US965029A - Boot and shoe cleaner. - Google Patents

Description

G. E. SIPHERD.

BOOT AND SHOE CLEANER.

APPLwATIoN :FILED DBO. s, 1909.

Patented July 19, 1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. SIPHERD, Olil GAIJESBURG, ILLINOIS.

BOOT AND SHOE CLEANER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. SIP'HERD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Galesburg, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Boot and Shoe Cleaner', of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to boot and shoey cleaners.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a novel device of the character recited which is effective, durable, simple, and economic of manufacture; which is provided with a clean-out trough, and in which that part which is most subjected to wear may be readily replaced when worn, without removal or disturbance of the other parts.

@ther objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out.

To the end of carrying out these objects the invention consists in constructions, combinations, and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and made the subject matter of claims hereto appended.

A device embodying the preferred constructive form of, and showing the arrangement and mutual relationship of the parts forming the subject matter of my improvements, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top plan; Fig. 2, a front elevation; and F ig. 3, an end elevation seen from that end of the device at which the brush is located.

In said drawings the same reference numeral indicates the same part wherever applied.

2 represents a base, or base-plate, preferably of sheet metal, the rear portion of which is bent or flanged upwardly, primarily to provide one member of a clean-out trough 17. This flange however serves a triple function-it serves also as a cleaning bar when the device is used from the rear side, and as a support for a bent plate or bar Ll, one end of which is fixed thereto by a rivet 5. One end portion 6 of the plate 4 vlies along and perpendicular to a portion of the base 2, is then bent at a right angle to form the scraper portion 7, thence again bent at a right angle to provide a portion 8 to which one end of the hereinafter described brush is secured, and finally bent outwardly at a right angle to provide an extension 9 to which one side of the brush is secured.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application fil-ed December 3, 1909.

Patented J uly 19, 1910. serial. No. 531,227.

lf preferred, the portions 8 and 9 may be dispensed with and' the scraper bar 7 be 1 continued or extended' along one side of the brush as shown by dotted lines at Fig. 1 and secured thereto by screws, as shown.

The cleaning brush, which may be of any desired and suitable construction, is shown as being made after the usual fashion or manner of such articles and comprises a back 10, bristle-plate 1l and bristles 12. Screws 13 are threaded through the base 2 and into the back 10. A screw 14 is threaded through the portion 8 of the bent bar 4 and into the back 10, and screws 15 through the portion 9 and also into the back 10. It will be evident that the screws 13 hold the brush rigidly and securely but removably in place, and that, thus held, the screws 111 and 15 hold the scraper bar from movement.

The portions 6, 7, and 8 of the bar -L form a dirt-receptacle 16, while the brush-back and iiange 3 form the clean-out trough 17 hereinbefore described.

When used from in front the operator will hold the device from movement by placing one foot and thereby his weight on the free or unoccupied side of the base moving the bottom portions of the sole and heel of the shoe being cleaned over the bar 7, whereupon said portions as well as the upper7 may be thoroughly freed from dirt etc. by moving them over the upstanding bristles of the brush, which bristles it will be noted rise well above the metallic portions of the device.

When used from the rear side the device is generally secured to a porch floor or walk by screws (not shown) passed through the apertures 18 in the base plate, though it may be held by the shoe not being cleaned. The other shoe is then to be drawn'across the bristles to remove all dust and accumulations, while the flange 3 will at the same time and by the same movement remove all hardened accumulations, the combination or mutual cooperation of the bristles and iiange thus perfectly cleaning the shoe at a single operation.

The advantages of the invention will be apparent and the operation understood from the foregoing description, it being particularly noted that various changes may be made in the details of construction and arrangement of the parts without departing materially from the general idea involved.

Having thus described the nature of the invention and the best means I know for carrying it into eiiect, I claim as new and desire to securgby Letters Patent the following, toewitzl. A device of the nature described coinprising a base provided with a flange along its rear edge, a bent scraper-bar secured at one of its ends to said flange, and a brush secured to said base, the other end of said scraper-bar secured thereto.

2. A device of the character described comprising a base including a flange, a brush secured to said base, spaced from said llange, said flange and brush constituting a cleanout trough, and a bent plate secured at its ends to said flange and brush, said flange and plate constituting a dirt receptacle.

In Witness whereof I hereunto aiix my signature this 29th day of November, 1909. GEORGE E. SIPHERD. In presence of- CHAs. S. I-IARRIs, MYRLE NORTON.

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