Patent ID: 7051393

Claim:
An apparatus for cleansing shoes comprising: a tray for holding cleansing fluid; a plurality of mandrels suspended over at least a portion of the tray, each mandrel of the plurality of mandrels having at least two generally flat shoe-cleansing surfaces, each mandrel of the plurality of mandrels being coupled to adjacent mandrels of the plurality of mandrels, rotation of one mandrel causing equal rotation of each mandrel of the plurality of mandrels, the plurality of mandrels being aligned to provide a substantially flat shoe-cleansing platform comprising one flat shoe-cleansing surface of each mandrel of the plurality of mandrels; and a mechanism configured to store energy when a user steps onto the plurality of mandrels and to release the stored energy when the user steps off from the plurality of mandrels, the mechanism being configured to rotate each mandrel of the plurality of mandrels each time stored energy is released.