Improvements in Apparatus for Oleaning, Blacking, and Polishing Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Late of Application, 30th June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 1st Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 13th Apr., 1889
Improvements in Apparatus for Oleaning, Blacking, and Polishing
Boots and Shoes.
I WILLIAM ELLIOT of Woodchester Mills Stroud Gloucestershire do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR (LEANING BLACKING
AND POLISHING BOOTS AND SHOES:-
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This invention relates to the process of Cleaning Blacking & Polishing Boots &
Shoes Combined.
For this purpose the dirt is first removed by a Brush circular in shape but rising to
a cone in its centre, fixed on a spindle with V pully attached acted upon by a driving
wheel with endless belt and driven either by foot treadle or any other motive power.
The Boot is then covered with Blacking from a small cone shaped brush driven by
V Pulley with endless belt but at a slow speed-This Brush is feed with Blacking
automatically by means of a lever acted upon by the hand-this lever is attached to
the sides of the machine and when depressed by the band raises an upright at right
angles to it-this upright has a continuation runing at right angles to the last, and
being placed parallell with the small cone shaped brush, a further continuation is
carried on of this lever runing at right angles with the brush but slightly dipping
downwards, so that when the lever is depressed, the end upon which is a Sponge or
Brush touches the Cone Brush, but when the lever drops down to its normal position
it falls down into a small trough made for it which is kept supplied with suitable
Blacking.
The Boot is then Polished by a brush in two halves exactly corresponding with one
another They are half moon shaped when seen section way but circular the opposite
way, & run side by side attached to different spindles and runing reverse ways-one
spindle being driven with open and the other crossed strap, and going at a high rate
of speed. Thus by the form of this brush all parts of the Boot are polished perfectly
and speedily.
Dated this Twenty ninth day of June One thousand eight hundred and eighty

page_text: I WILLIAM ELLIOT of Woodchester in the County of Houcoster Woollen Cloth
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
A succession of Brushes mounted upon spindles and supported by an Iron or
Woodden frame as shown in the Drawing accompanying F. G. H and driven by either
the feet working Treadles or any other motivo power suitable for driving the same as
shown A A and communicating motivo power by means of driving wheels as shewn (0
fixed to a crank shaft B B by means of suitable Straps or Bands as shown in the
drawing Brush F is for removing the dirt or dust and is cone shaped and circular in
form thus when soen as a section shows a cone, but when seen plan way a circle-
this shape effectually reaches all parts of the Boot or Shoe-this Brush is covered
with two kinds of Bristles on one side very hard on the other side softer for either
hard dirt or dust-this Brush runs at high rate of speed-Brush G is a brush in two
sections and cone shaped and circular as described under F each section is attached to
different spindles and acted on by different driving wheel one driving wheel conveying
its motion by an open strap the otbor by a crossing strap thus the motion of one is the
reverse of the other-these two sections run at a high rate of speed-Brush H is for
putting the Blacking on to the Boot or Shoe and is a perfect cone every way, is
mounted on a suparnio spindle and driven from off the crank shaft by a small pully
attached thereto as shown in drawing by means of a suitable strap or band at a slow
rate of speed-this brush is food with Blacking from a well immediately beneath this
Brush This well can be made either of porcelain or suitable metal and the shape may
either half circle or an angle to suit the frame as shewn I-The Blacking is conveyed
to the cone shaped Brush H. by moans of a small brush the size of tho well aforesaid,
which rises or falls by means of a land lever as shown M M, thus when the lever is
depressed the small brush rises and touches the blacking brush and revolves itself
against it, and when the lever rises the Brush falls again into the Blacking well and is
freshly supplied with Blacking-N is a seat for the operator which can be taken out
and fixed at will-Each end of the soat has a pin which fit into projecting arms as
shewn in the drawing-those arms have a slot into which the pin fits the seat thus
revolves itself and adapts itself to the operator when working the Treadles.
O is a sloping shelf or Table with holes cut in it-to agree with the size of the
Brushes which run through it and the Boot or Shoe can rest upon this when in the
hands of the operator and it also keeps the dirt from off the spindles and bearings.

page_text: D shews a sloping apron for carrying away the dirt and dust thus protecting the knees
of the operator E are shelves for placing the Boots upon and can be put up or down
as required, by means of hinges.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
The Improvements of apparatus for Cleaning Blacking and Polishing Boots and
Shoes by which means the dirt is removed-the Blacking is put on automatically
and the Boots polished by brushes suitably shaped and arranged substantially in the
manner herein before described and represented in the drawing annexed.
Dated this First day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighty nine.