Improvements in and connected with Boot, Harness, and like Brushes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Aug., 1898-Accepted, 24th Sept., 1898
Date of Application,
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Aug., 1898-Accepted, 24th Sept., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Boot, Harness, and like
Brushes.
I, WILLIAM SCRIVEN, of 228, Walworth Road, London, S.E., Superintendent of
Dulwich College Mission for Befriending London Orphan Boys, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to brushes for cleaning boots, harness, and the like.
In applying this invention I employ three or more brush-backs of wood or other
suitable material firmly fastened together at their edges so as to enclose a space,
the said space forming a receptacle for holding a tube of solid or liquid blacking
or other aids to polishing. Such receptacle may be closed at one end by a
movable metal plate or cover pivoted to the end of one of the brush backs. The
other end of the said receptacle being closed by the insertion of a turned wood
handle firmly fixed therein. The bristles or fibres of the brushes are inserted in
the outer sides of the article and may completely cover each of the three or more
sides, or a portion only of one or more of the sides; the portion of such side or
sides unoccupied by bristles or fibre being reserved for a name-plate or advertise-
ment which may be attached thereto.
Improvements in and connected with Boot, Harness, and like
Brushes.
I, WILLIAM SCRIVEN, of 228, Walworth Road, London, S.E., Superintendent of
Dulwich College Mission for Befriending London Orphan Boys, 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 had to the drawings herewith in which Figure 1 is an elevation
and Figures 2 and 3 respectively longitudinal and transverse sections of my
improved brush.
Boot and shoe and like brushes are usually made separately and accordingly
are liable to be mislaid. By my invention I seek to produce a combination article
whereby the three brushes namely the nard or cleaning brush, the blacking or
brush for applying the cleaning or polishing composition and the shining brush,
in the case of boots and shoes, are formed or combined together as one complete

page_text: article, provision being made therein for the reception of the cleaning or polishing
material, when same is not required for use, the simplicity novelty and utility
of the invention being at once apparent on reference to the drawing.
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In producing a combination article according to my invention with the object
above stated have by way of illustration shown in the 'drawing what I term
a three in one" brush that is to say the three brushes B are each adapted to a
back or base A which is preferably of wood, or it may be of metal, and fastened
together by clamps a or otherwise secured, or, the base or foundation A might be
formed in one piece. A receptacle in the body portion A of the brushes B is
provided and in this is placed a cylinder or other vessel b for holding blacking or
polishing composition c, the opening being closed by a pivoted or hinged lid
or cap C. A handle is provided to facilitate the manipulation of the brushes and
a suitable scraper E with sharpened edges for removing the dirt from the boots
or other articles, the opening in the scraper permitting the brushes to be suspended
from a hook. One style of handle is shown at 1 but it is obvious that any other
convenient form may be employed as found most convenient and that although in
the drawing I have shown three brushes placed back to back in the primary
application of the invention to boot or shoe cleaning in which case the transverse
section Figure 3 is substantially of triangular configuration I do not bind myself
to the particular number of brushes, their shape or size, nor to the precise con-
figuration of the base or foundation or the specific arrangement or construction
shown in the drawing as it is obvious that various modifications and applications
of the invention may be resorted to and employed without departing from the
nature of the invention and the object in view of producing the combination
brush and polish or cleaning receptacle hereinbefore referred to.
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:
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The combination article herein described for cleaning boots, shoes and the like
consisting essentially of the brushes B and bases or foundation A constructed and
arranged substantially as set forth and shown in the drawings and for the purposes
specified
Iated the 20th dow of
August 1xux
HNY. T. KING,
Agent for Applicant, 165, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.
HNY. T. KING,
Agent for Applicant, 165, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.