US Patent: 5,528X
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Sweeping and Cleaning Chimneys
Machine for Cleaning Chimneys
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Patentee:
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| Samuel Dow (exact or similar names) - Elizabeth Borough, NJ |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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Jun. 11, 1829 |
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Joel Havens
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Description: |
| Most of the patents prior to 1836 were lost in the Dec. 1836 fire. Only about 2,000 of the almost 10,000 documents were recovered. Little is known about this patent. There are no patent drawings available. This patent is in the database for reference only.
“There is an elastic rod, made in joints, so that they may be attached to each other as they are passed up a chimney; upon the upper of these there is a block, to which the handles of four, or more, brushes may be fastened, so as to branch off in different directions; these handles are also elastic; the brush part is to be formed of bristles, whalebone, or any other suitable material. Just below the brushes there are attached pieces of iron, which are to operate as scrapers.
The claim is, to the machine, or broom, in all its parts, as applied to the sweeping and cleaning of chimneys.
From the days of Jonas Hanway, to the present, attempts have been made, particularly in England, to construct a machine to obviate the necessity of climbing boys, and we have no doubt, that upwards of fifty machines for this purpose have been offered to the public; there has been a general feeling in their favour, upon principles of humanity. The one now proposed, strongly resembles some of the earlier attempts in this way; these, however, and many others, with an aspect of greater promise, have been abandoned, in consequence of the impossibility of adapting them to the endless variety in the form, direction, and size of chimneys.”
Journal of the Franklin Institute Vol. 6, Sept. 1829 pg. 185
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