shing or Washing.
Year: 1885

page_text: Brushing or Washing.
We, ALEXANDER MACFARLANE and DAVID CRAIG, of 77 Howard Street, Glasgow,
in the County of Lanark, North Britain Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of our said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND CONNECTED WITH
ROTATORY BRUSHES FOR BRUSHING OR WASHING" to be as follows, that is to say:-
Our said Invention consists in mounting a rotatory brush, constructed of any
suitable materials, at the end of a tubular rod or handle, and in making the brush
rotate by means of any suitable rotatory motor apparatus applied directly to the
brush and actuated by air forced out or drawn in through the tubular rod or
handle, or actuated by water forced out. through the tubular rod or handle when
the brush is to be employed for washing, the water which drives the brush being
in that case used in the washing operation.
In a simple and convenient modification the motor apparatus consists of a hollow
wheel made with arms to act like a "Barker's Mill" and fixed on the spindle of
the brush, the air or water for actuating it being led from the tubular rod or
handle into the centre of the hollow wheel. For ordinary brushing purposes the
motor apparatus may be fixed at one end of the brush; whilst for washing purposes
it may be fixed in the middle of its length; or there may be several separate
hollow "Barker's Mill" arms distributed at various parts of the brush. For
washing windows, railway carriages, and many other objects the rotatory brush
will be most conveniently arranged with its spindle at right angles to the tubular
rod or handle; but it may be arranged in any position to suit any particular
purpose. Instead of the "Barker's Mill" motor apparatus there may be substituted
apparatus made like a turbine, or a vortex wheel, or even like an ordinary water
wheel, the air or water being, in the last ease, projected against the paddles in one
or more jets.
The air for actuating the motor may be forced or drawn through the tubular rod
or handle by means of any suitable kind of blowing or exhausting apparatus, and
when water is used it may be supplied from a street main or from an elevated
cistern or from pumping apparatus.
Dated this twenty-ninth day of May 1885
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.

page_text: Brushing or Washing.
We, ALEXANDER MACFARLANE, and DAVID CRAIG, of 77 East Howard Street,
Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Manufacturers, 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, that is to say :-
Our said Invention consists in mounting a rotatory brush, constructed of any
suitable materials, at the end of a tubular rod or handle, and in making the brush
rotate by means of any suitable rotatory motor apparatus applied directly to the
brush and actuated by air forced out or drawn in through the tubular rod or
handle, or actuated by water forced out through the tubular rod or handle when
the brush is to be employed for washing, the water which drives the brush being
in that case used in the washing operation.
In a simple and convenient modification the motor apparatus consists of a hollow
wheel made with arms to act like a "Barker's Mill," and fixed on the spindle of
the brush, the air or water for actuating it being led from the tubular rod or
handle into the centre of the hollow wheel. For ordinary brushing purposes the
motor apparatus may be fixed at one end of the brush; whilst for washing purposes
it may be fixed in the middle of its length; or there may be several separate
hollow "Barker's Mill" arms distributed at various parts of the brush. For
washing windows, railway carriages, and many other objects the rotatory brush
will be most conveniently arranged with its spindles at right angles to the tubular
rod or handle; but it may be arranged in any position to suit any particular
purpose. Instead of the "Barker's Mill" motor apparatus there may be substituted
apparatus made like a turbine, or a vortex wheel, or even like an ordinary water
wheel, the air or water being, in the last case, projected against the paddles in one
or more jets.
The air for actuating the motor may be forced or drawn through the tubular rod
or handle by means of any suitable kind of blowing or exhausting apparatus; and
when water is used it may be supplied from a street main or from an elevated
cistern or from pumping apparatus.
We hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings showing a few examples
of the various modifications of which our improved apparatus is susceptible; and in
these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like parts
wherever they are repeated.
Figures, 1, and 2, of the drawings are front and side elevations of a modification
of our rotatory brush suitable for washing windows, walls, and the like. Figure, 3,
is an enlarged section showing the motor and figure, 4, is a face view of the motor.
The brush, B, is mounted at the upper end of a tube, H, which serves as a handle
and has a branch pipe fixed on it for the attachment of a rubber pipe, R, for
supplying water under pressure. The upper end of the tubular handle, H, has
fixed to it a bearing, A, to receive the tubular spindle, S, of the motor, M, which

page_text: in this example is a small "Barker's Mill." The bearing, A, is made with a space
round the spindle, S, in communication with the interior of the tubular handle, H,
and the part of the spindle crossing this space is made with ports through which
the water enters the spindle. The brush, B, which, in this example, consists of
four radial blades with the bristles at their edges is fixed to one face of the
motor, M, and a shield or casing, C, which is fixed to the handle, H, is made to
enclose about three fourths of the brush so as to confine its action to one side and
to prevent the water being unnecessarily thrown away from the window or other
part that is being washed.
Figure, 5, is a sectional side elevation of a modification in which the brush, B, is
of a conical form and is placed at the end of the tubular handle, H, with its axis
in the same line as the handle. The brush is fixed to the "Barker's Mill" motor, M,
and this motor has screwed to it a tubular spindle, S, which runs on the outside of
the tubular handle, H, being retained by a small collar formed at the end of the
tubular handle.
Figure, 6, is a sectional elevation of a modification suitable for washing bottles.
In this example the motor, M, held by its spindle in a bearing, A, at the end of the
tubular handle, H, rotates inside of a casing, C, made with a funnel, F, to lead
the water into the bottle and made with lateral escape openings. The brush, B,
is represented as of the kind ordinarily used for washing bottles and is fixed by its
long spindle to the motor, M. The brush being thrust into the bottle the water is
turned on, and makes the brush rotate rapidly whilst the same water forms the
washing supply.
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 combination of a rotatory brush for brushing with a rotatory motor and
with a tubular haudle through which last air or water is supplied to the motor
substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. The combination of a rotatory brush for washing with a rotatory motor and
with a tubular handle through which last water is supplied to the motor and to
the brush substantially as herein before described.
Dated this twenty-fifth day of February 1886.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicants' Agent.