Implements for Removing Snow in Public Thoroughfares and other Open Spaces.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 9th-Aug., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 9th May, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1888
Implements for Removing Snow in Public Thoroughfares and
other Open Spaces.
I HENRY JOHN of 40 Canning Road, Croydon, in the County of Surrey, Surveyor,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improved scavenger's implements whereby snow may be
removed from streets and other public places without the employment of skilled
labor for the purpose. The clearing of snow from the public streets and places by
the ordinary mode of shovelling is exceedingly laborious and only partially effectual,
and my invention has for its object to provide implements whereby the snow may be
removed from the surface of the road and deposited at one side thereof in a regular
and methodical manner, snow being accumulated in a continuous heap along the road
so as to offer the least possible obstruction to traffic and be easily carted away.
My invention comprises two or more forms of implement, based on the same
principle but adapted for use at different parts of the roadway. One form of implement
for removing the snow from a broad flat surface, such as the middle part of the road-
way, consists of a plough-like shovel formed of a concavely curved sheet of metal
suitably stayed and attached to a long handle by means whereof the plough or shovel
is pushed in a direct line along the surface of the roadway. This blade is set at such
an angle to the handle and consequently to the line of motion that the snow taken up
by the leading edge will be thrown off at one side by the concavely curved and
oblique portion of the shovel. The leading edge may, in this case, be set obliquely
also or it may be set at right angles to the line of motion.
Another form of implement adapted for removing the snow from the gutters is
similarly constructed but is provided with a lateral flange adapted to run against the
kerb, in order to guide the plough shovel in its motion and ensure the snow
being gathered or accumulated towards the roadway leaving the channel of the
gutter clear.
H. JOHN.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London;
Patent Agents.

page_text: Implements for Removing Snow in Public Thoroughfares and
other Open Spaces.
I, HENRY JOHN of the Sewers Office Guildhall in the City of London and formerly
of 40, Canning Road, Croydon, in the County of Surrey, Surveyor; 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 improved scavenger's implements whereby snow may be
removed from streets and other public places without the employment of skilled
labor for the purpose. The clearing of snow from the public streets and places by the
ordinary mode of shovelling, is exceedingly laborious and only partially effectual; and
my invention has for its object to provide implements whereby the snow may be
removed from the surface of the road and deposited at one side thereof in a regular
and methodical manner, the snow being accumulated in a continuous heap along the
road so as to offer the least possible obstruction to traffic and be easily carted away.
My Invention comprises two plough-like forms of scraping implements, based on
the same principle, but adapted for use at different parts of the roadway. Both forms
of implement are represented in the accompanying drawing forming part of this
specification, wherein figures 1, 2, and 3, are respectively side, front, and plan views
of the snow plough as constructed for general use, and figures 4, 5, and 6, are similar
views of the form which is particularly adapted for clearing the gutters. The same
letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.
The form of implement shewn in figures 1, 2, and 3, is for removing the snow from
a broad flat surface, such as the middle part of the roadway or a footpath, railway
platform or the like. It consists of a plough-like shovel A formed of a concavely
curved sheet of metal suitably stayed and attached to a long handle B by means
whereof the plough or shovel may be pushed in a direct line along the surface of the
roadway. This blade A is set at such an angle (say about 50°) to the handle and
consequently to the line of motion, that the snow taken up by the leading edge will
be thrown off at one side by the concavely curved and oblique portion of the shovel.
The leading edge may in this case, be set obliquely also, or it may be at right angles
to the line of motion. The curved form of the blade A is not continuous in one
direction, but is partly reversed, as at a, towards the rear part of the blade, the object
being to break the snow as it rises up so as to cause it to fall over more quickly and
so relieve the plough of its weight.
The form of implement shewn in figures 4, 5, and 6, is adapted for removing the
snow from the gutters. It is similarly constructed but is so formed as to be adapted
to run against the kerb and to fit in the angle formed by the face of the kerb and the

page_text: road, in order to guide the plough shovel in its motion and ensure the entire removal
of the snow which is gathered towards the roadway leaving the channel of the
gutter clear.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The herein described plough-like scrapers, constructed substantially of the form
described and shewn in the drawings for the purpose specified.
Dated this 9th day of May 1888.
H. JOHN.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.