Patent Application
20060059645
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This invention relates to footwear applicators. Especially applicators that use wax-polish to shine and polish leather footwear. (Or other footwear that can be shined with wax) This invention makes shining footwear faster, easier, and less dirty on the fingers from wax polish.
Many, if not most consumers of footwear prefer to use wax to shine and polish their footwear. The most common way to apply wax is to use an applicator. Heretofore a wide variety of footwear applicators have been proposed and implemented for shining footwear.
The most common applicator is cloth. The cloth works fine but most users sometimes have a hard time using it. Usually users tend to wrap the cloth tightly around the index and middle fingers. Using this technique however, often leads to the cloth becoming unraveled causing dissatisfaction. Once it loosens users must re-tighten it again. This could be a time consuming process. Another major disadvantage is the wax bleeds through the cloth causing dirty fingers, which can track on clothing and other objects. If users use liquid to shine their footwear, their fingers would become soaked and discolored during the application process. Users who tend to save and reuse these cloths often find it inconvenient due to various or numerous reasons. If not stored properly these cloths become filthy and unsanitary items that are hard to clean and not worth the effort. With this being said, users are not receiving the proper value and benefit from ordinary cloths, which offer very little if any protection from wax residue, stains and can strain the users wrist/hand. This applicator can also affect other objects by leaving stains or a foul stench or the like. In essence, users find these types or applicators unsatisfactory because it offers no protection against the wax, liquid and no stable grip.
Another simple applicator is the cotton ball. The cotton ball is more disposable so the user does not have to go through the hassle of storing it. The cotton ball only shines small areas at a time due to size to grip. Users often require quite a few cotton balls just to complete a set of footwear. As a result it is a very time consuming process to shine with cotton balls. The same dissatisfactory as the cloth is does not provide protection to the user against liquid and wax polish. This causes the user discomfort with soak, soggy, and filthy fingers.
Most users, therefore, would find it desirable to have an applicator, which could maintain grip and facilitate protection against residue and liquid.
Accordingly several objects and advantages of my invention are to provide applicators made to fit the user's needs. Most footwear applicators are not intended to shine and polish footwear, but can be used because it is a general item and easy to obtain. Theses applicators may work but are not specifically meant to meet the user's needs. Thus my device is created to shine and polish footwear. This is in order to meet the user's needs but can be used in any fashion, if the user chooses. This offers a major advantage over the other common applicator. My applicator provides exceptional protection against wax and liquid on user's fingers. Two of the main unpleasant factors that occur from shining footwear that is inevitable, now can be eliminated.
In addition I claim the following additional objects and advantages: to provide an applicator for easily, reliably and quickly shine footwear, to provide such an applicator which requires a minimum of skill and training to use, to provide an applicator which can maintain grip on user's fingers and to provide such an applicator which can do a complete job of footwear shinning, without the need to worry about soak, soggy discolored, and filthy fingers.
The footwear applicator is simply an improved or better version to the prior art footwear applicators. The footwear applicator purpose is to be proficient in its tasks, maintain superior grip and also provide protection.
1. Sheet of fabric
2. Waterproof material
3. Elastic binding
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