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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
JESSE ALFONSO BEAN, OF TEXARKANA, TEXAS.
SHOE BLACKING AND POLISHING MACHINE.Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 25, 1912.
Application filed December 9, 1910. Serial No. 596,549.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, JESSE A. BEAN, a citi-
zen of the United States, residing at Tex-
arkana, in the county of Bowie and State of
5 Texas, have invented a new and useful
Shoe Blacking and Polishing Machine, of
which the following is a specification.
The invention relates to improvements in
shoe blacking and polishing machines.
10 The object of the present invention is to
improve the construction of shoe blacking
and polishing machines, and to provide a
simple efficient and comparatively inex-
pensive machine, adapted to be operated by
15 any suitable power and equipped with a
plurality of longitudinally reciprocatable
brushes, capable, without stopping the ma-
chine, of adjustment to present them suc-
cessively in position to operate upon the
20 shoes for cleaning the same, applying black-
ing thereto and finally polishing the shoes.
A further object of the invention is to
provide a shoe blacking and polishing ma-
chine having foot rests or supports, capable
25 of vertical and lateral adjustment to raise
and lower the shoes and to arrange them
either in parallelism with the reciprocatable
brushes, or at an angle thereto, so that the
brushes may operate effectively on all por-
30 tions of the shoes.
With these and other objects in view, the
invention consists in the construction and
novel combination of parts hereinafter fully
described, illustrated in the accompanying
35 drawings, and pointed out in the claims
hereto appended; it being understood that
various changes in the form, proportion,
size and minor details of construction, with-
in the scope of the claims, may be resorted
40 to without departing from the spirit or sac-
rificing any of the advantages of the in-
vention.
In the drawings :-Figure 1 is a side ele-
vation of a shoe blacking and polishing ma-
45 chine, constructed in accordance with this
invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the
same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional
view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is
a transverse sectional view on the line 4-4
50 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a similar view on the
line 5-5 of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a horizontal
sectional view on the line 6-6 of Fig. 3.
Fig. 7 is a detail vertical sectional view,
illustrating another form of the support for
55 the main foot rest. Fig. 8 is a detail per-
spective view of the means for adjustingthe main foot rests. Figs. 9 and 10 are ver-
tical sectional views of one of the front
paste receptacles. Fig. 11 is a horizontal
sectional view on the line 11-11 of Fig. 9.. 60
Fig. 12 is a detail perspective view of one
of the paste carrying devices. Fig. 13 is a
vertical sectional view of one of the black-
ing receptacles.
Like numerals of reference designate cor- 65
responding parts in all the figures of the
drawings.
In the accompanying drawings in which
is illustrated the preferred form of the in-
vention, 1 designates a casing preferably in 70
the form of a stand open at the top, and
while provision is made for the accommoda-
tion of one person only, it will be readily
apparent that the shoe blacking and polish-
ing machine may be constructed of any de- 75
sired size and the mechanism may be dupli-
cated to accommodate any desired number
of persons. The casing, which may be con-
structed of any suitable material, is pro-
vided with a front extension 2, and it has 80
front and rear horizontal guides 3 and 4,
located at opposite sides of the casing and
receiving front and rear portions 5 and 6
of a longitudinally adjustable or shiftable
support 7, which carries the longitudinally 85
movable reciprocatable brushes 8, 9 and 10,
and the mechanism for actuating the same,
whereby the brushes may be adjusted with
respect to main foot rests 11 to present the
different brushes to the shoes for the pur- 90
pose of cleaning the same, applying black-
ing or paste thereto and finally polishing
the shoes. The front extension 2 of the cas-
ing is of a width less than the casing, and
the front and rear guides 3 and 4 preferably 95
consist of upper and lower longitudinal
bars, spaced apart to form grooves or ways
to receive the front and rear portions 5 and
6- of the adjustable support. The front
portion 5 of the support consists of a plat- 100
form, and is connected by a central longi-
tudinal bar or portion 12 with the rear por-
tion 6, which is preferably in the form of an
open frame, provided with suitable bearings
13 for the reception of transverse shafts 14. 105
Mounted upon. the transverse shafts are
upright brush holding levers 15, provided at
points intermediate of their ends with open-
ings for the reception of transverse shafts 14
and fulcrumed by the same to form upper and 110
lower arms. The brush carrying levers are
maintained in proper position by adjustable1,030,702.
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Bean, Jesse Alfonso. Shoe Blacking and Polishing Machine, patent, June 25, 1912; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth514191/m1/5/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.