IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUNTING SPINDLES TO BE USED FOR CARRYING REVOLVING BRUSHES, DRILLS, AND SUCH LIKE TO ENABLE THEM TO BE APPLIED BY HAND IN ANY DESIRED DIRECTION
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Philip Egerton, of Cleveland House, Cheltenham,
in the County of Gloucester, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MOUNTING SPINDLES TO BE USED FOR CARRYING REVOLVING BRUSHES, DRILLS,
AND SUCH LIKE TO ENABLE THEM TO BE APPLIED BY HAND IN ANY DESIRED
DIRECTION."
Sealed the 31st July 1874, and dated the 18th February 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Philip Egerton at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th February 1874.
I, PHILIP EGERTON, of Cleveland House, Cheltenham, in the County
of Gloucester, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUNTING SPINDLES TO BE USED FOR CARRYING REVOLVING
BRUSHES, DRILLS, AND SUCH LIKE TO ENABLE THEM TO BE APPLIED BY HAND IN
ANY DESIRED DIRECTION," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to transfer a very rapid revolving
motion from a lathe or other wheel revolving in stationary bearings to a
spindle which can be held in one hand, and (being fitted with different

page_text: kinds of brushes or with a drill) may be applied in a horizontal or
vertical direction to any part of an object, either fixed or held in the
other hand.
It is especially adapted to work a revolving brush for polishing boots
and shoes or tools for carving or cabinet work, or to light drilling work
where great velocity is required.
The spindle is supported in bearings on the two arms or prongs of a
forked steel piece, the tail of which is firmly fixed in a wooden handle.
The central part of the spindle (between the two prongs of the fork)
carries a pulley or grooved wheel, which receives an clastic band from
the driving wheel, the most convenient form of which is a roller at the
back of a lathe. The spindle passes through the prongs of the fork,
and at one end has a socket to hold the tool or brush to be used, and at
the other a heavy metal disc which maintains the motion equably.
The elastic band is kept in its place by a piece of strong wire, one end
of which is let into the wooden handle and the other has an oval loop,
through which the double band passes, and which is adjusted so as to lie
just opposite the groove of the small wheel on the spindle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Philip Egerton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 7th August 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PHILIP
EGERTON, of Cleveland House, Cheltenham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Philip Egerton, Her special licence
that I, the said Philip Egerton, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Philip Egerton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel

page_text: Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUNTING
SPINDLES TO BE USED FOR CARRYING REVOLVING BRUSHES, DRILLS, AND SUCH LIKE,
TO ENABLE THEM TO BE APPLIED BY HAND IN ANY DESIRED DIRECTION," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Philip Egerton,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing, under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Philip Egerton, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say):
The object of this Invention is to transfer a very rapid revolving
motion from a lathe or other wheel revolving in stationary bearings to a
spindle which can be held in one hand, and (being fitted with different
kinds of brushes or other polishers, or with a drill or other implement)
may be carried about and applied in a horizontal or vertical direction to
any part of an object either fixed or held in the other hand.
It is especially adapted to work a revolving brush for cleaning and
polishing boots and shoes, knives and plate, or for polishing carved and
cabinet work and furniture, or to carry a light drill, and for other
domestic and industrial purposes, wherein the implement to be used is
required to revolve with great velocity, and when the object to be
operated upon cannot conveniently be brought up to a brush or other
implement revolving on fixed bearings.
The spindle is supported in bearings on the two arms or prongs of a
forked steel piece, the tail of which is firmly fixed in a wooden handle.
The central part of the spindle (between the two prongs of the fork)
carries a pulley or grooved wheel, which receives an elastic band from
the driving wheel, by which band the spindle is made to revolve. A
convenient form of driving wheel is a roller at the back of a foot lathe.
The spindle extends through and beyond the bearings on each side, and
at one end has a socket to hold the brush or tool to be used and at the
other end a heavy metal disc, which maintains the motion equably.

page_text: The elastic band is kept in its place upon the grooved wheel of the
spindle by being passed through a loop of smooth rounded metal attached
to the clongated ends of the steel fork and exactly opposite to the
grooved wheel.
The elastic band may be used of any convenient length.
Additional pressure can be applied to the brush or other implement
employed by means of a flat-headed pin revolving in a socket in the
metal disc. When the disengaged hand is pressed upon the head of the
pin its point presses against the disc. The pin is connected with the
disc by means of a screw, and is removeable at pleasure. Thus a brush
or other implement fitted on a spindle revolving with the speed and
power derived from any sort of driving gear may be carried about in the
hand and applied in any desired direction, as particularly described and
ascertained in the above statement.
In witness whereof, I, the said Philip Egerton, have heretofore
set my hand and seal, this First day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the
above-named Philip Egerton, in
the presence of
A. G. UNDERWOOD,
Sol.,
89, Chancery Lane.
PHILIP EGERTON. (L.s.)