A Window Cleaner for One Person to Operate on the Outside and Inside of a Two-sash Window in One and Same Movement.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 26th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 30th Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Window Cleaner for One Person to Operate on the Outside
and Inside of a Two-sash Window in One and Same
Movement.
I, JAMES GIFFEN Accountant Longrow Campbeltown Argyleshire do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The cleaner consists of two standards one for the inside and the other for
the outside of window. To the extremity of each of these standards a duster is
attached and at the base both standards are united by a hinge or workable moving
joint which is used as a fulcrum for two hand levers to press the dusters together
on each side of glass pane. The hand levers are worked and the whole moved in
all directions over the pane while the operator is standing on the floor of apart-
ment. The pressure is thus brought to bear on same spot on both sides of glass at
the same moment of time. The standards may or may not be constructed in order
to lengthen out or shorten as required by means of telescoping or otherwise and
may be used either from floor of apartment for both sashes of window, or, from floor
for lower sash and entering cleaner from top of upper sash for same sash. The
duster holders attached to standards to be made of leather, india rubber, cardboard
or other substance sufficiently stiff & soft with cord, elastic or other kind of
fasteners attached to the usual kind of cleaning dusters or other dusters or brushes
whichever be found the most servicable. The cleaner attached to inside standard
if required may be thrown inwards from the line of the standard towards the glass,
in the form of a knee, in order to be able to act in the recess (caused by one sash
overlapping the other) of the upper window sash.
Dated this 20th day of June 1895.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Window Cleaner for One Person to Operate on the Outside
and Inside of a Two-sash Window in One and Same
Movement.
1, JAMES GIFFEN, of Longrow, Campbeltown, Argyleshire, Accountant, 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 :-
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood I have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings in which the same reference numerals
are used to indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown.
Figure 1. is a part view of a window looking in the direction of the arrow A.
(Figure 3.); Figure 2. is a similar view looking in the direction of the arrow B.
(Figure 3); and Figure 3. is a vertical cross-section of a partly opened window,
these views showing my window cleaner in position and adjusted for operating on
the upper pane. Figure 4. is a view showing one of the dusters or cleaners.

page_text: Figures 5. and 6. respectively illustrate a front and side elevation of a modified
cleaner. Figure 7. shows a partly opened window with the two cleaners in position
for operating upon their respective panes.
Referring to these drawings:-The cleaner consists of two standards 10. and 11.
one for the inside and the other for the outside of window. To the extremity of
each of these standards a duster or cleaner 12. is attached, and at the base both
standards are disposed as shewn in the drawings, the standard 11. being rigidly
fixed, and 10. hinged at 14. to the cross-bar 13. 15. is a fixed upright and 16.
is a coupling rod hinged to a projecting arm 17. on the inside standard, such
fixed upright and coupling rod being the two band levers referred to in my Provisional
Specification and used to press the two dusters or cleaners simultaneously
against the glass. The hand levers are worked and the whole moved in all
directions over the pane while the operator is standing on the floor of the apart-
ment. The pressure is thus brought to bear on same spot on both sides of glass
at same moment. The standards may or may not be constructed to lengthen out
or shorten as required by telescoping or otherwise-the joint I prefer to use being
shewn at 18. Figure 4.-and may be used either from Hoor of apartment for both
sashes of window, or from floor for lower sash and from top for upper sash. The
duster holders 19. attached to standards 10. and 11. are made of leather, india-
rubber, cardboard, or other substance sufficiently stiff and soft, the usual kind of
cleaning dusters or other dusters or brushes being attached to them by means of
cords, elastic, or other suitable fasteners. The cleaner attached to inside standard,
if required, may be thrown inwards from the line of the standard towards the
glass, in order to be able to act in the recess--caused by one sash overlapping the
other of the upper window sash.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1.) The construction of a window cleaner, substantially as herein described in
reference to and shown in the accompanying drawings.
(2.) In combination with window cleaners, the modes and means of adjusting the
position of the dusters or cleaners relative to the window or to one another,
substantially as herein described in reference to and shown in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 8th day of October 1895.
GEO. C. DOUGLAS & Co.,
41 Reform Street, Dundee, Agents for Applicant.