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 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
HENRY WARREN, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY BEEBE, OF
HOBOKEN, NEW JEERSEY.
FOOT SCRAPER, AND BRUS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 30,859, dated December 4, 1860.

To all whom it may concern.
Be it known that I, HENRY WARREN, of
Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and
State of New Jersey, have invented a new
and Improved Scraper for the Feet; and I
do hereby declare that the following is a
full, clear, and exact description of the same,
reference being had to the accompanying
drawings, making a part of this specifica
O tion, in which
Figure 1 is a top view of the scraper.
Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the
scraper, showing the movable brushes in
two positions.
5 Similar letters of reference indicate cor
responding parts in both figures.
The object of this invention is to obtain
a boot or shoe cleaner by which mud and
dirt may be scraped and brushed off in a
20 much better manner and in less time than
can be done with scrapers hitherto used.
My invention and improvement consists
in a novel form and arrangement of brushes
for the heel, toe, and both sides of the shoes
25 in conjunction with scraping blades for the
soles of the shoes which will be hereinafter
described.
To enable those skilled in the art to fully
understand my invention I will proceed to
30 describe its construction and operation.
A, is a stand or frame, of cast metal of
a quadrangular shape, and ornamented in
a neat and handsome style. B, B, B, are
blades which extend across this frame, their
35 edges projecting slightly above its surface,
and the edges of these blades should be
beveled to a sharp or nearly sharp edge.
These blades may be cast with the frame
or put into it in a suitable manner after
40 ward.
C C, are spaces which are formed in the
front and back part, of the frame A. Into
these spaces are secured the brushes C, C,
one of which is used for cleaning the heel
45 and the other the toe of the shoes. These herein shown and described.
two stationary brushes C, C, may be af
fixed in the recesses in the frame by screws Witnesses:
so that when they are worn out they can
be taken out and others used in their stead.
50 D, D, are brackets which are placed on
each side of the frame A, at right angles
to the plates B, B, and attached to portions
E, E, by bolts a, a, which pass up from the
under sides of E, E, through slots in these
portions. This attachment of the brackets 55
on top of the scrapers B, B, will allow the
brackets to slide a limited distance toward
or from each other. To these brackets D, D,
the curved brushes F, F, are rigidly se
cured which brushes are so curved that they 60
will accommodate themselves to the sides of
the shoe as it is drawn between them. The
brackets are acted upon by springs 9, g,
which are attached to and project up from 65
a bridge piece G, or the spring may be
applied to the brush brackets in any other
suitable manner, so that they will act upon
these brushes and force them toward each
other and allow the brushes to yield while 70
the foot is drawn between them, and to as
Sume their former position afterward. The
curve given to the brushes F, F, will readily.
admit the foot at one end and this curve
will cause the brushes to act upon the sides 75
of the shoe under the instep where a straight
brush Would not touch.
In using this shoe scraper and cleaner the
heel is first cleaned on the stationary brush
C°, then the foot is drawn backward between
the two yielding brushes, which should be 80
placed sufficiently close together that chil
dren's shoes may be cleaned as well as those
of older persons, and over the scraping blades
B, B, which blades scrape off the dirt from
the bottom, while the brushes clean it from 85
both sides of the shoe, the toe is then cleaned
on the brush C.
Having thus described my invention, what
I claim as new and desire to secure by Let 90
ters Patent, is
The arrangement of the laterally, sliding
curved brushes F, F and springs g, g with
the brackets D, scraping blades B B and
fixed brushes C, C as and for the purposes
HENRY WARREN.
C. W. CoWTAU,
M. M. LIVINGSTON.