An improved window-cleaning Guaru.
Year: 1898

page_text: An improved window-cleaning Guaru.
I, HENRY GOLDENFARB, of 31, Great Eastern Street, E.C., in the County of
London, Manufacturer and Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
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This invention consists of a very simple, portable window cleaning guard.
According to this invention, the guard. is made of a number of hinged flaps, so
that the said guard may rest upon the window-sill and be held against the wall
at the sides of the window in such a way that a person, sitting on the sill, has a
back to lean against and therefore does not require to hold on to the window, and
consequently has the two hands free for work.
According to one way of carrying out this invention, I take two pieces of wood
of suitable size and hinge them together, the outer end of each piece being formed
with an arm about midway of the width of the said piece and to the end of each
of the arms,
hinge another flap tho hinges being at a short distance from the
ends of these last named flaps; each of these last named flaps has also an arm,
so that when these arms are brought over one another and held together by
suitable means, the guard will be in the form of a triangle and when resting on
the sill will be prevented from falling on account of the ends of the two last
mentioned Haps coming against the wall at each side of the window.
BROWNE & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant, 9, Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, London, W.C.
An improved window-creaming Guara.
I, HENRY GOLDENFARB, of 31, Great Eastern Street, E.C., in the County of
London, Manufacturer and Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention consists of a very simple, portable window cleaning guard.
According to this invention, the guard is made of a number of hinged flaps, so
that the said guard may rest upon the window-sill and be held against the wall
at the sides of the window in such a way that a person sitting on the sill has a
back to lean against, and therefore does not require to hold on to the window, and
consequently has the two hands free for work.
According to one way of carrying out this invention, I take two pieces of wood
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page_text: of suitable size and hinge them together, the outer end of each piece being formed
with an arm about midway of the width of the said piece and to the end of each
of the arms I hinge. another flap the hinges being at a short distance from the
ends of these last named flaps; each of these last named flaps has also an arm,
so that when these arms are brought over one another and held together by
suitable means, the guard will be in the form of a triangle, and when resting on
the sill will be prevented from falling on account of the ends of the last two
mentioned flaps coming against the wall on each side of the window. And in
order that my said invention may be better understood, I will now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which: Fig. 1
shews a view of my improved window cleaning guard set open to its widest extent;
Fig. 2 front elevation of same; Fig. 3 vertical section on line A, B, Fig. 1.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the views.
a and b shew two pieces of wood or other suitable material hinged together at i,
and provided respectively with arms cd by means of which they are hinged to
two other flaps ef; a being hinged to e and b to f. The flap e has an army with
a number of holes h'h h in it, so that a screw j may be passed through one of the
said holes and through a hole in the arm k of the flap f, in order to hold the
flaps e and f together.
When the guard is in position in a window, the flaps e and f rest against the
wall at each side of the window, and the flaps a and b (which are outside the
window) form a rest for the back of a person sitting on the sill.
Although I have described and shewn flaps hinged together to form a triangle,
I do not wish to confine myself to this form as I may use additional flaps which
would open out into other shapes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is: -
1. An improved window cleaning guard, constructed substantially as described
and shewn on the accompanying drawing.
2. A window cleaning guard, consisting of hinged flaps, substantially as described
and shewn on the accompanying drawing.
Dated this Second day of February 1899.
BROWNE & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant, 9, Warwick Court, London, W.C.