IP Library Granted Patent US 7,251,850
Granted Patent B1
US 7,251,850 · App. 11/363,468 · Granted Aug 7, 2007

Boot scrubber

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Patent No.
US 7,251,850
App. No.
11/363,468
Granted
Aug 7, 2007
Kind
B1
Abstract

A boot scrubber having a housing including a pair of end members supporting a brush assembly therebetween and including at least one but preferably a pair of flaps hinged to the end members and operable to move from a storage position against the end members to a use position where the flaps extend like wings to either side of the scrubber.

Claims (5)

1. A boot scrubbing device for removing dirt and sand from boots one boot at a time of a person wearing such footwear while such person stands adjacent said device, said device including a housing including a pair of upright longitudinally-spaced members having generally planar outer surfaces and including bottom edge positions thereof, said housing further including a base member having laterally-spaced lower portions, said lower portions of said base member and said bottom edge portions of said upright members cooperatively forming a means for contacting an essentially flat supporting surface so as to position said device on said supporting surface, said base member and said upright members further cooperatively supporting a fixed brush assembly therebetween, and at least one of said upright members including a foot engageable housing positioning and stabilizing flap hingedly connected thereto, said flap being substantially planar and having an inner surface and an outer surface, said inner surface of said flap adapted for upright positioning against the outer surface of said at least one upright member when the flap is in a storage position and movable from said storage position to a position where said flap extends longitudinally from the bottom edge portion of said at least one upright member in a housing stabilizing position where the outer surface thereof rests on said supporting surface and the inner surface thereof faces upward for contact by the other boot of the person wearing such boot whereby the person's body weight stabilizes the position of the device while the one boot is being scrubbed.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein said flap is connected to the bottom edge portion of said one upright member.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein there is a pair of flaps each connected to an upright member and adapted to extend longitudinally from said housing in opposite directions from the longitudinal ends thereof in the operational positions of said flaps.

4. The device of claim 1 , said flap formed of magnetically attractive metal and said one housing upright member including a magnet positioned therein and adapted to magnetically attract and hold said flap in its storage position.

5. The device of claim 1 , said flap including a tab forwardly extending past the front edge of said at least one upright member whereby the user may laterally engage said tab to move said flap to the extended use position.

Assignments (7)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 27, 2024
From: CALIFORNIA BANK OF COMMERCE
To: PEAPACK-GLADSTONE BANK
Reel/Frame 069420/0291 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 27, 2024
From: CALIFORNIA BANK OF COMMERCE, N.A.
To: PEAPACK-GLADSTONE BANK
Reel/Frame 069421/0531 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Dec 23, 2022
From: INVESTORS BANK
To: WPP ACQUISITION, LLC
Reel/Frame 063817/0447 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Dec 22, 2022
From: WPP ACQUISITION, LLC
To: CALIFORNIA BANK OF COMMERCE
Reel/Frame 062205/0823 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Sep 3, 2020
From: WPP ACQUISITION
To: INVESTORS BANK
Reel/Frame 053681/0919 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 29, 2020
From: RHODE ISLAND TEXTILE COMPANY
To: WPP ACQUISITION, LLC
Reel/Frame 053637/0301 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 18, 2011
From: ELLIOTT, GLENDON M.
To: RHODE ISLAND TEXTILE COMPANY
Reel/Frame 025650/0355 →