CERTAIN APPARATUS OR MACHINERY FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLEANSING OR SWEEPING OF CHIMNIES, AND EXTINGUISHING THEM WHEN ON FIRE, IN A MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER THAN NOW PRACTISED, AND WHICH ENTIRELY PREVENTS THE NECESSITY OF SENDING ANY PERSON UP THE CHIMNEY FOR EITHER OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES
Year: 1796

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DANIEL
DAVIS, of the Parish of Saint Giles in the Fields, and County of Middlesex,
Surveyor, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Fourth day of July, in the thirty-sixth year of His reign,
give and grant unto me, the said Daniel Davis, His especial licence that I, the
said Daniel Davis, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and
lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick upon-Tweed, my Invention of "CERTAIN APPARATUS OR MACHINERY
FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLEANSING OR SWEEPING OF CHIMNIES, AND EXTINGUISHING
THEM WHEN ON FIRE, IN A MORE EXPEDITIOUS MANNER THAN NOW PRACTISED, AND
WHICH ENTIRELY PREVENTS THE NECESSITY OF SENDING ANY PERSON UP THE
CHIMNEY FOR EITHER OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said Daniel Davis, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per.
formed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Daniel Davis, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
the plan and description thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Davis, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-six.

page_text: 1. The two Feet or Standards B, a Frame connected with the Standards by means of the two thumb Screws 14, and two Staples, 2,2, which forms
a support for the Machine to work upon
a har fired to the Frame B. which captains a wheel with Teeth for the purpose of raising the Rack by means of the axis marked D which
extends to the End of the Frame and worked by a handle marked F
F. the Rack of various Lengths which passes through the Box C And which is adjoined by means of Tenans and Mortices marked 3,3, and/
fastened by a Spring Catch marked 6, with intermediate fixed Joints marked II, which are made to move in any Angle according to
the Inclination required by crooked Flues. On the first length of said Rack is to be placed a large brush with stout Elastic hair Wire or Sponge
other Elastic Substance as may be found necessary in case of Fire/or any purpose for sweeping and cleansing Chimneys.
Is another View of the Rack more fully to explain the Spring Catch, G, in fig. 1st 1, the spring which has a pin that goes through the Ruck
and into a hole in the Tenon/ mentioned in fig. 1 which expands by the pressure of the Button/so as to receive the said Tenon and thereby
becomes firmly fixt.
or any