An Improved Appliance for Scraping Boots.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left. 28th May, 1892-Accepted, 2nd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Scraping Boots.
I, WILLIAM WRIGHT DUNKERLEY of 16 Latimer Street, Oldham, in the
County of Lancaster, Millwright, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to boot scrapers of the kind in which the scraping tool
is secured in a slot in the handle by a transverse pin and is designed to obviate the
liability of such tools as ordinarily made to work loose.
According to my invention I provide at the slotted extremity of the handle a
metal ferrule into which the shank of the scraping tool fits tightly. This ferrule
and the tool are secured to the handle by a pin passing through them and through
the said handle.
The ferrule serves to hold the tool firmly in the handle and to prevent looseness
thereof, and also to strengthen the end of the handle which, instead of being
tapered, is or may be of cylindrical form.
Dated this 11th day of January 1892.
W. W. DUNKERLEY,
By L. W., per F. B.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Appliance for Scraping Boots.
1, WILLIAM WRIGHT DUNKERLEY of 16 Latimer Street, Oldham, in the
County of Lancaster, Millwright, 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 :-
This invention relates to boot scrapers of the kind in which the scraping tool is
secured in a slot in the handle by a transverse pin and is designed to obviate the
liability of such tools as ordinarily made to work loose.
According to my invention I provide at the slotted extremity of the handle a
metal ferrule into which the shank of the scraping tool fits tightly. This ferrule
and the tool are secured to the handle by a pin passing through them and through
the said handle.
The ferrule serves to hold the tool firmly in the handle and prevent it working
loose, and also to strengthen the end of the handle which, instead of being tapered,
is or may be of cylindrical form.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side view of a scraper constructed according to this invention;
Fig. 2 shows a scraping tool of modified form.
A is the scraping tool which is formed from sheet metal, for example iron, and
is provided with projecting parts as shown, to enable mud and dirt to be readily
removed thereby from crevices and irregularities in the object to be scraped. B is
the handle or tool holder, which may be of wood and one end of which is slotted
to receive the shank of the scraping tool. C is the metal ferrule fitting around
the slotted end of the handle and into which the shank of the scraping tool fits
tightly, the width of the said shank being approximately equal to the internal
diameter of the ferrule. D is a pin or rivet by which the ferrule and scraping tool
are firmly secured to the handle.
The modified form of scraping tool shown in Fig. 2 requires no further

page_text: explanation, being secured in the handle in the same manner as that shown in
Fig. 1.
It will be obvious that scraping appliances constructed according to this
invention may be employed for various purposes to which scrapers are
applicable. Thus they may be used for scraping bread tins. They may also
be attached to brushes of various kinds such as blacking brushes, paint brushes and
the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declaré that what I
claim is :-
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My improved scraping appliance in which the scraping blade or tool A is firmly
held within the slotted end of the handle or holder B by a ferrule C into which
the shank of the tool is made to fit tightly, and by a pin or rivet D, substantially
as described and shown.