US1089475A - Combined mop holder and wringer. - Google Patents

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H. O. JOHNSON & J. H. NICHOLSON. COMBINED MOP HOLDER AND WRINGER. APPLICATION FILED rEB.24,1913

1,089,47 5. Patented Mar. 10, 1914.

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COMBINED M]? HOLDER AN D WRING-ER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 10, 1914.

Application filed February 24, 1913. Serial No. 750.166.

To all whom it may concern:

Hey it known that we, HANS O. JonNsoN and JAMES H. Niononson, citizens of the United States, residing at Sacramento, in the county of Sacramento, State of California, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Combined Mop Holders and lWringers; and we do declare the following to be a clear, full, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a. part of this application. 7

This invention relates to improvements in mop holders, the object of the invention being to produce a combination with the mop holder and as a part of the same a wringer adapted to thoroughly and elfectively wring the water from the mop whenever desired without the necessity of handling an independent element, bucket or other similar devices now commonly used and also doing away with the necessity of handling the wet mop manually in any degree.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly efi ective for the purposes for which it is designed.

These objects, we accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of the parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claims.

On the drawings similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views. a

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the complete mop holder and mop. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the mop holder and wringing mechanism. lFig. 3 is a sectional view taken on a line X-X of Fig. 2. Fig". 1 is a detached view of the mop holder of the device.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the handle of the mop holder which is tubular at its lower end for the purpose as will appear. At the lower end of said member 1 is secured a flat memher or presser plate 2 provided with a plurality of orifices 5, said flat member being provided with side flanges 3 provided with further upwardly projecting flanges 4. The numeral 6 designates another flat member 101' presser plate pivotally mounted on the inner ends of the members 3 as at 6, which member 6 is provided with a plurality of holes 7 and with side flanges 8 movable within the flanges 3, which flanges 8 are provided with Links 10 are pivotally connected to the flanges 4; as at 11 and are provided with curved inner surfaces 12. The upper ends of said links are upwardly connected as at 13 to links 14, which links 14- inner surfaces 15 and are flexibly connected as at 16 to links 17, which links 17 are in turn flexibly connected as at 18 to the flanges 9. The links 17 are provided with upwardly projecting lugs 95 have curved T cams 19 adapted to bear against the curved surfaces 12 and 15. Pull wires 20 are connected with links 17 and thence with a rod 21 flexibly connected on a lug 22 on a lever 23 fulcrumed at 24 on the handle member 1. is provided with a pin 25 adapt- 7 Said lug 22 ed to engage a catch 26 pivotally mounted as at 27 on the member 1 for the purpose of holding the lever 23 and connected parts in any fixed position as will appear.

Movable longitudinally a bar 28 having a projecting handle meniber 29 movable through a slot 30 in said member 1. On the lower end of said member 28 is a cross head 31. Secured on one side of the cross head 31 is a spring wire 32 extending across the end of the member 31 and up on the other side and provided with a curved portion 33 adapted to be engaged by a cam 3d having an operating handle 35.

In practice, a band spring 36 is secured to the member 1 and extends in the path of the handle member 29 so as to limit the movement of the bar 28 to hold the cross head 31 always interposed between the members 2 and 6. The mop proper is inserted between the wire 32 and thecross head 31 and is locked in position therein by the cam 34 engaging the free end 33 of said wire 32. For the purpose of inserting or removing the mop, the spring 36 may be moved away from the path of the handle member 29 and the bar 28 then projected farther in order to bring the cross head 31 between the ends of the members 2 and 6 where the mop will be readily inserted or removed.

In practice, when the mop is to be wrung the handle member 29 is operated to re tract the member 28, member 31 and the mop 36 back so that the mop 36 is completely retained between the members 2 and in the member 1 is l lldll 6. The lever 23 is then pressed downwardly which pulls on the rod'21 the pull wires 20 and the link 17 which actlon pulls said link backwardly and causes the cam 19 to enga e the curved surfaces 12 and 15 of the 11 s an exceedingly strong leverage to force the ugs 9 and incidentally the members 6 downwardly against the mop 36 squeezing it closely between the members 2 and 6 which will wring the water therefrom and cause it to pass out through the orifices 5 and 7. This position is maintained then by means of the in 25 engaging the catch 26 until said ratc et bar is disengaged from said pin and then a spring 37 pulls all the parts tonormal position again as shown in Fig. 3 and then by the operation of the handle 29 the mop 36 will be projected out through the ends of the members 2 and 6 as shown in Fig. 1.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that We have produced such a device as substantially fulfils the objects of the invention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice, such deviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A device of the character described comprising a tubular handle member, a pair '10 and 14, thus givin of presser plates hinged together on the lower end of said handle member a rod movable through said tubular member and having a-handle member projecting through the side of said tubular member, said rod projecting between said presser plates, means on the end of said rod for receiving a mop and means for moving said presser plates together, as described.

2. A device of the character described comprising a handle member, a air of presser plates disposed on said hand e member and pivoted together at one end an linked to ether at the other end, the links on one p-ate having cam surfaces adapted to engage the links connected to the other plate to force the lates together, and pull wires connected wit said cam links.

3. A device of the character described comprising a tubular member provided with spaced presser plates at one end, means for moving said presser plates, a rod movable in said tubular member and projectin between said presser plates, means on sai rod for receivin a mop, said tubular member being provi ed with a slot, a handle member on said rod projectin through said slot and a band spring norma ly disposed over a portion:- of said slot and projecting in the path of said handle member, as described.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

HANS OSCAR JOHNSON. JAMES H. NICHOLSON.

Witnesses:

JOSHUA B. WEBs'rnn, CLARENCE M. SMITH.

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