Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1886.
Complete Left, 20th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 6th Sept., 1887.
I, HENRY WHILEY, of Trafford Bank House, Old Trafford, Manchester, Sanitary
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The improvements relate to machine street sweepers, and have for object the more
perfect sweeping of the streets, and gutters or channels; the collection of the refuse
or sweepings, by elevating the same into a cart or receptacle for direct removal; or
by depositing the same in heaps in the road-way for subsequent removal.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I construct a machine having
two circular revolving brushes, mounted and driven at opposing angles to each other,
one on each side of the machine, and each brush projecting by preference beyond the
line of the wheel of the vehicle on that side; in lieu of the one circular brush
now in use.
The brushes thus form a converging means for gathering the street refuse or dirt
towards the centre of the machine instead of driving the same to the side thereof as
heretofore. The receptacle is placed in the central part of the vehicle, and as the
refuse is converged by the revolving circular brushes aforesaid, it is elevated, by
means of a revolving chain of brushes and bucket, or other elevators, into such
receptacle, where it can either remain for removal, or, by means of a false bottom
provided to such receptacle and under mechanical control may be deposited in the
road, in heaps, at the will of the operator.
1
Ostalom 1986
WILLIAM GADD, C.E.,
64, Barton Arcade, Manchester,
Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machine Street Sweepers.
I, HENRY WHILEY, of Trafford Bank House, Old Trafford, Manchester, Sanitary
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to he performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The improvements relate to machine street sweepers, and have for object the more
perfect sweeping of streets, and gutters or channels, the collection of the refuse or
sweepings, by elevating the same into a cart or receptacle for direct removal; or by
depositing the same in heaps in the road-way for subsequent removal.
To accomplish this and to effect my improvements, I construct a machine having
two circular revolving brushes, mounted and driven at opposing angles to each other,
one on each side of the machine, and each brush projecting by preference beyond the
line of the wheel of the vehicle on that side; in lieu of the one circular brush
now in use.
The brushes thus form a converging means for gathering the street refuse or dirt
towards the centre of the machine instead of driving the same to the side thereof as
heretofore. The receptacle is placed in the central part of the vehicle, and as the
refuse is converged by the revolving circular brushes aforesaid, it is elevated, by
means of a revolving chain of brushes and bucket, or other elevators, into such
receptacle, where it can either remain for removal, or, by means of a false bottom
provided to such receptacle and under mechanical control, may be deposited in the
road, in heaps, at the will of the operator.
But that the improvements may be better understood I will by the aid of the
accompanying drawings proceed more fully to describe means employed by me.
Fig. 1, shews side elevation, and Fig. 2, a plan of apparatus arranged according to
my invention.
The same letters indicate corresponding parts wherever they occur.
a, a,
is the framing of the cart or machine carrying the brushes, and b, b, is the
body of the auxillary cart or receptacle for the refuse, which, by preference, I
employ; but the two may be arranged in one construction; or, as separate machines
if desired. d, d, are the two brushes, which are mounted and driven at converging
angles, and to which motion is given, in the example shewn, by means of the
chain e, e, passing round the toothed wheel, and the toothed wheel g, which latter is
fixed to the angled shaft h, and driven by the bevelled wheels j and from the axle of
the framing or cart to which the carrying wheels k, k, are attached.

page_text: Provision is made for lifting the brushes out of gear or use by means of the
handle 1, attached to the shaft m, actuating the levers the rod o, o, the levers p,p,
shafts q, q, and links r, r.
n, n,
The revolving chain of brushes s, s, with the shoot and elevators attached, is for the
purpose of collecting, lifting, and depositing the refuse, and is of a nature previously
understood, and described, and they form no part of this my present invention, except
in combination with the converging brushes herein before described.
The converging brushes, with the mechanisms actuating the same, may be either
employed alone for the sweeping of streets or road-ways, and channels or gutters, or
in combination as shewn with the collecting, elevating, and depositing apparatus, and
may either deposit the refuse into a receptacle as shewn, or in the road-way in heaps
or otherwise, and variations in detail of construction and the mode of actuation,
together with the angle of inclination of the brushes may be made without departing
from the peculiarity of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
The construction of street sweeping apparatus having two revolving sweeping
brushes mounted at opposing or converging angles, whether in combination or not
with collecting, elevating, or depositing apparatus or with a travelling receptacle or
not substantially as shewn and described.