AN IMPROVED Apparatus for WaTERING, SWEEPING, and SIRANING BOATS AND CAT TANG N 1 DAN GAME THEUSEROM
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Henry Edwards and Eyre Bland
Edwards, both of Fordham, in the County of Cambridge, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED Apparatus for WaTERING, SWEEPING, and
SIRANING BOATS AND CAT TANG N 1 DAN GAME
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Henry Edwards
and Eyre Bland Edwards at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 10th May 1871.
We, WILLIAM HENRY EDWARDS and EYRE BLAND EDWARDS, both
of Fordham, in the County of Cambridge, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR WATERING, SWEEPING,
AND CLEANING ROADS AND COLLECTING THE REFUSE FROM SAME," to be as
follows:-
A framework or bearer is fixed upon one, two, three, or more wheels
as required. Upon this framework is placed towards the front a water
tank, and beneath it a dust and refuse receiving box also attached to
framework. In the rear of these is placed a revolving drum of iron,

page_text: wood, or other material having on its circumference or surface a series
of brushes fixed at certain intervals, or it may be entirely covered with
such brushes or with india-rubber scrapers as found convenient. A
raising and lowering screw is connected with the axle of the drum.
The revolving of the drum is effected by means of a band or strap con-
nected to a driving wheel in conjunction with the wheel or wheels upon
which the apparatus runs. Cog wheels could be substituted for bands
if necessary. Behind the drum and in front of the receiving box are
suspended perforated pipes, which communicate with and receive water
from the tank for sprinkling and laying the dust before and after
sweeping by the drum brushes or rubbers. To collect and receive the
mud, dust, or refuse a curved apron or plate of iron or other suitable
material is suspended or hinged, so as to move freely between the dust
box and the drum, the effect being that as the drum revolves the material
to be collected is gathered up by this curved plate or apron and so
thrown into the receiver. The drum wheel is covered in to within a
short distance of the ground.
The apparatus can be operated or worked by hand, horse, steam, or
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said William Henry Edwards and Eyre Bland Edwards
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th November 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
HENRY EDWARDS and EYRE BLAND EDWARDS, both of Fordham, in the
County of Cambridge, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said William Henry Edwards and Eyre Bland
Edwards, Her special licence that we, the said William Henry Edwards
and Eyre Bland Edwards, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as we, the said William Henry Edwards and Eyre Bland
Edwards, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time

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agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR Watering, Sweeping, and Cleaning Roads
AND COLLECTING THE REFUSE FROM SAME," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said William Henry Edwards and Eyre Bland
Edwards, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said William Henry Edwards and Eyre
Bland Edwards, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This Invention consists of a framework or bearer fixed upon one, two,
three, or more wheels as required. Upon this framework is placed a
water tank, and beneath it a dust and refuse receiving box also attached
to the framework. In the rear of these is placed a revolving framework
or drum of iron, wood, or other material having on its circumference or
periphery a series of brushes fixed at certain intervals or as closely as
may be required. India-rubber scrapers could be substituted for the
brushes if required or as found convenient. A raising and lowering rod
is connected with the axle of the framework drum. The revolving
of the framework or drum is effected by means of a band or strap
attached to a driving wheel on the wheel or wheels upon which the
apparatus runs and cog wheels in the framework, as shewn on Drawings.
A lifting rod is attached to regulate the position of the framework of
the brushes. Behind the framework or drum and in front of the
receiving box are suspended perforated pipes, which communicate with
the water tank, and are supplied with water for sprinkling and laying the
dust before and after the sweeping by the revolving brushes or rubbers.
To collect the mud, dust, or refuse a curved apron composed of plates
of iron or other suitable material is suspended by hinges, so as to move
freely between the dust box and revolving brushes, the effect being
that as the brushes revolve the material to be collected is gathered up.

page_text: Fig. 1 is a side view of the apparatus; A is the framework; B, the
water tank; C, the refuse box with door or flap for emptying; D,
revolving framework or drum fitted with brushes (or rubbers) revolved
by means of strap E attached to driving wheel F passed round cog 1
whoel G working into an upper cog wheel H which is fixed on to the
axlo of the revolving framework-D. To-raise-and- lower this revolving.
framework a hand lever, rod, and elbow joint communication is fixed
as shewn at I, I, I, which raises or lowers the axle K; the wheel H
and plate M running in the grooved framework L.
The lower cog 2
wheel G on which the band runs is adjustable as required to suit the
above (higher or lower) by means of plate N with screws fitting into
the holes O so that the revolving sweeper can be raised or lowered as
found necessary. The driving wheel F is fitted on to the ordinary
running wheel of the apparatus. P, P, are the suspended water pipes 2
for sprinkling the water, and which communicate with tank B; R is the
curved apron composed of separate plates of metal or other suitable
material hinged at S on to the axle of running wheel.
Fig. 2 is an end view of the revolving framework or sweeper; Fig. 3
a longitudinal view of same; Fig. 4, a section shewing the mode of a
fixing the brush or other material for sweeping, which can be easily
renewed when worn out.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode
of carrying the same into effect, what I claim and desire to be secured
to me by Letters Patent is, the said Invention for an improved apparatus
for watering, sweeping, and cleaning roads and collecting the refuse from

page_text: same, substantially as herein described and as shown on the Drawings
or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Henry Edwards and
Eyre Bland Edwards, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.