IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR APPLYING PAINT, VARNISH, AND OTHER, LIQUID SUBSTANCES, AND ALSO. FOR CLEANING CARRIAGES, SHIPS, ROADWAYS, HOUSES, AND OTHER BUILDINGS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert William Waithman, of Bentham
House, in the County of York, Gentleman, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR APPLYING PAINT, VARNISH, AND
OTHER, LIQUID SUBSTANCES, AND ALSO. FOR CLEANING CARRIAGES, SHIPS,
ROADWAYS, HOUSES, AND OTHER BUILDINGS."
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert William
Waithman at the. Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Pétition, on the 12th October 1853.
2.
I, ROBERT WILLIAM WAITHMAN, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR APPLYING
PAINT, VARNISH, AND OTHER LIQUID SUBSTANCES, AND ALSO FOR CLEANING
CARRIAGES, SHIPS, ROADWAYS, HOUSES, AND OTHER BUILDINGS,"
follows:-
3.
"My Invention consists in so constructing brushes, mops, brooms, or
other such apparatus that paint, varnish, or other such substance, or
water or other. cleansing, matters, may be conveyed to them from any
convenient reservoir. This may be in the handle or other part of the
apparatus for paint, &c., but the method I generally adopt for cleaning

page_text: is to connect the article by means of a flexible hose with a tank or other
reservoir containing water, &e., or with a pumping apparatus. The
back or stock of the broom or brush is made hollow; and by means of
a flexible pipe, which may be screwed on to the brush when required,
the water may be conveyed to the brush from a cistern placed in any
convenient situation. By this means the brush is always kept clean,
and a pail to contain water for any washing or cleansing operation for
which the brush is to be employed is dispensed with.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert William Waithman in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 12th April 1854.
SHAL
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
ROBERT WILLIAM WAITHMAN, of Bentham House, in the County of
York, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of October, in the
year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Robert William Waithman, Her
especial license that I, the said Robert William Waithman, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert
William Waithman, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR APPLYING PAINT, VARNISH,
AND OTHER LIQUID SUBSTANCES, AND ALSO FOR CLEANING CARRIAGES,; SHIPS,
ROADWAYS, HOUSES, AND OTHER BUILDINGS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Robert William Waithman, 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

page_text: 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 Robert William Waithman, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer
tained in and by the following statement and accompanying Drawings
(that is to say):
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My Invention' consists in. so constructing mops, brooms, or other
such apparatus that paint, varnish, or other such substances, or water
or other cleansing matters, may be conveyed to them from any con-
venient reservoir. This may be in the handle or other part of the
apparatus for paint, &c., but the method I generally adopt for cleansing
is to connect the article by means of a flexible hose with a tank or
other reservoir containing water, &c., or with a pumping apparatus.
And in order that my Invention may be fully understood, I have
appended to this my Specification a Sheet of Drawings exhibiting
certain examples of carrying the same into practical effect. Fig. 1, is
a sectional view of a brush constructed for applying paint, varnish, or
other such matter. The handle consists of a tube a, in which is situate
a piston b, capable of being thrust forward or drawn back by means of
a screw c, working in a nut d; this nut is first to be unscrewed, and the
paint, varnish, or other such matter placed in the tube; the piston being
then inserted, and the nut screwed on, the paint, &c. may be forced at
intervals through the passage e, into the bristles of the brush by turning
the screw. Or instead of the screw I sometimes construct the end of the
tube as a flexible bag, which will therefore contain the paint, var-
nish, &c., and by squeezing this from time to time the supply to the
brush may be effected. Fig. 2, represents in sectional view another
brush for applying paint, varnish, or other such matter. In this instance
a flexible pipe h, is connected to the passage e, which leads to the
bristles, the other end of which pipe is attached to a reservoir f, con-
taining a supply of the material to be used. At g, is a stop cock for
shutting off the supply when desired. This form of apparatus may be
used particularly for applying tar or other such matter to ships. Fig. 3,
represents a modification of the last described Figure. In this instance,

page_text: the flexible tube;h, is introduced at the stock of the brush. Fig. 4,
represents a sectional view of a mop constructed according to my
improvements. The handle a is formed hollow, and on the end thereof
is attached a cock b, provided with a flexible pipe c, leading to a tank
or other supply of water. Fig. 5, represents in sectional view a
brush suitable for cleaning the wheels of carriages. The stock a, is
formed with a chamber b, between which and the bristles are a number
of holes c, for conveying water thereto; a 'flexible pipe d, and cock 6,
are as before attached.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it
to be understood that I claim as secured to.'me under the above in
part recited Letters Patent, the application to brushes, mops, brooms,
or other such apparatus-of-a reservoir: for the material to be used
therewith for the purposes above set forth, whether such reservoir be
formed in the article itself, or be. an additional apparatus connected
thereto:
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'In witness whereof,. I, the said Robert William Waithman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Eleventh day of April, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
four.
ROB W WAITHMAN. (L.S.)