Improvements in the Means Employed for Cleaning Lamp Chimneys and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 7th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 7th Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Means Employed for Cleaning Lamp Chimneys
and the like.
JOHN LEACH, Clog Iron Maker 43 John Street Blackburn and HENRY
BANCROFT Clogger 70 Market Street Church Lancashire do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the means employed for cleaning lamp
chimneys and the like. Now in order to elucidate it and as an illustration we take
a piece of india rubber or such like material of which india rubber forms a part,
shaped somewhat like an expanded umbrella cover with a hollow projection in or
near the centre into which a handle of wood or any suitable material may be
fixed.
The edges of the india rubber may be scalloped or corrugated or otherwise.
Dated this 17th day of February 1896.
JOHN LEACH.
HENRY BANCROFT.
ATION
Improvements in the Means Employed for Cleaning Lamp Chimneys
and the like.
We, JOHN LEACH, Clog Iron Maker, 43 John Street, Blackburn, and HENRY
BANCROFT, Clogger, 70 Market Street, Church, Lancashire, 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 the means employed for cleaning lamp
chimneys, bottles, glass tubes and the like.
In carrying out our invention we mould a small quantity of india rubber or an
india rubber substitute or compound to a disc shape somewhat resembling an
expanded umbrella cover or a chimney sweeper's brush. A hollow projection or
its equivalent is provided at or near the centre of the rubber disc for the purpose
of securing a wood or other handle thereto.
The edges of the rubber disc are scolloped, corrugated or serrated and one
or both sides of the disc can also be roughened, corrugated or ribbed radially or
otherwise.
The india rubber or the like must be soft and pliable so that it can be easily
bent to the shape of the lamp chimney, bottle, or such like article and readily
inserted therein for the purpose of cleaning it.
And in order that our said invention may be properly understood we have
hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, which show, by way of
example, a convenient method of carrying out our invention.
Fig. 1 is a side view of the cleaning device.
Fig. 2 is a cross section of the same.

page_text: As will be seen the device consists of a rubber disc a having a hollow projection 6
at its centre into which is fitted the wooden handle c. The handle can be secured
in place by rubber cement or solution.
The disc is shown as serrated round its edge d and also as provided with radial
ribs or corrugations e. If desired the projection b at the centre can also be ribbed
or corrugated.
As before stated either one or both sides of the disc can be ribbed or
corrugated.
If desired the under surface can be roughened by small projections, words or
figures, or such like.
When using the device for cleaning a lamp chimney it is first dipped into either
hot or cold water to moisten it and is then applied to the glass surface to be
cleaned and is moved up and down so that the corrugations are caused to rub
against the glass and thoroughly clean it, thereafter the disc is covered with a clean
cloth (which is held in place by the serrated edges of the disc) and the operator
moves the cloth up and down so as to dry and polish the inside of the lamp
chimney.
It is to be clearly understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise
form of device shown on the drawings as it can be altered in shape and desigu
without departing from the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
consider novel and desire to claim is :-
1. A device for cleaning lamp chimneys and the like consisting of a soft and
pliable disc made of india rubber or equivalent material said disc being made either
with or without an uneven surface and provided with means whereby a handle can
be attached to it, substantially as herein before set forth.
2. A device for cleaning lamp chimneys and the like made substantially as
herein before described and as shown on the drawings annexed.
Dated this 5th day of September 1896.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70 Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.