Improvements in Means for Cleaning Steamed Windows.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Sept., 1899-Accepted, 4th Nov., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONĮ.
Improvements in Means for Cleaning Steamed Windows.
PHILLIP SQUIRRELL, 13, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, General Draper, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The steamy brush is invented to rub off the condensed air on glass windows
(commonly called steamy windows) it is made about two inches wide and two and
a half inches high (smaller or larger if required) the length being according to the
width of the window. It has a wood back about half inch thick like an ordinary
clothes brush, the brush part is made of loose cotton material being an absorbant
nature.
The brush is used by means of cords, one cord at each end fixed close to the
glass gives the required pressure, other cords at each side, top and bottom, for
pulling up and down.
PHILLIP SQUIRRELL.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Cleaning Steamed Windows.
I, PHILLIP SQUIRRELL, of 13, Cauldwell Street, in the Town and County of
Bedford, Draper; 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 relates to improvements in means or apparatus for cleaning
the condensed air (commonly called steam) off glass windows.
Its object is to construct a brush as hereafter described of simple construction,
and easily manipulated, that will quickly remove such condensed air or “steam,'
and leave the window perfectly clear.
In the annexed drawings I have shown a brush constructed according to this
invention, and the means for operating the same.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the inside of a shop window with my invention
applied.
Fig. 2 an end elevation of same.
Fig. 3 a sectional elevation on line, Fig. 1.
A is the window frame and B the pane of plate or other glass fixed therein in the
usual manner; both of which are of ordinary and well known construction.
The brush, which may be of any convenient length, corresponding with the size
of the window to be cleaned, and about (more or less) say, two and a half inches
wide, is provided with a wooden or other suitable back C, say about (more or less)
half an inch thick, somewhat similar to a clothes brush of ordinary construction;
but in place of using bristles, as in the latter kind of brush,-I employ a loosely
woven cotton material 1), such as is used for cleaning machinery. This material,--
which is of an absorbent nature, is cut up into strips and inserted in, say, grooves

page_text: formed in the back of the brush, or attached thereto by any convenient means.
The outer ends or surface of the loosely woven cotton material is made to impinge
against the inner side of the pane of glass B, as shown at Figs. 2 and 3.
To the inside of the window frame A are fixed by screws e, or other convenient
means, the vertical guides E arranged to be close to the pane B at their top
and bottom so as to ensure the brush being kept in contact with the said pane when
being worked up and down. Holes are provided at a suitable distance from each
end of the back C of the brush through which the guides E pass.
For operating the brush in a vertical direction, that is either up or down,
but against the pane B, two cords F and G are employed. The cords F and G
are of varying length and when connected to the brush, as will be presently
described, they form a kind of endless band. The cord F is the longer of the two,
and it is arranged to pass under and over the whole of the pulleys or
guides H, I, J, K, L. That is to say, one end of the cord F is first attached by a
screw or other suitable means at f to the, say, end portion of the back C of the
brush, and is made to pass under pulleys H, I and J, and over pulleys K and L
when the second end of the cord I may be fixed to the same screw at f or to an
additional one.
One end of the shorter cord G is at g attached by a screw or other means to the
opposite end portion of the back C of the brush, and is then made to pass under
pulleys I and J and over pulley. K from whence it passes and is secured to the
screw at g or to an additional one.
By arranging the cords F and G as described, and by taking hold of both cords
simultaneously, the brush can-from the side M of the window frame-be inter-
mittently and evenly reciprocated in a vertical direction whenever it is desired to
clean or clear the window of condensed air or steam." But should it be desired
to operate the brush from either side then it would require the cords F and G
to be made of equal length, and an additional pulley, (not shown in the drawings)
to be provided and fixed in a corresponding position to pulley J, but on the
opposite side of the window frame A, and the cord G to be passed under and
over the whole of the pulleys as herein described for cord F.
In its normal position the brush is arranged to be below or level with the bottom
of the window pane B, or if more convenient it may be arranged to be above the
top of the said pane..
By fixing the vertical guides E as described, sufficient pressure is obtained for
keeping the loose cotton material D firmly against the pane B so as to clean or
clear the same whenever the brush is moved up or down, and without disarranging
the dressing of the window.
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
In means, substantially as described for cleaning steamed windows, the com-
bination of a brush constructed as described, and caused by its vertical guides to
press against the window pane to be cleaned during its reciprocation, and the
means for intermittently reciprocating the same consisting of the cords F and G
arranged to be connected to opposite ends of the said brush and to pass under and
over a series of pulleys or guides, all arranged and operating substantially as
described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this Twentieth day of Septemaer 1899.