US1461170A - Cleaning fluid for impregnating dust cloths and the like - Google Patents

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Patented July 10, 1923.

- Uhll'lEQ STTES lsltldltl FRANK ALVIN WRIGHT, OF HUTCI-IINSON, KANSAS.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK A. WRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Hutchinson, in the county of Reno and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Cleaning Fluid for Impregnating Dust Cloths and the like, of which the following is a specification. My present invention relates generally to dust cloths, and more particularly to that class of articles commonly known under the head of dustless clusters by virtue of their ability to take up dust from articles of furniture and the like and from the surface of automobiles instead of merely throwing the dust into the air, the object of my present invention being the provision to enable the ready and easy preparation of such a 2 cloth.

According to my invention a cloth, preferably outing flannel, cotton on both sides, vis impregnated with a material which is made up of readily obtainable ingredients capable of being easily and quickly compounded and kept on hand for convenient use from time to time.

The material above mentioned preferably includes crude oil, gasoline, raw linseed oil and oil of cassia in approximately the following proportions; crude oil one gallon, gasoline one-half gallon, raw linseed oil four ounces and oil of cassia about two drops to each four square feet of cloth.

In preparing the cloth, a section of outing flannel, cotton on both sides, is preferably utilized about 24x27 and the crude Application filed May 11, 1921.

Serial No. 468,626.

oil, gasoline and raw linseed oil in the proportions above stated are mixed together at a temperature not less than 72 F. The cloth is then emersed in this solution, thoroughly saturated and then withdrawn and run through an ordinary wringer to re move surplus solution after which it is hung up and dried until the gasoline has entirely evaporated. With a cloth of this size about two drops or up to one-third of an ounce of cassia is then. applied and the cloth is ready for use as a practical harmless cleanser of any varnished, leather, glass or other surface without the slightest danger in connection with the finest of finishes.

It is obvious from the foregoing that the above solution may be readily formed and maintained on hand for use when desired, that the ingredients are readily obtainable and easily compounded, and that the formation of the cloth in so far as its adaptation to the actual removal of dust instead of merely raising the dust from the surface, so may be easily accomplished by anyone without especial skill and with but little loss of time and effort.

I claim:

A cleaning fluid for impregnating dust ea cloths, consisting of crude oil, gasoline, raw linseed oil and oil of cassia in about the proportions of one gallon of crude oil, onehalf gallon of gasoline and four ounces of raw linseed oil, approximately two drops m of oil of cassia being added for each four square feet of cloth.

FRANK ALVIN WRIGHT.