US1203936A - Scraper. - Google Patents

Description

V. STRUBHAR.

SCRAPER.

APPLlcATloN FILED FEB. 23. 1916.

Patented Nov. 7, 1916.

FIQE.

VALENTINE STRUBHAR, OF WASHINGTON, ILLINOIS.

SCRAPER.

Application led February 23, 1916.

To all whom t may concern Beit known that I, VALENTINE STRUBHAR, citizen of the United States, residing at lVashington, in the county of Tazewell and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scrapers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a device for removing mud and dirt from boots and shoes. It pertains more particularly, however, to a so called scraper adapted to be driven into the ground or attached to a suitable support, adjacent door ways or entrances to buildings, by which persons before entering may remove the mud and dirt from their shoes.

One of the objects of the invention is to furnish a simple scraper of this nature that can be manufactured at little cost and so arranged that both the sole of the shoe and the upper may be thoroughly cleaned.

Another object is to construct a simple device of the nature described so constructed that the sole of the shoe may be readily cleaned and then by merely lifting the foot the upper of the shoe may be brought beneath it by which the mud and dirt may be scraped from the top.

Another object is to provide a device of the nature described for scraping the sole of the shoe and which includes also a comparatively thin wirefor scraping 4the upper of the shoe, said wire serving to brace the entire structure and which when broken, or otherwise rendered useless, may be readily replaced by another.

To the end that the invention may be readily understood I have provided the accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure l is an elevation of the complete scraper. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of portions of the same showing a beveled scraping iron and the method of attaching it to one of the uprights. Fig. 8 is a side elevation of part of the device shown in Fig. l; and, Fig. 4L is a side elevation of a slightly modified form of the same.

In the first three figures 1 indicates two upright bars preferably of metal and relatively thin, consistent with proper strength, which in the present instance are shown set in the ground but which may be secured in any Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. *7, 1916.

Serial No. 79,851.

suitable manner to a support which may be portable if'preferred.

2 is a cross bar secured to the uprights l as by riveting or bolting or any other desired method, and which if the device is to be driven into the ground, may rest or lie adjacent to the ground surface.

Above the memberQ and preferably spaced about half way between it and the upper free ends of the uprights is a cross member 3 whose ends may extend some distance each way from the uprights; being secured to said uprights in any good manner. Preferably the upper ends of the uprights and the outer ends of the said member 3 as well as the slightly projecting ends of the member 2 maybe perforated as at 1i, for example, and a. wire 5 may be threaded through all of said perforations. For instance the end of the wire may be passed through one of the perforations of the member 2 and wrapped upon itself. From thence the wire extends through the outer end of the member 3 at that side of the device, thence through the perforation of the adjacent upright, thence across and between the two uprights and through the opposite one. thence down through the perforation of the opposite end of the member 3 terminating at the member 2 where its end is secured substantially as shown. Between the uprights the member 3 is preferably beveled so as to provide a scraping edge 6, Fig. 2.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a slightly modified form of the device. Instead of using the described perforations 4; I employ a projecting headed stud 7 projecting from the uprights 1 and the extremities of the members 2 and 3. The wire indicated in this figure by the numeral 8 in this instance is vwound one or more timesaround each of them as indicated at 9, its terminals having the same relative position as those in Fig. 1.

In use the scraping edge 6 is employed to remove the dirt and mud from the sole of the shoe, the inner edges of the uprights 1 being used to remove the mud from the edge of the sole and side of the shoe by bringing the shoe first against one and then the other.

Where mud adheres to the top of the shoe the said shoe may be raised against the wire and moved beneath it in order to still further thoroughly clean the shoe, the angled portions outside the uprights being employed by bringing the shoe against them.

I preferably use a fairly small gage wire Y io Adescribed meets every requirement being very eiiicient in its work.

The wire when broken Vcan be readily replaced by another in a few moments time Yand as the other parts of the device are preferably oi' metal there is little danger of their being breken.

ll desire to state that l do not wish to be confined to the exact arrangement shown Vand described since slight changes may be made therein ywithout departing from the spirit and intent of the invention.

v Having' thus described my invention, l

Y claim l. In a shoe sc aper, a pair of spaced up-V rights, a` bar extending at right angles to them andsecured to each, its ends projectfV secured at their ends ing beyond both, and a wire extending between the uprights and Vspaced above the bar and having terminal portions extending Voutwzu-dly and downwardly at an angle and engaging the projecting ends of the bar and rights below said bar.

In a shoe scraper, a support, a cross-V member secured relatively to 1t and eXtending beyond it at each side, a wire securedV relatively to Vthe .up-V

relatively-'to the support belowV the cross#A member andextending upward and engaging the' extended end ef the latter, thence extending upward to the upper portion of the support, thence extending downward toV and engaging the otherextended end of the cross-member and secured .relatively to. the said support, said'wire being spacedfrom the several parts of the structure to 'aiord scraping portions forfthe shoelVv x In testimony whereof I YaftiXiny signature,

in presenceV of two witnesses.

VALENTINE STRUBHAR.

lVitnesses: j

EV. SLmiMoNs, L. M. THUnnow. i

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