Specification of George Taylor : machinery for sweeping chimneys, funnels, &c.

  • Taylor, George.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of George Taylor : machinery for sweeping chimneys, funnels, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Taylors Impts. in Apparatus for Sweeping Chimneys, Funnels, Flues, $c. in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty’s High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear. HOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said 5 George Taylor, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say :— IQ Description of the Drawings. Figure 1 shews a plan of brush apparatus or machinery combined and con¬ structed according to my Invention. Figure 2 is a vertical section of the same; and Figures 3 and 4 shew some of the parts separately, a, a, shews the upper part or head of brush machinery, b, b, being four brushes fixed on 15 inflexible arms c, c. On these arms are fixed or formed portions of spheres d, d, which turn in spherical sockets e, e ; hence the arms can be moved up and down freely, there being slits or slots formed in the spherical sockets through which the inflexible arms c, c, pass. /, f are forked springs fixed within the head of the machine, and their other ends come against the plain surface of the 20 arms c, by which those arms are at all times pressed with a tendency to assume the horizontal position, and yet the springs allow of the arms departing from such horizontal position, simply offering elastic resistance to their moving out of the horizontal position; hence, although the arms c, c, are inflexible, they move up and down elastically by the springs, g is the rod to which the ^5 head a, a, is fixed. I would state that the springs may be varied, and the construction of the spherical parts of the arms c, c, may also be varied, and such is the case in respect to the socket. Figures 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, shew varia¬ tions in the construction of these parts, the springs /, f not being forked as in the previous figures, but simply press by a flat surface/1 fixed at the end of the 30 springs/, and the end of the arms c are differently formed, but they in substance act as before described. In Figures 5, 6, 7, 8, the slits or openings of the sockets simply allow of a movement up and down to the arms c, c; but in Figures 9 and 10 there being cross cuts or openings in the sockets, the arms can move laterally, as well as up and down, or the cuts in the sockets may be made 35 diagonally, but in each case the springs tend at all times to keep the arms