US1931686A - Waxing appliance - Google Patents

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Oct. 24, 1933. w- BUTCHER 1,931,686

WAXING APPLIANCE Filed Dec. 20, 1930 Patented Oct. 24, 1933 PATENT OFFICE VVAXING APPIANCEy v William L. Butcher, Newton, Mass.

Application December 20, 1930 Serial N0. 503,725y

2 Claims. (ci. g1g-39) The invention relates to a Waxing appliance for waxingffloors or other objects.

The essential objectof the yinvention is toprovide means wherebyV a non-fiuid waxor waxing compound in tablet form may be applied to a iioor or object to be ywaxed withY even distribution and at a proper rate. A further object of the invention is to so clothe each Waxing tablet that the waxing unit thus provided maybe combined with other waxing units yand arranged in stack wherebythe. integrity ofthe wax tablets will be maintained 'and loss by evaporation or breakage prevented in so far as possible', the individual Aunits being used from time to time as occasion may require. Other objects and advantages accruing therefrom willvbe referred to in the followingdescrption of the appliance, all of which' can best be seen and understood by reference tothe drawing, in Which Figure 1 is a plan of the appliance.

Fig. 2 is 'an end elevation thereofl v Y Fig. 3 is a section on the line a-s of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 shows in elevation a stack of WaxingY units to which reference-will later be made.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary View on an enlarged scale showing a detail of construction.

1 is the waxing appliance or unit. In its various parts the appliance comprises the wax tablet 2; the container 3 for the tablet with side and end Walls 4 housing the sides and ends of the tablet; the receptacle 5 backing the -container 3 and adapted to receive a rubbing block 6 to which is pivotally secured a handle 7 (see Fig. 2) by which the appliance may be moved over the surface of a floor or object to be waxed; a fabric 8 preferably cheesecloth or the like, covering the open front of the container 3 and wax tablet within it and with extension overv the side and Aend walls of both the container 3 and the receptacle 5; and the edging 9 secured to extend around the side and end walls of thereceptacle 5.

The wax tablet 2, like the appliance or unit 1,

of which it constitutes a part, is preferably rectangular in form. The tablet is of a relatively soft wax or paste which may be worn away by rubbing or attrition and in this Way applied to.

the floor or surface to be waxed as the appliance A is moved over it.

Y the wax through the meshes of the'fabric.

.lapse of the walls as explained' above.

tablet as aforesaid, Will by their bearing against f the surface to be waxed, be enabled to effect an even distribution of the wax from the tablet and prevent a too free application thereof as they appliance is moved over said surface. In other words, the character of the paper or substance forming the walls 4 surrounding the wax tablet is such that these walls by their bearing against the surface to be waxed will gradually collapse as force is applied for applying the wax, and the Wax.. becomes Vslo-wly worn away by attritive action. The walls should be of a character to collapse slowly only as the wax wears away. In consequence the walls will not only enable an .even distribution of the wax to be obtained, but

will also allow a very thin application of the wax inasmuch as the application will depend upon the extent to which the walls have collapsed.

The wax is applied to the iloor or surface to be waxed by application through the porous mesh of the fabric 8, which is applied asbefore described to extend over Vthe walls 4 of the 4waxcontainer and over and around the ends of these walls and thence'over the open front ofthe ccn-l tainer, thereby necessitating the dispensing of In its attachment to the Walls 4 of the container the fabric assists in obtaining a proper distribution of the Wax, reinforcing these walls at the same time permitting by its iiexibility a gradual col- The walls 4 are preferably of a depth slightly longer than the thickness of the wax tablet so thatthey will extend slightly beyond the face of the tablet. By its turning around the ends of the walls 4 to pass over the open front of the container as aforesaid, the fabric will form bends 10 in the outer edges of these Walls and these bends Will enable the walls to hold the wax tablet in place out of contact with the fabric even though the fabric should become loosened from the container within which it lies. It is desirable that the wax should normally when not in use be kept out of contact with the fabric and this especially when the tablets are arranged in stack as will later be referred to. The bends 10 in the walls also facilitate the proper collapsing of the walls 4 during the application of the'wax.

In order that wax from the tablet may readily be applied to the floor or surface to be waxed when the waxing appliance is initially moved over the surface of the floor and force applied for dispensing the wax, the outer face 11 of the tablet or that face which comes in contact with the floor is preferably made corrugated or otherwise so formed that the initial bearing surface of the tablet will be smaller than the total face of the tablet. of the wax that it will readily pass through the meshes of the fabric at the very start o-f the operation and without the necessity of applying any excessive pressure as would need to be applied if the entire face of the tablet were brought into contact with the floor or surface to be waxed.

A further adaptability of the waxing appliance or unit resides in the fact that it lends itself to an arrangement in which it may be combined with other waxing units of a similar character and arranged in stack whereby the integrity of the contained wax tablets will Ybe maintained and loss by evaporation or breakage prevented in so far as possible, the individual units being used from time to time as required. To this end, in each unit the chamber within the receptacle 5, which receives the rubbing block 6, when the wax is applied, bears a determinate relation to the size of the wax tablet, the walls surrounding it and the covering for these walls lying in the unit below the receptacle 5. The relation is such. that the receptacle 5 of one waxing unit will receive the wax tablet, its surrounding, walls and fabric covering of another superposed waxing unit, and the size Vof each of the chambers of the several receptacles 5 will be sufficient notV only to re- Y. ceivethe Wax tablets as aforesaid, but so house thusbe arranged in stack and to assist in their support when so arranged and to encase the waxing units and their tablets in so far as possible,` e'achwaxing appliance or unit is provided with the edging 9 around its receptacle 5. This u edging is of arelative depth slightly in excess of the depth of the receptacle 5 with rising above thevtop edge of the receptacle, and the edging presents square edges 12, 13 at its top and bottom,

respectively. In consequence when the several This tends to so weaken the resistance.

Waxing appliances or units are arranged in stack as aforesaid these edgings will lie superposed with bearing one on the other and will together make a substantially airtight casing around the several waxing appliances or units which they surround or encase. Generally the combined waxing appliances or units thus arranged in stack are placed within an exterior receptacle or box 14 having a cover 15 as shown in Fig. 4. In this figure itwill be observed that in orderto support the bottom wax appliance or unit it is necessary to place within the bottom of the box an auxiliary inside edging 9 which corresponds l with the edging 9 on the units, and enables the 'lowermost unit to be supported in a manner similar to the support of the other units.

Having thus fully described my invention, I cla-im and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States:-

1. A waxing appliance comprising a hollow container having collapsible side walls adapted to embrace a waxing tablet and having an open bottom, a receptacle positioned with its bottom resting upon the top of said container, said receptacle having an open top so as to receive a rubbing block by which the appliance maybe moved over a surface to be waxed, a fabric'closing the open bottom of said containenand means above said container adapted to cooperate with said receptacle to anchor said fabric.

A waxing appliance comprising, a hollow container havingy collapsible side walls adapted to embrace a waxing tablet and having an open bottom, a receptacle positionedl with its bottom resting upon the top of said container and exe L19 tending outwardly beyond the side-walls of the container, said receptacle havingan open top so as to receive a rubbing block by which the apd pliance may be moved over a surface to beiwaxed, a fabric closing the open bottom of said container, and means above said containeradapted to cooperate with said receptacle to anchor said fabric.

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