US618592A - Composition for cleaning and polishing furniture - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK R. WEGERDT,- OF BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMPOSITION FOR CLEANING AND POLISHING FURNITURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 618,592, dated January 31, 1899.

Application filed December 27,1897L Serial No. 663,743. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK R. WE- GERDT, a citizen of the United States, residingat Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Compositions of Matter for Cleaning and Polishing Furniture, of which the following is a specification.

My composition is designed more especially for use in cleaning and polishing furniture. It consists of the following ingredients combined in the proportions stated or substantially such proportions, viz: crude (coal) oil, twenty parts, by bulk; turpentine, twenty parts, by bulk; alcohol, four parts, by bulk; ammonia, one part, by bulk. The said ingredients are to be added together, and their combination is to be assisted by agitation.

In the use of the above-described composition the application of the same to portions of furniture to be cleaned or polished may be made with a rag or, in the case of crevices or grooves, with a brush. After such portions of the furniturehave beenthus coated with the solution the same should be wiped off clean, it being found' that such removal takes off all dirt, grease, finger-marks, and the like which may have been on the cleansed surface and that the surface is restored to its first brilliancy.

My composition is not resinous or sticky, as are linseed-oil and the polishes in which that ingredient is contained, nor does it ultimately dull the surface like kerosene and its compounds. I may further state that my composition does not permanently remain upon the surface under treatment in the manner of Waxy compositions, which simply cover over the dirt and take a certain polish, accumuo lating layer by layer in successive applications and gathering more and more dust and grease; but, on the contrary, my polish dislodges all dirt, and the latter is removed with it, leaving the surface as clean as new, at the same time producing no detrimental effect upon the finish of the furniture.

What I claim is The herein-described composition of matter for cleaning and polishing furniture consist- 5o ing of twenty parts by bulk of crude (coal) oil, twenty parts of turpentine, four parts of alcohol and one part of ammonia, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- FREDERICK R. WEGERDT.

Witnesses:

LEPINE HALL RICE, OSCAR F. HILL.