Apparatus for Washing and Cleaning Windows.
Year: 1887

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Washing and Cleaning Windows.
We SILAS HALL formerly of 30 Northfield Square but now of 14 Evelyn Strect
Chapeltown Road Leeds in the County of York, mechanician, and ROBERT SMITH
DOWER of 3 Cross Bank Street, Leeds in the County of York, Iron Merchant do..
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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For washing and cleaning windows without the operator having to reach or stand
The outside can be cleaned with the operator standing or sitting inside, or both
sides at the same time, is accomplished by having two guiding standards or arms, one on
the outside of window, the other inside and parallel with each other, and to these guiding
standards or arm is a suitable cleaner either brush or other materials and to this is
attached a gearing which is guided by the parallel arms, also to this gearing is a
watering device for guiding the water to the windows, also a water catcher for
preventing the splashing, also a conductor for conducting it into a vessel suitably
placed for it, having described my Invention and what I desire to claim is the
Improved Means of Washing and Cleaning Windows this I accomplish by useing one or
more guiding arms and to this I attach a gearing which may be in the form of a rack
and pinion or endless belt, band or chain, and to this I attach a cross head with a
suitable holder for brush, or other material for washing and cleaning windows, this
cross bar or heads is worked by the operator from the inside by means of a handle
which is secured to the gearing and to this gearing is attached a water carrier which
may be of a India rubber tube and to this tube is attached a water forceing device for
forceing the water to the windows, this may be accomplised by a pump or other
suitable device, also 1 employ a water catcher so that the water is conducted into a
vessel placed for it, this water catcher may be fastened to the guiding arms or am or
to the bottom of window sash, the guiding standard or standards is suitable made with
groves or guides, one the outside of window the other inside and may be used for
cleaning the outside of window and the inside at the same time, or the outside may be
cleaned without the inside and this been accomplished by the operator working a
handle from the inside without reaching out or standing out, having described our
Invention and what we claim is the combination of a window washer and cleaner,
with the necessary appliance for working the same.
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page_text: Apparatus for Washing and Cleaning Windows.
We SILAS HALL formerly of 30 Northfield Square but now of 14 Evelyn Street
Chapeltown Road Leeds in the County of York, Mechanician, and ROBERT SMITH
DOWER of 3 Cross Bank Street Leeds in the County of York, Iron Merchant 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:
The object of our Invention is to provide means whereby the outsides of windows
can be readily and effectively cleaned from the inside of the room, thus avoiding the
necessity of having to sit or stand on the window sill with the body more or less
outside the window frame, a mode of cleaning attended with considerable risk, and
which has been the cause of many fatal accidents.
And in order that our Invention may be more clearly understood, reference will at
once be had in describing the same, to the accompanying drawing and to the letters
and marks thereon.
Our Invention consists of a guide or guides, each formed of a standard or
standards, a preferably binged socketed or otherwise connected to a base piece b, so
that the whole apparatus can be folded or packed up into small compass when not in
.use. A sliding piece c is so fitted in the guides that it can be readily slid up and
down the standards a, and has attached to it a brush, cloth, or other rubber d, which
rubbing against the window pane or frame as the sliding piece e moves up and down,
cleans the same. Motion is imparted to the sliding piece c by means of a band or cord
passing preferably round rollers e suitably placed in the standards a and base piece b,
the band or cord being actuated directly by hand or by means of a crank handle
attached to the axis of one of the rollers e in the base piece b.
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In order to supply the water necessary for moistening the brush, cloth, or other
rubber d, we provide a flexible tube or tubes reaching down to a bucket placed on
the floor close to the window. The upper end of the tube (or of the upper tube) ƒª¹
terminates in a pipe or nozzle, (perforated,) which discharges the water on to the
.brush, cloth, or other rubber d, or on to the window pane immediately above such
rubber. The water is pumped up from the bucket, either by a small pump g actuated
from the moving band or cord, or from the axle of one of the rollers, or by a hollow
elastic ball such as are used for enemia injections.
The brush cloth or other rubber d is attached in such a manner to the sliding piece c,
as to be capable of being readily removed and replaced by a cloth or brush for drying
or polishing the window.
It will be readily evident that two or more brushes, the one some distance above
the other, may be fitted in the standard, or that two or more standards placed side by
side may be connected to one base piece, and each provided with its own brush or
brushes or lastry two standards facing each other, may be attached together at their
lower ends, or to the base -piece, so that the one acts on the outside and the other on

page_text: the inside of the window, in which case we may provide a spring arrangement in the
sliding piece of one or both standards, so as to press the brushes together, or rather
against the window pane between them.
A tray to catch the water falling from the window is provided at the base piece
(see h), and delivers such water back to the bucket.
It will be understood that we do not limit ourselves to the precise form of the
standards shewn in the drawings, but the same may conveniently be formed of a
single rod or tube, or of two or more such rods or tubes; the sliding piece being
correspondingly formed to fit and slide up and down such rods or tubes."
We propose in some cases to impart motion to the sliding piece c by means of a quick
pitched screw and nut arrangement.
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 :-
1º. A window cleaning apparatus consisting of a standard or standards connected to a
base piece, or connected together, having a sliding piece or pieces with a rubber or
brush attached thereto, substantially as herein described.
2°. A window cleaning apparatus consisting of a standard or standards connected
to a base piece, or connected together, having a sliding piece or pieces with a brush
or other rubber attached thereto, and actuated by gearing substantially as herein
described.
30. In combination with the window cleaning apparatus as just mentioned in
Claims 1 and 2, of a flexible tube with perforated end, for supplying the water
required for moistening the brush or other rubber; and of a pump or injector
apparatus for forcing the water through such tube, all substantially as herein
described.