Improvements in or relating to Street Sweeping Pans.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 7th July, 1897--Accepted, 7th Aug., 1897
Improvements in or relating to Street Sweeping Pans.
We THOMAS BASS of 1 Melbourne Road, Leyton in the County of Essex,
Engineer and CHARLES SYDNEY GIDDENS of 46 Allison Road Hornsey, in the
County of London, Solicitor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention has for its object to enable the refuse to be swept into the pan as
such pan is pushed along the surface of the Road, thus ensuring better cleaning
of the road, than is the case when a simple pan is employed, as heretofore.
According to this invention we combine, with the street cleaning pan, a brush,
fitted to the front of the said pan in such a way that when the said pan is pushed
along the surface of the road, the refuse shall be collected in such pan. We
mount the brush in such a manner that it can be turned out of the way when the
pan is to be emptied.
According to one way of carrying out our invention, we provide the pan with a
suaight hollow handle and we prefer to have this sufficiently long to allow the
pan to be used without obliging the person using it to stoop. Down this handle
we pass a rod, which projects beyond the top end of the handle, and terminates,
at this end, in a knob or disc resting upon a spring attached to the handle end.
The outer end of the aforesaid rod is pivoted to the cranked end of a pivoted lever,
which latter has two arms extending to just beyond the front of the pan and
supporting a spindle on which are mounted two wheels or rollers.
By this arrangement, when the article is in use, the brush will revolve and sweep
the refuse into the pan. When the pan is to be emptied, the brush may be swung
up on suitable guides, by pressing the disc or knob at the end of the handle down
on to the spring beneath it.
Improvements in or relating to Street Sweeping Pans.
We, THOMAS Bass, of 1 Melbourne Road, Leyton in the County of Essex,
Engineer, and CILARLES SYDNEY GIDDENS, of 46 Allison Road, Hornsey, in the
County of London, Solicitor, 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 has for its object to enable the refuse to be swept into the pan

page_text: as such pan is pushed along the surface of the road, thus ensuring better cleaning
of the road than is the case when a simple pan is employed, as heretofore.
According to this Invention, we combine, with the street cleaning pan, a brush,
fitted to the front of the said pan in such a way that when the said pan is pushed along
the surface of the road, the refuse shall be collected in such pan. We mount the
brush in such a manner that it can be turned out of the way when the pan is to
be emptied.
According to one way of carrying out our Invention, we provide the pan with
a straight hollow handle, and we prefer to have this sufficiently long to allow the
pan to be used without obliging the person using it to stoop. Down this handle
we pass a rod, which projects beyond the top end of the handle, and terminates at
this end in a knob or disc resting upon a spring attached to the handle end. The
outer end of the aforesaid rod is pivoted to the cranked end of a pivotted lever,
which latter has two arms extending to just beyond the front of the pan and
supporting a spindle on which are mounted two wheels or rollers.
By this arrangement when the article is in use, the brush will receive and sweep
the refuse into the pan. When the pan is to be emptied, the brush may be turned
up on suitable guides, by pressing the disc or knob at the end of the handle down
on to the spring beneath it.
And in order that our said invention may be better understood we will now
proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings accompanying this
specification in which Figs. 1 and 2 shew our improved sweeping pan; Fig. 1 is
an elevation, Fig. 2 a plan of the mechanism for raising the brush. Figs. 3 and 4
slow respectively elevation and plan of a similar pan, fitted with modified arrange-
ment for raising the brush clear of the pan. Figs. 5 to 7 shew respectively,
elevation, plan and part elevation of detail, of a pan and brush. A further
modification of means for swinging the brush clear of the pan, is shewn at
Figs. 5, 6, 7.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the views:-
a shews the pan, 6 handle, the brush. With reference to Figs. 1 and 2, the
handle is made hollow, and d is a rod passing down said handle, and terminating
at one end with a disc e resting upon a spring f attached to the end of the handle b.
The other end g of the rod d is forked and pivotted to one end of a lever h pivotted
asi. jare two arms to the lever h carrying the brush e and wheels & on spindle 7.
Thus when the article is in use, the brusfi e revolves and sweeps the refuse into the
pan a. When the pan a is to be emptied the brush e is swung up on guides m, by
pressing disc e and so turning lever about pivot i.
C
With reference to Figs. 3 and 4, the brush is carried by the arms n n which
are pivotted at pp and fixed to the lever handle o, so that by depressing the latter
the brush is raised. A spur wheel
on the spindle of the wheel r gears with the
idle wheels, which engages with pinion on the spindle of the brush c With
reference to Figs. 5 to 7, the brush e hangs from the wheel spindles u ul by means
of the links or bars. In this case the idle wheel s is carried by the link v.
Thus when the pan is being used, the brush is in the position shewn at Fig. 5, but
when the pan is raised for emptying, the brush swings round below the pan and
this is effected automatically when the pan is raised from the ground (see Fig. 7).
Figs. 5 and 6, shews a false back, which can be forced forward by striking the
disc connected to w by means of the rod and kept in position by spring y. This
facilitates emptying the pan.
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 improvements in or relating to street sweeping pans substantially as and
for the purposes set forth.
2. In street sweeping pans, the combination of a brush with the pan for the
purpose set forth.

page_text: 3. In street sweeping pans, the combination of a rotary brush with the pan, all
atranged and operated substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 7th day of July 1897.
BROWNE & Co.,
9 Warwick Court, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.