US982824A - Cleaning and polishing device. - Google Patents

Description

A. JOHNSON.

CLEANING AND POLISHING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 18, 1909.

.' 9 2 Patented Jan. 31,1911.

\A/ffi 555E; MEWIIIIR v m ohns n ALBIN JOHNSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLEANING AND POLISHING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 31, 1911.

Application filed August 16, 1909. Serial No. 513,141.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBIN JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cleaning and Polishing Devices; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to that class of cleaning. and polishing devices adapted for use in cleaning eye glasses.

The object of this invention is to provide an exceedingly simple device so constructed as to operate on both sides of the lens simultaneously and in which the cleaning pads may be removed for washing, if desired.

It is also an object of the invention to afford a spring clip whereby the cleaning pad or surface may be engaged in place.

It is also an object of the invention to afford connected cleaning pads adapted to yieldingly engage opposite sides of an eye glass when in use irrespective of the shape or thickness of the lens.

The invention consists in the matters hereinafter described and more fully pointed out and defined in the appended claims.

In the d 'awings: Figure'l is a face view illustrating the use of a device embodying my invention in cleaning eye glasses. Fig. 2 is a side or edge View of the cleaning device. Fig. 3 is a View in elevation of one of the pads and partly broken away to illustrate the construction and method of securing the pad in place. Fig. 4 is a section of one of the pads taken on line 4ll of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary section thereof.

As shown in the drawings: two pads, 1 and 2, are secured respectively on the flat or spatulate arms 9 of the holding tool or pliers 3. Said holding tool as shown, consists of a plate of sheet metal stamped to form on opposite ends broad, rounded and inwardly tapering arms 9 which being inte 'rally connected together, possess consideratfie resiliency. Secured on said arms are the pads. These, as shown, comprise a layer of chamois skin or other suitable material 6, within which is laid a tiller 7, of any suitable yielding material including, if desired,

' curled hair, cotton wool, or any material suitable for the purpose. Resting on the inner side of said pad is a plate 8, shaped to conform generally with the contour of the arm 9 and having its edges turned or hooked upwardly and inwardly to afford resilient detents to engage the arm in place. The edges of the chamois skin or other material are brought upwardly and over the edges and outer end of the respective arms and said end is sprung dowmvtmlly between the inwardly turned edges of the clamping member 8, as shown in Figs. 3, l, and 5, to hold said pad in place on the arm and to confine the edges of the chamois skin or other polishing material beneath the arm, as shown in Fig. 5.

The operation is obvious from the description given. The upwardly turned edges of the chamois pads and the outer side of each of the spring arms 9, afford a recess for the linger and thumb of the operator who inserts one of the lenses of the glasses between said pads and operates the pads to clean all moisture, grease or dirt of any kind from the glasses. Of course, the spring arms being comparatively broad and thin yield readily to pressure so that when the lenses are of unusual thickness or unusual shapes the device readily yields itself to such constructions. and of course. is capabio of use for gene a1 scouring and polishing purposes, as, for instance, table cutlery. Should it ever be necessary to cleanse one of the pads, it may he almost instantly removed by exerting a light pressure on the recessed margins of the pad, thus rolling the same from the arm whereupon it may be thoroughly washed and cleansed and easily returned to the arms for further use.

Of course, details of the construction may be varied. I therefore do not purpose limiting this application for patent otherwise than necessitated by the prior art.

I claim as my invention:

1. A cleaning and polishing device, embodying spring arms, a clamp for each arm having inwardly turned spring edges around the contour of its arm adapted to receive said arm and retain the same in place and to project marginally above the surface of said arm, and a pad covering one face of said clamp and having its edges engaged between said clamp and spring arm.

2. In a device of the class described, parallel members spring connected at one end,

pads for said members, and a plate for each scribed my name in the presence of two submember having 1ts edges turned to sprmg scribing Witnesses.

over the ed es of its member to rip said pad in place 25161 to form a pro jecting edge ALBIN JOHNSON 5 around the periphery of said member Where- Vitnesses:

by a finger retaining pocket is formed. LAWRENCE REIBSTEIN,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub- H. E. HANNAH.

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