Improvements in Door-mats or Scrapers.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 27th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1895
Improvements in Door-mats or Scrapers.
We, FRANZ HERMANN DONATII, Engineer, and GUSTAV VON SCHARMITZER,
Private Gentleman, both of 2 Friedrichstrasse, Vienna I in the Empire of Austria,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:- .
The door-mats or scrapers hitherto in use do not answer satisfactorily their
purpose, since those made of straw, coir or reeds after a short use become smeared
on their surface, particularly in rainy or snowy weather, and therefore cease to
imbibe the moisture, whereas the door-mats or scrapers made of iron, wood or
rubber, if they scrape off the greatest part of the mud from the shoes, do not
absorb any of the moisture on them.
These defects are entirely obviated by the improvement to which the present
invention relates. According to the invention the door-mat or scraper, made of
wire-work, or of wood or iron bars, comprises a filling of material which will easily
imbibe moisture, such as fibres of bast, jute, hemp, coir, hair, wool, or the like the
door-mat then having the double effect of scraping off the mud from the shoes,
and of absorbing the moisture from them.
The improved door mat or scraper is made of a piece of wire-work stretched
within a frame. This wire-work is provided at suitable places with a filling of
fibrous material, either threaded through the meshes or sunk in recesses provided
in the wire-work, and prevented from falling out by means of wires.
Instead of fibres, any other moisture-absorbing material may be used, for instance
hair, bristles, wool, or the like and the wire-work may be replaced by a wood or
iron grate or by a sheet of rubber suitably perforated. It will be easily understood
that the scraper proper, that is to say the wire-work (or the substitute for it)
scrapes off the dirt from the shoes, whilst the filling absorbs the moisture.
Dated this 8th day of January 1895.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.
We FRANZ HERMANN DONATH, Engineer and GUSTAV VON SCHARMITZER,
Private Gentleman, both of 2 Friedrichstrasse Vienna I, in the Empire of Austria,
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 :-
The door mats or scrapers hitherto in use do not answer satisfactorily their
purpose, since those made of straw, coir or reeds after being in use a short time
become smeared on their surface, particularly in rainy or snowy weather, and
therefore cease to imbibe the moisture, whereas the door mats or scrapers made of
iron, wood or rubber, if they scrape off the greatest part of the mud from the shoes,
do not absorb any of the moisture on them.

page_text: These defects are entirely obviated by the improvement to which the present
invention relates. According to the invention the door mat or scraper, made of
wire-work, or of wood or iron bars, comprises a filling of material which will easily
imbibe moisture, such as fibres of bast, jute, hemp, coir, hair, wool or the like, the
door-mat then having the double effect of scraping off the mud from the shoes,
and of absorbing the moisture from them.
In the accompanying drawing which illustrates a door-mat or scraper constructed
according to the present invention
Figure 1 is a plan of the said door mat or scraper.
Figure 2 is a portion of the same drawn to a larger scale, and
Figure 3 is a section on the line - of Figure 2.
As shown the improved door-mat or scraper is composed of a frame a having
wire-work stretched over the said frame. This wire-work is provided at suitable
places with a filling c of fibrous material, either threaded through the meshes or
sunk in recesses provided in the wire-work, and prevented from falling out by
means of wires d, as shown in Figures 2 and 3.
a
Instead of fibres, any other moisture-absorbing material may be used, for
instance hair, bristles, wool, or the like and the wire-work may be replaced by
wood or iron grate or by a sheet of rubber suitably perforated. It will be easily
understood that the scraper proper, that is to say the wire-work (or the
substitute for it) scrapes off the dirt from the shoes, whilst the filling absorbs the
.moisture.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
A door mat or scraper essentially consisting of a scraper proper made of wire-
work, wood or iron bars or of rubber strips, within which scraper is inserted a filling
of material capable of easily absorbing moisture, such as fibres of bast, jute, coir,
hemp, or hair, bristles, wool, and the like in such a manner that the door-scraper
has the double effect of scraping off the mud from the shoes, and of absorbing the
moisture from them, substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 27th day of September 1895
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.