Patent Application
20230248208
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The disclosure relates to shoe cleaning devices and more particularly pertains to a new shoe cleaning device for rotating brushes on a shoe to remove dirt and debris.
The prior art relates to shoe cleaning devices. The prior art includes a variety of shoe cleaning devices with a plurality of brushes. Furthermore, the prior art relates to shoe cleaning devices held by the hand when in use. Know prior art lacks a shoe cleaning device comprising a plurality of motorized brushes coupled to a retractable arm whereby a pair of brushes can adjust from perpendicular to parallel relative to the show cleaning device.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a handle. The handle has an exterior surface and is made of rubber. A switch is coupled to the exterior surface and is in electric communication with a power source. The power source is positioned within an interior of the handle. A shaft is coupled to the handle. The shaft is configured for a pole to be retractable within the shaft. A pair of brushes having a shaft in the center of each of the brushes is coupled to the pole. The shaft of each of the brushes has a hinge. The hinge is configured for altering the position of each of the brushes relative to the pole. A third brush with a shaft being bent at a ninety degree angle is coupled to the pole and is positioned in between each of the brushes. Each of the brushes and the third brush are in electric communication with a motor. The motor is in electric communication with the switch. When turned on, the power source provides electric power through the switch. The switch sends the electric power to run the motor whereby the motor rotates the brushes.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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Furthermore, the power source 22 is located in an interior 24 of the handle 12. The power source 22 is a battery 26 that provides electric current through wiring 28. The power source 22 is in electric communication with the switch 18.
A shaft 30 has a distal end 32 and a proximal end 34 relative to the handle 12. The proximal end 34 is coupled to the handle 12 and the distal end 32 is an open end. The shaft 30 has a hollow interior 36 that defines a space for a variety of elements to be stored within. The distal end 32 of the shaft 30 has an indent 38. The indent 38 is the first portion of a telescoping fastener 40.
A pole 42 is nested within the hollow interior 36 of the shaft 30. The pole 42 has a distal end 44 and a proximal end 46 relative to the handle 12. The proximal end 46 is inserted into the shaft 30. The pole 42 is made of a rubber material 48. The rubber material 48 is abrasive whereby the rubber material retains from movement when in physical contact to a surface or element.
Furthermore, the rubber material 48 is the second portion of the telescopic fastener 40. The rubber material 48 is complementary to the indent 38 of the shaft 30 whereby the pole 42 is retained in a fixed position relative to the shaft 30 when the indent 38 of the shaft 30 is protruding into the rubber material 48.
A motor 50 is positioned in a hollow interior 52 of the pole 42. The motor 50 is connected to the switch 18 by wiring and is in electric communication to the switch 18. When the switch 18 opens the electric current from the power source 22, the motor 50 receives the electric current and runs.
Each brush 54 of a pair of brushes 54 has a cylindrical body. Each of the brushes 54 has a shaft 56 in a center 58 each of the brushes 54. The shaft 56 of each of the brushes 54 is coupled to the pole 42. The shaft 56 of each of the brushes 54 has a hinge 60. The hinge 60 is configured for altering the position of each of the brushes 54 from a perpendicular position 51 to a parallel position 53 relative to the pole 42.
A third brush 62 has a cylindrical body with a shaft 64 in the center 58 of the third brush 62. The shaft 64 of third brush 62 is coupled to the pole 42 and is positioned in between each of the brushes 54. The shaft 64 of the third brush 62 is bent at a ninety degree angle 65. Each of the brushes 54 and the third brush 62 has a plurality of bristles 66. Each of the bristles 66 is a plastic material 68.
The pair of brushes 64 and the third brush 62 are connected to the motor 50 by wiring and are in electric communication with the motor 50. After the switch 18 opens the electric current from the power source 22 to the motor 50, then the motor 50 rotates each of the brushes 64 and the third brush 62.
An alternate embodiment of the handheld shoe brush assembly 10 comprises the handle 12 lacking the switch 18 and the power source 22. The alternate embodiment is configured to be a manual assembly 70. The manual assembly can be configured to lack the shaft 30 whereby removing the telescopic fastener 40 as shown in
The manual assembly 70 has the pair of brushes 54 coupled to the pole 42. The motor 50 is absent from the hollow interior 52 of the pole 42. A first brush 54A of the pair of brushes 54 is in a fixed perpendicular position relative to the pole 42. The second brush 54B of the pair of brushes 54 in positioned concentric to the pole 42 whereby the pole 42 is coupled to the center 58 of the second brush 54B. The third brush 62 is absent.
In use, the user 11 positioned each of the brushes 54 in a perpendicular position 51 relative to the pole 42. The user 11 can adjust the length of the handheld shoe brush assembly 10 by moving the pole 42 within the shaft 30.
The user 11 uses the switch 18 to open the current from the power source 22 to the motor 50 whereby each of the brushes 54 and the third brush 62 begin to rotate. The shoe 13 of the user 11 is positioned in between each of the brushes 54 and each of the bristles 66 begins to remove the dirt and the debris from the shoe 13 as shown in
The manual assembly 70 requires the user 11 to oscillate the pair of brushes 54 on the shoe 13 of the user 11 to remove the dirt and the debris as shown in
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
