Improvements in Squeegees or Implements for Removing Mud or other Matters.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Squeegees or Implements for Removing Mud
or other Matters.
I JOHN HORSLEY MAYO of 67 Gower Street in the County of London,
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention has reference to improvements in the construction of squeegees
or implements for use in removing mud or other matters from the surfaces of
pavements and the like surfaces such implements usually consisting of a plate
of india-rubber set on a board or stiffener and furnished with a handle but
being set at right angles to the handle the india rubber plate as it is pushed along
on edge on the surface to be cleansed fails to perform its function satisfactorily, or
at least requires considerable skill in its use.
According to my invention I form the improved squeegee with a blade or
scraping edge of india rubber or equivalent elastic surface on each edge of the
stiffener or holding part into which the handle is secured so that either india
rubber surface may alternatively be used by merely turning over the implement and
the scraping surfaces of the squeegee having the rigid support set obliquely to the
handle the matters collected are driven to one side so as to facilitate delivery or
collection, and by such reversal of the implement delivery to right hand or to left
hand is secured.
Suitable stays from handle to the inclined blades' support are employed to give
strength.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Squeegees or Implements for Removing Mud
or other Matters.
I JOHN HORSLEY MAYO of 67 Gower Street in the County of London,
Gentleman 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 invention has reference to improvements in the construction of squeegees or
implements for use in removing mud or other matters from the surfaces of pave-
ments and the like surfaces such implements usually consisting of a plate of india-
rubber set on a board or stiffener and furnished with a handle but being set at right
angles to the handle the india-rubber plate as it is pushed along on edge on the
surface to be cleansed fails to perform its function satisfactorily, or at least requires
considerable skill in its use.
According to my invention I form the improved squeegee with a blade or scraping
edge of india-rubber or equivalent elastic surface on each edge of the stiffener or
holding part into which the handle is secured so that either india-rubber surface
may alternatively be used by merely turning over the implement and the scraping
surfaces of the squeegee having the rigid support set obliquely to the handle the
matters collected are driven to one side so as to facilitate delivery or collection,
and by such reversal of the implement delivery to right hand or to left hand is
secured.

page_text: Suitable stays, from handle to the inclined-blades support or stock, are employed
to give strength.
The old form of squeegee has served very useful purposes, but requires dexterity
in use, and it wastes labour. By the obliquity of the india-rubber blade and its
stock relatively to the handle whilst the labourer pushes straight ahead the mud is
delivered to the side of the track towards which the squeegee blade inclines and to
enable the implement to be used with equal effect in either direction it is provided
with an inlia-rubber blade on each side of the stock. Consequently, when the
scavenger has traversed a given strip of road or pathway, delivering the mud into a
ridge at one side, instead of having to waste labour by returning to his starting
point with his squeegee over his shoulder to commence a new strip he simply turns
over the reversible oblique squeegee, which is then pushed back along the road
towards the starting point, continuing the progressive delivery of the mud, etcetera,
towards the channels or other desired points for accumulation.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS:
Fig. 1 shews a sectional view taken at about the line 1-1 of Fig. 2 of one form
of the improved squeegee.
Fig. 2 is a plan or upperside view of the same and Fig. 3 is a front face view of
the head.
Figs. 4,
and 6 shew views respectively corresponding to the foregoing of a
modification in the arrangement of the blades of rubber ein that they project on a
line in one plane.
Fig. 7 shews by side view the operative position of the implement and Fig. 8
shews a sketch of the same as seen from the front the dotted lines indicating
reversal of position.
In each figure a is the handle, the head and c the blades. These blades c are
socketted in recesses in the head and are clamped therein in Fig. 1 by the fillets d. d
secured by screws ³ passing into the head whilst in Fig. 4 they are clamped by
the pieced screwed to the head - being screws.
are bolts securing a
stay e for the handle a to the head whilst e' is a like bolt securing the stay to
the handle.
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. The hereinbefore described improvements in squeegees or implements for
removing mud or other matters.
2. In a squeegee a body having oppositely disposed blades of flexible material
set obliquely to the handle, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 16th day of August 1892.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.