IMPROVEMENTS IN STREET CLEANING AND SWEEPING APPARATUS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Shelley Leigh Hunt of Holborn Viaduct London for
an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN STREET CLEANING AND SWEEPING
APPARATUS
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"1
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Shelley Leigh Hunt at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd January 1882.
SHELLEY LEIGH HUNT of Holborn Viaduct London
CLEANING AND SWEEPING APPARATUS"
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STREET
This Invention relates to improvements in street cleaning and sweeping apparatus
and consists of a horizontal cylinder. A segment of such cylinder preferably about
one fourth of the body of the same is cut out so that the two surfaces from which
the segment has been cut would be at right angles or thereabouts to each other.
Against one of these surfaces is placed a metal plate and against the other an india
rubber sheet or plate. The segment cut from the cylinder is then fitted again into
and fastened by bolts to the cylinder so as to bear against and clamp on the one
side the metal plate and on the other the india rubber sheet. The plate or rako
and the india rubber project beyond the periphery of the cylinder so as to bear on
the ground when they are respectively in use.
Through about the middle of the cylinder a hole or orifice is made in an angle
position to which a movable handle is attached. When required to bring the plato
or the india rubber into play the handle is withdrawn and the cylinder is turned
so as to bring the inetal plate or the india rubber (as the case may be) into contact
with the ground and the handle then replaced into the said hole or orifice.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Shelley Leigh Hunt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th June 1882.
SHELLEY LEIGH HUNT of Holborn Viaduct London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN STREET
CLEANING AND SWEEPING APPARATUS"
This Invention relates to improvements in street cleaning and sweeping apparatus
and consists of a horizontal cylinder. A segment of such cylinder preferably about
one fourth of the body of the same is cut Figure 1 out so that the two surfaces
a. a. b. b. from which the segment has been cut would be at right angles or there-
abouts to each other. Against one of these surfaces is placed a netal plate c. and
against the other an indiarubber sheet or plate d (Figure 2.) The segment cut
from the cylinder c. is then fitted again into and fastened by bolts f. f. to the
cylinder so as to bear against and clamp on the one side the metal plate and on
the other the india rubber sheet. or if preferred two metal plates or two india-
rubber sheets can be fastened to the cylinder instead of one of each as previously
described. The plate or rake c, Figure 2 and the india rubber d, project beyond the
periphery of the cylinder so as to bear on the ground when they are respectively
in use. Through about the middle of the cylinder a hole or orifice is bored g
Figure 2 equidistant from the india rubber on the one side, and the metal plate on
the other, but at such an angle with the longitudinal section of the cylinder, that,
when the long straight handle h. Figure 3, is therein fixed the same handle does not
form a right angle with the cylinder longitudinally, but inclines slightly towards one
end of the cylinder forming with the one half length of the cylinder an acute, and
with the other an obtuse angle.
The ends of the cylinders also that of the iron plates and india rubber sheets are
formed of somewhat of the same angle Figure 3 h. h².
The handle of the apparatus being fixed to the cylinder with a wedge, a simple
twist of the handle in the hand will reverse the cylinder, and bring into play at
will either the metal plate, or the india rubber as may be required.
This apparatus is also applicable for cleaning and sweeping of door steps path-
ways, ships deck, platforms, and other like purposes.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention and
the manner the same is or may be performed I would observo in conclusion
that I do not limit myself to the precise details herein given and shewn in
the accompanying Drawings as various modifications may be made therein which
retaining the essential features of the said Invention, but what I claim and desire
to be secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent, is the
combined parts hereinbefore described and illustrated or any modification thereof.
In witness where of I the said Shelley Leigh Hunt have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Twenty ninth day of June in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
SHELLEY LEIGH HUNT. (L.S.)