BRUSHING DEVICE

A brushing device comprises a handle 1 with a brush head 2 at its lower, in use, end. The carrier carries a broom brush 3, which is extensible for sweeping dust, and a rotating brush 4 for picking up swept dust for delivery to a dust receptacle 47. The carrier 2 is a three piece injection moulding, comprised of a front cover 5, a back cover 6 and a central moulding 7. The covers are connected to the central moulding and the each other by conveniently positioned screws in integrally moulded screw bosses that do not need to be separately described, but at least some of which can be seen on the drawings. The central moulding has an upwardly open void 8 between a pair of upwardly extend, converging fingers 9, which engage in slots 10 in a tubular part 11 of a broom brush extender 12. A handle socket 13 extends through the brush extender. For moving this, it is provided with a collar 14 at the top of the tubular part above the slots. The tubular part 11 ends below the slots, whereby the fingers 9 limit the extent of upwards and downwards movement of the broom brush extender. This has a further triangular extension 15 below the tubular part, which extension is arranged within the front cover 5, where it is connected to a broom support 16. It is to the bottom of this that a broom bristle support 17 is attached. Broom bristles 18 as such extend below the bristle support. Movement of the collar 12 up and down the handle socket retracts and extends the bristles below the bottom 19 of the front cover and indeed the bottom of the central moulding.