Tennis shoe accessory for cleaning

A weight device for insertion into a lightweight tennis shoe having a toe and heel separated by an interior cavity comprising the combination of:

• a main body having opposite sides;
• a soap compartment carried on one side of said body;
• a resiliently mounted extension rod mounted on the other side of said body;
• a weighted mass secured to said main body between said soap compartment and said extension rod;
• a quantity of soap carried within said soap compartment;
• said compartment having an access opening for introducing said soap into said compartment;
• a tube cantilevered outwardly from said main body terminating in a reduced bore;
• said extension rod slideably carried within said tube;
• an expansion spring disposed in said tube bearing at one end with said main body and against said rod at its opposite end normally urging said rod away from said tube;
• stop means carried on said rod operative with said tube reduced bore to maintain said rod in sliding relationship with said tube;
• said soap compartment adapted to be inserted into said tennis shoe cavity for disposition immediately adjacent to said tennis shoe toe;
• said extension rod adapted to bear against said tennis shoe heel;
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• said weighted mass in close proximity to said tennis shoe toe so as to result in toe-down position when said tennis shoe is submerged in water.