A NEW POLISHING APPARATUS FOR HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES
Year: 1825

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
ALEXANDER TAYLOR, of Gicat St. Helen's, in the City of London, but now of
Richmond, in the County of Surry, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britam, bearing date at
Westminster, the Thirteenth day of August, in the sixth year of Пis reign, did,
for Dimself, is heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph
Alexander Taylor, is especial licence, that I, the said Joseph Alexander
Taylor, my exois, adññiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Alexander Taylor, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all
His said Majesty's Colonics and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "A NEW
POLISHING APPARATUS FOR HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES;" in which said Letters Patent
is contained a proviso obliging me, tho said Joseph Alexander Taylor, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled in His said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: Joseph Alexander Taylor, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
to consist in an apparatus for placing knives, forks, spoons, or other the like
articles of household furniture, when dirty. on a bed made purposely to replace
them in such manner that they are all on a sufficient level or plane to be
cleaned or polished at once by the action of one long rubber or polisher. And
in further compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Joseph Alexander
Taylor, do hereby describe the manner in which my said Invention is to be
performed by the following description thereof, reference being had to the
Drawing annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that
is to say.-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my said apparatus as used for cleaning
and polishing table knives. And I will here observe that I will confine
myself in the description to the cleaning of knives, since forks, spoons, and
other household furniture of the like nature may be cleaned in the same
manner, with only a slight variation in the respective beds on which they are
laid. Figure 1, then, represents a fiont elevation of my said apparatus. The
paits marked A are fiamework, either of wood or iron, as may be most
convenient; B is the top of a bar oi rail, which passes from side to side of the
machine, and forms the handle of the polishing bar below it; C, C, ale two
uprights, to the lower ends of which the polishing bar is fixed; these uprights
C, C, move freely up and down in the guides marked E, and are acted upon
by the spring F, which is adjusted as to force by the screw G and second
short spring H. It is the strength of the spring F which determines the
pressure of the polishing bar or rubber on the knife blades; K is what I call
the knife bed, and L, L, is a cover turning on a binge at a, and shutting down
upon the bed; this cover is held down at the end e by means of a small catch;
M, M, M, is a swinging frame hung on pivots at N, N, to allow the rubber
or polishing bar to be moved to and fro to perform the operation of polishing.
Figure 2 is a separate view of the rubber or polisher; C, C, are the lower ends
of the uprights before mentioned, which, it will be seen, are furnished with
Joints O, O, in order to give more free action to the rubber; P is the polishing
bai or rubber, which is to be covered with leather, and stuffed at its under
side; Bis the handle or rail to move the rubber to and fro with. Figure 3 is a
section of my said apparatus, the dotted lines shew the position of the swinging
fiame marked M. and the rubber when in action. And it should here be stated
that the letters which are used in Fig. 1 are applied to the similar parts in tho

page_text: other Figures. K, K, is the knife bed, which, it will be observed, consists of two
inclined planes meeting in the centre of the apparatus, these beds will be
more particularly described in other Figures, but it will be seen by this Figuie
that the knife blades to be polished are laid into cavities made to receive them,
with their points towards the centre, and lie immediately under the rubber or
polisher P, so that by moving the rubber or polisher backwards and forwards
a polish is given to the knife blades, and when one side of the blade is polished
the knives are changed from side to side of the machine or apparatus, and the
other side of the blade is polished in like manner R, R, are the handles of
two knives as they lie on the knife bed, and it should here be stated that the
knife beds are separated from the rest of the apparatus, and may be removed at
pleasure, and thus a bed for forks may be substituted for the knife bed, or one
for spoons, and so on, as may be required Figure 4 is a plan of the knife bed,
with knives placed on each half of it, ready to be cleaned or polished. L, L,
is the cover which shuts down over and upon the handles to keep them clean
and preserve them from being bruised, and if the handles are of silver, the
under side of the cover should be lined with soft leather or plush, or other the
like substance. The cover on one side of the bed in this Figure is shown
only half shut down, so as to shew the manner in which the knives lie on the
bed The open space marked S is to allow the introduction of the finger to
take the knives out of the bed. Figure 5 is a plan of one half of the knite bed
without any knives in it to show the cavities for the knife blades The bed is
male of cast iron or other suitable metal, and has the cavities marked t cast in
it to receive the knife blades; a is the place for the hinge of the cover that shuts
down on the handles, and e is the catch that holds it down. Figure 6 is a side
section of the knife bed, and Figure 7 is a transverse section of it, showing the
manner in which it is supported at each end. Figure 8 is an enlarged section of
the rubber or polisher, merely to show the two troughs W, W, on each side of it,
which are perforated, and intended to hold and strew the brick dust, plate powder,
or whatever other substance is to be used to clean or polish the knives, forks, or
other furniture to be acted upon Figure 9 is the plan of part of a fork bed to
be substituted for the knife bed when forks are to be cleaned. Figure 10 is
a plan of part of the bed, which must be used when the reverse side to that
cleaned in Figure 9 is to be acted upon. Figure 11 is the side section of
Figure 9, and Figure 12 is the side section of Figure 10. Figure 13 is the
transverse section of Figure 9, and Figure 14 is the transverse section of
Figure 10
Now, whereas such an apparatus as is herein-before described for cleaning
or polishing kuives or other the like articles of househol furniture, being to

page_text: the best of my knowledge and belief entirely new, and never before used in that
part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
called England, his said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
nor in His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, I do hereby declare
this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my
said Specification doth comply in all respects, fully and without reserve or
disguise, with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent contained. Wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and
puvilege to my said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Alexander Taylor, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eleventh day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.
JOSEPII ALEXANDER (L.S.) TAYLOR.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of February, in
the year of our Lord 1826, the aforesaid Joseph Alexander Taylor came
before our said Loid the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.