A New or Improved Pad or Device for Applying Fluids, Semi- fluids, Compositions, or the like, whilst Polishing or Rubbing any desired Surface therewith.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 16th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Pad or Device for Applying Fluids, Semi-
fluids, Compositions, or the like, whilst Polishing or Rubbing
any desired Surface therewith.
I, FRANK TINGLE of 110 Cannon Street, London, E.C. Chartered Accountant,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to a new or improved pad appliance or device for
distributing or applying any suitable fluid semi-fluid or composition in a liquid or
semi-liquid state for instance oil, grease, furniture polish, French polishing material
etc., etc., such as is required to be thinly and evenly distributed or spread over any
desired surface or surfaces in a regulated manner concurrently with a rubbing or
polishing action.
My present invention is as follows:-
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1 form from wood or any suitable material a frame or block having a recess or
chamber therein or series of chambers or recesses connected to one another or
otherwise for instance these several distributing chambers may be connected to a
main chamber or reservoir or reservoirs contained in or mounted in or on the said
frame or block.
This reservoir or main chamber or chambers has (or have) à filling orifice or
orifices advantageously extending upwards through the top or end or ends or side
or sides of the said block or chamber and such filling orifice or orifices is or are
closed or stoppered in any suitable manner for instance by a slide, spring top, screw
cap, cork or equivalent.
A suitable handle or handles or other suitable means is or are provided on the
said block or frame so that this pad or appliance may be readily grasped and held
by the operator or the said block or frame may be so constructed as to be used
without a handle.
On the underside of this pad (which may advantageously be of about the size of
an ordinary flat iron or larger or smaller according to the purposes for which same,
is to be applied) I secure in any suitable manner (advantageously so as to be
readily detachable when required) a pad cushion or covering of any suitable
material for instance suitable closely-woven textile cloth either with or without a
filling or backing of wool or felt or this pad may be made of any other material or
in any suitable way to suit the purposes for which it is required-for instance it
may be made of similar material and in a similar way to the pads used in French
polishing.
This said pad of soft material forms the rubbing surface and completely encloses
the outlet or outlets coming from the said reservoir or reservoirs containing the
material in a fluid or semi-fluid state which it is desired to apply to any desired
surface.
Thus when this reservoir or reservoirs has or have been filled or partially filled
with the material or composition to be applied same will feed this in a graduated
form through the said soft pad and in this manner will be thinly and evenly
distributed and very gradually applied to the surface which is to be rubbed with
the pad.
This pad has been more especially designed for applying any suitable material to
windows especially shop windows to prevent same becoming clouded or obscured

page_text: by condensation on the inside of said windows as is so frequently seen in shops and
other places where it is an especial object that the view through such windows
should not be obscured.
I do not confine myself however to the use of my present invention to shop or
any other windows as same may be used for any other purposes to which it may be
applicable.
Dated this 1st day of Wohnun 190
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.
A New or Improved Pad or Device for Applying Fluids, Semi-
fluids, Compositions, or the like, whilst Polishing or Rubbing
any desired Surface therewith.
I, FRANK TINGLE of 110 Cannon Street, London, E.C. Chartered Accountant,
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 a new or improved pad appliance or device for
distributing or applying any suitable fluid, semi-fluid, or composition in a liquid or
semi-liquid state for instance oil, grease, furniture polish, French polishing material
etc., etc., such as is required to be thinly and evenly distributed or spread over any
desired surface or surfaces in a regulated manner concurrently with a rubbing or
polishing action.
And in order that my present invention may be easily understood and readily
carried into practice I will proceed to describe same with reference to the drawings
hereunto annexed, in which
Fig. 1 is a plan of a pad or device according to my present invention.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1 partly in section showing the arrangement
and construction of such pad or appliance.
Fig. 3 is a cross section on line 1-1 Fig. 2.
I form from wood or any suitable material a frame or block A having a recess
or chamber therein such as B or series of chambers or recesses connected to one
another or otherwise for instance these several distributing chambers may be
connected to a main chamber or reservoir or reservoirs contained in or mounted in
or on the said frame or block A.
This reservoir or said chamber B or chambers has (or have) a filling orifice C or
orifices extending upwards through the top or advantageously through the end as
shown or through both ends or it may be through the side or sides of the said
block A and such filling orifice or orifices C is or are closed or stoppered by a
plug such as D or in any other suitable manner for instance by a slide, spring top,
screw cap, cork or equivalent.
A suitable handle or handles or other suitable means is or are provided on the
said block or frame so that this pad or appliance may be readily grasped and held
by the operator or the said block or frame A may be constructed as shown so as
to be used without a separate handle namely by forming a groove or channel A¹
along each side of said block A to thus afford a ready means of grasping or holding
said device when in use.
On the underside of this pad (which may advantageously be of about the size of
an ordinary flat irou or larger or smaller according to the purposes for which same
is to be applied) I secure in any suitable manner-arranged if desired so as to be

page_text: readily detachable when required a pad cushion or covering E (in the case
illustrated same is secured to the block by nails E¹ all round) of any suitable
material for instance suitable closely-woven textile cloth either with or without a
filling or backing of wool or felt For this pad may be made of any other material
or in any suitable way to suit the purposes for which it is required-for instance it
may be made of similar material and in a similar way to the pads used in French
polishing.
This said pad of soft material forms the rubbing surface and completely encloses
the outlet or outlets B' coming from the main reservoir B (or reservoirs) containing
the material in a fluid or semi-fluid state which it is desired to apply to any desired
surface.
Thus when this reservoir B (or reservoirs) has (or have) been filled or partially
filled with the material or composition to be applied same will feed this by means of
the distributing channels B¹ in a graduated form through the said soft pad and in
this manner will be thinly and evenly distributed and very gradually applied to the
surface which is to be rubbed with the pad.
This pad has been more especially designed for applying any suitable material
to windows especially shop windows to prevent same becoming clouded or obscured
by condensation on the inside of said windows as is so frequently seen in shops and
other places where it is an especial object that the view through such windows
should not be obscured.
I do not confine myself however to the use of my present invention to shop or
any other windows as same may be used for any other purposes to which it may be
applicable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A pad or device for applying fluids, semi-fluids, compositions, or the like
whilst polishing or rubbing any desired surface therewith-consisting of the com-
bination with a block or frame of a chamber or reservoir therein or thereon and
means for closing same one or more distributing channels leading from said chamber
or reservoir to the exterior of said frame or block and a cushion or covering of soft
material secured to said block or frame over said outlets from the said reservoir or
chamber and forming the rubbing surface through which passes the material to be
applied substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
2. A pad or device for applying fluids, semi-fluids, compositions, or the like
whilst polishing or rubbing any desire surface therewith-consisting of a solid
block such as A adapted to be grasped and held in the hand a recess or chamber
such as B formed in said block a plug such as D to close said chamber distributing
channels such as B¹ leading from said chamber B to the exterior of the block A a
covering such as E of soft material secured to said block A over said outlets B¹ and
forming the rubbing surface and a filling or backing of felt or other suitable soft
material such as F through which and the covering E the material from the
chamber B passes and is thereby applied substantially in the manner and for the
purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 16th day of October 1895.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.