US426111A

US426111A - Device for drying boots

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Publication number: US426111A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-04-22
Anticipated expiration: 1907-04-22

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(NoMqdeL) W. G. OOPPIN.

DEVICE FOR DRYING BOOTS.

No. 426,111. Patented Apr. 22, 1890.

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VALTER G. COFFIN, OF SEEKONK, MASSACHUSETTS.

DEVICE FOR DRYING BOOTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,111, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed September 6, 1889. Serial No. 323,150. (No model.)

To all whom it 71mg, concern.-

Be it known that I, IVALTER G. COFFIN, of Seekonk, in the county of Bristol, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Devices for Drying Boots; and I declare the following to be a specification thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Like letters indicate like parts.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 00 a; of Fig. 1.

My invention is a device for drying boots or shoes; and it consists of a sheet metal base having tubes opening into said base and extending vertically therefrom, tubes of shorter length, but greater diameter, each surrounding concentrically one of the first-1nentioned tubes, respectively, and secured thereto by bolts, an arch fastened. to each outer tube and projecting upwardly over the corresponding inner tube, and a metallic plate held by said outer tubes and extending horizontally and parallel to said base,as hereinafter more particularly specified,

In the drawings the base is represented as made of the top plate A and the sides or flanges B. It rests on the lower edge of said side pieces B, and is open at the bottom. The top plate A has two holes or openings, and tubes 0 O extend therefrom 'ertically. They may be slightly tapering in form, and are secured by riveting to the base-plate, as shown at a, or in any other suitable manner. A plate D has two openings larger than the openings of the plate A, but correspondingly located, and two tubes E E, of larger diameter than the tubes 0, extend therefrom vertically. They also should be tapering in form, if the tubes G are shaped so, and are riveted to the plate D by riveting, as shown at b, or in any other proper manner. Bolts F, passing through the tubes 0 O E E, fasten them together, as shown in Fig. 2, so that the plate D is parallel with the plate A and raised above it about one and a half inch, and the tubes E are respectively concentric with the tubes 0. The tubes 0 extend above the top edge of the tubes E, and are perforated in their exposed part, as seen at c in Fig. 1, An

arch G, riveted to each tube E, as shown at (1, extends vertically upward above the tubes 0 E.

The parts are made of sheet metal, and the device is intended to be placed upon a stove and to convey heat into the boots to dry the same.

The boot is inverted and placed upon one of the arches G, which supports it, and the boot-leg extends down over the tube E. The heat of the stove, which is collected in the base, rises through the tube C and passes out of the top and through the perforations c of said tube into the boot and dries iton the in side. The plate D, being elevated a considerable distance above the plate A of the base, permits the free circulation of air between said plates, so that the upper one is kept C0111- paratively cool, while the lower one, when in use, is necessarily hot. The plate D therefore protects the top edges and legs of the boots, which extend down outside the tube E, from being injured by the heat, as they otherwise would be on account of their proximity to the heated base and stove-top. The tubes E, surrounding the tubes C, have a similar function. The inner space between said tubes 0 E allows currents of air to pass through and keeps the outside tubes sufiieiently cool so that the boot-legs are not injured by the heat,

as they would be if directly in contact with or exposed to the heated fines or tubes C. The arch G furnishes a convenient support for the foot of the boot inside. Being elevated above the mouth of the tube 0, it is itself always at a sufliciently low temperature, but holds the boot in such a position as to facilitate the entrance of the hot-air currents from below, as well as the passage of air out of the boot into the external atmosphere.

I claim as a novel and useful invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a device for drying boots, the combina tion ofa base-plate having flanges or supports and provided with circular openings, tubes fastened to said base-plate surrounding said openings, respectively, and extending vertically upward therefrom, a plate having circular openings and located above and parallel to the said base-plate, tubes extending upwardly from the circular openings of said I passing through said outer and inner tubes, upper plate and arranged to inclose and sur substantially as specified. round concentrically said tubes from the baseplate, respectively, an arch secured to the up- 5 per extremity of each of the outer tubes and Witnesses:

projecting above the open ends of the outer WARREN R. PERCE, tube and its companion inner tube, and bolts DANIEL WV. FINK.

WALTER G. COFFIN.