A. BOOT CLEANING MACHINE
Year: 1884

page_text: I HENRY GEORGE WELLS of 29 Hampden Gurney St Edgeware Rd. in the City
of London Turner & Machinist do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
for A. BOOT CLEANING MACHINE to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a new method of Boot Cleaning Iron stand, 2 ft high,
fly wheel 3 brushes; polisher, blacking, & dirt; do to stand on a table like an
ordinary knife cleaning machine, all worked by handle attatched to fly wheel, that
is all rotary motion.
This machine is composed of 3 flat brushes 8inch in dia. The blacking & dirt
brushes, are backed together, and screwed on to spindle of fly wheel reversible,
(slow motion).
Advantages for slow motion.
(i) to prevent blacking from flying off.
(ii) to give more power for brushing off the dirt.
One foot above is polishing brush running on a short axel, increased in speed
by line from fly wheel Great care has been excercised to free the machine from
complication & also to make it thoroughly compact The boot is held on the left
hand in the ordianry way and easily driven by the right.

page_text: I HENRY GEORGE WELLS, Turner and Machinist, 29 Hampden Gurney Street
Edgware Road do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BOOT CLEANING MACHINES" 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 the construction of a small machine to be driven by
hand power for domestic use in which machine the brushes are mounted and
arranged so as to be driven at their relative speeds as required the boot to bo
cleaned being held and suitably pressed against the revolving brushes in such a
manner as to cause the brushes respectively to perform the different operations of
removing dirt applying blacking and polishing.
The machine consists of a standard with a foot adapted for its being fixed by
screws or otherwise to a table. In this standard is mounted a spindle or axle
carrying a hand wheel duly weighted to give stability to its action. On the same
spindle or axle are fitted two flat brushes back to back one of which brushes being
intended to remove dirt from and the other to apply blacking to, the boot to be
cleaned.
On the upper end of the said standard is mounted a pulley on the axis of which
is fixed a third flat brush for polishing. This brush is driven at the required
relative speed by means of an endless cord passing round the hand or fly wheel and
the pulley.
In the accompanying drawing 1 is the foot to be fixed to a table 2 the hand or
fly wheel, 3 the spindle or axle for this wheel and the dirt removing brush 4 and
the blacking brush 5 each of which brushes is reversible on the spindle. 6 is the
upper spindle forming the axis of the pulley 7 and the polishing brush 8.
The machine is used by first moving the boot against the operating surface of the
brush 4 in order to remove dirt such brush being driven at the slower speed by
means of the hand or fly wheel 2. The brushes 4 and 5 are then reversed and the
boot is moved against the operating face of the brush 5 in order to receive the
blacking properly distributed over it. And the cleaning of the boot is finished by
its being moved against the operating face of the polishing brush 8 driven at the
quicker speed by means of the pulley 7.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is..
The combination in a boot cleaning machine of a pair of reversible brushes for
respectively removing dirt and applying blacking such brushes being fixed on the
spindle or axle of a hand or fly wheel with a polishing brush driven at a higher
speed by means of a pulley from the said wheel substantially as and for the purpose
or purposes described.
Dated this twelfth dew of T. 100K

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I HENRY GEORGE WELLS of 29 Hampden Gurney St Edgeware Rd. in the City
of London Turner & Machinist do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
for A BooT CLEANING MACHINE to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a new method of Boot Cleaning Iron stand, 2 ft high,
fly wheel 3 brushes; polisher, blacking, & dirt; do to stand on a table like an
ordinary knife cleaning machine, all worked by handle attatched to fly wheel, that
is all rotary motion.
This machine is composed of 3 flat brushes 8inch in dia. The blacking & dirt
brushes, are backed together, and screwed on to spindle of fly wheel reversible,
(slow motion).
Advantages for slow motion.
(i) to prevent blacking from flying off.
(ii) to give more power for brushing off the dirt.
One foot above is polishing brush running on a short axel, increased in speed
by line from fly wheel Great care has been excercised to free the machine from
complication & also to make it thoroughly compact The boot is held on the left
hand in the ordianry way and easily driven by the right.

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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I HENRY GEORGE WELLS, Turner and Machinist, 29 Hampden Gurney Street
Edgware Road do hereby declare.the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN BOOT CLEANING MACHINES" 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 the construction of a small machine to be driven by
hand power for domestic use in which machine the brushes are mounted and
arranged so as to be driven at their relative speeds as required the boot to be
cleaned being held and suitably pressed against the revolving brushes in such a
manner as to cause the brushes respectively to perform the different operations of
removing dirt applying blacking and polishing.
The machine consists of a standard with a foot adapted for its being fixed by
screws or otherwise to a table. In this standard is mounted a spindle or axle
carrying a hand wheel duly weighted to give stability to its action. On the saine
spindle or axle are fitted two flat brushes back to back one of which brushes being
intended to. remove dirt from and the other to apply blacking to, the boot to be
cleaned....
On the upper end of the said standard is mounted a pulley on the axis of which
is fixed a third flat brush for polishing. This brush is driven at the required
relative speed by means of an endless cord passing round the hand or fly wheel and
the pulley.
.
In the accompanying drawing 1 is the foot to be fixed to a table 2 the hand or
fly wheel, 3 the spindle or axle for this wheel and the dirt removing brush 4 and
the blacking brush 5 each of which brushes is reversible on the spindle. 6 is the
upper spindle forming the axis of the pulley 7 and the polishing brush 8.
'
The machine is used by first moving the boot against the operating surface of the
brush 4 in order to remove dirt such brush being driven at the slower speed by
means of the hand or fly wheel 2. The brushes 4 and 5 are then reversed and the
boot is moved against the operating face of the brush 5 in order to receive the
blacking, properly distributed over it. And the cleaning of the boot is finished by
its being moved against the operating face of the polishing brush 8 driven at the
quicker speed by means of the pulley 7.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that -what
I claim is...
The combination in a boot cleaning machine of a pair of reversible brushes for
respectively removing dirt and applying blacking such brushes being fixed on the
spindle or axle of a hand or fly wheel with a polishing brush driven at a higher
speed by means of a pulley from the said wheel substantially as and for the purpose
or purposes described.
Dated this twelfth day of June 18OK