IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE FEET, PARTLY APPLICABLE FOR CLEANING PLATE AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DOMESTIC USE."
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Horsley and Edward Hobson Jones, both
of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Engineers, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING BOOTS, SHOES,
AND OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE FEET, PARTLY APPLICABLE FOR CLEANING PLATE
AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DOMESTIC USE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Horsley and
Edward Hobson Jones at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 16th September 1861.
We, SAMUEL HORSLEY and EDWARD HOBSON JONES, both of Liverpool, in
the County of Lancaster, Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING BOOTS,
SHOES, AND OTHER COVERINGS FOR THE FEET. PARTLY APPLICABLE FOR CLEANING
PLATE AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DOMESTIC USE," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to that class of cleaning and polishing machines
where circular brushes are made to revolve by treadle or other means, and
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page_text: consists, firstly, in constructing or making the brushes so that when they
are placed in position on the spindles or shafts, they will form one
continuous brush, the periphery of which will be alternately concave and
convex; and, secondly, in supplying the blacking or other polishing
substance to the brushes by discs, arms, or vanes fastened to a spinille
resting on a framing placed in the receptacle or trongl: for containing the
said blacking or other polishing material, and which discs, arms, or vanes
can be brought into contact with the brashes at pleasure to communicate
the required quantity and no more.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Horsley and Edward Hobson Jones in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 15th March 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, SAMUEL
HORSLEY and EDWARD HOBSON JONES, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto us, the said Samuel Horsley and Edward Hobson Jones, Her special
licenco that we, the said Samuel Horsley and Edward Hobson Jones, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Samuel
Horsloy and Edward Hobson Jones, our executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING BOOTS
SHOES. AND OTHER COVERINGS FOR, THE FEET, PARTLY APPLICABLE FOR CLEANING
PLATE AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DOMESTIC USE," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Samuel Worsley and Edward Hobson Jones,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in. writing under our, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was

page_text: to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Samuel Horsley and Edward Hobson
Jones, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what.
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement (that is to say): -
"This Invention relates to that class of cleaning and polishing machines
where circular brushes are made to revolve by treadle or other means, and
consists, firstly, in constructing or making the brushes so that when they are
placed in position on the spindles or shafts, they will form one contionious
brush, the periphery of which will be alternately concave and convex; and,.
secondly,in supplying the blacking or other polishing substance to the brushes!
by disés, arms, or vanes, fastened to a spindle resting on a framing placed in,
the receptacle or trough for containing the said blacking or other polishing:
material; and which discs, arms, or vanes can be brought in contact with the:
brushes it pleasure to communicate the require quantity and no more.
That our said improvements may be clearly understood we have hereunto
attached an illustrative Sheet of Drawings, containing various views and
shewing modifications under the second head herein-before mentioned, all;
the arrangements being in connection with or suitable for a treadle motion;
as the most portable and convenient for general use.
Fig. 1 is a perspective view; Fig. 2, a side elevation; Fig. 3, a front
elevation; Fig. 4, a longitudinal elevation of our improved continuous brush
and a plate cleaningBuffer," and longitudinal and vertical sections of disc
and roller apparatus for supplying the blacking plate paste, or other cleaning
substance; and Fig. 5, another longitudinal elevation of our improved brush,
and longitudinal and vertical sections of similar roller apparatus for supply.
ing blacking. In all the views the same letters designate the same or
equivalent parts.
'a represents the framework; b, the binding bolts or strengthening stays;
c, the driving wheel; d. the crank axle; e, the connecting rod;f, the treadle
footboard; g, the driving band; h, the driving pulley secured to the spindle i,
which latter for convenience of removal is "set up" by centre screws and
Linding nuts j, although in some cases bearings on the framework might be
used;, the continuous brush, any part of which may be made of bristles
suitable for the work intended, but as here shewn has (1), the hard, (2), the
blacking, and (3), the polishing brushes; / shews a plate-cleaning buffer

page_text: made of circular pieces of calico clamped together; m a flat board or plate
passing from one side frame to the other, and in or to which is placed or fitted
the trough. drawer, or receptaclen, for containing the cleaning substance o,
and the apparatus for supplying the same to the brush or buffer; p,a guard
to provent any of the cleaning substance from being "thrown off;"q, cranked
spindles, on which are discs or rollers r free to revolve with the brush or
"buffer" when broughtin contact with the same; s, the handles for moving the
said supplying apparatus. Levers or other arrangements jointed or fitted to
the said trough, drawer, or other receptacle n could also be used for lifting the
said discs and rollers; and arms or vanes similarly arranged (as will readily
boscen) could also be used to convey the cleaning substance, preferably liquid
to the said brush or buffer." And the said discs,rollers, arms, or vanes could
be made to deliver by the length of the cranks, levers, or other arrangements,
the said cleaning substance, when partly immersed in the same, or they may
be lifted or raised out of it, and give off only that quantity adhering to
them.
To clean boots, shoes, and other coverings for the feet, the operator simply
requires to give motion by treadle,ns herein described, or other means,lift the
handle s or depress the lever or other arrangement,as the case may be, and
supply the blacking, then apply the article to be cleaned to the part marked
1, slide it along to 2, and polish with 3.
The cleaning of plate and other articles of domestic use is similarly per-
formed. The plate paste or other substance is applied to the "buffer," then
to the article to be cleaned, and fiually polish by another "buffer" or by hand.
Having now described the nature and particulars of our said Invention, and
the mode of using the same, we would have it understood that we do not
confine ourselves to the exact proportions laid down in the Drawings, nor to
the use of metal, timber, or other material for any of the parts of our appa-
ratus, as these may be variously altered and combined without departing from
the leading features of our improvements, neither do we confine ourselves
to obtaining rotary motion by treadle, as hand or other power could be
employed; but what we claim is,―
Firstly, rotating circular brushes in the form of one continuous brush, the
periphery of which is alternately concaveand convex, for cleaning and polishing
boots, shoes, and other coverings for tho feat. substantially as horcin
described and illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
And, secondly, discs, rollers, arms, and vanes for supplying blacking,plate
paste, or other cleaning substance to the brushes or "buffers" arranged and

page_text: operated substantially as herein described, and as shewn in the Drawings
herewith.
In witness whereof, we, the said Samuel Horsley and Edward Hobson
Jones, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirteenth day of
March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two.
In the presence of
JOHN DAVIES,
SAMUEL HORSLEY.
(L.S.)
EDWARD HOBSON JONES. (L.S.)
Clerk to John Thomson King,
Patent Ageut, 4, Clayton Square,
Liverpool.