Cleaning, Repairing, Painting, and Glazing from the Outside.
Year: 1888

page_text: Cleaning, Repairing, Painting, and Glazing from the Outside.
I FRANCIS HENRY TROW of 21 Archibald Street, Gloucester, in the County of
Gloucester, Engineer and I, RALPH EVERETT, of 2 Whittaker Road Upton Park, in
the County of Essex, Carpenter & Joiner, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to an apparatus for obviating the danger involved in cleaning,
painting, glazing and repairing from the outsides of windows and has for its object
the production of a simple and inexpensive apparatus which can be readily attached
to and removed from window frames or sills, and which when in position affords
perfectly safe sitting or standing accommodation for domestic servants painters
artisans or others.
For this purpose we construct a frame consisting of two parallel horizontal canti-
levers or bars which are connected together by a rectangular board or boards
sufficiently large to serve as a seat or platform for sitting or standing.
To each of the outer or rear ends of these bars is hinged or pivoted a strut in such
a way that when the combined bars and seat are placed horizontally on the sill of the
window the struts will project obliquely downwards towards the outside of the house
and take a firm bearing against the wall below the window sill.
These hinged struts are connected and braced by one or more cross bars and by one
or more diagonal braces.
These hinged struts and braces when not in use will fold up underneath the
horizontal bars.
Near to the end at the underside of each of these struts is pivoted a metal rod
slightly curved outwards at the pivoted end, which ascends vertically to the hori-
zontal bar where it is made to fit into a socket provided for it, or is otherwise
secured.
To each of the other ends of the horizontal bars which project into the room, when
the frame is placed as indicated above, is attached a metal shoe which also projects

page_text: downwards, and which is made to slide on the bar so as to allow of its position thereon
being adjustable, but can also be secured in the required position, by means of a pin
or other suitable contrivance.
To each of the horizontal bars is also hinged or pivoted a vertical rod near to the
end which projects outside the window, and these rods are connected and braced by
one or more cross bars and by one or more diagonal braces.
These vertical rods and braces form the back of the apparatus so as to prevent the
possibility of falling off. This back when not in use will also fold down inwardly
upon the horizontal bars, seat, or platform.
To each of these vertical rods near to the centre, is also hinged or pivoted a stay
to swing freely out therefrom so as to reach diagonally, when the rods are in a vertical
position, beyond the centre of the horizontal bars, where the stay is made to fit into a
locking socket provided for it or it will be otherwise secured.
If the frame thus constructed or described is placed on the sill of a window in the
way indicated above, so that the descending struit may bear firmly against the outside of
the wall below the window sill, and if the shoe on each horizontal bar is then so fixed
that it may take a bearing on the inside of the sill, or its nosing, or wainscot it will
be found that the apparatus is so firmly fixed in its position that though it can be
lifted off the sill easily, the more weight that is placed on the seat, the more impossible
will it become to displace it.
In this way the weight of a person only gives additional security and helps to fix
it more firmly in its proper position, and any one sitting or standing upon it can use
both hands freely for cleaning, painting, glazing or repairing windows without risk
of falling.
Duted this 4th day of Anril 1888
FRANCIS HENRY TROW.
RALPH EVERETT.

page_text: A Folding Apparatus to Obviate the Danger Involved in Window
Cleaning, Repairing, Painting, and Glazing from the Outside.
I FRANCIS HENRY TROW of 21 Archibald Street Gloucester in the County of
Gloucester, Engineer, and I RALPH EVERETT of 2 Whittaker Road, Upton Park,
in the county of Essex, Carpenter and Joiner, 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 an apparatus for obviating the danger involved.in
cleaning, repairing, painting and glazing from the outsides of windows, and has for
its object the production of a simple and inexpensive apparatus which can be readily
attached to and removed from window frames or,sills, and which when in position,
affords perfectly safe sitting or standing accommodation for domestic servants,
painters, artisans or others.
Fig. I, is a perspective view from the inside showing the apparatus fixed in a
window.
Fig. II, is a view of the apparatus when folded up and not in use.
In the drawings A, A, represent two parallel horizontal cantilevers or bars, which
are connected together by à rectangular board or boards B sufficiently large to serve
as a seat or platform for sitting or standing.
To each of the outer or rear ends of the horizontal bars A A is hinged or pivoted
a strut C in such a way that when the combined bars A A, and the seat or platform B
are placed horizontally on the sill of the window, the struts CC will project obliquely
downwards towards the outside of the house and take a firm bearing against the wall
below the window sill.
These hinged struts CCare connected and braced by one or more cross bars D D D,
and by two diagonal braces E E.
These hinged struts and braces when not in use will fold up underneath the
horizontal bars A A and seat or platform B.
Near to the end at the outside of each of these struts CC is pivoted a metal rod F
slightly curved outwards at the pivoted end which ascends vertically to the
horizontal bar A where it is made to fit into a socket G provided for it.
To each of the other ends of the horizontal bars A A which project into the rooin,
when the frame is placed as indicated above, is attached a metal shoe H which also.
projects downwards, and which is made to slide on the bar so as to allow of its position
thereon being easily adjusted to suit the thickness of the wall, and when so adjusted
is secured in the required position by means of a pin 1.
To each of the horizontal bars A A and seat B is also hinged a vertical rod J near
to the end which projects outside the window, and these rods J J are connected and
braced by cross bars K K K K and by diagonal braces L L.
These vertical rods and braces form the back of the apparatus so as to prevent the
possibility of falling off. This back when not in use will also fold down inwardly
upon the seat or platform B.

page_text: To each of these vertical rods J J near to the centre is also hinged or pivoted a
stay M to swing freely out therefrom so as to reach diagonally, when the rods J J
are in a vertical position beyond the centre of the horizontal bars A A where the
stays M M are made to fit into a locking socket N provided for it.
If the frame thus constructed or described is placed on the sill of a window, as
before indicated, so that the descending struts may bear firmly against 'the outside
of the wall below the window sill, and if the shoe on each horizontal bar is then so
fixed that it may take a bearing on the inside of the sill, or its nosing or wainscot, it
will be found that the apparatus is so firmly fixed in its position, that though it can
be lifted off the sill easily, the more weight that is placed on the seat the more
impossible will it becoine to displace it.
In this way the weight of a person only gives additional security and helps to fix
it in its proper position, and anyone sitting or standing upon it can ise both
hands freely for cleaning, repairing, painting or glazing windows, without risk of
falling.
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
In folding apparatus to obviate the danger involved in window cleaning, repairing,
painting, and glazing from the outside.
1st. The use in combination of a detachable or adjustable sitting or standing seat
or platform A A and B, with the necessary struts C C. cross bars D D D, braces E E,
stays F, sockets G G, and shoes H H, for fixing same in required position ready
for use, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.
ind. The combination with the seat or platform À A and B, of a back for security,
consisting of the bars J J, cross bars K K K K, braces L L, stays M M, and locking
sockets N N, substantially in the manuer and for the purpose herein set forth.
Dated this Second day of January 1889.
FRANCIS HENRY TROW,
RALPH EVERETT,
Applicants.