US1564675A - Mop holder - Google Patents

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Dec. 8, 1925. 1,564,675 F. C. HOFFMAN MOP HOLDER Filed Aug. 9, 1924 Patented Dec. 8, 1925.

UNITED STATES FREDERICK C. HOFFMAN, OF \VES'I HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

MOP HOLDER.

Application filed August 9, 1924. Serial No. 731,029.

To all whom it may GONGGW'L.

Be it known that I, FREDERICK C. Hom MAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of est Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented new and Improved Mop Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of devices commonly employed in connection with handles for holding mops or similar articles and an object of my invention, among others, is the production of a mop holder that shall be simple in construction and extremely durable and particularly eflieientin operation.

One form of mop holder embodying my invention and in the construction and use of which the objects herein set out, as well as others, may be attained, is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a face view of my improved mop holder with the handle broken off.

Figure 2 is an edge view of the same.

Figure 3 is an end view.

Figure 4 is a view in section on a plane denoted by the dotted line ll of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a view on a plane denoted by the dotted line 55 of Figure Figure 6 is a detail view in cross section through the lower end of the handle and ferrule on a plane passing through the center of the pivots.

In the accompanying drawings the nu meral 6 indicates a handle that may be made of any suitable material, as wood, preferably round in cross section and of any desired length. a means of supporting the holder upon the handle I preferably make use of a ferrule or collar 7 of metal to fit the end of the handle, and as shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawing.

My improved holder is comprised of two members of duplicate construction, or in other words, two parts of the same construction are employed to make up a holder as a whole, and a description of one will necessarily be a description of both of the parts making up a complete holder.

Each of said members embodies a frame preferably of rectangular form, each of said frames comprising a jaw 8, ends 9 extending from said jaw, a pivot bar 10 extending from one of said ends, and a pivoted bar 11 extending from the opposite end. The pivoted bar 11 terminates in a loop or eye 12 preferably formed by coiling the wire, as shown in Figures 1 and 2. A clamping bar or lever 13 extends from each loop 12, and each clamping bar terminates in a clamping hook 14L bent at substantially right angles to the bar 13 and of curved form to fit the handle 6, as more clearly shown in Figure 5 of the drawings.

It will be noted from the above description, taken in connection with the accom" panying drawings, that these two members are of duplicate construction, the end of the pivot bar 10 of each member fitting an opening in the end of the collar or ferrule 7 upon the diametrically opposite side of said collar from the end of the other member and the loop of each member being supported to swing upon the pivot bar 10 of the other member, the latter being freely pivoted in the collar 7.

lVhen it is desired to insert a mop or similar device between the jaws 8, the hooks 14 are disengaged from the handle 6 by a move ment laterally of the plane of swinging movement of the clamping bars when the jaws may be freely swung apart, the hooks 14, in this swinging movement being located upon the opposite side of the handle from that in which they are located when engaged with the handle to hold the jaws in their closed position. When the jaws are thus opened the mop material may be placed therein, and then when the hooks 14 are again engaged with the handle 6 the mop material will be securely clamped between the jaws 8.

The two frame members have been described herein as being duplicates each of the other, and this refers to the general con struction and they are such duplicates except as to the length of the clamping bars 13, one of said bars having been made longer than the other merely for the convenience in disengaging the bars from the handle and that may, therefore, be said to be substantial duplicates one of the other.

In accordance with the provisions of the patent statutes I have described the principles of operation of my invention, together with the device which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof; but I desire to have it understood that the device shown is only illustrative and that the invention may be carried out by such other means as fall within the scope of the ap pended claims and applied to uses other thanthose above set out.

I claim- 1. A mop holder comprising two frame members each of which members includes a jaw located opposite the jaw on the other frame member, an integral pivot bar and an integral pivot eye through which eye the bar on the other frame member extends, means for supporting each of said frame members, and means for actuating the jaws.

2. A mop holder comprising two frame members each of which members includes a jaw located opposite the jaw on the other frame member, an integral pivot bar car ried by one side of the'frame and a pivot eye carried by the other side of the frame through which eye the. bar on the other frame extends, said frames being substantially of duplicate construction, means for supporting the pivot bar of each frame memher, and means for actuating the jaws.

3. A mop holder comprising two clamping frame members, each of said frame members consisting of a jaw, a pivot bar and a pivot eye, the pivot eye of each frame receiving therein the pivot bar of the other frame with the jaws in cooperative relation, and a clamping member extending from each frame to hold the jaws in clamped position.

4. A mop holder comprising a handle, two mop clamping frames each including a pivot bar, a pivot eye and a clamp jaw, the pivot bar of each frame passing through the eye of the other frame and being pivotally mounted on the handle, and a clamping member extending from each frame and engaging said handle to hold said jaws in clamped position.

5. A mop holder including a handle, two frame members each comprising a pivot bar piimtallv supported by said handle, a pivot eye within which the bar of the other frame is received and a clamp jaw, said eye in each frame comprising a coil extending around said bar on the other member, and'a clampingmember comprising an extension from said eye to hold said jaws in clamped engagement.

6. A mop holder comprising a handle and two mop clamping frames, said frames including, means for pix otally supporting them 011 said handle, and a clamp extending from each of said frames and being adapted to be passed across to opposite sides of said handle for engagement therewith whereby said handle opposes movement of said clamp to open said jaws.

FREDERICK o. HOFFMAN.

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