US1315121A - Planooraph co - Google Patents

Description

H. A. HAYDEN.

CLEANING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAYIG. I918.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

$7 INII/ENTOR.

15,121. A PatentedSept. 2,1919.

H. A. HAYDEN.

CLEANING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY I6. 1918.

1 ,3 1 5, 1 2 1 Patented Sept; 2, 1919'.

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UNITED STATES PATENT o cE.

riENEY A. HAYDEN, 0E wEs EiELn, NEW JEEsEY, AssIeNoE o HAYDEN INvENTIuNs CORPORATION, OF wEsTEIELn, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION on NEW JERSEY.

CLEANING Iii/ELEMENT Specification of was resent. Patented Sept. 2,

Application fiid Ma is, 19ft. Serial Nd. 234,902.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, IIENRY A. HAYDEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Westfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gleaning Implements, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cleaning lmple ments. p p

The prime object of the invention is to provide a scrubbing implement, preferably employing a scrubbing brush of the famlliar type and of elongated form, so arranged that the scrubbing implement includes i a scrubbing brush, a readily attachable and detachable handle therefor, and coacting parts, carried by the brush and the handle; these co-acting parts being so designed and arranged, and thehandle being solong,

that a worker, standing, may with great convenience and heavy pressure apply the Work-contacting elements, as the bristles of the brush, to the floor or other surface to be scrubbed, and also that with the handle detached, the parts permanently carried by the scrub brush will not interfere with use of the scrub brush when grasped directly in the hand, in the usual Way, aswiththe worker on hands and knees. An important object of theinvention is to provide a co-acting handle and brush parts of very simple and inexpensive construction, and yet of great convenience of adjustment and of rigidity and security of connection during operation of the scrubbing implement by the worker standing.

Another object of the invention, especially where the scrub brush is of the elongated form above referred to,-isto provide an arrangement whereby the handle, preferably upwardly directed at an obtuse angle to the plane of the backing of the brush, may with equal ease and convenience be reversed in position on the brush, toequalize Wear on the brush bristles and prolong the life of the implement. Another object of the invention vide handle and brush parts, for mounting and dismounting the brush as above explained, so designed and arranged that the brush part includes a single bent sheet metal member of rectangular form, and the handle part includes a single bent wire metalmemis to proeither open end thereof.

metal member. 1 p e e The invention will be clearly understood from thefollowing description, when taken in connection with the accompanying draW- ings, illustrating practical embodiments of the invention, in which drawings,

Figure 1 is aside elevation of an embodibe r for co-acting ade uate with the sheet ment of the cleaning implement;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the parts shown in Fig.1; e

Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing another embodiment and the one at.

present preferred;

Fig; 5 is a side elevation of theparts shown in Fig. 43; and v a Fig. 6 is a transverse section taken on *the line 6 60f Fig. 5

Thescrub briish 4.- which may be advantageously used is of the familiar form, having an elongated backing with tapered ends as a clearly shown in the drawing. The bristles are indicated at 5. e e

Straddling the backing of the brush at its middle, is abent sheet metal member fi, so formed as to provide terminal in-bentportions 7 for taking under the sides ofthe backing, and to provide a longitudinal, pocket 8, of rectangular cross section, open at opposite ends. In order the more securely to hold this member in place, the same is provided with triangular teeth 10 stamped in from the material of the neinher, which teeth are driven into the material, as Wood, of which the backing is formed, at its sides.

Attwo points equally spaced from the centralpoint ofthe top leaf ll of the member,

there are provided two transverse apertures 12 andl3 these apertures being alined longitudinally of the brush;

Below the apertures 12 and 13], are recesses 12 and 13 in the top of the backing.

A bent wire member is provided, of

riathe'r hibvy stock, is bent in a single plane to provide a 100 114, and larger loop 15 merging into theqloop 14:, and including therebetWee n stop-lengthsl5 arranged to" be transverse to thebrushf when the loop 14 is seated the pocket 8, as shown in 2, after bemg advanced into the pocket from It should be understood that when theloop 14 is seated in the pocket 8, following the insertion ofthe loop into the pocket through the right hand open end of the pocket, the aperture 12 and recess 12 are in vertical alinementwith the space sur-= rounded by the free end of the loop 14, and that when the loop is seated in the pocket following insertion of the loop into the pocket through the left-hand open end of the pocket, the aperture 13 and recess 13 are in vertical alinement with the space surrounded by the free end of the loop 14.

In order to lock the loop 14 fixedly and, securely in place in the pocket 8, irrespective of, whether the loop is thus seated following its insertion into the pocket through the left hand or right hand end of the pocket, a bent wire member, of a lighter stock than the main bent wire member, which includes the loops 14 and 15, is provided; this lighter memberhaving two angularly disposed portions, a terminal locking portion 16 and a shank portion 17. The shank portion prefera'bly terminates in two eyes 18, so that the. member may be conveniently, permanently but adjustably attached to the main bent wire member." Such attachmentis obtained in the present instance by providing the ring 19. It will be understood, of course, that the. locking member, however constructed, mayor may not be permanently connected to another part of the implement, although it is preferable not to connect such locking member to the brush or the member 6, since then it might interfere with convenience of use of the brush when grasped directly in thehand and used by the worker with the worker on hands and knees.

The terminal lengths of the main bent 'Wire member beyond the larger loop 15 therein are bent upwardly and placed side by side to form a shank ofi'set at an obtuse angle from the plane of the loops 14 and 15. This shank is secured into the lower end of a long woo-den handle 20, surrounded by a ferrule 21.

Irrespective of whether the loop 14 is seated in the pocket 8, following its insertion into the pocket through the left hand or the right hand end of the pocket, the locking portion 16 of the locking member is always disposed for convenient passage through the aperture 12 or 13 and the loop 14 into the recess 12' or 1 3. When thus adjusted, and

especially when the two reversely looped lengths which form such locking portions 16 'are'slightly, resiliently divergent away from the top of the locking portion, it has been found that no amountof hard usage of the brush by means of the handle 20 is sufficient to jar loose the locking member. Since the lockingmember stays thus in place, the main bent wire member may not have its: loop 14 withdrawn from the pocket 8 and he stop lengths 16 bear against the adjacent end of the pocket 8 and hold the main bent wire member engaged with the sheet metal member 6 tightly, securely, and without lost motion or the possibility of shifting, rocking or rattling.

Referring to Figs. 4, 5 and 6, the salient features of the embodiment shown, and wherein such embodiment differs from that of Figs. 1, 2 and 3, are the provision of a bent-wire link 22 in place of the bent-wire member 1617l8, and the provision of a sheet metal member 23 in place of the sheet metal member 6. v

The bent-wire member carried by the handle is the same as in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, as indicated.

spects similar to its counterpart of Fig. 1,

except that in addition to the pocket 8, the blank is bent as shown at 25 to provide above and centrally of the pocket 8 an auxiliary pocket 26, the apertures 12 and 13 are located as indicated at 12 and 13, and recesses in the top of the brush backing and underlying these apertures, such as the recesses 12 and 13 of Fig. 1, are dispensed with.

The link is permanently engaged with the apertures 12 and 13, as shown, and the parts are so designed that when the brush is arranged as illustrated in Figs. '5 and 6, the link assumes by gravity the full-line position shown, and when the brush is inverted, the link assumes by gravity the brokenline position indicated. Thus to mount or dismount the brush on or from the handle, the brush is first inverted, and the smaller loop of the bent-wire member of the handle is inserted in either end of the pocket 8 or withdrawn therefrom. If the brush is thus being mounted on the handle, on rearranging the brush and handle as indicated in Figs.

5 and 6, the link 22 drops to the full-line ber is shown tacked or nailed to the sides of the brush backing as indicated at 27.

I claim:

1. In a scrub-brush, the combination with the brush and brush backing, of a sheet metal member permanently fixed to the top of the brush backing and bent to provide a horizontal pocket above the top of the brush backing havmg an end opening, a bent wlre 'netal member comprlsmg a central narrow looped portion for removable insertion within the pocket through said opening,

said wire member having also apair of laterally looped portions next to the narrow looped portion and in the same plane there with, and an elongated wooden handle secured to the terminal lengths of the wire member.

2. In a scrub-brush, the combination with the brush and brush backing, of a sheet metal member permanently fixed to the top of the brush backing andbent to provlde a horizontal pocket above the top of the brush backing having an endopening, a wooden handle, and a fixture carried thereby and formed of a length of Wire bent at its central part to form a narrow loop and then bent away from the central part to increase the width of the fixture, these'bends belng all in substantially the same plane, the Wire member being further bent to bring its terminal lengths adjacent to each other, these terminal lengths being secured to thehandle, said pocket .being just wide enough to receive the narrow loop and such part only of the wire member.

3. A scrub-brush as described in claim 2, wherein the top Wall of the pocket is apertured above the space within the narrow loop of the wire member when said member is inserted in the pocket, and there is provided a locking member movable to protrude through said aperture to dispose a part of the locking member wlthin the pocket to engage with the loop to prevent movement of the loop within the pocket lengthwise of the loop.

4. A scrub-brush as described in claim 3, wherein the pocket is open at opposite ends, wherein the apertures of the top wall of the pocket are equidistant from the open ends of the pocket, respectively, and wherein the length of the narrow loop is such that the bight thereof is in the same operative position relative to the apertured part of the pocket and the locking member irrespective of whether the narrow loop is inserted in the pocket by way of one or the other end opening, thereby to make the handle reversible on the brush. a j

5. A scrub -brush as described in claim 3, wherein the apertured part of the top wall of the pocket comprises a pair of apertures arranged centrally of said wall and in a line joining the open ends of the pocket, wherein the top wall of the pocket is bent to provide a ridge on the upper side and a groove on the under side of said wall extending along said line, and wherein the locking member is a substantially rectangular link having end stretches passing through said apertures so that the top stretch of the link always lies above the top wall of the pocket and the bottom stretch of the link may be disposed in the groove to permit withdrawal of the loop from the pocket.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York A. D.

HENRY A. HAYDEN.

Copies 01 this. patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner oi Patents. Washington, D. 0."

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