An Improved Foot-scraper with Brushes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 30th Apr., 1996-4ccepted, 13th June, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Foot-scraper with Brushes.
GEORGE WATSON JESSOP, Gentleman Medora Cottage Hurtmore Godalming
Surrey I do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An iron scraper consisting of two upright pillars and horizontal bar or scraper―-
to either of the two pillars is fixed by spring-hinges a brush-wing running in
front on a ball-castor which brush-wings meet in the centre and front of
transverse bar.
When in use the foot, after scraping on the bar, is drawn down and through the-
brush-wings forcing them open and pressing on the foot until it is drawn quite.
through, at the same time brushing off the mud on the side of the foot.
Dated this 14th day of September 1895.
GEORGE WATSON JESSOP Medora Cottage Hurtmore Godalming Gentleman..
I 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 :-
My invention relates to an improved scraper and cleaner for boots, and has for
its object the construction of an instrument in which by a simple arrangement.
brushes shall be caused to act on the sides of a boot or shoe as this is drawn over
a metallic blade or scraper.
In order that my invention may be clearly rendered, reference may be had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Fig. 1. is an external plan view.
Fig. 2. a front elevation part in section, and Fig. 3, a side elevation of the
improved scraper.
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Similar letters of reference are used to indicate similar parts in all views.
In constructing a scraper according to my invention, I employ two brushes B. B..
pivotally connected with two uprights F. F. which support a horizontal metal bar
or plate E. as in ordinary scrapers, the uprights F. F. being attached to a base or
sole A. of any suitable form.
The free ends of the brushes are supported by two suitable wheels or
rollers L. L. which run on the sole-plate and are normally kept approaching each
other by means of a spring G.
The pivots K. K. of the brushes are preferably attached to the brushes, working
in bearings in the tops of the pillars F. F. and prolonged through similar bearings
in the sole, underneath which are two arms H. H. attached to the pivots and
drawn together at their free ends by a spring G. but I may in some cases apply a
separate spring coiled round the pivot of each brush, or in any other suitable.
method to cause the free ends of the brushes to approach each other.

page_text: The inward range of motion of each brush is limited by a stop C. impinging
against the pillar F. in such a way that the free ends of the brushes are not allowed
to touch each other.
The action is as follows: When the boot is placed on the blade of the scraper
and drawn between the brushes, the latter separate, brushing each side of the boot,
and when the boot is removed the brushes are drawn together sharply by the
spring, till the stop arrests their motion suddenly, thus knocking off the dirt
removed by the brushes into the base or pan.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
First. In a boot scraper the use of brushes radially approached to each other
by means of a spring or springs, substantially as herein described and shown.
Second. In a boot scraper, the combination of two brushes with a metal scraper
similar to the usual form of such, the brushes being radially pivoted to the
uprights therecf, approached to each other by a spring or springs, and having their
inward motion confined by stops, substantially as described herein, with reference
to the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 29th day of April 1896.