An Improved Apparatus for Cleaning Roads and other Surfaces.
Year: 1891

page_text: Cate of Application, 16th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 18th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 23rd Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Cleaning Roads and other Surfaces.
We KATE ANNA KING Cashier of 6 Weimar Mansions Putney and HENRY
AUGUSTUS ALLEN Builder of 28 Lower Addiscombe Road Croydon both in the
County of Surrey do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:--
The object of our invention is to provide an apparatus for cleaning roads and
other surfaces such for example as yards and the like that shall be very simple
and cheap in construction extremely efficient in operation and very economical in
working.
To carry out this object we mount on one or more pairs of wheels a receptacle
of any convenient size and shape which can most conveniently be drawn along by
animal power. On the rear end of this receptacle is secured a casing of the same
breadth or thereabouts as the receptacle which extends upwards to about the level
of the top of the receptacle and downwards to about the level of the road or other
surface and this receptacle is preferably not vertical to the surface but is inclined
thereto in the direction in which the whole apparatus moves.
Both the receptacle
and the casing are preferably entirely closed or capable thereof except where a
passage of the desired size is made between the top of the casing and the top of the
receptacle and the bottom of the casing. In the casing is mounted. round suitable
horizontal rollers an endless band which carries at the desired intervals suit-
able transverse plates or scrapers or other usual appliances of about the breadth
of the casing the outer edges whereof very closely approximate to the lower wall of
the casing or that wall thereof that is next to the receptacle and the uppermost
of the rollers is above the aforesaid passage while the lowermost of the same is near
the bottom of the casing. Transversely in the bottom of the casing and below the
aforesaid lowermost roller and behind the same is horizontally mounted a cylindrical
brush or scraper or other suitable appliance preferably in adjustable bearings so
that it can be lifted off and pressed down on the road or other surface. This
cylindrical brush or other appliance and one of the aforesaid rollers preferably
the uppermost one are caused to revolve in the proper directions it may be by the
wheels that carry the whole apparatus by and through endless bands or spur gearing
or otherwise.
When therefore this apparatus is being drawn along the brush or other appliance
thereby revolved sweeps or throws the refuse or other matter on the road or other
surface into the lower part of the casing the lower wall whereof is formed to receive
it and it is caught by the travelling plates and carried up along this lower wall
until it reaches the passage when it falls into the receptacle and here it is very
convenient to mount a spring actuated scraper that will clean the faces of the plates
or other appliances as in succession they discharge what they have so clevated into
the receptacle.
Dated this 16th day of September 1891.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Cleaning Roads and other Surfaces.
We KATE ANNA KING Cashier of 6 Weimar Mansions Putney and HENRY
AUGUSTUS ALLEN Builder of 28 Lower Addiscombe Road Croydon both in the
County of Surrey 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 :-
The object of this our invention is to provide an apparatus for cleaning roads and
other surfaces such for example as yards and the like that shall be very simple and
cheap in construction extremely efficient and effective in operation and very
economical and labour-saving in working.
In order the more clearly to explain this our invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed we refer to the accompanying drawing wherein we have
shewn a side elevation of our apparatus partly in section.
We mount in any usual or other manner on one or more pairs of wheels a
receptacle A made of wood or other suitable material and of any convenient or
desirable size and shape which can most conveniently and will generally be drawn
along by animal power in the ordinary manner. On the rear end of this receptacle A
we mount a casing B made of metal or wood or other suitable material and of any
convenient or desirable size and shape proper for holding the appliances and
fulfilling the purposes hereinafter described and explained and this casing B is prefer-
ably of about the same breadth as the receptacle A and extends upwards to about
or as is perhaps preferable to a little above the level of the top of the receptacle A
and downwards to about the level of the road or other surface and this casing B is
preferable not vertical to the surface but as is shewn in the drawing is inclined
thereto in the direction in which the whole apparatus moves the rear part of the
receptacle A being most conveniently formed accordingly and correspondingly and
the casing B may be irremovably secured to the receptacle A or as is perhaps
preferable may be detachably connected thereto by any convenient and usual or
other means and appliances. Both the receptacle A and the casing B are prefer-
ably entirely closed or are so fitted in any usual manner as to be capable of
being entirely closed except where a passage I) of the desired shape and size is
made between the upper part of the casing B and the upper part of the receptacle A
and where an opening E also of the desired shape and size is made in the bottom of
the casing B.
In the casing B and near the top and the bottom thereof are transversely mounted
two horizontal and parallel rollers F and F wherearound is or are stretched and
passed an endless band or endless bands H and on and by the band or bands H are
secured and carried at the desired intervals suitable transverse plates K or it may
be scrapers or buckets or other ordinary appliances proper for the particular
material that is to be treated in and by the particular apparatus at the particular
time and to the condition of the same and these plates K or other appliances are
preferably of about the breadth of the casing B and their outer edges approximate
very closely to the inner or lower wall M of the casing B er that is to say to that
wall thereof that is next to the receptacle A and to ensure such very close
approximation it is most convenient to provide intermediate guiding rolls N for the
band or bands H and the upper roller F is well above the passage D and can
be adjustably mounted in any usual manner so that the proper desired tension can
be given to and put on the band or bands H. In the lower part of the casing B
and below and behind the lower roller F and immediately and directly above the
opening E is transversly mounted an horizontal and cylindrical brush P or it may
be a scraper or other ordinary appliance proper for the particular material that is
to be treated in and by the particular apparatus at the particular time and to the
condition of the same and this brush P or other appliance is preferably of about

page_text: the breadth of the casing B and can be mounted in any ordinary and usual adjust-
able bearings so that it can be lifted off and pressed down on the road or other
surface as and when may be required. To ensure that the bottom of the casing B
shall always be retained and sustained at the proper desired very small elevation
above the road or other surface it is sometimes convenient to fit thereon it may be
just before the opening in suitable brackets or bearings a small wheel or
wheels R. The cylindrical brush P or other appliance and one or both of the
rollers F and F preferably only the upper roller F¹ can be caused to revolve in
the proper directions and at the proper speeds in any convenient and usual or other
mauner and by and through any ordinary or other means and devices it may perhaps
preferably be as is shewn in the drawing by and from the wheels W that carry the
receptacle A through endless bands T and T' or it may be through spur gearing
properly arranged and mounted therefor or otherwise.
The action of this apparatus herein before described is as follows. When and
while the apparatus is being drawn along and the brush or other appliance and the
rollers are revolved which revolution of the rollers causes the band or bands to
travel the brush P or other appliance sweeps or throws the refuse or other matter
on the road or other surface into the lower part of the casing B the lower wall
whereof is properly formed to receive it as shewn at M' and in such lower part of
the casing B it is caught by the travelling plates K or other appliances on the band
or bands Hand carried up along the inner or lower wall M of the casing B until
it reaches the passage D or until the buckets or similar appliances have passed over
the roller F when it falls through the passage D into the receptacle A as is
desired.
Any suitable and usual or other means and appliances may be provided to
ensure that the refuse or other matter shall be pushed off the faces of the plates or
other appliances and that what has been so elevated in manner as hereinbefore
described shall be discharged into the receptacle if and when any such means and
appliances are or may be needed in any particular case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is
1. The combination with a receptacle A of a casing B containing the revoluble
brush P or other appliance and the revoluble rollers F and F wherearound is or are
the band or bands H carrying the plates K or other appliances a passage D being
made between the upper parts of the casing B and of the receptacle A and an
opening E in the bottom of the casing B all substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and declared.
2. The apparatus for cleaning roads and other surfaces substantially as herein-
before described and shewn in the accompanying drawing.