US116794A - Improvement in blacking-brushes - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES P A'rrnvr OFFICE.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AVERILL, OF DUNKIRK, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND SAMUEL JAMES GIFFORD, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BLACKING-BRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 116,794, dated July 11, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AVERILL, of Dunkirk, in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Blacking- Brushes, of which the following is a specification:

This inventionrelates to boot, stove, and shoeblacking brushes; and consists in forming on top of the polishing-brush a reservoir or cylindrical receptacle for the blackin g, provided with a screwpiston, which forces the blacking through an attached pipe or nozzle into the small brush for putting it on the boots, &c., as hereinafter described. y A

In the drawing the figure is a sectional side elevation of the whole device.

A is thepolishing-brush; B, the small blackin gbrush; C, the cylinder/or reservoir; D, the piston; E, the screw for operating it; and F, the handle. The reservoir C is made cylindrical, or in any other appropriate form, and is secured to the back of the brush A. The front end is formed with a hollow nozzle or pipe, a, to which the small brush B is attached, as in ordinary brushes, at an angle, as shown. To the end of this nozzle a small rubber or other elastic tube, b, is secured in any suitable manner, so that it will not interfere with the working of the bristles. It is made of elastic substance, so as not to abrade the leather as the bristles wear down. The piston Y boxes, besides forcing ontinto the center of the brush, where it is wanted, just so much blacking as is required, thus preventing waste. The opposite end of the screw E runs loosely in'a pivoted socket, e, attached to the end of the brush. The screw is moved by a wing-nut, g, which works the piston D back and forth.

The operation is as follows: The piston Dis screwed back until it is removed from the cylinder, when it may be turned around by the pivot e. The cylinder is then filled with blacking in a liquid or paste form and the piston replaced and gradually screwed up until a sufficient quantity of blacking is forced out of the nozzle b for the purpose required.

I claim as my inventionl. The flexible tube b attached upon the curved pipe c of the hollow cylinder C, in combination with the piston D and its operating-rod E, when constructed and arranged in relation to the brush B of the shoe-brush A, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The arrangement of the handle F, reservoir C, piston D, packed head c d, screw E, pipe a., and rubber tube I), in combination with brushes AB, all operating vin the manner and for the purpose specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. Witnesses: B. F. AVERILL.

J. R. DRAKE, C. N. WooDwARD.

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