US1892122A - Hose protector - Google Patents

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H. M. YOST HOSE PROTECTOR Dec. 27, 1932.

Filed Jan 2. 1930 Patented Dec. 27, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HOSE PROTECTOR Application filed January 2, 1939.

Serial No. 418,141.

(GRANTED UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 3, 1883, AS AMENDED APRIL 30, 1928; 370 0. G. 757) The invention described herein if patented, may be manufactured and used by or for the Government for governmental purposes without payment of any royalty thereon.

This invention relates to improvements in hose protectors and more specifically to ashield of appropriate material to be inserted in the shoe in such a manner as to prevent contact between the brush or polishing rag and the stocking of the wearer.

The objects of this invention are to provide a simple, durable, and inexpensive device of the class described that may be quickly inserted in place prior to polishing the shoes and is then readily removed therefrom after same is completed and one whereby the entire stocking will be fully protected.

A further object in view is to provide a device that may be produced in a single operation by stamping out the device from sheet material in a well-known manner.

Slight changes in form and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention. Similar numerals indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawing in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view with the improved hose protector shown in place within the shoe.

Fig. 2 shows views of the members of the device in elevation removed from the shoe.

Fig. 3 is an edge view, one member of the device showing in dotted lines the position of the lower end of same when inserted in the shoe.

Reference now being had to the drawing by numerals, 1 and 2 indicate shield members of duplicate construction made preferably of 40 flexible material such as a heavy oil cloth,

semi-rigid rubber or the like, of a length sufficient to extend around one-half of the lower ankle of the wearer.

Said shield members are preferably provided with a slight downward curve 3 at the upper edge to facilitate their fitting snugly about the ankle. The upper corners are rounded as seen at 4. The front and rear edges are slightly deflected as shown at 5 to 50 provide greater width at the lower portion of the member to facilitate a better fit of the device about the instep and heel of the wearer. The lower forwardand rear portions of the shield are provided with a long sweeping curve to facilitate the insertion of the device between the foot of the wearer and the shoe.

By reference to the drawing it will be noted that a curve extension or lobe 7 is provided at'the lower central portion of the shield, its edge being gradually rounded and adapted to be forced down between the stocking and the shoe and project on a curved line beneath a portion of the foot in such a manner as to firmly hold the device and prevent its movement when the friction of the rag or brush is applied to the upper eldge of the shoe in the act of polishing the s me.

By reference to the drawing and more particularly to Fig. 1, it will be seen that the shield consists of two corresponding halves, adapted to be inserted on opposite sides of the foot, between the foot and the shoe by pressing same down by its upper edge. As said members are forced down within the shoe, they assume the configuration of their relative side of the foot and when projections 7 at the lower edges of the members come in contact with the inwardly curving portions of the sides of the shoe, the shield at its lower projecting portion will be forced beneath the foot in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3. In the position described wherein the lower projecting tongue or extension 7 is forced into a somewhat horizontal position, the upper edges of the shields resting approximately one inch above the upper edge of the shoe, are snugly in contact with the ankle of the wearer throughout and abut at their ends against each other. In said position there is provided a complete cuff or inclosure of the wearers stockings the members being held firmly against any rotary movement on the ankle by their abutting ends and by the lower extensions which are firmly anchored beneath the foot, in which position vigorous rubbing along the upper edge of the shoe with a brush with part of the bristles overlapping and in direct contact with the shield, or by the use of a polishing rag with a portion thereof in direct contact with the shield, there will be no disturbance of the shield, and a shine be applied to the top of a shoe without damage to the stocking of the wearer.

When the operation of polishing the shoe is complete the shield members may be quickly removed, will assume a flat position,

will occupy a very limited space and may be added to ones traveling equipment without inconvenience.

Having thus described my invention what I desire to secure and claim by Letters Patent As a new article of manufacture, a blacking-guard for stockings consisting of two separate pieces of flexible material of identical size and shape adapted to be inserted within the upper edge of the shoe on opposite sides of the ankle of the user and extend up the leg above the top of the shoe each having lower centrally arranged extensions adapted to be forced partly beneath the foot to retain said pieces against accidental vertical and longitudinal movement while polishing the shoe.

HOWARD M. YOST.

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