US1059292A - Shoe-cleaning device. - Google Patents

Description

S. H. FREDERICK.

SHOE CLEANING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 10, 1911.

1,059,292,, Patented Apr. 15, 1913.

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SHOE CLEANING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 10, 1911.

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SAMUELIH. FREDERICK, OF CQLON, IVEIGHIGrAN.

SHOE-CLEANING IDIEIV'ICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

"Patented Apr. 15,1913.

Application filed May 10,1911. Serial naezasse device, simple in construction and .eflici-ent One object is to remove dirt, mud and other foreign matter from the bottom and sides of a shoe at a single ioperationi Another object is to provide a shoe cleaner operating to clean a shoe worn by the :user, the foot of the user being moved over. the device to effect the removal of the dirt, mud, snow or the like.

WVith the above and other objects inzview my invention consists in the combination, arrangements, and details of construction shown in the drawings described in: the. specification and then f more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts in therespective views.

In the drawings Figure .1 is a front elevation of the shoe cleaner, Fig. 2 is a top plan view! thereof, Fig. 3 is afront. elevation of the device showing the two brushes,

in use, and Fig; 4: is a front elevation of the device showing one brush :in 1 use.

The shoe cleaner :comprises a relatively narrow vertically disposed cross piece .1 formed at opposite ends with preferablyintegral rectangular projections or arms designated 2 and 3 respectively. These arms are each formed by twistinga definite portion at each end of lit preferably uniform sized metallic strip so that the fiat and hori-. zontally disposed members 4 and 5 respectively, may by means of the turns 2*1 and 2", and 3 and 3 respectively,be projected at. right angles to said strip- The cross piece 1 serves as a scraper and the members 4 and 5 are fastening lugs, throughltheopenings 6 in which screws may be 1 driven; into any suitable support, such as afloor. The turns 2 and 2 and 3 and 3 areformed intermediate the ends of the projections 2 and 13 so that the innermost: ends of isaid projections are vertically disposed with respect to. the members 4 and 5.

The cross piece or scraper 1 has pivoted to it near its up er edge, and on oppositelsides of its center-two brush carrying levers"? and 8, the :inner ends 7 8 of which project a slightly above thescraper 1, andfthe other ends 7", S", of which extend upward and slightly inward and have inwardly facing brushes 11 and 12 attached thereto. The brushes are securedin place by screws 13, or other suitable means. The pins 9 and 310. form the pivots for the levers.

Theoperation of the shoe cleaner is as follows: The device having been fixed ito a proper support, the shoe to be cleaned will 1 be thrust between thebrushes and pressed 1 down in engagement with the scraperil, thus depressing the inner arms of the levers and tilting: the brushes toward, and in engagement. with, the shoes. It will be readily seen that if the shoe be moved .over the scraper backand forth with suflicient pressure to keep said brushes duly tilted, the

bottom and sides of the upper will progressively and simultaneously be cleaned,

and the dirt: or mud removed. In Fig; 4: the shoe 14. is caused to depress one of said levers 7 in a vertical plane so that the fori ward end of the upper maybe brought into engagement with the inwardly tilted brush 11. By moving the shoe indifferent positions inza horizontal plane the foreign mat-i ter may be removed from the forward part of the upper.

1. In combinationa scraper over whichia shoe is movable, fastening lugs formed upon the ends thereof, upright brush holdersdisk posed at the ends of saidscraper,and means i carried by said brushi holders projecting 1 abovesaid scraper at its center, said means when; depressed causing brush holders to tilt said brushes toward the center of the scraper.

2. A device of the kind described. comprise inga vertical narrdw bar formed at opposite ends a with rectangular oflsets, having screw-receiving holes, brushes held at an:in-. ward incline upon said offsets, a desirable tread projectingabove the edge of said bar, and means actuated by=said tread tocause 1 one or. both. of said brushes to move toward the center of said scraper.

3. A device of the kind described compris ing a scraper, means for fastening said scraper, and .brush carryinglevers pivoted to said scraper and having their inner ends normally projecting above the'center of the 1 latter, said brushes being attached to th outer endsof the levers and held at an in: Ward incline.

4. A shoe cleaner comprisinga horizontally-extending scraper, means for fasteningi said scraper, levers pivoted each at one en I to said scraper and having their inner,

ends normally projectingabove the scraper, means for supporting said levers and brushcarrying arms integrally formed at an inward incline upon said levers, the projecting portions of the levers being" arranged to be depressed before ashoe makes engagement with said scraper, to cause said brushes to be tilted. 7

5.7111 combination. a vertically: disposed crosspiece, rectangularly extending offsets having portions extending above said cross piece, upright arms integrally formed-upon the outer ends of said levers at an 'inward inc-line, and brushes secured to '1 the inner sides ofsaid inwardly inclinedarms.

- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL H. FREDERIGKQ I Witnesses: K

WALTER J. Dionnvso v,

D.'L. AKEY.

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