A New and Improved Device for Cleaning the Interiors of Decanters, Water Bottles, and such like Receptacles, in Part Applicable to Devices for Cleaning Lamp Glasses and Globes.
Year: 1887

page_text: A New and Improved Device for Cleaning the Interiors of Decanters,
Water Bottles, and such like Receptacles, the Invention being in
Part Applicable to Devices for Cleaning Lamp Glasses and Globes.
We, NEWTON WILLIAM ARNOLD LEE, and LESLIE WARD LEE, trading in co-
partnership as Lee Brothers, of 49 Church Street, Bilston in the County of Stafford,
hardware merchants, and WILLIAM ANSTEE, of Green Croft, Bilston, aforesaid,
tinsmith, 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 reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the letters
of reference marked thereon (that is to say) :-
:-
This invention relates specially to a new and improved device for cleaning the
interiors of decanters, water bottles and such like receptacles, but is in part
applicable also to other analogous purposes.
A device constructed according to this invention for the purpose of cleaning the
interiors of decanters, water bottles, and such like receptacles, consists of a straight part
for the neck of the decanter or other receptacle (in the case of a receptacle having a
narrow elongated neck), of an expansible and collapsible part which, when collapsed,
may be passed through the neck of the decanter or other receptacle, and be afterwards
expanded within the body so as to fit the contour thereof; and means by which such
latter part may be expanded and collapsed as desired.
The construction and method of using the device will be readily understood on
reference to the accompanying drawings, of which figure 1 is an elevation of such
device ready for insertion into a decanter or other receptacle as aforesaid, and figure 2
an elevation of such device looking from the right-hand side of figure 1. The

page_text: remaining figures refer to details and will be explained hereinafter. The same letters
of reference occurring upon two or more of the views indicato corresponding parts.
Straight strips of steel A A A (shewn to be coated as hereinafter described) are
hinged at one end to a mounting on the top of a rod B, and are fixed at the other end to
a handle C. The rod B passes down the axis of the handle and terminates in a cross-
bar projecting on each side through a slot in the handle. One of these slots,
lettered a, is shown by figure 1. The part of the rod which passes down within the
handle is free to be moved up and down therein (except when retained as hereinafter
described) and is formed as or fitted with a rack or serrated part. Except when a
button is pressed by the finger, a catch b, on which the button is carried, is
constantly pressed into gear with the rack by means of a spring, as shewn by figure 3
which is a detached side view of the rack end of the rod, the catch and spring,
and a box d which acts as a guide to the rod and which also carries the catch and
spring. The box d is soldered or otherwise fixed within the handle, and the button c
stands out from the side of the handle. The strips of steel A A A may consist
conveniently of crinoline steel covered, as is usual, with cotton or other fibrous
material, and the outer surfaces are coated with a considerable thickness of cotton
or other soft material suitable for cleaning the interior of a decanter, or other
receptacle as aforesaid, by rubbing contact therewith. The strips, suitably coated on
their exterior surface as aforesaid, are bound tightly together (when the device is to
be employed for a receptacle having a narrow clongated neck) by cord or in other
convenient manner (but so as to allow of the free endway movement of the rod B
along their common axis) for a distance from the handle corresponding, approxi-
mately, to the length of the neck of the vessel which it is desired to clean, and the
remaining lengths of such strips are free up to the point of their connection with tho
mounting on the end of the rod B and are thus expanded, as shewn by figure 2, when
the rod is drawn inwards, by means of the cross bar D, towards the unconnected end
of the handle.
In employing the device for cleaning the interior of a decanter, or other receptacle
as aforesaid, it is pushed end ways, when straight as shewn by figure 1, down the neck
of the receptacle until the end reaches the bottom of the receptacle, and then, while
the handle C is firmly pressed down, the rod B is drawn up so as to expand the free
parts of the coated strips until such parts bear firmly around the contour of the interior
of the body of the receptacle. To effect this purpose the fingers are held under the
cross-bar D while the thumb is pressed on the end of the handle C. The strips are
retained in this expanded position by the catch & engaging with the rack on the rod B
while the device is turned round and round to clean the interior of the receptacle.
The device is withdrawn by pressing inwards the button c and firmly pressing the
rod Bagainst the bottom of the receptacle while the handle is drawn outwards until
to draw the catch b out of gear with the rack, whereupon the strips are become collapsed
again, after which the device may be readily withdrawn.
Figure 4 is an enlarged sectional elevation of a short length of the rack, and of the
box d, catch band spring e; figure 5 is a view of figure 4 looking from the left-hand
side thereof; and figure 6 a transverse section through the box. This box may be cast
in bra or otherwise made. It is shown as bent out of sheet metal with the sides
strengthened each with an extra thickness; the part forms the guide for the ro.l,
and the catch is pivoted within the part g. The spring e is carried between parts n n
(see figures 4 and 5) bent down from each side of the box.
Figure 7 is a plan of the connection of the strips with the top of the rod; and
figure 8 an elevation of such connection. The mounting at the top of the rod is shewn
as formed of sheet metal, but it may be conveniently cast in brass or otherwise. A
wire passes through loops in the ends of the strips and through cars or cheeks on
the mounting. Projections or guards m m m on the mounting prevent the strips
from buckling upwards beyond the mounting, but are not really essential. Figure 9
is a detached plan of these guards shewn as formed of three pieces of sheet metal
soldered together. They are also soldered to the mounting; but when the mounting
is cast in one piece the guards, if employed, are cast therewith.

page_text: The means, substantially as hereinabove described, by which the device is maintained
in its expanded-condition, are applicable also to cleaners for lamp glasses and globes
constructed necording to the design No. 63602 registered in the name of the cuid Lee
Brothers on the 10th day of December 1886.
Figure 10 is an inside view, and figure 11 a side view, of a short length of one of
the strips A, shewing the method of coating the outer surface. The cotton or other
soft material employed for this purpose is tied on in loops, and each loop is thon
preferably cut open to form a "pile." The material is bunched up over the mounting
on the end of the rod to provide ample cleaning material at that point.
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 :-
1. The new and improved device for cleaning the interiors of decanters, water
bottles, and such like receptacles, consisting of a straight part for the neck of the
decanter or other receptacle (in the case of a receptacle having a narrow elongated
neck) and expansible and collapsible part for the body thereof, and means by which
such latter part may bejexpanded to fit the contour of the interior of the receptacle,
and collapsed, substantially as described.
2. In an expansible and collapsible device for cleaning the interiors of decanters,
water bottles, and such like receptacles, and also in a device of the construction referred
to for cleaning lamp glasses and globes, the combination of a catch carried by the
handle, with a part upon the rod employed for in expanding the device with which
such catch engages to retain the device in its expanded form, substantially as
described.
3. In an expansible and collapsible device for cleaning the interiors of decanters,
water bottles, and such like receptacles, and also in a device of the construction
referred to for cleaning lamp glasses and globes, the means whereby the expansible
part of such device is or may be retained in its expanded form, substantially as
described.
4. In an expansible and collapsible device for cleaning the interiors of decanters,
water bottles, and such like receptacles, strips A carrying cleaning material, hinged
at one end to a mounting on the end of the rod employed to effect in effecting the
expansion of the device, and connected at the other end with a part which is exterior to
a receptacle within which the device is inserted for the purpose of cleaning it, sub-
stantially as described, for the purpose set forth.
5. The combination of the rack on the rod B with the catch b pressed into gear
with the rack by means of a spring and drawn out of gear by the pressure of the
finger on a button, or equivalent, c, substantially as described for the purposes set
forth.
6. The device for cleaning the interiors of decanters, water bottles, and such like
receptacles, substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1887.
Specification Accepted, 25th Feb., 1887.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Device for Cleaning the Interiors of Decanters,
Water Bottles, and such like Receptacles, the Invention being in
Part Applicable to Devices for Cleaning Lamp Glasses and Globes.
We, NEWTON WILLIAM ARNOLD LEE, and LESLIE WARD LEE, irading in co-
partnership as Lee Brothers, of 49 Church Street, Bilston in the County of Stafford,
hardware merchants, and WILLIAM ANSTEE, of Green Croft, Bilston, aforesaid,
tinsmith, 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, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and the letters
of reference marked thereon (that is to say):-
This invention relates specially to a new and improved device for cleaning the
interiors of decanters, water bottles and such like receptacles, but it is in part
applicable also to other analogous purposes.
A device constructed according to this invention for the purpose of cleaning the
interiors of decanters, water bottles, and such like receptacles, consists of a straight part
for the neck of the decanter or other receptacle (in the case of a receptacle having a
narrow elongated neck), of an expansible and collapsible part which, when collapsed,
may be passed through the neck of the decanter or other receptacle, and he afterwards
expanded within the body so as to fit the contour thereof; and means by which such
latter part may he expanded and collapsed as desired.
The
The construction and method of using the device will be readily understood on
reference to the accompanying drawings, of which figure 1 is an elevation of such
device ready for insertion into a decanter or other receptacle as aforesaid, and figure 2
an elevation of such device looking from the right-hand side of figure 1.
remaining figures refer to details and will be explained hereinafter. The same letters
of reference occurring upon two or more of the views indicate corresponding parts.
Strips of steel A A A (shown to be coated as hereinafter described) are hinged at one
end to a mounting on the top of a rod B, and are fixed at the other end to a handle C.
The rod B passes down the axis of the handle and terminates in a cross-bar D projecting
on each side through a slot in the handle. One of these slois, lettered a, is shown by figure 1.

page_text: The part of the rod which passes down within the handle is free to be moved up and down
therein (except when retained as hereinafter described) and is formed as or fitted with
a rack or serrated part. Except when a button c is pressed by the finger, a catch b, on
which the button is carried, is constantly pressed into gear with the rack by means of
a spring, as shewn by figure which is a detached side view of the rack end of the
rod, the catch and spring, and a box which acts as a guide to the rod and which also
carries the catch and spring. The box d is soldered or otherwise fixed within the
handle, and the button e stands out from the side of the handle. The strips of
steel A A A may consist conveniently of crinoline steel covered, as is usual, with cotton
or other fibrous material, and the outer surfaces are coated with a considerable thick-
ness of cotton or other soft material suitable for cleaning the interior of a decanter, or
other receptacle as aforesaid, by rubbing contact therewith. The strips, suitably
coated on their exterior surface as aforesaid, are bound tightly together (when the
device is to be employed for a receptacle having a narrow elongated neck) by cord or
in other convenient manner (but so as to allow of the free endway movement of the
rod Balong their common axis) for a distance from the handle corresponding,
approximately, to the length of the neck of the vessel which it is desired to clean, and
the remaining lengths of such strips are free up to the point of their connection with
the mounting on the end of the rod B and are thus expanded, as shewn by figure 2,
when the rod is drawn inwards, by means of the cross bar D, towards the unconnected
end of the handle.
In employing the device for cleaning the interior of a decanter, or other receptacle
as aforesaid, it is pushed endways, when straight as shown by figure 1, down the neck
of the receptacle until the end reaches the bottom of the receptacle, and then, while
the handle is firmly pressed down, the rod B is drawn up so as to expand the free
parts of the coated strips until such parts bear firmly around the contour of the interior
of the body of the receptacle. The strips are retained in this expanded position by the
catch engaging with the rack on the rod B while the device is turned round and
round to clean the interior of the receptacle. The device is withdrawn by pressing
inwards the button e and firmly pressing the rod B against the bottom of the recep
tacle while the handle is drawn outwards until the strips are collapsed again, after
which the device may be readily withdrawn.
с
Figure 4 is an enlarged sectional elevation of a short length of the rack, and of the
box d, catch band spring e; figure 5 is a view of figure 4 looking from the left-hand
side thereof; and figure 6 a transverse section through the box. This box may be cast
in brass or otherwise made. It is shewn as bent out of sheet metal with the sides
strengthened each with an extra thickness; the part forms the guide for the rod,
and the catch is pivoted within the part g. The springe is carried between parts an
(see figures 4 and 5) bent down from each side of the box.
Figure 7 is a plan of the connection of the strips with the top of the rod; and
figure 8 an elevation of such connection. The mounting at the top of the rod is shewn
as formed of sheet metal, but it may be conveniently cast in brass or otherwise. A
wire passes through loops in the ends of the strips and through ears or cheeks on
the mounting. Projections or guards mm m on the mounting prevent the strips
from buckling upwards beyond the mounting, but are not really essential. Figure 9
is a detached plan of these guards shewn as formed of three pieces of sheet metal
soldered together. They are also soldered to the mounting; but when the mounting
is cast in one piece the guards, if employed, are cast therewith.
The means, substantially as hereinabove described, by which the device is maintained
in its expanded condition, are applicable also to cleaners for lamp glasses and globes
constructed according to the design No. 63602 registered in the name of the sail Lee
Brothers on the 16th day of December 1886.
Figure 10 is an inside view, and figure 11 a side view, of a short length of one of
the strips A, shewing the method of coating the outer surface. The cotton or other
oft material employed for this purpose is tied on in loops, and each loop is then
preferably cut open to form a "pile." The material is bunched up over the inmounting
on the end of the rod to provide ample cleaning material at that point.

page_text: 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 :——
1. The new and improved device for cleaning the interiors of decanters, water
bottles, and such like receptacles, consisting of a straight part for the neck of the
decanter or other receptacle (in the ease of a receptacle having a narrow elongated
neck) an expansible and collapsible part for the body thereof, and means by which
such latter part may be expanded to fit the contour of the interior of the receptacle,
and collapsed, substantially as described.
2. In an expansible and collapsible device for cleaning the interiors of decanters,
water bottles, and such like receptacles, and also in a device of the construction referred
to for cleaning lamp glasses and globes, the combination of a catch carried by the
handle, with a part upon the rod employed for expanding the device with which such
catch engages to retain the device in its expanded form, substantially as described.
3. In an expansible and collapsible device for cleaning the interiors of decanters,
water bottles, and such like receptacles, and also in a device of the construction
referred to for cleaning lamp glasses and globes, the means whereby the expansible
part of such device is or may be retained in its expanded form, substantially as
described.
1. In an expansible and collapsible device for cleaning the interiors of decanters,
water bottles, and such like receptacles, strips A carrying cleaning material hinged to
a mounting on the end of the rod employed to effect the expansion of the device,
substantially as described, for the purpose set forth.
5. The combination of the rack on the rod B with the catch pressed into gear
with the rack by means of a spring and drawn out of gear by the pressure of the
finger on a button, or equivalent, e, substantially as described for the purposes set
forth.
C. The device for cleaning the interiors of decanters, water bottles, and such like
receptacles, substantially as described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton,
Agent for the Applicants.