Machine for Cleaning and Polishing or Shining Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 18th Nov., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Machine for Cleaning and Polishing or Shining Boots and Shoes.
I, EUGEN GLASER, of No. 41, Grosse Ulrich Strasse, Halle-on-the-Saale, in the
Empire of Germany, Merchant, 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 present invention relates to a machine for cleaning and polishing or
shining boots and shoes of any kind. The brushing cylinders employed in
connection with my invention can be constructed in a variety of ways and
shapes in accordance as to whether it is required to serve for cleaning the boot
or shoe or for shining the blacked boot or for polishing coloured leather boots.
The machine may be driven by manual power, by foot or in any suitable
mechanical manner.
The invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in such
machines for cleaning and polishing boots; and it has for its object to simplify
and cheapen the construction and to render more efficient, durable, and serviceable
in operation this class of machines.
To these ends and to such others as the invention may pertain the same con-
sists in the peculiar combination and in the novel construction, arrangement, and
adoption of parts, all as more fully hereinafter described, shown in the accom-
panying drawings and then specifically defined in the appended claims.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1 shows a machine constructed according to my invention and fitted to
be driven by manual power.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 shows a detail view of the means for locking the brush-cylinder.
Fig. 4 is a front elevation of a machine to be driven by foot and
Fig. 5 is a side elevation of Fig. 4.
The machine intended to be actuated by manual power consists of the
support a, fitted at the bottom end with a clamping device b, the lower arm
About
of which is provided with a fixing screw e in the well known manner.
the centre of the support a and in a thickened portion thereof the shaft d for
the toothed wheel e is journalled in a suitable bearing. Said toothed wheel e
is to be driven by the crank f.
At the top end of the support a and likewise in a thickened portion thereof
a shaft is journaled one end of which is fitted with a toothed wheel of small
diameter h meshing with the toothed wheel e.
The conically shaped free end of the shaft carries adjacent to the support a
a disc i adapted to receive in a slit k the stud m of the brush cylinder 7 which
is to be pushed on to the shaft g. For this purpose the cone of the brush cylinder
is fitted with a bore corresponding with the shaft g; the stud m. being situated
projecting laterally. This stud m is fitted with a head and one end of the slit k
in the disc i is correspondingly widened to permit its passage.
The brush cylinder has its free end likewise fitted and covered with bristles:
said bristles may he cut to assume any desired suitable shape, an instance being
shown in Fig. 4.

page_text: Two brush cylinders, one fitted with stiff bristles, the other fitted with soft
bristles, belong to every machine, the former serving for cleaning purposes the
latter serving for shining or polishing.
The machine intended to be actuated by foot as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5
consists of a table having the treadle lever 7 oscillatory pivoted to the axle p.
The connecting rod is linked at one end to the treadle lever 7 and at the
other to the crank formed on the shaft s which is supported in the underframe
of the table o and carries the transmission pulley t or fly wheel.
Motion is imparted from this transmission pulley t to a second pulley u of
smaller diameter. Said pulley is fitted on a shaft journalled in suitable
bearings in the support which is fitted to the table plate w. The shaft of the
pulley u projects at both ends beyond the support, the extensions being shaped
conical as indicated by 1 and 2 in Fig. 4. Both extensions are fitted with discs i
in a manner similar to that described with reference to the hand-driven machine.
It may be advantageous to provide drawers y for the reception of the cleaning,
blacking, and polishing implements and material beneath the table plate wc.
The machine described for manual power is operated, after having pushed the
stiff bristle brush cylinder t on to the shaft g so that the stud m engages the
slit in the disc i, by rotating the crank f which imparts motion to the brush
cylinder by means of the toothed gearing e, h. The boot or shoe to be cleaned
is brought in contact with the quickly rotating brush and is thereby cleaned,
whereupon it may be treated in the well known manner by applying blacking
or polish of any other nature to it. By then presenting it again to the machine,
the cleaning brush cylinder which has meanwhile been substituted by the
polishing brush cylinder, it will be shined or polished to perfection.
The machine adapted to be driven by foot power has preferably the cleaning
brush cylinder fitted to one extension. and the polishing brush cylinder to the
other. On actuating the treadle lever g motion will be imparted to the shaft
by the transmission means described in the well known manner.
It is obvious that where required, as for instance in large hotels, the shaft v
can easily be fitted to be driven by other motive power.
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:
1.) Machine for cleaning and polishing boots comprising in combination, a
support fitted with a clamping device at the bottom end, a horizontal shaft
journaled in a thickened portion in the shank of the support, a toothed wheel
mounted on said shaft, a second shaft journaled horizontally in a thickened
portion at the top of the support and carrying at one extremity a toothed wheel
of small diameter adapted to mesh with the second toothed wheel, the other
extremity shaped conically and fitted with a disc with slit, brush cylinders
adapted to be pushed on said conical extensions and to be rotated thereby, a
stud engaging the aforesaid slit for said purpose and a crank for actuating
the machine, substantially as described and shown.
2.) A machine for cleaning and polishing boots in combination with a table
having a pulley fitted on to an axle in its underframe, said pulley imparting
motion to the pulley on the brush cylinder supporting shaft, and a treadle lever
with connecting rod rotating the shaft in the underframe of the table, sub-
stantially as described and shown.
D
101 .
B. REICHHOLD,
International Patent Office,
24, Luisen Strasse, Berlin, N.W., Germany,
Agent for the Applicant.