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Description

No. 623,288. Patented Apr. I8, I899. H. F. RODNEY.

BURNISHING IRON FOR SHOE BOTTDMS.

(Application filed May 28, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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HENRY F. ROONEY, OF RANDOLPH, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- IIALF TO FRANKLIN PORTER, OF SAME PLACE.

BURNlSHlNG-IRON FOR SHOE-BOTTOMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,288, dated April 18, 1899.

Application filed May 28, 1898.

To all whom it nuty concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. RODNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Randolph, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Burnishing-Iron for Shoe Bottoms, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hand burnishingtools for shoe-bottoms. Heretofore substantially all of the tools of this description used for hand burnishing have been constructed solid and have been heated by lamps, gas, or stoves. This method being acknowledged to be crude and unsatisfactory, attempts have been made at improvement by constructing the burnisher hollow and circulating steam or heated fluids directly through it. This construction has also been found to be unsatisfactory, and to remedy its defects is the object of my invention. \Vith this object in View I have produced the hand-burnisher for shoe-bottoms which is the subject of this ap plication, the improved construction, arrangement, and combination of the parts of which will be first fully described hereinafter and afterward specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which myinvention most nearly appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, having reference to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating my invention connected up to a steam-pipe. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the iron and the steam-chamber. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section through the same.

Like letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by letters, Ain dicates a metallic block which is provided on each end with a stem A, upon each of which is fitted a handle B, of any suitable non-heatconducting material.

C indicates a bu rnishiug-iron secured to the block A by means of screws 0. The block A is hollowed out on its rear or top to furnish a seat for a hollow ball D, which is held in position in said seat by a ring E, secured to the Serial No. 682,039. (No model.)

block by means of screws E, the hollow ball forminga steam-chambersupplied with steam from a steampipe F through branch pipes G and H, the steam-pipe being provided with a valve I, which when closed will force the steam to circulate through the branch pipes and the chamber in the hollow ball. The block A is provided with extensions A on the sides, in which the seat for the ball D is partly formed.

The connection of the hollow ball or steamchamber D in the socket of the block A by means of the ring E forms a' ball-and-socket joint connection with the central rear or'top portion of the tool, which permits theiron to be gyrated or moved in any direction without changing the position of the branch pipes and hollow ball; but for purposes of freer adjustment or shifting of the iron in use to adapt it to WOlklll diiferentplanes the branch pipes G and H are provided with swiveling- ,joints J. By means of this jointing of the pipes and the ball-and-socket connection between them and the iron the iron may be held by the handles and turned or shifted to any conceivable angle or to varying vertical or lateral positions or planes for application to all parts of the shoe to which a hand burnishing-iron can be applied.

The circulation of the steam through the pipes G- and His governed by valves K therein, whereby the degree of heat is also regulated.

From the foregoing description it will be readily understood that the ball D will be heated to any desired intensity by regulating the passage of the steam through it and that the heat of the ball will be communicated to the block A, with which it is in direct contact, and from the blockA to theiron 0, all of these parts being composed of metal which readily conducts the heat.

lVhile I have illustrated and described the best means now known to me for carrying out my invention, I do not wish to be understood as restricting myself to the exact details of construction shown, but hold that any slight variation therefrom, such might suggest itself to the ordinary mechanic, would be clearly comprehended in the limit and scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and Wish to secure by Letters Patentof the United States, is

l. A burnishing-tool having a steam-chamber movably connected with the central rear portion of said tool and provided with a handle at each end whereby the tool may be gyrated relatively to the saidsteam-chamber, and yielding steam-pipe connections with said chamber wherebythe location of the tool and its heating-chamber may be shifted.

2. A burnishing-tool having a central rear portion provided with a rounded socket and having a handle at each end, a spherical steam-chamber located in said. socket, and yielding steam-pipe connections with said chamber, whereby the tool may be gyrated about the chamber and bodily shifted with said chamber, by means of said handles.

3. The combination with the block, A, having a rounded socket in its top and provided with the oppositely-extended stems, A, and non-conducting handles, 13, of the ring, E, connected to the block, A, the hollow ball, D having two steam connections and seated in the socket formed in the block, A, and ring, E, and the iron, 0, secured to the under side of the block, A, substantially as described.

HENRY F. ROONEY.

Vitnesses:

ASA F. FRENCH, FRANKLIN PORTER.

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