US1435026A - Buffer-wheel cover - Google Patents

Description

.Batented Nov. 7, 1922.

INVENTOR. 4 Jmse rh 5t s'nql Patented Nov. 7, 1922.

unrrso srar'ss JOSEPH STANGL, OF WEST BEND, WISCONSIN.

BUFFER-WHEEL COVER.

Application filed November 28, 1921 Serial No. 518,299.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrrr STANGL, a c tizen of the United States, and resident of l Vest Bend, in the county of Washington and State of lVisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buifer-Wheel Covers, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specilication.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in buffing wheels and refers more particularly to a cover therefor. The present day type of buffing wheel top cover, such as that more especially designed for use in connection with the shoe repairing and manufacturing art, is constructed of a strip of canvas or the like with its medial portion stretched taut over a supporting disc.

This type of buffing wheel has several objections, one its short period of usefulness, as with the use in the average shoe repair shop, one cover will last but two or three days and the other is that, instead of carrying the wax on its surface, the wax is absorbed by the cover and consequently the major portion of it is lost.

It is, therefore, one object of this invention to provide a buffer cover which will hold the wax or buffing material on its surface and which will have a longer life than the covers now commonly employed.

This invention has for another object to provide a buffer cover which may he applied to the type of buffers now commonly employed without any alteration therein.

A further object of this invention is to provide a bufier cover constructed of leather, shaped to conform to the periphery of a wheel and having side flanges for engagement between the wheel sides and securing collars whereby the covering is maintained in place without the necessity of tacking.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a buffer cover which will be comparatively cheap of production and which will perform its functions in a highly desirable manner.

lVith the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, my invention resides in the-novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts substantially as hereinafter described and 'more particularly defined by the appended claim, it being understood that such changes in the precise embodiment of the hereindisclosed invention may be made as come within the scope of the claim.

In the accompanying drawing, I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of. my invention constructed according to the best mode I have so far devised for the practical application of the principles thereof, and in which:

Figure 1 is a view of a buffer device equipped with one of my improved covers, said view being taken on the plane of line l1 of Figure 2, and

Figure 2 is a fragmentary side view thereof.

Referring now more )articularly to the accompanying drawings; the numeral 5 designates a shaft which is journaled in suitable supports (not shown) and rotated by suit able power means (not shown) in the di.rec tion of the arrow in Figure 2.

Adjustably fixed to the shaft by a set screw 6 is a sleeve or bushing 7 one end of which is flanged as at 8 and the other end threaded as at 9, the medial portion of the bushing providing a support for a centrally apertured wheel or disc 10.

Mounted on the periphery of disc 10 is a cushion or pad 11 which is covered by a casing 12. The cover 12, in the present in- I vention, is formed from a strip of leather, the medial portion 13 of which is substantially equal in width to the width of pad 11, and that part of the covering outwardly of the medial portion is transversely slit at spaced intervals as at 14:. lVith this construction of cover, the medial. strip 1?, conforms with the periphery of cushion l1. and the cut portions 1 .1; overlap, as best shown in Figure 2, and have their ends confined between flange S and a screw collar 15 which is engageable over the threaded end of bushing 7 to make wheel 10 fast to shaft 5.

The ends of the strip overlap, as best shown in Figure 2, so that one end 16 will be rearwardly of the other end 1.6 according to the direction of rotation of shaft 5 to prevent injury to the wheel when an article is being placed thereagainst for buffing.

In making the strip 12 any cheap grade of leather may be employed for the purpose of economy and it will be readily seen that the wax or other louiiing material will remain on the surface of the cover and not be absorbed thereby as is the case in the present type of canvas covering. Further, it will be readily obvious that by reason ofits toughness, a leather butting Wheel cover will outlast a cloth cover many times.

What I claim as my invention is:

In a device of the character described, the combination With a Wheel, a member 1nount ed on said wheel and flanges engaging the opposite sides of the Wheel to secure the same to said member, of a cover for the Wheel formed from a substantially rectangular blank of material each longitudinal side of the blank having a plurality of spaced, parallel slits extending transversely oil? the blank from a point spaced from the center thereof to the adjacent edge, the unbroken central portion of the blank forming a buffing surface covering the entire periphery of said Wheel and the portions between the slits' forming flaps adapted to be folded against the sides of said Wheel and over lapped, said flaps being secured between said flanges and the Wheel sides to secure the cover to the Wheel, the ends of the cover being-overlapped with the outer end extendingin the direction of the normal rotation of the Wheel and the outer edges of'said fiaps being extended in the direction oi? the normal rotation of said Wheel.

In testimony whereof, I aiiii: my signature.

JOSEPH STANGL.

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