US550351A - Shoe-cleaner - Google Patents

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A. E. -& G. NIELSEN. 110 CLEANER.

No. 560,351. Patented Nov. 26, 1895.

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No.55O,351.' Patented Nov. 26,1895,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANTON E. NIELSEN AND GEORGE NIELSEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SHOE-CLEAN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 550,351, dated November 26, 1895.

Application 515a March 20, 1895.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Beitknown that we, ANTON E. NIELSEN and GEORGE NIELSEN, citizens of Denmark, and residents of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Oleaners, of which the following is a specification. Our invention relates to devices for cleaning boots or shoes; and it consists of a certain novel arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I represents a side view of a cleaner embodying our invention. Fig. II represents a plan or top View thereof. Fig. III represents a vertical longitudinal section thereof. Fig. IV represents a vertical cross-section thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts.

The frame of our cleaner comprises tWo side parts A, each of which is formed with legs B to be fastened to the floor or other suitable support. Connecting these side parts A are cross-bars O, which constitute scrapers for the sole of the shoe. 7

Each of the side parts A has a ledge D projecting' inwardly therefrom, upon which rests a vertical brush E, which is a medium for cleaning either sole edge and the sides of the shoe which may be presented thereto. Said vertical brushes E face each other, and the distance between them is approximately equal to the width of the shoe to be cleaned=that is to say, a shoe introduced between the brushes is intended to contact, as to its sides, with the side brushes. Upon the said side vertical brushes is a horizontal brush F, which is a medium for cleaning the top or upper of the shoe,

Serial No. 642,458. (No model.)

and at a point below the side brushes is a second horizontal brush G, which serves to clean the sole of the shoe. The lower horizontal brush G co-operates with the cross-bars O, and in order to increase the effect thereof it is made movable in vertical direction and is supported upon a spring H, which acts thereon with a tendency to force it upward. Thus when the foot is introduced between the side brushes E and made to rest on the lower horizontal brush G every portion of the shoe may be at once freed of the dirt that may have accumulated thereupon,the several brushes acting on the top, bottom, and sides of the shoe.

The side brushes E and top brush F are fixed in contradistinction to the bottom brush G, which, as before stated, is movable.

In the example shown the spring H is attached to a cross-bar I of the frame; but it is evident that other means may be employed for this purpose.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A shoe-cleaner comprising the frame with cross bars forming sole-scrapers a verticallymovable horizontal brush co-operating with the cross bars, and a spring supporting the said movable brush, in combination with the fixed vertical brushes on opposite sides of the frame, facing each other, and the fixed horizontal brush on the top of the side brushes,

substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

ANTON E. NIELSEN. GEORGE NIELSEN. Witnesses:

CHARLES G. 00E, CHAS. WAHLERS.

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