AN IMPROVED TOOL OR APPARATUS FOR CLEANING WINDOWS AND GLASSES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Wailes, of Brighton, in the County of
Sussex, Doctor of Medicine, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED TOOL OR
APPARATUS FOR CLEANING WINDOWS AND GLASSES."
Sealed the 17th June 1862, and dated the 20th December 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Wailes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 20th
December 1861.
I, ROBERT WAILES, of Brighton, in the County of Sussex, Doctor of
Medicine, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IM-
PROVED TOOL OR APPARATUS FOR CLEANING WINDOWS AND GLASSES," to be as
follows:-
My apparatus is intended chiefly for cleaning the outside of windows from
the inside, but it is also applicable for cleaning windows and glasses generally.
The improved tool or apparatus consists of a plate of any convenient size,
say, eight inches by five, clothed on the face with felt, woollen, or other cloth,
and padded or not with wool or other soft material between the face of the
plate, and the cloth, the cloth is again covered with silk. To the back of the
plate a holder is hinged to admit of the holder being held at any required

page_text: angle with respect to the plate. I also add a rack or other means, whereby
the said angle may be adjusted, and the respective positions fixed according to
requirement. The lower end of the holder is inserted in a handle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Wailes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
20th June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
WAILES, of Brighton, in the County of Sussex, Doctor of Medicine, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Robert Wailes, Her special licence that I, the said Robert Wailes, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert
Wailes, 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, exer-
cise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED TOOL OR
APPARATUS FOR CLEANING WINDOWS AND GLASSES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Robert Wailes, 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 Robert Wailes, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:-
My apparatus is intended chiefly for cleaning the outside of windows from
the inside; but it is also applicable for cleaning windows and glasses generally.
The improved tool or apparatus consists of a plate of any convenient size,
say, eight inches by five, clothed on the face with felt, woollen, or other cloth,

page_text: and padded or not with wool or other soft material between the face of the
plate and the cloth; the cloth is again covered with silk. To the back of the
plate a holder is hinged to admit of the holder being held at any required
angle with respect to the plate. I also add a rack or other means whereby
the said angle may be adjusted, and the respective positions fixed according to
requirement. The lower end of the holder is inserted in a handle.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a side elevation, and Figure 2
a plan of this tool or apparatus for cleaning windows and glasses. a is the
surface of the apparatus covered as before described, and as shewn at Figure 3,
which a perspective view of it, as it appears when ready for use; b, b, are
brackets connected to the back of the face plate supporting the spindle upon
which the holder c is free to turn; d, d, are india-rubber cords passing round
the spindle, and secured at each end to hooks on the back of the plate. The
india-rubber cords retain the plate in position, and at the same time allow it
to adapt itself to the required angle to suit the window or glass being cleaned;
f is a handle fitting into the holder c; e is a socket on the lower end of the
handle, into which a lengthening piece may be inserted when required.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the improved tool
or apparatus for cleaning windows and glasses, herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Wailes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of June, One thousand eight hun-
dred and sixty-two.
ROBT. WAILES. (L.S.)