IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BRUSHING BOOTS AND SHOES, AND FOR POLISHING, GRINDING, AND SHARPENING Cutlery
Year: 1875

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LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine
Lake, & Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BRUSHING
BOOTS AND SHOES, AND FOR POLISHING, GRINDING, AND SHARPENING Cutlery,”
-A communication from abroad by Andrew Bogle, of Melbourne,
Victoria, Merchant.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 3rd February 1875.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co.,
Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR BRUSHING
BOOTS AND SHOES, AND FOR POLISHING, GRINDING, AND SHARPENING CUTLERY," a
communication, to be as follows:-

page_text: wedge, with the wide part resting on the ground. This framing
supports two. horizontal shafts, one above the other, the lower one
having a grindstone fitted on it and the upper one carrying brushes for
cleaning boots and shoes and pads for cleaning knives. The lower shaft
has a crank and treadle at one end for working it and a fly wheel at the
other. The upper one has a small pulley directly over the fly wheel, a
belt from which drives it. At the opposite end to the said pulley arc
two circular brushes with an interval between them, one is the cleaning
brush and the other the polishing brush. The boot or shoe is fitted
with an elastic last to keep it to the brush. The end brush on the upper
shaft is removable so as to permit a sharpening wheel to be substituted
for it for sharpening cutlery. Alongside the aforesaid upper shaft is
another one on the same level and parallel to it. 'It is considerably
shorter and has three compressible collars on it, one'ncar each end and
one near the centre. The two end ones are opposite to two similar.
collars on the brush shaft. Those at one end are enclosed, a slit being
left at the top through which the knives are to pass for cleaning, those
at the other end only serve as friction rollers, whilst the centre one is
for cleaning forks and the hilts of the knife blades. This shaft can be
thrown in or out of gear by pressing it against or withdrawing it from
the said upper shaft.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 30th July 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William Robert Lake, Her special
licence that I, the said William Robert Lake, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, tho said William Robert Lake,

page_text: my 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 MACHINERY FOR BRUSHING BOOTS AND SHOES, AND FOR
POLISHING, GRINDING, AND SHARPENING CUTLERY," a communication to me
from abroad by Andrew Bogle, of Melbourne, Victoria, Merchant, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Robert Lake,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, 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 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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Robert Lake, do hereby.
declare the nature of the said 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 accompanying'
Drawing forming a part of this Specification:-
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I first provide an oblong framing which supports two horizontal shafts,
one above the other, the lower one having a grindstone fitted on it, and
the upper one carrying brushes for cleaning boots and shoes and a con-
trivance for cleaning knives. The lower shaft has a crank and treadle
near one end for working it and a fly wheel near the other. The upper
one has a small pulley directly over the fly wheel, a belt from which
drives it, whilst at each end there is a circular brush, one for cleaning
and the other for polishing boots and shoes. The article to be cleaned
is filled with an elastic last to keep it to the brush. The brushes
are removable to admit of shapening wheels being substituted for
either of them for sharpening cutlery. On the same shaft is my
knife polisher, which consists of a number of pieces of dry clean sole.
leather about two and a half inches long and three-quarters of an inch
wide affixed lengthwise, end on to the shaft, from which each piece
projects radially. This polisher is enclosed in a casing supplied with.
sufficient polishing powder to enable the ends of each piece of leather
to dip into it at every revolution before passing over the knife. The
lower lip of the mouth of this casing consists of the edge of a piece of
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india-rubber or a soft brush which cleanses the knife from all dust as it
is drawn out therefrom. The bottom of this casing is continued for a
convenient distance, and is supplied with a certain amount of polishing]
powder. At the end of it is a pivoted door to keep in the powder.
until there is a danger of its being choked when it can be opened and
cleaned out.
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The pieces of sole leather which form my polisher may be fastened to
the shaft in any practicable way, but I prefer to make a couple of slits in
each piece reaching to within, say, one-quarter of an inch of the shaft,
to receive a strong copper wire, with which to bind it firmly thereto.
In order however that the said Invention may be clearly understood I.
will now proceed to describe the Drawing wherein,―
Figure 1 shews a perspective view of my household "help;" Figure 2,
a perspective view of my knife polishing contrivance; and Figure 3, a
longitudinal vertical section thereof.
B, B, is the framing of the machine; C, the treadle; D, the grind-
stone; E, the fly wheel (a belt from which drives upper) shaft G through
pulley F); H, the dirt brush; I, the boot polishing brush; J,
my new
knife polisher; K, its casing; L, india-rubber lip thereto; M, pivoted
door; N, copper wire.
The mode of operation is as follows:-If the machine is to be used
for grinding I disconnect the other parts of the machine from the driving
shaft by releasing the belt from the fly wheel.
1. If for brushing boots and shoes I replace the belt as shewn in
Figure 1.
If for sharpening cutlery I replace one of the brushes by a sharpening
stone.
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If for cleaning knives and forks, the knife is run in and out of the
casing K to bring it under the polisher J.
..Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood that I do not claim the use of revolving
brushes for cleaning boots and shoes, but I claim,-
First. The peculiar construction of knife polisher J with its casing K
and the india-rubber lip L.

page_text: Second. The combination of all the operative parts with the cast-
iron framing B forming my improved household help, substantially as
herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of July, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
Witness,
JA'. EDWARDS,
8, Southampton Buildings,
London.
W. ROBT. LAKE. (L.S.)