Mud Scraper for Boots, Clothes, and the like for Fixing on Brushes or otherwise.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1892
omplete Specification Left, 19th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Mud Scraper for Boots, Clothes, and the like for Fixing on Brushes
or otherwise.
CHARLES PARMLEY 65 St. Johns Villas Upper Holloway London N. no
occupation, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The above invention is for the easy removing of mud from boots, clothes & the
like.
To be made in flat metal with points raised on the surface to act as a kind of
rasp, to break the mud, & thereby rendering it easy to remove with a brush and to
have points to project beyond the end of whatever it may be fixed to that would
break the mud lodged in the stitching round the soles of boots & the like.
Dated this 11th day of February 1892.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Mud Scraper for Boots, Clothes, and the like for Fixing on Brushes
or otherwise.
I, CHARLES PARMLEY White Hart Hotel Harlington, Hounslow, (late
35 St. Johns Villas Upper Holloway) Hotel Proprietor, 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 :-
An invention for making easier the removal of mud from boots, clothes and the
like by means of a scraper which will scratch the mud and then render it easy to
remove with a brush.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood I will proceed to
explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Figure 1 shews my invention applied to a boot brush.
Figure 2 is plan of scraper.
Figure 3 diagrammatic section of the same on line A B. Figure 2.
Figure 4 is section on C. D. Figure 2.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the figures.
a is a plate of metal or other suitable material preferably tin plate provided with
ugs 6 which are bent over the sides and end of the brush d and secured thereto
by tacks or pins as shewn in Figure 1. The plate a is perforated with slot holes e
the metal which is removed from the slot holes being turned up at right angles to
he plate as shewn at ff Figure 3 so as to form a scraper.
The portion of the plate a is dished as shewn in section at Figure 4 to remove
the mud or dirt from the top of the welts the portion 9 projecting beyond the body
of the brush for this purpose.
The scraper is readily attached to any brush.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
ion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. In a mud scraper for boots clothes and the like the plate a having a series
of projections formed by perforating and bending the metal and lugs 6 to
attach the said plate to brushes or the like all substantially as described and
hewn.

page_text: 2nd. In a mud scraper for boots, clothes, and the like, the projecting portion g
of the plate a substantially as described with reference to Figures 1 and 4 of the
accompanying drawing and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 19th day of October 1892.
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.