Improvements in Cleaning or Polishing Apparatus for Syphons.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 31st Dec., 1896-Accepted, 13th Feb., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cleaning or Polishing Apparatus for Syphons.
I, SIDNEY MUNCKTON Merchant and Manufacturer, of "Homeleigh" Surrey Road,
Bournemouth, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved cleaning or polishing apparatus for use
with syphons and has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive apparatus
which will polish these articles rapidly and efficiently.
In carrying out my invention I propose to employ two drums or pulleys placed
at each end of a suitable frame. These drums or pulleys are flanged and a polishing
belt is placed around them. Two pairs of flanged rollers or guides are employed
at a short distance from each druui placed at top or bottom or at each sile of the
belt, the belt passing between the flanges.
The two sides of the belt are thus brought to within a short distance of each
other so as to bear upon both sides of the syphon which are placed between the
sides of the belt.
One of the drums is provided with a pulley at the side to which power may be
transmitted through a driving belt the apparatus being worked by hand, foot, or
other power.
A rest or support for the syphon is fitted to the bench or base of the apparatus
having a semi-circular recess at its upper end so placed that the syphons will be
held in the proper position between the sides of the polishing belt.
Dated this 21st day of May 1896.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.
I, SIDNEY MUNCKTON, Merchant and Manufacturer, of Homeleigh, Surrey Road,
Bournemouth, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner tho
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by tho
following statement :-
This invention relates to a new or improved cleaning or polishing apparatus for
use with syphons, and has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive apparatus
which will polish these articles rapidly and efficiently.
In carrying out my invention I propose to employ two drums or pulleys placed
at each end of a suitable frame. These drums or pulleys are flanged and a
polishing belt is placed around them. Two pairs of flanged rollers or guides are
employed at a short distance from each drum placed at each side of the belt, the belt
passing between the flanges.
The two sides of the belt are thus brought to within a short distance of each
other so as to bear upon both sides of the syphon which is placed between the
sides of the belt.
One of the drums is provided with a pulley at the side to which power may be
transmitted through a driving belt the apparatus being worked by hand, foot or
other power

page_text: In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the
apparatus, and Fig. 2 is a cross section, of part of the arrangement.
To the frame A the two set of pulleys B, B! are fitted, the first set B being secured
at each side of the frame and the other pulleys at the top and bottom. On each
of these pairs of pulleys which are preferably flanged or grooved, the endless
bands C and C are placed, these bands or belts being made of polishing material
and crossing at the centre. The top of the syphon is placed between the sides of the
belts at the centre, so that both belts can be applied for polishing purposes but a
single belt may be used instead of the double arrangement shown, the construction
being otherwise similar. To press the sides of the belt together so as to bear on the
top of the syphon, the rollers or wheels E are employed, consisting of two pairs to
each belt placed a short distance on each side of the centre. These rollers which are
also preferably grooved or flanged are both carried on an arm e pivoted at the
centre so that each pair of rollers turns round a central point. On pulling this arm
to one side which is done by means of the spring F, the rollers bearing on each
side of the polishing belt causes the opposite part of the belts to approach each
other, so as to grip the syphon placed at the centre. The spring F is attached to
the frame A and allows the pressure on the belt to be applied in a resilient
manner.
In order to release the belts and allow the syphon to be withdrawn, the wires or
connections G are attached to the other extremity of each arm e and at their lower
ends to a foot rest g which can be depressed pulling down the arms and raising the
rollers from the belts.
To support and polish the end of the syphon the spindle H is employed at the
centre of the apparatus revolved from the main shaft and furnished with a disc h
covered with leather and provided with a small hole or recess h¹ which serves to
receive the end of the syphon. The machine is driven from a belt J passing over a
pulley fitted on the same shaft as the wheel B and driving the other wheels by
intermediate belts.
The apparatus employed may be double, two sets of polishing belts being fitted to
the same machine one at each side, the shaft carrying one set of wheels passing to the
other side of the machine carrying a corresponding set, the arrangement being exactly
duplicate. The wheels Bor B₁ may be provided with a polishing brush projecting
from their surfaces to assist in polishing the syphon.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is.-
(1.) An improved apparatus for cleaning or polishing syphons consisting of a frame,
wheels or pulleys at each side of the frame and polishing belt passing over the said
wheels, and two pairs of rollers pressing on each side of the belt and bringing
the sides together causing them to bear on the syphon, substantially as described and
for the purposes specified.
(2.) In an improved apparatus for cleaning or polishing syphons, the combination
with flanged wheels or drums fitted to each side of a frame and polishing belt carried
by the said drums adapted to bear on the syphon, of two pairs of flanged rollers on
each side of the belt bringing the sides of the belt together, substantially as and
for the purposes specified.
(3.) The improved apparatus for cleaning or polishing syphons, constructed and
operating substantially as described and shown in the accompanying drawings, and for
the purposes specified.
Dated this 31st day of Doaamban 1906
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.