An Improved Boot-cleaning, Blacking, and Polishing Machine.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 14th Aug, 1890-Accepted, 20 h Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Boot-cleaning, Blacking, and Polishing Machine.
I, JAMES ROBERTSON WALLACE of 87 Richmond Road Barnsbury Physician &
Surgeon do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The object of my invention is to form a machine in such a manner as to facilitate
the cleaning, blacking and polishing of boots and shoes.
For this purpose I use as a foundation the ordinary table of a treadle sewing
machine, with its treadle plate, crank, wheel and driving band, or I may use a hand
apparatus or steam power if preferred. On this table [ affix two standards of any
required height, between these standards I affix a spindle, having one or more circular
brushes, in sets of three, affixed in suitable positions which I describe as the duster,
blacker and polisher respectively, the blacker being made to dip its under surface into
a well containing blacking, which receptacle is fixed immediately beneath the blacking
brush on the surface of the table. These brushes I arrange to be rapidly rotated by
means of the fly wheel, driving band, and a small pulley on one end of the spindle.
The action is as follows:-On-rotating the brushes the boot or article to be polished,
is held by the operator against the surface of the brushes in the order required, and
they will be polished in much less time and in a superior manner than by the ordinary
method.
The brushes and their working gear as herein described may be made in various
sizes, shapes and materials.
GRAHAM & GRAHAM,
Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Boot-cleaning, Blacking, and Polishing Machine.
I, JAMES ROBERTSON WALLACE 87 Richmond Road, Barnsbury, Physician and
Surgeon, 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, reference being also had to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which :-
Figure 1 is a front, and Figure 2 a side elevational view of my improved device.
My invention has for its object to produce a machine in such a manner as to
facilitate the cleansing, blacking and polishing of boots and shoes, and which may be
employed with advantage for polishing other articles.
In carrying out my invention, I employ as a foundation a bench or table A' of
convenient size and shape, such for instance as are used with treadle sewing machines.
Said table is provided with a treadle plate a, crank b, driving wheel c and driving
band or belt d; or, instead of motion being imparted to the machine by foot power, I
may work it by hand, steam or other source of power. Upon the table A is mounted
a shaft or spindle B supported between two standards C of any desired height, and
which may or may not be capable of regulation as may be desired. Upon said shaft
or spindle B is disposed one or more circular brushes. In this instance I prefer to
employ a set of three brushes D, D', D", 'D being the blacker, D₁ the polisher
and D the duster, or brush for removing the dirt previous to submitting the boot,
shoe or other article to the process of blacking. The blacker D' has placed beneath
it a well or other receptacle of suitable shape and size for containing the blacking.
Instead of mounting the blacker D upon the same spindle upon which are the
brushes D and D, I may mount it upon an independent shaft or spindle F, which
latter would be actuated by the reducing gear G, G, the smaller toothed wheel Ġ being
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page_text: adapted to the spindle B, and the larger to the spindle F as shown. My object in
rotating the blacker D at a less speed than the brushes D', D¹¹ is, that as the speed at
which the latter brushes are rotated would be comparatively high, if the blacker D is
rotated at the same high speed, the blacking would have a tendency to fly off by
centrifugal force, causing much annoyance to the operator.
The action of my improved device is as follows:-On rotating the brushes, the boot,
shoe or other article to be polished, is held by the operator against the surface of each
brush in the order required, the result being, that the work is done in a superior and
rapid manner with very little labor.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
:-
First The improved boot and shoe cleaning, blacking and polishing machine
substantially as described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Second The rotating of the blacking brush at a less speed than that of the
cleansing and polishing brushes.
Third In the boot cleaning machine herein described the method which I adopt
for reducing the speed of the blacker substantially as set forth.
Dated this 14th day of August 1890
GRAHAM & GRAHAM,
Agents for Applicant.