A MACHINE FOR WAXING AND RUBBING APARTMENTS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Baptiste Lecomte Alliot, of Paris, in the Depart-
ment of Seine, in the Empire of France, Gentleman, for the Invention
of "A MACHINE FOR WAXING AND RUBBING APARTMENTS."
Sealed the 24th May 1861, and dated the 28th November, 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Baptiste Lecomte
Alliot, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 28th November 1860.
I, JEAN BAPTISTE LECOMTE ALLIOT, of Paris, in the Department of Seine,
in the Empire of France, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "A MACHINE FOR WAXING AND RUBBING APARTMENTS," to be
as follows:-
I propose constructing a framing which will rest upon a wheel; this framing
will support a reservoir, a sponge, or brush, to which liquid from the reservoir
will be transmitted and be spread over the floor of the apartment; a cylindrical
brush (which may be used-for scrubbing or for wax polishing), a rag wheel
and chain by which the cylindrical brush will be set in motion, a wheel fitted
to the cylinder upon which the chain will roll, a guiding handle to be held
in the left hand and a small crank to be worked with the right hand to set
the machinery in motion; pressure will be given to the machine by placing
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page_text: a leaden weight upon the framing, and the reservoir may be removed for the
introduction of pincers to hold wax, and to which a come-and-go motion
will be given by a spring, and the brushes will also be changeable at will.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jean Baptiste Lecomte Alliot in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 27th May 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
BAPTISTE LECOMTE ALLIOT, of Paris, in the Department of Seine, in the
Empire of France, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eight day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Jean Baptiste Lecomte Alliot, Her special licence that I, the said
Jean Baptiste Lecomte Alliot, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as 1, the said Jean Baptiste Lecomte Alliot, 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 of "A MACHINE FOR WAXING AND RUBBING
APARTMENTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Jean
Baptiste Lecomte Alliot, my executors or administrators, by any instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 Jean Baptiste Lecomte Alliot, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings forming part of this my Specification, and to the letters of reference
marked thereon.
The object of my Invention is by certain mechanical arrangements to con-

page_text: struct an apparatus that shall wax rub wood floors (good in a sanitary point
of view and preservative of the floors themselves); this properly performed
entailed hitherto two long and laborious operations, the first being an application
of a coating of wax, by various methods, and the second obtaining by the brush
a brilliant polish. This last operation, if well performed, is very laborious, the
floor requiring several rubbings in all its parts.
By the apparatus, the subject of this Invention, the two operations are effected
in a very short time, and by means of small wheels it runs about the floor as
the will of the operator directs, who pushes it with the left hand, while his right
turns a crank or winch, by means of which a pulley with a band around it
gives motion to all the other parts, but the Invention will be best understood
by reference to the Drawing where Figure 1 represents a plan, and Figure 2,
a section.
A, A, cast iron framing; B, a trough to receive the liquid wax, which it drops
on the floor as the machine traverses, or pincers may be substituted for the
trough which will hold the wax and deposit by rubbing on the floor, and a come-
and-go motion may be easily given to the pincers; C, brush to spread the wax;
D, cylinder armed with brushes to polish; E, handle by which the apparatus
is guided; F, crank or winch imparting motion; G, pulley to transmit motion;
H, H, cams for moving the levers J J, which move the brush C; K, groove in
which the brush C slides; L, screws serving to regulate the pressure of the
brushes on the floor by causing the axis in which they are placed to descend;
M, movable pulley supporting the machine; N, fixed pullies for the same
purpose; R, spiral springs, supporting the brushes, and always pressing them
upwards.
The cylinder D, which receives its rotary movement from the crank rubs
vigorously with its brushes the floor, and gives it a polish. Outside the fram-
ing, and on the axle of the cylinder are placed the cams H, which act alter-
nately on two levers J, which being fixed to the brush C communicates their
movement thereto so as to make it slide horizontally in the groove K; the
movement can be regulated at will, this brush spreads the wax on the floor
and acts in a sense inverted as regards the cylinder D. The trough destined
to receive the wax is placed in a groove and maintained in position by two
screws. The cylindrical brush D may be constructed of iron, wood, or other
substance or material.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which it is carried into practical effect, I would here observe that I do not
confine myself to the precise details herein given or illustrated by the Drawing

page_text: or some modification may be made without departing from the essential features
of my Invention. I claim the exclusive use of the apparatus herein described
for rubbing or polishing floors with wax in combination; and as regards the
cylindrical brush D, I claim the exclusive use thereof apart from the
machine.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jean Baptiste Lecomte Alliot have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of May, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
*C. GUINGUERLOT,
Boulevard des Vertus 12,
Paris.
J. B. LECOMTE ALLIOT. (L.S.)