Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1887.
Specification Accepted, 8th Mar., 1887.
I, WILLIAM DAVID, of Saint Fagan's Rectory, Cardiff, in the county of Glamorgan,
clerk in holy orders, 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 :-
This invention, which relates to door mats for removing mud, dirt or other refuse
from boots and shoes, consists in the use of a roller or rollers coated with suitable
fibrous material or matting, such as is commonly used for door-mats, or with india-
rubber, and free to revolve in bearings formed at the opposite sides of a tray which
receives the mud or other refuse removed from the boots or shoes by rubbing against
the said roller or rollers. The roller or rollers may be of wood, metal or other
substance and of rounded, square or other shaped section.
Door-mats so constructed are raised from the ground or the base of the tray and
are thereby kept more generally dry, the air having free access to the whole periphery
or peripheries.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings, Fig. 1 thereon
represents a side view and Fig. 2 an end view of a door-mat constructed and arranged
in accordance with one method of carrying this invention into effect.
Supported on bearings formed for its reception in the opposite sides of the tray a is
a roller b, which, in the example illustrated, is round in section. The roller is coated
with cocoa-nut matting or other suitable material, such as is commonly employed in
the manufacture of door-mats, or with india-rubber, affixed or applied thereto by any
well known means. The roller is free to turn on its journals &, and the air has free
access to the whole of the periphery of the matting thus tending to keep it dry. As
The mud,
will be seen, the roller is raised from contact with the base of the tray a.
dirt or other refuse removed by rubbing boots and shoes on the mat is received into
the tray a.
Instead of being round in section, as in the example illustrated, the
roller may be of square, oblong, angular or other section.
At Fig. 3 is represented an end view of a modification of this invention under
which two roller mats bare fitted to a tray a. The mats are placed at a distance
apart convenient for rubbing boots and shoes between them.
Similarly, more than two roller-mats may be fitted to a tray.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. An improved door mat consisting of a roller such as b, of rounded, angular or
other suitable shape, composed of wood, metal or other suitable substance, and free to
revolve in bearings formed therefor in the two opposite sides of a tray such as a, the
said roller being covered or coated with cocoa-nut matting, india-rubber, or other
suitable substance for removing dirt, mud or other refuse from boots and shoes rubbed
thereon, and raised from contact with the base of the tray, substantially as herein-
before described with reference to Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
2. An improved door-mat consisting of a series of two or more rollers such as
are described in the preceding claim, mounted in bearings in a tray and arranged at
a distance or distances a part convenient for rubbing boots and shoes between them,
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to Fig. 3 of the accompanying
sheet of drawings.
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.