IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND APPARATUS OR MACHINERY TOB REMOVING DUST FROM CARPETS AND OTHER TEXTILE FABRICS
Year: 1871

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Blick and William
Bishop at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 17th August 1871.
We, JAMES BLICK, of No. 17, Saint Paul's Road, Camden Town, in
the County of Middlesex, and WILLIAM BISHOP, of No. 60, Pratt Street,
Camden Town, aforesaid, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND APPARATUS OR MACHINERY
TOB REMOVING DUST FROM CARPETS AND OTHER TEXTILE FABRICS," to be as.
follows:-
Our Invention has for its object to remove the dust that accumulates
in carpets and other textile fabrics in a more expeditious and perfect
manner than is possible with the ordinary mode of beating. For this
purpose we construct a closed casing, through which the carpet is made
to travel slowly along. In this casing is arranged, firstly, an axle or
roller situated above the carpet, carrying a number of beaters of stout
leather or other suitable pliable material, which as the axle or roller
is made to revolve rapidly are made to strike the surface of the carpet
with quick successive blows as it passes along; secondly, beyond these
beaters one or more revolving brushes is or are arranged in the casing

page_text: underneath the carpet so as to brush the surface thereof after it has
been acted upon by the beaters; thirdly, in communication with the
lower part of the casing is an exhaust fan, whereby the dust as it is
liberated from the carpet is drawn out of the casing, and is by pro-
ference discharged into a receptacle containing water. A partition is by t
preference placed between the beaters and the brush, over the upper
edge of which partition the carpet passes, so as to prevent the heavier
dust that is removed from the carpet by the beaters from passing into.
the compartment containing the brush.
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For the purpose of supporting the carpet while it is under the action 1
of the beaters a number of bars or rods are fixed underneath the beaters
extending to the aforesaid partition. The carpet is in the first instance
wound upon a roller at the one end of the casing, and is drawn thence.
into the machine by means of wire or other ropes hooked on to the
carpet and fixed to a second roller, situated at the other or delivery end 1
of the machine, so that as this roller is rotated it winds up the ropes
and thus draws the carpet through the machine, the carpet being itself
wound on the roller as it passes out of the casing. The cleaning of the
carpet or other fabric as it passes through the machine is thus effected
by the combined action of the beaters, the exhaust, and the rotary brush
or brushes. The top or cover of the casing may be made partly or
wholly removeable for gaining access to the interior of the machine,
and sufficient apertures. should be left in such top or cover to allow of
the entrance of air, so that the exhaust fan in exhausting the air from
the lower part of the casing may produce a current of air passing from
the top of the casing through the carpet into the lower part of the
casing, whereby the removal of the dust from the carpet will be greatly
facilitated.
The requisite rotary motion is imparted to the revolving beaters, the
revolving brush, and the aforesaid roller at the delivery end of the 8
machine, either by suitable toothed gearing or by straps and pulleys
driven either by hand or by other motive power.
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