US912115A - Shoe-brush. - Google Patents

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Speceaton of Letters Patent.

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Application led lay.22, 1907. Serial No. 375,108.

To all whom it muy concern: l

Be it 'known that I, JOHN H. GRAFFLIN, a Citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of'Maryland, have invented new and useful Im rovements in Shoe- `Brushes, of which the :fo owing is a specification. i

My invention `relates to a :shoe brush or polisher in which are combined bristles which may be used for the preliminary work of dusting off or cleaning the-shoe, or only in polishing, or in both o erations, vand a cloth or other flexible materlal adapted to be used in the final act of polishing. The cloth is also preferably Wound within a casing and upon a spring roller and is adapted to be drawn from the casing, carried over or under the bristles and secured at the back of the brush, so that after the cloth has been used for its special purpose it will, on being released, be automatically returned to its casmg. The bristles are given a special setting fitting them to receive and form a cushion for the cloth or iiexible material.

Other features in my improved device, together with the advantages pertaining to its use, will be hereinafter described; and the invention is more specifically set forth in the claims hereto appended.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a top view of the brush showing its back with the cloth or exible material coniined Within its casing. Fig. 2 is a side view of Fig. 1.

' Fig. 3 is a side view showing the cloth drawn from the'casing and secured at the opposite end of the brush back. Fig. 4 shows a modiconstruction, and 2 the bristles.

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Similar numerals of `reference indicate similar parts in the respective vfigures.

1 represents the back of a shoe brush which may be of any ordinary or a proved ear one end of the brush is a casing 9 of'metal or other material, the casing being secured to the back in an A suitable manner; and'withinV the casing an running axially thereof is a spring roller 10 of the type commonly used for automatically operating window curtains, to which roller is secured one end of a cloth or flexible material 11 which passes through the slot 12 of the casing and is provided at its free end with an eye or eyes 13.

In the use of the device, when it is desired to employ it either for preliminarily dusting of the shoe or for giving the iirst polish thereto after the apphcation of the blacking as set i or polishing substance, it will be understood that the'cloth oriiexible material 11 is wound upon the spring roller 10 within the casin 9 but when it is intended to give the nal polish to the shoe 'the user takes hold of the end of the cloth 11 pro'ecting from the casing 9, and carries it over t e adjacent end-of the brush back and under the bristles and lengthwise of the same, and over the bristles at the 'opposite end of the brush when the eyes 13 are hooked over pins 14 projecting from the back of the brush to'receive them.

By reference to Figs. 2 and 3 it will be seen that the bristles at each end of the brush are given an outward angle, this arrangement being intended to cause them to form a flexible backing or support for the cloth 11 when it is in ositio-n'for .use as in Fig. 3. The operator aving used the cloth for giving the final polish to' the shoe, he Will release the eyes 13 from the pins 14C, and through the agency of the spring roller 10 the cloth 11 willbe automatically drawn back into the casing 9.

The brush may be provided with a handle or not, as desired, and the cloth may not be adapted to be automatically returned, but the roller may be turned by means ofa button as in Fig. 4.

Other details of. construction may readily suggest themselves to the manufacturer Iwithout the exercise of invention.

The brush may obviously be used for blacking, or tan or other polish'.

My invention forms a simple, inexpensive and eliicient brush for the purpose intended, combining in itself all the requisites for giving the necessary polish to a shoe.

Having thus described4 my invention, I claim 1. In combination, a shoe brush, a cloth or flexible .,materiah va casing secured to the brush, and a roller within the casing upon which the cloth is Wound, the cloth being adapted to be drawn from the .casing and over and under the bristles and secured to the opposite end of the brush, substantially l orth.'

2. In combination, a shoe brush, a cloth or iiexible material, a casing secured to the brush, and a spring rollerl Within the casing upon which the cloth is wound, the cloth being adapted to be drawn from the casing and over and under the bristles and secured to the opposite end of the brush, substantially asset orth.

3. In combination, a shoe brush, a casing secured to the brush, a spring roller within the casing, a cloth or flexible material wound upon the roller and having eyes at its outer end, and pins at the o posite end of the brush, the cloth being a apted to be drawn from the casing and over and under the bristles and secured to the pins at the opposite end of the brush, substantially as 'set forth.

4. In combination, a shoe brush having bristles the end ones of which project at an outward angle as'shown, a. cloth or flexible material, a oasin secured to the brush, and a s ringroller Wit in the oasingupon which the cloth is wound, the cloth being adapted to be drawn from the casing and over the outwardly-projecting end bristles at one end, and under the main body of bristles, and over the outwardlyrojecting bristles at the opposite end of the rush and to be secured at that end thereof, `substantially as set forth.

5. Combined with a shoe brush having bristles the end ones of which project at an outward angle as shown, a cloth or flexible material, a casin secured to the brush, and a roller Within t e casing upon which the cloth is wound, the cloth being adapted to be drawn from the casing and over the Voutwardly-projeoting end `bristles at one end, and under the main body of bristles, and over the outwardlyrojecting bristles at the opposite end of the rush and to be secured at that end thereof, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H. GRAFFLIN.

Witnesses: v

E. G. SHIPLEY, M. I. HU'rcnINs.

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