Appliance for Cleaning Sash and other Windows.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 26th July, 1898-Accepted, 27th Aug.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Appliance for Cleaning Sash and other Windows.
I, JAMES SYMINGTON, 30, St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh, in the County, of
Midlothian, North Britain, Brush Manufacturer, 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:-
This invention relates to an appliance for cleaning sash and other windows,
and consists of a flat handle or rod with a chamois leather or other cleaning
material upon the end of it, so arranged and constructed as to enable sash
windows to be cleaned without any necessity for the cleaner going outside of
the window. The handle, which may be of any suitable length, may be made
of a long narrow frame of galvanized or other wire rod, that is to say it may
be constructed of a length of wire bent double with a space of an inch or so
between the two wires in order to form a flat handle. The top of the said
handle piece is bent into a T shape so as to provide a wide face which is
enveloped in a chamois leather or other cloth bag to act as the cleaning material
and which can be readily untied or removed, and reversed if desired.
In order to give body to the said leather, I provide the top bar of the T piece
with a cylindrical collection or other arrangement of bristles which give the
necessary body or fulness to the cloth and at the same time allows the cleaner
to be squeezed in and pushed up between the two glasses of the sashes, when
the lower sash is raised. Or the brush or its equivalent may be mounted on
a separate piece of wire attached to the top bar of the T piece.
The handle portion may also be modified by making it of any other material
such as cane or bamboo.
I, JAMES SYMINGTON, 30, St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh, in the County of
Midlothian, North Britain, Brush Manufacturer, 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:
This invention relates to an appliance for cleaning sash and other windows,
and consists of a flat handle or rod with a chamois leather or other cleaning

page_text: material upon the end of it, so arranged and constructed as to enable sash
windows to be cleaned without any necessity for the cleaner going outside of
the window. The accompanying drawing illustrates one form of the appliance.
The handle A, which may be of any suitable length, may be made of a long
narrow frame of galvanized or other wire rod, that is to say, it may be con-
structed of a length of wire bent double with a space of an inch or so between
the two wires in order to form a flat handle. The top of the said handle piece
is. bent into a T shape so as to provide a wide face which is enveloped in a
chamois leather, or other cloth bag B, to act as the cleaning material, and
which can be readily untied or removed if desired, by means of the strings b.
In order to give body to the said leather, I provide the top bar of the piece
with a cylindrical collection or other arrangement of bristles, hair or fibre C,
which give the necessary body or fulness to the cloth and at the same time
allows the cleaner to be inserted in, and pushed up, between the two glasses of
the sashes, when the lower sash is raised. This brush or its equivalent may be
mounted upon a separate piece of wire attached to the top bar of the T piece,
or may be formed upon the T piece.
The handle portion may also be modified by making it of any other material,
such as cane or bamboo.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The appliance for cleaning sash and other windows, substantially as herein-
before described and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
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VILIS
01 July 1000.
JOHNSONS,
Applicant's Agents, 115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.