IMPROVEMENTS IN BROOMS OR BRUSHING APPARATUS
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Hadden Young, of 66, College Street, Camden
Town, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BROOMS OR BRUSHING APPARATUS."
Sealed the 12th December 1854, and dated the 14th October 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Hadden Young at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
- 14th October 1854.
I, JAMES HADDEN YOUNG, of 66, College Street, Camden Town, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BROOMS OR BRUSHING APPARATUS " to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of improvements in brooms or brushing apparatus,
for which Letters Patent were granted to me on the Fifteenth day of January,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. The materials of which the
brush is composed, instead of being fixed to a wooden axis, are bound together
by wire, twisted together. To the centre of this axis a small pulley is fixed,
over-which a band is made to pass, connecting it with a wheel on the outside
of the box. A metal pan is hinged to the bottom of the box. The handle
of the apparatus is made to pivot on the box.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Hadden Young in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 14th April 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, JAMES
HADDEN YOUNG, of 66, College Street, Camden Town, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said James Hadden Young, Her special licence that I, the said James
Hadden Young, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said James Hadden Young, 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN BROOMS OR BRUSHING APPARATUS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said James Hadden Young, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, 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 James Hadden Young, 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 thereof (that is to say) :-
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This Invention consists of improvements in brooms or brushing apparatus,
for which Letters Patent were granted to me on the Fifteenth day of January,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. The materials of which the brush
is composed, instead of being fixed to a wooden axis, are bound together by
wire, twisted together. To the centre of this axis a small pulley is fixed, over
which a band is made to pass, connecting it with a wheel on the outside of the
box. A metai pan is hinged to the bottom of the box. The handle of the
apparatus is made to pivot on the box.
Having thus stated the nature of the Invention, I will proceed to describe
the manuer of performing the same.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is an end view of the apparatus; Figure 2, a vertical transverse
section through the line A, B. Figure 3, a is a handle, shown as broken off,
pivoting on the pin 6 of the bracket c, which is screwed down to the box d.
On the pin the wheel e runs, grooved to receive the band g, which passes
over the pulley h. i and j are compartments in the box, to receive the dust as
it is gathered up by the revolution of the brush.
Figure 4 is an enlarged view of the brush, which is formed by laying bass
or other suitable material & between wires 1, 1, and twisting the same together,
so as to form an axis, whose ends revolve in holes of the box at o, o, when
the pulley is made to rotate by the motion of the wheel e, as it is pushed
backwards or forwards. m, m, are thin circular pieces of deal or pasteboard,
placed in the position shown, to prevent the brush being injured by the band.
What I claim is, the combination of apparatus herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Hadden Young, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
JAMES H. YOUNG. (L.S.)