Improvements in and connected with Brushes and the like for Washing and like purposes
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in and connected with Brushes and the like for
Washing and like purposes.
FREDERICK MELTON, 30, Queen's Road, Peckham, Photographer. I do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of brushes, made of suitable material in various sizes and
shapes for washing shop-fronts, windows, green-houses, carriages, shrubs & trees.
At parts of the brushes I fix plates or tubes with holes, of suitable sizes so as to
allow water to flow freely through the brush or round any side of the brush accord-
ing to the pattern of brush required, for the particular article to be cleaned or
brush can be removed and in its place a soft material put, such as sponge or wash-
leather. At any part of the brush, I fix a handle with a pivot or hinge, to allow
brush to move in any position; the said handles are made of wood, metal or bamboo
cane of various lengths so as to be able to reach articles to be washed. The water
is carried to the brush through tubes fixed either inside or outside of handles, if
handles be made of metal, water is carried through these without extra tubing. I
force water by means of an engine through the tubing, made as follows. (If water
can be had from the main the brushes can be used without the engine.) I
make a pail of wood or metal of various sizes and shapes. I fix at any convenient
part, inside or outside of the said pail a tube with valves. Inside the said tube
I fix a smaller tube in which I fix a sucker, attached to a rod or tube to act as a
pump. I fix inside or outside of the said pail, a spring; at the bottom of this
spring, I fix a treadle to raise pump rod after being pressed down by the foot.
For larger sizes 1 put spring to treadle. By using these brushes and sprays, every-
thing can be cleaned and washed and dried in a short space of time and at small
cost. If scrubbing with brush is not required, the water spray can be used
separately.
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Improvements in and connected with Brushes and the like for
Washing and like purposes.
I, FREDERICK MELTON, of 30, Queen's Road, Peckham, London, Photographer,
o hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
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page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in and connected with brushes and the
like and consists of a water supplied brush for wasliing and like purposes the
brushes being applicable for washing shop fronts, windows, greenhouses, carriages,
shrubs; trees and the like while a part of the apparatus also forms a convenient
water receptacle and pump which may be used for garden, fire extinguishing and
for any other purposes.
One form of my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing Fig. 1
being an elevation of the pump and water receptacle part of the apparatus.
Fig. 2 an elevation of the pump portion of same only.
Fig. 3 a section on an enlarged scale of the same portion together with a portion
of the water receptacle.
Fig. 4 an elevation of one form of brush and handle and
Fig. 5 a plan of the brush face with the bristles removed.
The improved brush may be of any suitable form best adapted for the purpose
for which it is to be used.
In the form shown in Figs. 4 and 5 it consists of a brush mounted or formed
on a circular base a in the centre of which is a rose or nozzle b. The base a is
carried by a handle portion c which may be provided with an opening or tube d
terminating in a nozzle e.
The base or brush may be secured to the handle by a ball and socket joint or be
pivoted in some suitable way if desired so that it may be set at any required angle
the arrangement employed allowing always a free passage for the water which
passes up tube d to reach the brush.
The handle c may be made of wood metal or bamboo cane of various lengths or of
lengths screwed or secured together say for instance telescopically and the water may
be carried through same either through openings or tubes inside or by means of tubes
outside of same. If the handles are made of metal tubes no extra tube is required.
The brushes may be of various shapes the water rose or nozzle being formed as
a long perforated box along one edge of same where an oblong brush is employed
or in other suitable shapes.
The nozzle e is provided for the attachment thereto of a hose or flexible tube
the other end of which is attached to a nozzle f (Figs. 1 and 2). This nozzle
forms the extremity of a delivery pipe g held in a pump chamber h. The cylinder i
of the pump is placed inside this chamber and is provided with an inlet valve j
and an outlet valve k. The inlet valve consists of a disc of rubber or flexible
material retained in the bottom of the cylinder by a perforated plate j'. The
lower part of the cylinder consists of a perforated cap which is screwed or other-
wise attached to the end. This cap is perforated as shewn and is provided with a
flat plate m having a central hole or holes suitably arranged so that they may be
covered by the valve ; when the latter is forced against them by the downstroke
of the piston n.
The valve it will be seen is thus loose, and free to play up and down between
the plates and m so that on the sucking stroke of the pump the water will be
drawn in from the receptacle o in which the pump chamber h is situated. The
lower part of the pump for this purpose passes down beneath a division plate
in the pump chamber h so that a space is formed through which the water from
receptacle o is drawn, such water passing through the perforations p¹ in the wall
of chamber h.
The outlet valve consists of disc k similar to disc j adapted to close an opening q
(or it may be openings) in the cylinder on the sucking stroke of the pump.
The disc is loose and has a certain amount of play between the outside of the
cylinder wall and a thimble or cap which is screwed into a tube s connecting
the outside of the cylinder wall and the inside of the pump chamber wall. By
screwing this cap or thimble in or out the play of the dise can be regulated (and
in a similar way the play of the disc j can be regulated by adjusting the cap 7).

page_text: The tubes is provided with perforations s¹ through which the water is forced into
chamber h when the downward stroke of the pump forces the disc k away from the
opening . From the chamber h the water passes out by pipe g.
The piston n is carried by a bent rod t which passes through a closed tube u
and is connected by a rod and an arm with a treadle 3 which can rock on an
arm attached to the outside of the receptacle o. The tube u contains a spring u¹
and the rod carries a stop u² by which the spring is compressed or the downward
stroke of the rod when forced down by the treadle to produce a downward stroke
of the pump the expansion of the spring after this, effecting the upward stroke.
Tho receptacle is provided with a suitable handle or bail w.
A spring may be employed under the treadle to assist the upward stroke of the
rod if desired.
It will be seen that a convenient apparatus is provided by which large surfaces
may be easily washed or treated with solutions by means of a brush which is
constantly supplied (or supplied only at the will of the operator) with fresh water
or solution and that by removing the brush and handle portion a convenient foot
pump and liquid receptacle is provided which is handy for many purposes.
In place of the brush a like cleansing medium such as a sponge may be carried
by the tubular handle.
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. The improved arrangement of brush or like cleansing medium and liquid
supplying parts substantially as and for the purposes described.
2. The combination with a brush or like cleansing medium having means for
carrying liquid of a receptacle for carrying the liquid and a foot operated pump
carried by such receptacle substantially as and for the purpose described.
3. The improved arrangement of brush and apparatus for supplying same with
liquid substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated 14th March 1898.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
55, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agent.