AN IMPROVED APPLICATION OF ROTATING BRUSHES TO THE GROOMING OR CLEANING OF HORSES AND OTHER OHADRUPEDS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Haworth, of Mode Wheel House, near the
City of Manchester, Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
APPLICATION OF ROTATING BRUSHES TO THE GROOMING OR CLEANING OF HORSES
AND OTHER OHADRUPEDS
"
Sealed the 29th September 1865, and dated the 12th April 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Haworth at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 12th
April 1865.
I, JOHN HAWORTH, of Mode Wheel House, near the City of Manchester,.
5 Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED APPLICATION OF ROTATING BRUSHES TO THE GROOMING OR CLEANING OF
HORSES AND OTHER QUADRUPEDS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in brushing and cleaning horses and other quad-
rupeds by means of a rotary brush or other suitable instrument to which
rapid motion is given. by steam or other power. The brush or other instru-
ment is fixed to the end of a pole furnished with loose handles and with a
roller or pulley, around which passes the band or strap from the driving power.
The brush is capable of being moved up and down and from. one side to

page_text: another, and it is guided by the attendant over the surface of the animal to
be brushed and cleaned, thereby economising manual labour, and performing
the operations expeditiously and effectually, and removing the dandriff or
other impurities without the use of the currycomb.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Haworth in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th October 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
HAWORTH, of Mode Wheel House, near the City of Manchester, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her beirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said John Haworth, Her special license that I, the said John Haworth, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Haworth, 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 "AN IMPROVED APPLI-
CATION OF ROTATING BRUSHES TO THE GROOMING OR CLEANING OF HORSES AND OTHER
QUADRUPEDS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John
Haworth, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 John Haworth, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention consists in brushing and cleaning horses and other quad-
rupeds by means of a rotary brush or other suitable instrument, to which

page_text: rapid motion is given by steani or other power. The brush or other instru-
ment is fixed to the end of a pole furnished with loose handles and with a
roller or pulley, around which pulley passes the band or strap from the driving
power. The brush is capable of being moved up and down and from one sido
to another, and it is guided by the attendant over the surface of the animal
to be brushed and cleaned, thereby economising manual labour, and performing
the operations expeditiously and effectually, and removing the dandriff or other
impurities without the use of the currycomb.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood and readily carried
into operation, I will proceed to describe the accompanying Sheet of Drawings,
reference being bad to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 represents an elevation of the rotating brush with the apparatus
for giving motion to it, and Figures 2 and 3 are perspective views of the whole
apparatus as applied to grooming or cleaning a horse.
a is the rotating spherical brush, which I prefer to make of bristles fixed in
a wooden block, but it may be made of other materials; this brush is secured
to the end of the pole 6 by a screw, so that it may be easily removed and
another put in its place; on the pole b are mounted the two handles c, c, which
are loose on the pole, but held lengthways by set washers. To the pole b is
fixed the flanged pulley d, which is turned rapidly round by the strap e, passing
abovo over the drum f fixed to the driving shaft g, which is turned round by
steam or other power. To the end of the pole b is fixed the weight b', the
object of which is to counterbalance the pole and brush, and thus to relieve
the operator from the weight of the brush.
The mode of operation is as follows:-The horse or other quadruped to be
groomed or cleaned is secured in the usual manner; the operator then holds
the pole by one or both of the loose handles c, c, and applies the brush, which
is made to rotate rapidly, by the means above described, to the surface of the
animal, the strap e swinging with the horizontal, vertical, and lateral motions,
which are communicated to the pole by the operator in moving the brush over
the body of the animal. By applying rotating brushes to the grooming and
cleaning of horses and other quadrupeds in the manner above described
manual labor is economized, the operations are performed expeditiously and
effectually with less torment to the animal and less danger to the operator,
and the dandriff and other impurities are removed without the use of the
currycomb.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, and described the manner
of performing the same, I declare that I claim the application of a rotating

page_text: spherical brush, connected to a pole and driven in the manner above described,
for grooming and cleaning horses and other quadrupeds.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Haworth, have hereunto set my
seal, this Third day of October, One thousand eight hundred
hand
and sixty-five.
JOHN HAWORTH. (L.S.)