WACHIITE FOR CLEAN??»"g CHIMJfteS. QoB 



XII. 



Dcfcn'pti'on of a jMachlne now in aBual and daily life, for 

 cleanfmg Chimnien, tvithout the AJJlfiance of Climbing-hoys, and 

 xvith much greater Effe6t than is produced by that Method. 

 Communicated by the Inventor, Mr. Christopher Smart, 

 of Ordnance Wharf, Wefiminjler Bridge. W. N. 



JCLiVERY humane perfon mufl have beheld with pain and re- Machine for 

 gret> the infant viaims of a filthy and difgafting operation/'5^"f^"S chm- 

 vvho are expofed to daily fufFerihg, and too often to per* 

 manent difeafe and decrepitude, without the hope of fub- 

 fiftence when grown to manhood. A remedy for the cafe of 

 thefe unhappy and devoted children was long ago attempted 

 by the amiable and benevolent Jonas Hanway ; and withia 

 the laft twelve months, another philanthrophifl, James Hebdin, 

 efq; has aflively exerted himfelf to form a fociety for pro- 

 moting and eftabiifiiing methods of cleaning chimnies more 

 worthy of a great and civilized people, than one grounded 

 on the mifery of the weak and the helplefs. My gratula-* 

 tio'ns, and thofe of every good man, will form but a fmalt ' 

 portion of that reward which the internal confcioufnefs of the 

 extenfive good he ha« done mufl afford. I (ball therefore dif- 

 mifs any farther confideration of the perfonal merits of thofe 

 by whom the attention of mechanics has been dire61ed to this 

 objed^, or of the artifts who have laboured to foive the pro- 

 blem offered to their ingenuity ; and ftiall proceed to defcribe 

 Mr. Smart's machine. This apparatus has been approved 

 upon trial by the fociety lately eftablifiied, and has anfwered 

 to the fatisfa6lion of feveral well qualified employers, whofe 

 certificates I have feen, by bringing down more than the 

 ufual quantity of foot, as well as by its efficacy in lofty or 

 winding chimnies, and fuch as are too narrow' to be fwept 

 by children. It may eafily be inferred, that it mufl be fti!} 

 more advantageous in chimnies on fire, than the fhocking 

 procef:5 of fending up a child wrapped in rags to entet an 

 adual place of combuftion and fnfibcating vapour. 



PlateXlll. Fig. I. reprefents an apparatus of bruflies, fup- 

 ^ofe four, which are fixed by hinges to a middle piece or bar, 



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