Improvements in Certain Parts of Machines for Washing and Cleansing Floors.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 18th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 9th Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Certain Parts of Machines for Washing and
Cleansing Floors.
We, JAMES EDWIN GEE, WILLIAM JOHN GEE, and THE SCRUBBING
MACHINE SYNDICATE, LIMITED, all of 2, Exchange Place, Middlesbrough-on-
Tees, in the County of York, Scrubbing Machine Proprietors, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain improvements further conducing to the
perfecting of the mechanism comprised in the invention of a portable machine for
washing and cleansing floors for which Letters Patent were applied for on the
11th of February 1895 and numbered 2945.
One consequence of these improvements is that the endless towel or slop cloth is
compelled to fun true on the rollers and therefore on the floor all tendency to slip
sideways or give trouble through defective construction or fitting up of the rollers
unequal contact with the floor or improper usage of the machine being obviated by
certain devices and construction of the towel hereinafter described. A further
improvement consists in the use of suitably constructed brushes to serve as slop
guards, in substitution for the "squee-jees" of rubber or the like material, by
which the spring attachments of the slop guards are done away with.
In carrying out these improvements we construct the slop cloth with edging
cords of a diameter greater than the thickness of the cloth itself so that mitre or
bevel or convex edged wheels mounted on spindles supported from the main frame
or elsewhere of the machine and preferably set to an angle, meet each other near
enough to pass the cloth between them, but not the cord which runs along these
detent wheels at the back or pulling side thereof so that the width of the cloth
being adapted to the two opposite pairs of detent wheels is strained and controlled
transversely by the action of these cords running against the said detent wheels.
These detent wheels can be conveniently mounted on a level with and secured to
the underframe of the machine so that the cloth passes through them as it is
leaving the floor or bottom roller.
In substituting brushes for squee-jees of rubber or the like material the attach-
ments to the main frame are rigid but preferably adjustable and the spring
attachments hitherto required to enable the slop guards of the "squee-jee
pattern to accomodate themselves to the inequalities of the floor are dispensed with
the soft and yielding character of the bristles being sufficient for this purpose as
well as for confining the slop within the track of the machine in the manner
required for the purposes of this invention.
Deshi 17th dow of February 1896.
G. J. CLARKSON,
Chartered Patent Agent,
Stockton-on-Tees, Agent for the Applicants.

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Improvements in Certain Parts of Machines for Washing and
Cleansing Floors.
We, JAMES EDWIN GEE, WILLIAM JOHN GEE, and THE SCRUBBING
MACHINE SYNDICATE, LIMITED, all of 2, Exchange Place, Middlesbrough-
on-Tees, in the County of York, Scrubbing Machine Proprietors, 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 certain improvements further conducing to the
perfecting of the mechanism comprised in the invention of a portable machine for
washing and cleansing floors for which Letters Patent were applied for on the
11th February 1895 and numbered 2945.
One consequence of these improvements is that the endless towel or slop cloth is
compelled to run true on the rollers and therefore on the floor all tendency to slip
sideways or give trouble through defective construction or fitting up of the rollers,
unequal contact with the floor, or improper usage of the machine being obviated by
certain devices and construction of the towel hereinafter described. A further
improvement consists in the use of suitably constructed brushes to serve as slop
guards, in substitution for the "squee-jees" of rubber or the like material, by
which the spring attachments of the slop guards are done away with.
And in order that our invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect we will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying
drawings in which the same letters of reference are used to indicate the same parts so
far as required, as were used in the main or principal Patent applied for on the
11th February 1895 and numbered 2945.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of part of the underframe of a machine embodying
our improvements, and Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof with the bottom roller
removed. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of the upper frame of the machine, and
Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the brushes employed as slop guards.
In order to compel the slop cloth or endless towel e to run true on the rollers
and therefore on the floor and to prevent all tendency to slip sideways or give
trouble through defective construction or fitting up of the rollers, unequal contact
with the floor or improper usage of the machine we provide the detent wheels pp
mounted on spindles secured in pairs to the underframe of the machine where the
slop cloth is running away from the roller in the manner shown in Figs. 1. and 2,
and singly to the upper frame as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 where the slop cloth is
running towards the roller f³. The slop cloth e is provided with edging cords e¹
of a diameter greater than the thickness of the cloth, so that by the use of detent
wheels p of the form shown and placed in pairs at the opposite sides of the
machines' underframe to meet each other near enough to pass the cloth e between
them but not the edging cord e which runs along these detent wheels at the
back or pulling side thereof, a slop cloth of the right width is strained and
controlled transversely as it leaves the rollers in the manner required to make it
run true on the said rollers. But where the slop cloth is running towards the
roller fone detent wheel is found sufficient to strain each edge of the cloth, the
edge of the roller f³ serving in the place of the other detent wheel attached to
the underframe. The best position for these detent wheels is that in which they
are shown in Figs. 1 and 2, that is on a level with and secured to the underframe
of the machine so that the slop cloth e passes through them as it leaves the floor
and the bristles of the roller 1, and the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4, in which

page_text: each wheel p in conjunction with the corresponding circumferential edge of the
roller fs at the opposite sides of the machine is found sufficient to guide the cloth
onto the roller The action and durability of the cloth is improved by lacing
into it endless wires properly strained and set about an inch apart as shown in
Figs. 2 and 4.
In substituting brushes o for "squee-jees" of rubber or the like material, the
attachments to the main frame are rigid but preferably adjustable by the set
pins o³ as shown in Fig. 5. The advantage of the use of brushes is simplicity of
construction, the spring attachments hitherto required to enable the slop guards of
the "squee-jee" pattern to accomodate themselves to the inequalities of the floor
are dispensed with, the soft and yielding character of the bristles being sufficient
for this purpose as well as for confining the slop within the track of the machine in
the manner required for the purposes of this invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The means for controlling and straining transversely the slop cloth of
machines for washing, scrubbing and cleansing floors and consisting of edging
cords on the cloth running behind detent wheels secured to opposite parts of the
machine as and for the purpose as herein before described with reference to
Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings.
2. The use of brushes as slop guards of machines for washing, scrubbing and
cleansing floors as hereinbefore described with reference to Fig. 5 of the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this 17th do
11900
G. J. CLARKSON,
Chartered Patent Agent,
Stockton-on-Tees, Agent for the Applicants.
G. J. CLARKSON,
Chartered Patent Agent,
Stockton-on-Tees, Agent for the Applicants.