Shoe-dauber.

Application filed June 13,1906. Serial No. 321,564.

To all whom, it may corbcern:

Be it known that I, Reuben E. Saffold, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and 5 State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ShoeDaubers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable io others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to daubers for applying polish to shoes and other articles, has for its object economy in the polish used, 15 and consists in a dauber having a plurality of surfaces for applying polish, and rotatably mounted so that tne surfaces are interchangeable, to provide a new or clean surface, as one becomes clogged or filled with co paste

The invention will be fully disclosed in the following specification and claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification:—

Figure 1 represents a perspective of my improved dauber. Fig. 2 a like view of the supporting member detached, and Fig. 3 an • end view of the body of the dauber.

Reference being had to the drawings and 30 the designating characters thereon, tne numeral 1 indicates the block or body of the dauber, preferably made of wood and having sides 2, of which there may be any preferred number. In each end 2' of the body, is an 35 aperture 3, and grooves 4, one for each side 2, and in the form of the body shown, they radiate from the center, and the vertical and the transverse grooves are at a right angle to each other.

4c 5 is a cover, preferably of a fluffy textile material to take up the polish from a box and apply it to a shoe or other article.

indicates a supporting member, provided with resilient arms 7, which are nor45 mally separated or open at 8 and are outwardly bent at a right angle to the arms 7, at 9, forming'members 10, and then bent forward forming horizontal members 11, then bent downward at a right angle to the mem50 bers 11, forming members 12, which engage the grooves 4 in the ends of the body 1, and then bent inward forming members 13 which extend into the apertures 3 to support the body 1, and on which the body is rotatably 55 mounted. On the arms 7 of the supporting member is an adjustable clamping ring 14, which secures the members 12 in the grooves 4, when the ring is pushed forward into the position shown in Fig. 1, and prevents rotation of the dauber on its supporting mem-; 60 ber. To further secure the dauber against rotation when in use, the members 11 bear on the upper surface of the dauber when in use, as shown in Fig. 1. The daubing surfaces 15 are thus, made interchangeable. 65 and as one surface becomes clogged or filled with polish, the ring 14 is moved back on the arms 7, as shown in Fig. 2, when the arms separate at 8, and the dauber is then rotated on the members 13, to bring a new or fresh 70 surface 15 into position for use, when the ring 14 is again pushed out on the arms 7 and the dauber clamped between the members 12,12.

The dauber as shown is approximately square, having four equal flat and four sided 75 polishing surfaces, -which absorb or take up the polish evenly all over the surface thereof in the box, instead of in the center of the box as with the use of a round dauber, thus effecting economy in tbe use of the polish. 80