AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR DAYTONTIN Rooms STATO DATE AND OTHER ARTICLES " CLEANING AND POLISHING BOOTS, SHOES, PLATE, AND OTHED ARTICLES
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Robert M°Voy, of Harrogate, in the
County of York, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR
DAYTONTIN Rooms STATO DATE AND OTHER ARTICLES
"
CLEANING AND POLISHING BOOTS, SHOES, PLATE,
AND OTHED ARTICLES
"
Sealed the 3rd February 1874, and dated the 29th November 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Robert M.Voy
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 29th November 1873.
I, JOSEPH ROBERT McVOY, of Harrogate, in the County of York, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
MACHINE FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING BOOTS, SHOES, PLATE, AND OTHER
ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to an improved machine for cleaning and
polishing boots, shoes, plate, and other articles.
The working parts of the machine are mounted in a suitable frame-
work, which may be supported on a stand and driven by a treadle
motion, or steam power may be employed for the purpose.

page_text: A trough or fountain for containing blacking is provided near the
front of the machine, so fitted as to be readily removed for cleaning.
This trough is placed behind a table on which the boot is laid, to be
pressed up against a revolving brush which receives a supply of
blacking from a rubber roller rotating in the fountain and transfers it to
the boot.
The boot after being blacked is next placed on a table disposed at
one end of the machine, to be polished by brushes (the blacking rollers
being now thrown out of gear) to which a rectilinear to-and-fro motion.
is imparted by a horizontal shaft carrying a disc on one end recessed in
the end frame, and provided with a crank pin working in a transverse
slot or link in a frame or holder in which the brushes or rubbers are
fitted. The rotary motion of the disc is thus converted into a recipro-
cating or to-and-fro motion of the brushes against which the boot is
pressed and rapidly polished.
The brushes are secured in the holder by a thumbscrew at each end,
so that they may be readily removed for the purpose of being replaced
by rubbers for polishing or burnishing various articles.
The brush used for removing dirt from the boot before it is blacked,
is made of two-quality bristles, the one half being of light bristles for
removing dirt from ladies boots, and the other half of stronger bristles
for men's boots. The polishing brush is also similarly made, one half
being used for rubbing in the blacking, and the other portion for
polishing, the dirt brush at this time being removed from the holder.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 25
filed by the said Joseph Robert M°Voy in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 29th May 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
ROBERT MoVox, of Harrogate, in the County of York, send greeting.
!
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 30
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-

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cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Robert M°Voy, Her
special licence that I, the said Joseph Robert M.Voy, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
Robert McVoy, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING BOOTS, SHOES, PLATE,
AND OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Joseph Robert McVoy, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing, under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Robert McVoy, do hereby
declare the nature of my said: Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed; to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon.
(that is to say) :—
My Invention relates to a simple and effective machine for cleaning
and polishing boots and shoes; also applicable for polishing plate and
other articles, by the use of which a great saving. of time and labor is
accomplished.
The machine consists of a horizontal revolving' shaft mounted' in a
casting or frame, and supported' at a convenient height on a suitable
table or stand, a revolving blacking brush being fixed on the middle of
the shaft, which also carries at. one. extremity. a crank pin by which
reciprocating. rectilinear motion is. imparted to a brush holder working
in guides in the casting or frame. In this holder the cleaning or polish-
ing brushes are fixed.
In order that the Invention may be, more readily understood I have
illustrated it in the accompanying, Drawings, in which Figure 1,
represents a front elevation; Figure 2, a plan; and Figure 3, an end

page_text: view of the machine with the end plate removed. Similar letters of
reference indicate like parts in all the Figures.
a is the frame or casting in which the working parts are mounted
firmly secured upon a table 6 supported on a suitable stand; c is the
horizontal shaft mounted in bearings in frame a, and provided at one
end with a fly wheel and a pulley d for receiving motion from a treadle
or otherwise; e is a vertical brush fixed in a holder ƒ moving in guides
at one end of frame a. The holder f is formed with a transverse slot
or link g, Figure 3, in which works a crank pin h fixed on the face of a
disc keyed on the end of the shaft c, the disc working in a recess
behind the holder f, and the whole being enclosed by a covering plate k
to prevent the entry of dirt. By this means reciprocating rectilinear
motion is imparted to the brush holder f which projects at each end
and is provided with sockets to receive lugs or projections m on the
brush, which projections are secured therein by set screws i so that the
brush may be readily removed and replaced by another brush for polish-
ing various articles; n is an aperture in the table through which the
brush works up and down; o is the blacking brush keyed on the centre
of shaft c, so as to be readily removable therefrom when worn out, the
table being partly cut away, as shown, to allow of the boot being
pressed against the brush; p is a blacking trough or box fitted in an
opening in the table so as to be readily removable for cleaning. The
blacking is supplied from this trough to brush o by hand.
In using the machine a dirt brush may be first fixed in the holder ƒ
to remove dirt from boots or shoes, after which this brush is removed
and a polishing brush substituted. Motion being imparted to the
shaft c the boot is held against brush o until a sufficient quantity
of blacking has been transferred to the boot, which is then placed
on the table at 6', Figure 2, and presented to the action of polishing
brush e.
Having described the nature of my Invention and the manner of per-
forming the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be
protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
1st. The employment in a machine for polishing boots and shoes, and
other articles of a brush to which reciprocating rectilinear motion is
imparted from a rotary shaft, substantially as herein shown and

page_text: 2ndly. The general arrangement and combination of parts constituting
the improved machine for cleaning, blacking, and polishing boots and
shoes, substantially as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Robert M°Voy, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.