IMPROVED MECHANISM OR APPARATUS FOR CLEANING GLOVES AND OTHER ARTICLES AND FABRICS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Ker, of Maidstone, in the County of
Kent, for the Invention of "IMPROVED MECHANISM OR APPARATUS FOR
CLEANING GLOVES AND OTHER ARTICLES AND FABRICS."
Sealed the 26th February 1869, and dated the 28th August 1868.

page_text: action of which brushes or scrubbers and suitable cleansing material or
fluid the gloves or things to be cleaned are to be submitted, the same
being afterwards dried and finished by means of the rollers which form
part of the mechanism.
The following is an exempler of the nature of my Invention:-
Between a pair of standards I mount cylindreeal brushes which are
made to act together by means of toothed gearing on their axes. Above
these brushes, and mounted between the same standard as aforesaid,
are the rollers through which the gloves or other things are to be
passed for the finishing of the operation. These rollers are put in
motion by the agency of toothed gearing, which also acts in the axis of
the upper cylindrecal brush, conjoint action of the said rollers being
ensured by toothed gearing acting on the axes of these rollers. The
standards are braced and properly connected together, and at the foot of
the machine is a pan or tray for the cleansing fluid or material. Im-
parting motion to the handle or axis by hand or other prime mover will
it is obvious put the mechanism in operation.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Ker in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th February 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
KER, of Maidstone, in the County of Kent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said George Ker, Her special licence that I,
the said George Ker, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said George Ker, 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

page_text: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED MECHANISM OR APPARATUS FOR
CLEANING GLOVES AND OTHER ARTICLES AND FABRICS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said George Ker, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED MECHANISM OR APPARATUS FOR
CLEANING GLOVES AND OTHER ARTICLES AND FABRICS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said George Ker, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 George Ker, 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:-
This improved mechanism consists of brushes or scrubbers brought
into action by means of arrangements or gearing set in motion by a
handle, lever, or axis, to the action of which brushes or scrubbers and
suitable cleansing fluid or material the gloves or things to be cleaned are
to be submitted, the same being afterwards dried and finished by mcaus
of the rollers which form part of the mechanism.
The improved mechanism has reference, in the first place, to brush or
scrubber arrangements, which may comprise the use of the cylindrical
brushes and subsidary parts hereafter described, and the tray or tub for
cleansing material placed thereunder; or of the tray or tub for the
cleansing material provided with the following arrangement, namely,
one portion or stave or several portions or staves of the tray or tub may
be fitted with bristles like a brush, with dollys or punchers arranged to
work therein, so that upon the dollys or punchers being worked the
articles in the tray or tub will be so moved about as to be brought in
contact with the brushes and cleaned. The dollys or punchers may be
arranged to work by hand or steam power; and although both the above
arrangements may be used together and act in conjunction with the other
parts of my mechanism, yet the dolly arrangement might be found useful
for cleaning purposes when detached from the other parts constituting
my improvements, as herein described.

page_text: Having thus particularly described the nature of the said Invention, I
now proceed to particularly describe and ascertain in what manner the
same is to be performed or put in practice, which I shall do by referring
to the accompanying Drawings by the words, figures, and letters
following that is to say:

page_text: shown by the Drawings and described with reference thereto, except as
constituent parts of the mechanism herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Ker, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Twenty-fifth day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,
GEORGE KER. (L.S.)
ALEX. P. WRIGHT,
Secretary to the Inventors' Patent Right Association, Limited,
21, Cockspur Street,
Charing Cross.