Improvements in Means for Cleaning Gloves and other Articles.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1895-Accepted, 3rd Aug., 1895
CUMPLIMIE STELIA WAT
Improvements in Means for Cleaning Gloves and other Articles.
I CHARLES JOHN BAILEY of No. 113 Washington Street, Newton in the
County of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, United States of America, Manu-
facturer 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 has for its object the production of a novel and efficient cleaner
for gloves, kid and the like.
My novel cleaner consists essentially in a readily flexible preferably india rubber
back provided at one side with a suitable handle, or device to enable it to be
operated, and at its opposite side with a plurality of closely arranged integral
frustro, conical hollow or ring-like projections.
In the drawings,
Fig. 1, is an under-side view of a cleaner embodying my invention.
Fig. 2, a longitudinal section on the dotted line x-x, and
Fig. 3 a cross section on the dotted line -, showing the preferred form of
handle.
In the embodiment of my invention herein selected for illustration, and shown in
the drawings, a, is a preferably thin, india rubber and therefore readily elastic
back.
This back is provided at one side with a plurality of closely arranged integral,
hollow or ring-like projections, said projections, for the best results, being frustro
conical in shape to enable their ring-like edges at the tops to be made very thin,
yet at the same time give to said projections sufficient rigidity and support to keep
them from tearing off when in use.
The back a, at its side opposite the hollow projections b, is provided with a
suitable handle, preferably in the form of a strap c, integral with the back, the
back, projections and handle being moulded in a single piece.
For use one or more fingers are inserted between the handle and back, giving
to the latter a somewhat bollowing and concaved form, so that the face side at which
the cleaning projections are arranged is convex, see dotted lines Fig. 3, enabling
the cleaner to be easily and freely rubbed laterally back and forth over and in
contact with the surface to be cleaned.
Notwithstanding the concavo-convex form which the cleaner assumes by reason
of the insertion of one or more fingers between the back and handle, the ready
flexibility of the back enables the same to be further bent longitudinally by curving
the fingers to thereby adapt the already rounded face surface to the curvature of
the glove finger, wrist or other surface being cleaned, see dotted lines Fig. 2.
The cleaning is effected by the thin ring-like tops or edges of the hollow
projections, which during the movements of the cleaner, enter and adapt them-
selves to every depression or inequality in the surface to be cleaned and by their
drag, due to the hollow structure of the projections, operate to suck the dirt from
the pores of the surface cleaned.
My invention is not limited to the particular shape of back, or kind of bandie,
I being the first so far as I am aware to produce a readily flexible back provided
at one side with a plurality of integral hollow cleaning projections.

page_text: 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 :-
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1. The herein described cleaner for kid gloves and the like, the same consisting
of a readily flexible back provided at one side with a plurality of integral hollow
or ring-like cleaning projections, and a handle for said back, substantially as
described.
2. The herein described cleaner for kid gloves and the like, the same consisting
of a thin india rubber back, provided at one side with a plurality of closely arranged
integral frustro conical projections having ring-like top or cleaning edges, and the
integral strap handle, substantially as described.
Dated the 1st day of July 1895.
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56 Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.