MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD SWEEPING MACHINES
Year: 1885

page_text: I RICHARD WILLIAM TAYLER 17 Angel Hill Bury St Edmund's in the County
of Suffolk Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD SWEEPING MACHINES to be as follows: →
An invention for improvements in my Patent No. 11864 and the construction
of Road Sweeping Machines having for its object the greater simplicity in the
construction of the working parts of Road Sweeping Machines by means of which
fewer parts are required the effective power of the machine increased and the
weight or draft of the machine lessened by the employment of rotary brushes to
sweep dust mud snow &c into the cups or elevator direct without the employment
of an intermediate box or trough to receive the refuse before it is operated upon
by the elevator that is to say the action of my curved plate or platform dispenses
with the need of any such contrivance as a box or trough and by fixing the
elevator sufficiently low or near to the ground I can with the rotary brushes sweep
the refuse to be collected into the elevator with or without the assistance of my
curved plate or platform. For the more effectual operation of the rotary brushes
I prefer to drive them from each road or travelling wheel separately viz. by hollow
tubes running on a fixed spindle and to free the said brushes from any accumulation
of dust mud or snow I employ a cleaner or India-rubber bar against which the
brushes beat and cause the adhering mud &c to be made to rebound into the
elevator. To the steering wheel of my Road Sweeping Machine I affix a con-
trivance for the purpose of regulating and raising and lowering the brushes from
and to the ground whilst the machine is working and consisting of a series of
rings formed on the spindle which carries the said steerage wheel the rings thereon
forming and acting as a rack into which a cog wheel is made to gear At the other
or opposite end of the spindle which carries the cog wheel a worm and wheel are
fixed and these latter when operated upon by a crank or handle actuate upon the
rings of the steerage wheel spindle and raise or lower the brushes the said adjust-
ment serving as a lever and the axles of the road wheels forming a fulcrum for the
adjustment of the brushes to the exact requirements of the condition of the roads
and the quantity of mud &c to be dealt with In the construction of the elevator
employed to raise the refuse to the cart or other receptacle I reduce the width of
the mouth or part delivering the refuse into the cart and enclose all working parts
from the sight of horses &c and to drive the elevator I may use or employ chains
and gear wheels for that purpose and utilize the road or travelling wheels for the
driving power.

page_text: Improvements in the Construction of Road Sweeping Machines.
I RICHARD W⭑* TAYLER 17 Angel Hill Bury St Edmunds' in the County of
Suffolk engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD SWEEPING MACHINES and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
Improvements in road sweeping machines for the more effectual application of
brushes driven by horse or other motive power to the requirements of cleaning
roads or streets by the combination and adjustment of revolving brushes of metalic
wire, a curved plate or platform, and the cups of an elevator; such combination
securing the maximum of work with the minimum of power or in other words my
improved road sweeping machine consists of a reduction of the working parts of
road sweeping machinery and such reduction increasing the efficiency of my
improved road sweeping machine in the following way and manner. R, is a
road or travelling wheel driving the elevator gear wheel D, and the necessary
gear wheels G, H, I. J, is the gear wheel and C, the chain driving the revolving
brushes B. The said brushes sweep the mud from the ground on to the curved
plate P, from whence it falls into the cups A, and a horizontal bar to which a band
of India rubber is attatcbed is made to scrape or clean the brushes at each
revolution if required. From the cups A, the mud or dust is passed up the
elevator spout E, into a cart or other receptacle.
Dust or other matter in a hard or dry condition may be swept into the said cups
without the aid of the intervening plate P, if required and the said plate may be
perforated or constructed to admit of coarse substances passing through it while
liquid or finer matter would go over it and into the elevator cups, or visa versa.
The said plate P, is also provided with a hinged flap at K, to admit of uneven
surfaces or obstructions being easily passed over, and is also suspended within the
framing on pivots and would lift bodily over any still larger obstruction.
F is a steering or guide wheel which may be fixed at either end of the machine,
and S, is the shaft carrying the said wheel; and this shaft is made to serve for a
rack by having rings turned on it, into which rack or rings a pinion O, is made to
work, seen also in the box Q, in Figure 3. The pinion O, is actuated by means
of the spindle N, motion to the said spindle being imparted by the worm and
wheel W, M, and handle L, shewn in Figure 2, and by this arrangement an
adjustment of the brushes to the surface of the road or street is secured. X, is a
suitable framing for carrying the machine, and Y, is a cover or casing for the
working parts.
Having now 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. In a road sweeping machine a curved plate, plain or perforated, and hinged
and pivotted, for guiding and delivering mud into the cups of an elevator in the
manner described and illustrated.

page_text: 2. In a road sweeping machine wire brushes driven as described for sweeping
dust into the cups of an elevator without an intermediate plate or trough.
3. The application to a road sweeping machine of a rack and pinion to the shaft
of a third or guide wheel in the manner illustrated and described for the purpose
of raising and lowering the brushes by the rings on the shaft of the said guide
wheel when fixed in the front or at the back of the road sweeping machine.
4. In a road sweeping machine a horizontal bar to which a band of India rubber
is attatched forming a scraper or clearer to the brushes for the purpose of freeing
them from an accumulation of mud and the better deposit of the mud into the cups
of the elevator.
Dated this 92nd daw of Tsh-1000