Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Sept., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 19th July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 24th Aug., 1888
THOMAS PRATT HOLLICK, 26 Shore Road Hackney, E. Engineer do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
In using any disinfectant in a house it is usual to sprinkle it upon the floor, or to
expose it in a basin, or to dip cloths into it and hang them up.
My invention is a machine or apparatus to moisten, and keep suspended in the
air, a band of cotton, flannel, or other suitable material, and to easily pass it through
any disinfectant, and thus avoid all waste of the disinfectant and also of time, and the
usual inconveniences attending the use of disinfectants or other liquid that may be
desired.
:
My invention consists in having a roller in bearings any convenient height above a
trough containing the disinfectant or other liquid, and also a second roller if found
desirable, that will sink in the liquid round these rollers I have an endless band: the
lower part of the band with the loose roller hangs in the liquid as the top roller is
revolved, the endless band is moistened and raised and exposed to the air in the room:
by revolving the top roller a sufficient number of times, the whole of the endless band
is passed through the liquid. A convenient method of causing the roller to revolve,
is to have on the end of the top roller a sheave, or groove, round which is a cord, that
may also be passed round a sheave below, but outside the trough the rotary motion
may thus be given to the top roller by pulling the cord, in the same manner as in
rolling up an ordinary window blind.
Dated this 20th day of September 1887

page_text: THOMAS PRATT HOLLICK 26 Shore Road, Hackney, E. Engineer 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 :-
In using any Disinfectant in a house, it is usual to sprinkle it upon the floor, or to
expose it in a basin, or to dip cloths into it and hang them up.
My invention is a machine or apparatus to moisten and keep suspended in the air a
band of cotton, flannel or other suitable material, and to easily pass it through any
disinfectant and thus avoid all waste of the disinfectant and also of time, and the usual
inconveniences attending the use of disinfectants or other liquid.
:
My invention consists in having a roller in bearings any convenient height above a
trough containing the disinfectant or other liquid, and also a second roller if found
desirable that will sink in the liquid round these rollers I have an endless band, the
lower part of the band with the loose roller hangs in the liquid as the top roller is
revolved, the endless band is moistened and raised and exposed to the air in the room:
by revolving the top roller a sufficient number of times the whole of the endless band
is passed through the liquid in the trough. A convenient method of causing the roller
to revolve is to have on the end of the top roller a sheave or groove round which is a
cord that may also be passed round a sheave below it but outside the trough; the
rotary motion may thus be given to the top roller by pulling this endless cord in the
same manner as in rolling up an ordinary window blind.
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-In the use of disinfecting fluids a trough in which the fluid can be placed in
such a way that the endless band can be passed through it by the revolution of the
rollers substantially as described.
2-In the use of disinfecting fluids, the combination of parts, viz. an endless band,
a trough, and rollers forming a self contained machine all substantially as described.
Dated this 10th 11.. 1000
THOS. P. HOLLICK.