The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-15 00:00:00

PATENT

THE LONDON,LIVERPOOL,ANDMANCHESTER

VULCAN MACHINE COMPANY,

,FOR EFFECTUALLY
t CLEANSING CHIMNEYS AND FLUES,

AND FOR
`THE SUPPRESSION AND ABOLITION OF
CLIMBING BOYS,

With the Apparatus of L. W. WRIGHT, C.E, protected by her
Majesty's Letters Patent.
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,LIVERPOOL OFFICES, No. 44, HANOVER-STREET,
LATE EXCISE-OFFICES.

HIS COMPANY is prepared tcaliger into Annual
1. CONTRACTS with OWNERS and OCCUPIERS of
HOUSES, and to execute ORDERS for
CLEANSING CHIMNEYS AND FLUES
BY MEANS OF THEIR
NEWLY PATENTED APPARATUS,
which consists of a series of Six Machines,

APPLICABLE TO AIL PURPOSES OF SWEEPING,
including Steam-ship Chimneys and llethonse Flues.

The Machinery is introduced with great facility up the
Chimney or Flue, however tortuous ; and, also, through the
Chimney-pot at the head thereof; after sweeping which, it is
caused to

EXPAND AT THE TOP OF THE CHIMNEY,
.no as to accommodate itself to any tortuous or
IRREGULAR FORMATION .OF THE FLUE OR CHIMNEY,
thoroughly cleansing the same and bringing down the whole of
the soot before it, which is received at the grate by a screen ;
the inconvenience and dirt at present occurring being avoided
by the new method.
CHIMNEYS CAN BE CLEANSED AT ANY HOUR

of the day most convenient to Housekeepers.
The Company, having cleansed a great number of difficult
Flues in Liverpool, are satisfied that every Chimney may be
swept by some one of their Machines, and trust that
NO OCCUPIER WILL ALLOW CLIMBING BOYS

to be resorted to in any case, that by such means the inhuman
and illegal traffic in infant suffering may be totally abolisted.
It is intended to give employment to such of the present
Chimney Sweepers as are able to produce good characters, by
which means the robberies so constantly occurring will _be
avoided. The Company's Servants are provided with a proper
livery,. and will be made to maintain a clean and decent ap-
pearance at all times. They are strictly charged, on pain of
immediate dismiszal,. to behave with uniform civility, and to
perform their duty in as cleanly a manner as possible. The
men are strictly prohibited from soliciting.or receiving gratui-
ties of any kind; and it is particularly requested that parties
will give immediate zotice to the Company .of any breach of
these regulations.
_ THE RATES CHARGEABLE

.will, from the Company's extensive operations, be on a more
moderate scale than those at present paid ; the Contract
Ctlarges for
First-class Houses being at the rate of Is. Od. per Chimney.
-Second „ 44 „ Os. 9d. o
Third P) or ~ Os. 6d. o
Fourth Os. 4d.
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In every case the soot being cleared off the premises.
The Company will cleanse the Chimneys in the Houses and
Cottages of the Poorer Classes (that is, those who do not pay
rates) A,' RATU ITOUSLY, in aidof the exertions now in operation
by the Health Committee of the Council of the Borough of
Liverpool for the proper ventilation of such dwellings.
The Machinery, and Drawings thereof, may be seen at the
Offices of the Company, where any further information can be
obtained, Contracts taken, and Orders received.
S. M. SOUTH, Agent to the Company.
It. TWISADAY, Secretary.