US2816307A - Apparatus for waxing floors - Google Patents

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Dec- 17, 19 7 H. D. ALBRIGHT, JR 2,81

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Application February 28, 1955, Serial No. 490,902

1 Claim. (Cl. 15131) This invention relates to paste wax applicators and it is an object of this invention to provide a wax applicator having a housing which is particularly adapted for receiving and supporting a commercial container of wax or the like wherein after the top and bottom walls have been removed therefrom and wherein novel means are provided for forcing the Wax from the container onto the surface to be treated.

As is well known, paste wax is usually purchased by the user in a sealed metal container or can and, here tofore, it has been necessary to transfer the contents of such container or can into a wax applicator before it could be used. It is apparent that this transferring process has been a time consuming and messy operation.

It is therefore a more specific object of this invention to provide an improved wax applying apparatus or wax distributing apparatus comprising a housing having a recessed upper portion in which a piston may be positioned. The container of wax, from which the top and bottom walls have been removed, is positioned below the piston. cessed for reception of the container or can so the inner surfaces of the walls of the container coincide with the external surfaces or edges of the. piston whereby the piston may be forced downwardly against the upper surface of the contents of the container and inwardly into the container for forcing a desired quantity of wax from the container onto the surface to be treated. Of course, removable means are provided for maintaining the container in the housing, once it has been inserted thereinto.

Some of the objects of the invention having been stated, other objects will appear as the description proceeds when taken in connection with, the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an isometric view of the improved wax applicator showing a portion of an operating handle connected to the piston thereof;

Figure 2 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken substantially along line 22 in Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional plan view taken along line 33 in Figure 1;

Figure 4 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken along line 4--4 in Figure 1 and showing the wax in the container, the wax being omitted from the container in Figures 2 and 3;

Figure 5 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view through the improved wax applicator taken substantially along line 5- 5 in Figure 3 and showing some wax in the container and showing how the piston operates to force the wax out of the container positioned in the housing;

Figure 6 is an isometric view, on a reduced scale, showing a typical container for wax before the contaiuer is inserted in the housing of the improved wax applicator.

Referring more specifically to the drawings, there is shown in Figure 6 a commercial type of container C The side walls of the housing are also rep a 2,816,307 Patented Dec. 17, 1957 ICC which is typical of many different types of containers or cans in which paste wax is purchased from hardware stores and the like. In this instance, the wax container C is shown in the form of a metal elongated rectangular container having top and bottom walls 2 and f, opposed end walls a, b and opposed side walls c, d. The top and bottom walls e, f are removed from the container C, as by means of a conventional can-opener, before the container with the wax W therein is inserted in the improved wax applicator which will now be described.

The improved wax applicator comprises a main housing broadly designated at 10 which comprises spaced end walls 11 and 12 and front and rear walls 13 and 14. The end walls 11, 12 are provided with inwardly projecting top wall portions or flanges 15, 16 thereon. The flanges span the distance between the walls 13 and 14 and are suitably secured thereto or formed integral with the upper edges thereof.

Substantial portions of the walls 11, 12, 13, 14 are recessed or grooved, as at 21, 22, 23, 24, respectively, on the inner surfaces thereof for reception of the respec tive walls a, b, c, d of the container C. The recesses 21 to 24, inclusive, define respective inwardly projecting ribs or projections or shoulders 25 to 28, inclusive, on the upper ends of the respective walls 11 to 14, inclusive. Thus, when the container C is inserted in the recesses 21 to 24, inclusive, in the respective walls 11 to 14, inclusive, the inner surfaces of the walls a to d, inclusive, of the container C are substantially flush with the inner surfaces of the shoulders or ribs 25 to 28, inclusive. The ribs 25 to 28, inclusive, define a nest in which a piston 35, in the form of a flat rectangular rigid plate fits when its upper surface is disposed against the inwardly projecting upper flange members or top wall portions 15, 16 of the main housing 10. The upper'central portion of the piston 35 has suitable means indicated at 36, for connecting a suitable handle 37 thereto. The handle 37 may be of conventional or any desired construction and may be pivotally connected to the central portion of the piston 35 in any desired manner and, therefore, a detailed description of the handle 37 and the maner in which it is connected to the piston 35 is deemed unnecessary.

It will be noted that each of the inwardly projecting flanges or top wall portions 15, 16 has a pair of transversely spacedguide rods or members 40, 41 depending therefrom and on which the plate or piston 35 is guided as it is moved out of its nest, defined between the shoulders 25 to 28, inclusive. Since the paste wax W is of a soft pliable consistency, it is apparent. that the guide. rods 40, 41, whose lower ends .are free, 'will readily pierce the bulk of the wax material as the container C is inserted in the housing 10.

Now, the housing 10 has an open bottom and, in order to facilitate ingress and egress of the container C relative to the housing 10 and to maintain the container C in the housing 10 while the improved wax applicator is in use, the rear wall 14 of the housing 10 is hingedly or pivotally connected, as at 45, to the upper surface of a confining platform 46 which is provided with a substantially rectangular opening 47 therein of substantially the same internal dimensions as the internal dimensions of the can or container C and the internal dimensions of the nest defined by the shoulders 25 to 28, inclusive. The portion of the confining platform 46 opposite from the hinged connection 45 is provided with a suitable pivoted latch 50 which is engaged with an abutment or projection 51 on the front wall 13 when the confining platform 46 is in the closed position shown in the drawings.

The opening 47 in the confining base or platform 46 is closed by a foraminated, pervious or porous pliable sheet or cover member 52, such as knit fabric or cheese cloth whose periph al d es re sui bly hemmed f r reception of a draw string or elastic band 53, a draw string being shown in this instance which is adapted to force the hemmed peripheral edges of the pliable sheet member 52 into a peripheral groove 54 formed in the outer periphery or edges of the base or container cone fining platform 46.

In operation, the latch 50 is released from the abutment 51 and the base or container confining platform 46 is swung away from the open bottom of the housing 10, After the upper and lower walls e, f have been removed from the metal container or can C, it is then inserted in the bottom of the housing 10 so the upper edges of the walls a, b, c and d of the container C engage the lower surfaces of the shoulders 25 to 28, inclusive, respectively'. At this time, the plate or piston 35 may be positioned in the nest defined between the shoulders 25 to 28, inclusive. The distance between the shoulders 25 to 28,, inclusive, and the lower edges of the respective walls 1 1to 14, inclusive, is substantially the same as the height of the corresponding Walls a to d, inclusive, of the container C.

Thus, after the container C has been inserted in the housing 10 in the manner heretofore described, the base or container confining platform 4-6 is swung to closed position and the latch 50 is engaged with the abutment 51 so the upper surface of the platform 46 adjacent the opening 47 engages the lower edges of the walls a to a of the container C to thereby confine the container C within the housing 10. It is apparent that the improvedwax applicator is then ready for use and it is merely necessary to apply downward pressure on the piston 35 to cause the paste wax W to be forced downwardly through the opening 47 in the main base 46 to, in turn, force the wax W through the foraminated or pervious pliable sheet 52 and onto the floor or other surface to be waxed.

It is thus seen that I have provided an improved applicator for applying paste wax or other viscous or sernisolid material to floors and the like wherein the walls of the housing thereof are recessed for reception of a cornmer cial type container of wax with means for securing the container in the housing and wherein a piston is nested in the housing in such a manner that its peripheral edges correspond with the inner surfaces of the walls of theco'ntainer to thereby facilitate ready movement-- of the piston through the container fordischarging the wax or the lilre therefrom.

In the drawings and specification there has been'set v forth a preferred embodiment ofthe invention and, although specific terms are employed, they are usedin a 'genericand descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being defined in the claim.

I claim:

An improved wax applicator for transferring paste was onto a pIanar surface from a substantially rectangular eontainer whose upper and lower walls have been removed comprising a substantially rectangular housing having spaced end walls and spaced side walls and having an open bottom and an opening in the top, an inwardly projecting shoulder on the upper portion of each of said end walls and side walls, said shoulders each defining a recess in the inner surface of the corresponding wall for receiving the corresponding wall of the container, said shoulders being spaced from the lower edges of the side and end walls of the housing a distance substantially the same as the height of the walls of the container, :1 platelike piston positioned within the confines of the shoulders on said walls, a handle connected to said piston, means restraining upward movement of the piston relative to the shoulders, means positioned in the path of travel of said piston to guide the same during downward movement thereof away from said restraining means and within said container for extruding the wax from the container, pervious means closing the open bottom of the housing. means removabl'y secured to the lower edges of the walls of the housing-for retaining the container in said recesses provided therefor in the'walls of the housing comprising a substantially rectangular rigid base, means hingedly connecting said base to one of the walls of said housing, means to releasably latchthe base in position against the lower edges of the walls of said housing, said base having an opening therein whose internal dimensions correspond substantially to the external dimensions of said piston, and said pervious'means being secured against the'lower surface of the rigid base and closing said opening in the base whereby, upon manual pressure being ap'plied'to the piston, the piston forces the wax through the container, through the opening in the base and through the pervious means onto the, surface to be treated.

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