Improved Platform or Staging for Cleaning Windows, Painting, and
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1892
and flow 1892-Accepted, 4th June 1892
Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1894
TRL
3rd May 1892-Accepted, 4th June 1892
Complete Specificatio
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
the like.
Improved Platform or Staging for Cleaning Windows, Painting, and
I, WILLIAM ALFRED SWAIN, Licensed Victualler of The Albion Inn, New
Bedford Road, Luton, in the County of Bedfordshire, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows
My invention relates to an improved platform or staging for cleaning windows,
It is simple in construction, and can be
painting and the like, on the outside of private or public buildings, with perfect
safety and without risk of loss of life.
fixed by one person male or female, from the inside of a building.
The mode of using the platform is to raise the bottom sash and put it out of the
window when the blocks on a bar fit against the lining and sash frame and the irons
) resting on the sill it becomes locked in its place, then a cage is placed round the
ennaratus is ready for use.
SWANA
WILLIAM ALFRED
Applicant.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
mproved Platform or Staging for Cleaning Windows, Painting, and
the like.
I, WILLIAM ALFRED SWAIN, Licensed Victualler, of The Albion Inn, New
Bedford Road, Luton, in the County of Bedfordshire, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved platform or staging for cleaning windows,
It is simple in construction, and can be
painting and the like, on the outside of private or public buildings, with perfect
safety and without risk of loss of life.
fixed by one person male or female, from the inside of a building.
The mode of using the platform is to raise the bottom sash and pass it out of
the window so that the blocks on a bar fit against the lining and sash frame and
the irons resting on the sill it becomes locked in its place, when a cage is placed
round the platform, and the apparatus is ready for use.
I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing,
in which-
Fig. 1, is a plan of the apparatus fitted to a window opening.
Fig. 2, is a side elevation of the irons and a part of the platform, this figure is
broken off for want of space.
Fig. 3, is a side elevation of the sliding blocks.
Fig. 4, is a front elevation of the apparatus.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the views.
This invention is constructed with a long horizontal bar j of wood and at each
end I cut a slot l' and to these said slots I attach a sliding block i by means of a
To the bars h, h, I bolt th
At right angles to the bar j at equal distance apart I. attach
40 bolt and fly-nut m.
with slots by bolts n, n, and fly-nuts m.
two bars h
floor boards to form the stage a and bore holes to receive the iron uprights c and
of the cage b, and beneath each bar h I fix an iron o and a staple with a set pin
attached to the bar by a chain.
The blocks i i and bars h h may be adjusted by the fly-nuts, bolts and the slo

page_text: to suit any size opening or thickness of frame, and placed in position by passing the
stage a out of the opening between the jambs ff so as to allow the bars h h to rest
on the frame g and the irons o on the sille and the blocks ii against the frame or
lining as shown in Fig. 1.
A cage is made of wicker-work or of any other light material hinged together,
and is fixed to the stage a by the insertion of the uprights c and d in the openings,
and the set pin p in the hole of the upright d on each side of the stage.
The bars h h and jare lined with iron in order to give additional strength to the
apparatus.
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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. In a platform or staging for cleaning windows, painting and the like, the
combination of the bars and hh stage a slots and bolts n fly-nuts m with
the irons o and the blocks i, substantially as herein described and according to the
accompanying drawing.
2. In a cage to fix to the platform or staging, the combination of the uprights c
and d with wicker-work hole and set pin p, substantially as herein described
and according to the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 3rd day of Mar 1892
J. P: BAYLY;
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.