brush. The first end of the tube is crimped to secure the bristles in place. When the bristles wear out, the end of the brush is uncrimped and a new length of bristle wire is pulled out of the tube. The tube is recrimped and the new bristle wire sheared off to form new bristles. The second, opposite end of the tube can be cut at an angle to form a scraper tool. Alternatively, screw threads can be formed at the second end of the tube to removably receive other types of cleaning or scraping apparatus.

Abstract: An extendable-bristle brush having a hollow, tubular handle containing a folded bundle of fibers, the free ends of the fibers extending from an open end of the handle as bristles. The bundle is formed by folding a half-bundle of fibers about a hooked drawpiece and drawing the fold of the bundle into the handle so that both ends of each fiber protrude from the same end of the tubular handle to form the bristles of the brush. Folding of the bundle creates a bulge in the bundle which is slightly larger than the inner diameter of the tubular handle. Drawing the bundle into the handle compresses the bulge, resulting in a holding force which frictionally locks the bundle within the handle. The bundle may be advanced by pulling out the exposed bristles. As the bundle is repeatedly pulled out and cut off for additional uses, the holding force does not change significantly with shortening of the bundle or the handle.

Abstract: A brush construction which includes a brush handle having a hollowed end portion for receiving a tuft of bristles. The tuft of bristles are reversely folded about a plastic filament, and the filament reversely folded whereby the free ends of the plastic filament and the associated tuft of bristles form a bundle which, when inserted into the hollow end portion of the handle is positively retained therein by the inherent resiliency of the bundle. To more securely retain the tuft of bristles to the handle, the handle may be made of plastic whereby the plastic filament can be sonically welded or fused to the plastic brush handle.

Abstract: A brush for a washing roller for use in an automatic motor vehicle washing installation or the like, comprises a flexible rectangular backing element (2) having means (3,4) along each of two opposite parallel edges for joining these edges together to hold the backing element (2) in a cylindrical configuration. Over the surface of the backing element (2) there are a plurality of sockets (5) for receiving fibres (10) fixed to the backing element by a sewing thread (11). One or a plurality of strip-like zones inclined diagonally with respect to the rectangular shape of the backing element (2) is or are provided with fibres (10) of a greater length such that when the backing element (2) is curved into its cylindrical configuration the strip-like zones with longer fibres form a helix over the surface of the roller thus formed.

Abstract: A hair and massage brush in which each bristle is a bent loop projecting from a perforated support. The ends of the loops extend through perforations in the support and are fixed by fusing the ends into a ball of a size greater than a perforation of the support. When two bristles extend from each perforation, their four ends are fused into a single ball.