US2068001A - Shoe cleaning tool - Google Patents

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Jan. 19, 1937. L. w. BARNES SHOE CLEANING TOOL Filed Nov. 22, 1935 Z 721@nf07-' v [Zoyd AU." MA 0. @May Patented Jan. 19, 1937 UNITED ST'l OFFICE SHOE CLEANING TOOL Application November 22, 1935, Serial No. 51,033

1 Claim.

My present invention relates to improvements in a shoe cleaning tool and has special reference to the provision of such a tool for cleaning, applying polish to, and polishing the upper extending surfaces of the soles of shoes and the edges of the soles of shoes.

At present, so far as I am aware, any article which is sharp enough to enter the angle occurring where the vamp or upper joins the sole is employed for displacing mud or other foreign matter when the same lodges in said angle, and the applying of polish at these parts and the polishing thereof is secured, so far as it is secured at all, by an endeavor to force the bristles of the brush into and to the bottom of the gradually narrowing space at the parts indicated.

The use of a sharp instrument or bluntly pointed instrument hardly ever'suflices for completely removing the soilure or foreign matter from this portion of the shoe and reliance upon the bristles of a dauber or polishing brush for inserting polish and polishing the shoe within the angle results in at least a non-uniformity of the excellence of the work and sometimes the skipping of considerable areas where both cleaning and polishing are not accomplished.

As will hereafter be seen, I have provided an exceedingly simple tool for accomplishing the special purpose heretofore referred to by means of which the cleaning, applying polish to, and polishing of the tops and sides of the soles of shoes may be much more quickly, uniformly, and satisfactorily accomplished.

I attain the foregoing objects by means of the Structure illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. 1 is a schematic illustration of my tool in position for working upon the top edge of the sole of a shoe.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the tool shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a fragmental detail section on line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a fragmental detail section on line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a fragmental detail section on line 5--5 of Fig. 1:

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the respective views.

The tool can be conveniently and economically formed from a sheet of metal, or any other suitable material, shaped to provide a body or blade 5 having a flange 6 extending at right angles or substantially at right angles with one longitudinal edge of the body portion. A reduced width of the metal from which the body is formed, including the extending flange, may conveniently be extended from one corner of the body portion to provide a handle 6a. The handle is preferably bent from the body portion 5 both laterally with respect to the body and also out of the plane thereof, so as to provide space between the shoe and the handle while the blade is being applied to the edge and top of the sole.

At the corner on the same side of the blade from which the handle extends, but opposite to the corner from which the handle extends, a slit or cut 1 separates a portion of the flange 6 from the blade 5 and a portion of the separated blade is curved at 8 from the general plane of the blade so that the blade may be more readily applied to the curve of the edge of the'sole while the flange is maintained in contact with the top surface of the outwardly extending portion of the sole. This feature of the structure permits the flange 6 to be extended over a greater width of the sole, than the width of the flange would otherwise permit, while the blade 5 is in contact with the adjacent right angled edge portion of the sole. The handiness of my tool arises from the fact that the flange prevents the blade from running off the edge of the sole, and when the flange is doing the work the blade supplements able way, material 9, such as felt, which will be found advantageous in removing soilure, in applying polish and also in polishing.

It will be obvious from the above description, taken in connection with the drawing, that I have provided a very simple little tool with which the soles of shoes may be quickly and dependably dressed.

Having described my invention What I claim is new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A tool for cleaning and dressing the tops and edges of the soles of shoes comprising a blade portion curved from its general plane at one end. a right angled flange extending longitudinally from a side edge of said blade portion, a portion of said flange opposite the curved portion of said blade being detached therefrom.

LLOYD W. BARNES.

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