US1493839A - Shoe-polishing machine - Google Patents

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may 13 1924. 1,493,839

M. BASINOW ET AL SHOE POLISHINr MACHINE Filed Oct. 21. 1921 4 Sheets-Sheet 1 [7112? Tbf 0245 %m du gala a0,

May 13 1924.

I 1,493.839 M. BASINOW, ET AL SHOE POLISHING MACHINE Filed on. 21. 1921 4 Sheefs-Sheet 2 May 1.3 1924. 1,493.839

v M. BASINOW ET AL SHOE POLISHING MACHINE Filed Oct. 21. 1.921- 4 Sheets-Sheet 5 Patented May 13, 19 24.

UNETED STATES MAURICE BASINOW AND SAMPSON BROWN, F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHOE-POLISHING MACHINE.

Application filed October 21, 1921. Serial No. 509,261.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MAURICE BASINOW and SAMPsoN BROWN, citizens of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of 5 Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Polishing Machines, of which the fol-v lowing is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved machine for polishing boots and shoes.

The object of the invention is to provide a machine for the purpose specified which upon inserting a coin in a slot will automatically operate to clean the shoe, apply polish thereto and then polish it.

Another object of the invention is to pro- I vide a machine of the character set forth which will be very thorough and rapid in its operation.

Another object of the invention is to provide means to protect the clothing of the customer from being soiled by the polish or by the polishing brushes.

In carrying our invention into practical operation, the machine of our invention embodies a pair of foot rests upon which the customer places his feet in the usual manner. He then drops a coin into a slot in the machine and the coin completes an else trical circuit and starts in motion an electric motor which by trains of gearing operates-three brushes having horizontal shafts, these brushes being located one between two foot rests, and the other two outside the foot rests so that each foot rest has two brushes with horizontal shafts located on opposite sides thereof, the middle brush of the three acting to polish both of the shoes. Each of the three brushes referred to is divided into 40 three separate brushes, one for cleaning the shoe, another for applying the polish theretoand the third for polishing. These brushes are rotated and at the. same time a reciprocatory motion is imparted thereto. The brushes are preferably made with long bristles so that they will clean, apply polish to and polish all portions of the shoe except the top of the toe portion. In order to polish the top of the toe portion and apply polish thereto We supply a pair of brushes for each foot-rest,'these brushes being located above the foot rest and mounted upon a ro'cker frame. Mechanism is provided to rotate these brushes and also to rock the rocker frame at the proper time to bring one of the brushes into contact with the shoe and clean the shoe, second to apply polish, third to polish, fourth to apply polish and fifth to polish the upper portion of the front part of the shoes and the machine is so timed that when this operation has been performed the side brushes will have moved forwardly 1n the machine to the extreme rear part of the shoes and will have also returned until they have reached about the middle of the shoe from heel to toe. By this time the toebrushes will have completed their work and the side brushes will continue moving rearv wardly in the machine until they have completed their work on the sides of the shoe after which the machine is operated to break the electric circuit, allowing the coin to drop into a receptacle provided in the ma chine and the electric circuit being broken,

*the machine will automatically stop.

To these ends the invention consists in the combinations of elements set forth in the following pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the machine.

Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional vie-w illustrating the gearing which rotates the different instrumentalities, the View being taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional elevation showing the cam and coin chute and taken on the line 44 of Fig. 1. I

Fig. 5 is a detail sectional elevation illustrating a portion of the mechanism for operating the toe brushes.

Fig. 6 is a detail sectional elevation taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1 illustrating the feed shaft which is rotatably mounted in the brush rotating shaft whereby the main brushes are rotated and reciprocated.

Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the mechanism illustrated in Fig. 6, both of these figures being broken away to save space in the drawings.

Fig. 8 is an end elevationv of the brush rotating and reciprocating shaft and mech anism connected therewith.

Fig. 9 is a detail view of the key whereby reciprocatory motion is imparted from the specification and particularly brush reciprocating shaft to the side brushes.

7 his feet in the usual manner upon foot rests 1 and 2, Fig. 2. The mechanism, as a whole, is enclosed within a casing, openings being provided in the casing through which the feet of the user can be inserted in order that they may rest upon the foot rests 1 and 2. A coin 3 is dropped into a chute 10, Fig. 4, and passes downbetween two electrodes 11 and 12 completing an electric circuit, the electrodes being connected by wires 13 and 14 to an electric motor 15, Fig. 1. A motor shaft 16 has a gear 17 thereon, Figs. 1 and 3,'= which meshes into a pinion 18 fast to one shaft 19 of threebrush rotating shafts 19, 20 and 21. These shafts are horizontal and r the brushes whichare mounted thereon are rotated by the shafts 19, 20 and 21 and simultaneously these brushes have a reciprocatory motion imparted thereto. They are located as follows :.The shaft 19 is located to the left of the foot restl, the shaft 20 is located between the foot rests land 2, and the shaft 21 is located to :the right of the foot rest 2. Each of-the shafts 19, 20 and 21 has a feed shaft rotatably mounted therein which operates to impart a reciprocatory motion to the brushes located on that shaft. All of the shafts 19, 20 and 21 operatein the same manner and, therefore, the operation of one of these shafts will apply equally well to the other two. The pinion 18, Figs. 1 and 3, meshes into an intermediate gear 22 which, in turn, meshes into an intermediate gear 23, the latter meshing into a pinion 24 fast to the shaft 20. The pinion 24 meshes into an intermediate gear 25, which meshes into a pinion 26, which, in turn, meshes into a gear 27, the gear 27 meshing'into apinion 28 fast to the brush rotating shaft 21. These different gears rotate in the respective directions of the arrows shown in Fig. 3 so that it will be seen that the shaft 19 rotates in a clockwise direction, while the shafts 20 and 21 rotate in a counterclockwise direction. Each of these shafts 19, 20 and 21 has a feed-shaft 29 rotatably mounted therein, see Figs. 6, 7 and 8, and these feed shafts are provided with a two-way or cross thread 30 into which projects akey 31 which is mounted in a screw 32, Fig. 6, and has screw-threaded engagement with a sleeve 33 which is splined by a key 32' to the shaft 19 with which it rotates and upon which it slides. The sleeve 33 has brushes 34, 34' and 35 fast thereto. The brushes 34 and 34' are cleaning and polishing brushes and the brush 35 is a-polish applying brush, these brushes operating upon the sides of the uppers of the boots and shoes and upon the 'the brush 35 by a roll 36, Figs. 6 an heel portion thereof. Polish is applied t3 this roll has an intermittent rotary motion" i applied thereto by a pawl 37 and a ratchet 38, the pawl'37 being mounted upon a link 39 which is moved by an eccentric rod 40 and eccentric 41, the eccentric 41 being fastoned to the sleeve 33 so that as the brush 35 is rotated, it will come into contact with diff 'ferent parts of the polish applying roll 36.

Polish 42 is contained in a receptacle 43 and is forced against the periphery of the roll 36 by a'spring 44. The polish container 43 and its roll 36 are mounted upon a bracket 36' which is fastened to a collar 4 mounted upon the sleeve 33. The lower end .of the receptacle 43 is prevented from swaying laterally by a pin 5 which projects between a pair of tracks 6, thus it will be seen thatas the brushes are reciprocated along the shaft 19 the polish container 43 and its roll 36 will move along with them, and thus the roll 36 will always maintain its same 10- cation relatively thereto. The reciprocatory motion is imparted to the brushes 34, 34' and 35 by the feed shaft 29 which is rotated to effect this reciprocatory motion by a gear 45, Fig. 8, which meshes into a pinion 46 fast to an arm 47 which is pivoted at 47' to the shaft 19 and is lided during the rotation of the shaft 19 %;y a. pin 48 which projects through a slot 49 provided in the arm 47, the pin 48 being fastened to the frame 50 of the machine.

There are two sets of brushes for applying polish and cleaning and polishin the toes of the boots, one set for each oot. These are illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 5. Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 5, 51 is a polish applying brush and 52 is a cleaning and polishing brush. These brushes operate upon the toe portion and upper portion of the shoe. A rotary motion is imparted to these brushes 51 and 52 and also a rocking motion. The said brushes are rotated by gears'53 and 54 fast to shafts 55 and 56, to which shafts the brushes 51 and 52 are also fastened. Said shafts are rotatably mounted in a rocker frame 57, see Figs. 2 and 5. The gears 53 and 54 are rotated by a gear 58 which is fast to a shaft 59 rotatably mounted in the rocker frame 57 and this shaft 59 is rotated by a gear 60 which meshes into a gear 61, see Fig. 3, the gear 61 being rotated by a gear 62 which meshes into a gear 63, thegear 63 being driven by the gear 24.

A rocking movement is imparted to the rocker frame 57.so as to alternately bring is rotated by a pinion 62'. The shaft 65 and its cam 64 are rotated in a counterclockwise direction, see Fig. 4, by the-mechanism hereinbefore described and as the cam 64 rotates from the position illustrated in Fig. 4 the rise 69 engages a roll 70 which is rotatably mounted on a connection 71 which is connected to a link 71 which, in turn, is connected to a lever 72 pivoted at 73 to the frame of the machine. The lever 72 is con nected at its lower end by a link 74 to a slide rack 75. This rack hasieeth upon'its lower edge which engage gears 76 and 77 fast .to sleeves 59' forming a part of the rocker frames 57 and rotatably mounted on the shafts 59. As the cam 64 continues its rotation it causes the slide rack through the mechanism just described to be reciprocated in proper time to rock the sleeves 59? with the brushes 51 and 52 on the shafts 59 and to produce the following sequence of movements. First the brush 52 is rocked by the rocker frame 57, see Fig. 2 to bring it into contact with the shoe 78 and this cleans the shoe. Then the rocker frame 57 is rocked in an opposite direction so as to bring the brush 51 into contact with the shoe and this applies polish to the shoe. Then the rocker frame is operated in the opposite direction to bring the polishing brush in contact with the shoe, then it is rocked back to bring the polish into contact with the shoe and then it is rocked to bring the polishing brush into contact with the shoe andfinish the operation, and finally the parts are returned to the position illustrated in Figs. 2 and 4 in which the brushes 51 and 52 are out of contact ing the upper end of a supporting member 89 fast to the rocker frame 57. When the parts are in the position illustrated in Fig. 2 the polish feeding roll is held in contact with the polish applying roll 51. When the rocker frame rocksto remove the member 89 from contact with the arm 88 then the spring 87 operates to. lift the lever 84 and the polish feeding roll out of the path of the cleaning and polishing brush 52. The machine is stopped by a contact member 92 fast to the cam 64, Fig. 4, which engages a One end of the lever 84 is supthus breaking the circuit and stopping the,

machine.

.In order to ,protect the trousers and stockings of the user ofthe machine and prevent polish from being applied thereto a pair of guards 90 are provided which are supported upon a bar 91 which is fastened toa vertical reciprocatory rack 92'. Said rack is slidably mounted upon the frame of the machine and has a reciprocatory motionimparted thereto by a pinion 93 fast to a shaft 94 which is manually rotated by means of a handle 95.-

'While we have described the different brushes in the foregoing specification as bristle brushes, it is evident that without departing from the spirit of our invention tion to protect the trousers and stockings.

He then drops a nickel in the slot and the different mechanisms hereinbefore described are then operated to first clean the sides of the shoes by the reciprocatory rotating brushes 34. These cleaning brushes are followed as'theyare moved toward the front of the machine by the polish applying brushes 35 and the'polish applying brushes are followed by the polishing brushes 34'.

When the brushes 34, 35 and 34' have moved forwardly operating upon the opposite sides of the shoes until the brush 34 has passed beyond the front faces of the brushes 51 and 52, the polish .applying brush 51 and polishing brush 52 are operated as hereinbefore described to first clean, second to .apply polish, third to polish, fourth to apply polish and fifth to polish the upper portion of the front part of the shoes, and the machine is so timed that when this operation has been performedr the brushes 34, 35 and 34 will have moved forwardly in the machine to the extreme rear part of the shoes and will have also .returned until the brush 34' is about in the middle of the shoe from heel to toe. By this time the brushes 51 and 52 will have completed their work and the brushes 34, 35 and 34 will continue moving rearwardly in the machine until they have completed their work on the sides of the shoe, whereupon the machine will operate as hereinbefore described to break the electric circuit and allow the coin to drop into a receptacle provided in the machine, and the machine will then stop.

We claim:

1. A shoepolishing machine having, in

combination, a foot rest, a horizontal rotary shaft adjacent thereto, a feed shaft rotatably mounted in said horizontal rotary shaft and having a cross thread upon its periphery, means to impart a rotary motion to said feed shaft, a sleeve slidably mounted on said rotary shaft, a ke in said sleeve engaging said cross threa and a brush fast to said sleeve whereby a simultaneous, reciprocatory and rotary motion may be imparted to said brush.

2. A shoe polishing machine having, in combination, a foot rest, a horizontal rotary shaft adjacent thereto, a feed shaft ,brush mounted on said shaft and rotatable therewith, mechanism adapted to impart a reciprocatory motion to said polish applying brush longitudinally of said shaft and mechanism driven by said shaft adapted to feed polishing material to the periphery of said polish applying brush.

4. A shoe polishing machine having, in combination, a foot rest, .a rocker'frame, a pair of brushes rotatably mounted upon said rocker frame and above said foot rest, mechanism adapted to impart a rocking motion to said rocker frame whereby said brushes may be brought alternately into and out of contact with the upper portion of a shoe mounted upon said foot rest and mechanism adapted to impart a rotary motion to said brushes.

5. A shoe polishing machine having, in combination, a foot rest, a rocker frame, a plurality of brushes rotatably mounted upon said rocker frame and above said foot rest, mechanism adapted to impart a rocking motion to said rocker frame embodying a rack and pinion, a rotary cam and mechanism connecting said cam to said rack whereby said brushes may be brought alternately mto and out of contact with the u per portion of a shoemounted upon said foot rest and mechanism adapted to impart a rotary motion to said brushes.

6. A shoe polishing machine having,-in'

combination, a foot rest, a rocker frame, a pair of brushes rotatably mounted upon said rocker frame and above said foot rest, mechanism adapted to impart a rocking motion to said rocker frame whereby said brushes may be brought alternately into and out of contact with the upperportion of a shoe mounted upon said foot rest, mechanism adapted to impart a rotary motion to said brushes and means to apply polish to the periphery of one of said brushes.

7. A shoe polishing machine having, in combination, a foot rest, a rocker frame, a rotary shaft upon which said rocker frame is mounted, a pair of brushes rotatably 'mounted upon said rocker frame and above said foot rest, mechanism adapted to impart a rocking motion to said rocker frame, a gear fast to said shaft and a gear fast to each of said brushes and meshing into said first named gear whereby said brushes may be brou ht alternately into and out of contact witfi the upper portion of a shoe mounted upon said foot rest and a rotary motion ma be applied to said brushes and means inc uding mechanism operated by said shaft to apply polish to one of said brushes.

8. shoe polishing machine having, in combination, a foot rest, a rocker frame, a rotary shaft upon which said rocker frame is mounted, a pair of brushes rotatably mounted upon said rocker frame and above saidfoot rest, mechanism adapted to impart a rocking motion to said rocker frame, a gear fast to said shaft and a gear fast to each of said brushes and meshing into said first named gear whereby said brushes'may be brought alternately into and out of contactwith the upper ortion of a shoe mounted upon said foot rest and a rotary motion may be applied to said brushes, means including mechanism operated by said shaft to apply polish to one of said brushes and mechamsm adapted to move said polish applying means from the path of the other of said brushes.

9. A shoe polishing machine having, in combination a foot rest, a pair of horizontal rotary shafts adjacent thereto and located on opposite sides respectivel thereof, a brush mounted on each of sai shafts, a rocker frame, a pair of brushes rotatgbiy mounted on said rocker frame an adapted to impart a reciprocatory motion to said first-named brushes, mechanism adapted to impart a rocking motion to said rocker frameand a train of gearing adapted to impart a rotary motion to all of said brushes. 4 1

10. A shoe polishing machine havin in combination, a pair of rotary brushes a apted to en ge the opposite sides of a shoe, a pair 0? rotary brushes adapted to alternately engage the top of the upper of a shoe, mechanism including a train of geari adapted to rotate all of said brushes an also adapted to impart a reciprocatory motion to said first-named pair of brushes and a rocking motion adapted to alternately above said foot rest, mechanism bring said second-named pair of brushes into and out of contact with said shoe.

11. A polishing machine having, in combination, a plurality of rotary brushes adapted to engage the opposite sides of a shoe, a plurality of rotary brushes adapted to alternately engage the top of the upper of a shoe, mechanism including a train of gearing adapted to rotate all of said brushes and also adapted to impart a reciprocatory motion to said first-named brushes and a rocking motion adapted to alternately bring said second-named brushes into and out of contact with said shoe and an electric motor adapted to drive said gearin In testimony whereof We set our hands in presence of. two subscribing v witnesses.

Witnesses:

FRANKLIN E. Low, 'CHARLES S. GOODING.

liave hereunto

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