AN IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE CLEANERS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Fredrick Fleming, of Halifax, in the County
of York, Brush Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
BOTTLE CLEANERS."
Sealed the 26th July 1861, and dated the 29th January 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Fredrick Fleming
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th January 1861.
I, WILLIAM FREDRICK FLEMING, of Halifax, in the County of York, Brush
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE CLEANERS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to brushes for cleaning or cleansing the interior of
bottles, jugs, jars, or other vessels of similar form, and the improvement
consists in having the handle or stem twisted or formed into a screw, with a
nut thereon, and a cap or knob at the end, in which the handle or stem is
free to rotate. By holding the knob in one hand and the nut in the other,
and moving the bands to and from each other, alternating or reversing, rotary
motion may be given to the said brush.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Fredrick Fleming in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 27th July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
FREDRICK FLEMING, of Halifax, in the County of York, Brush Manufacturer,
send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Fredrick Fleming, Her special licence that I, the said William
Fredrick Fleming, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said William Fredrick Fleming, 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 United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE CLEANERS," upon the condition, amongst others,
that I, the said William Fredrick Fleming, 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 William Fredrick Fleming, do hereby
declare the nature of the said 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):-
This Invention relates to brushes for cleaning or cleansing the interior of
bottles, jugs, jars, or other vessels of similar form, and the improvement
consists in having the handle or stem twisted or formed into a screw, with a
nut thereon, and a cap or knob at the end, in which the handle or stem is
free to rotate. By holding the knob in one hand and the nut in the other,
and moving the hands to and from each other, alternating or reversing, rotary
motion may be given to the said brush.
This Invention will be readily understood by reference to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is a full size representation of one of my
improved bottle cleaners; and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the same taken
through the dotted line in Fig. 1.
A is a cylindrical brush constructed of bristles secured betwixt two wiles
twisted together, and B is a small bag of flannel or other suitable material
enclosing a few bristles, and secured to the wires by wrapping with string or
thread; C is the stem or handle, which is formed into a screw by twisting
three small wires spirally around a stronger wire, to which they are secured at
each end by soldering. The stem is connected to the wires of the brush by

page_text: inserting them within a hoop c, to which they are soldered. D is a cap or
knob, in which the stem is free to rotate; and E is another knob, capable of
sliding over the threads of the screw stem, but having a pin e inserted into
one of the grooves it becomes, like a nut, compelled to follow the course of the
screw threads when motion is applied. It will be evident that if the two
knobs are held by a person, one in each hand, and not allowed to turn round
therein, but the hands moved to and from each other, a rotary motion will be
given to the brush; also if the brush be inserted into a bottle or other vessel,
the knob E held firmly to the neck thereof, and the knob D moved up and
down, a compound rotary and reciprocating motion will be given to the brush,
the bristles acting against the side of the bottle or other vessel; and if tho
knob D be held stationary, and the knob C moved up and down, the bag B
will act on the bottom of the bottle or other vessel.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is performed or carried into practice, I would havo it
understood that I make no claim to any of the parts separately considered;
nor do I confine myself to the precise details of construction, combination, and
general arrangement thereof, as herein set forth; but what I consider novel,
and therefore claim as of my Invention, is the means or method of producing
or giving motion to bottle cleaners substantially as herein described and illus-
trated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Fredrick Fleming, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of July, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one
WILLIAM FREDRICK FLEMING. (L.S.)
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the within-
named William Fredrick Fleming, in
the presence of
W. TASKER,
Patent Agent,
Halifax.