US1609157A

US1609157A - Mop

Info

Publication number: US1609157A
Application number: US78446A
Authority: US
Inventors: Esther T Crater
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-12-30
Filing date: 1925-12-30
Publication date: 1926-11-30
Anticipated expiration: 1943-11-30

Description

Nov. 30 1926.

' E. T. CRATER MOP Filed Dec. 30 I 1925 INVENTOR .E'sfiwrfaraier ATTORNEYS WITNESSES A4170 Patented Nov. 30, 1926.

UNITED STATES ESTHER T. CRA'IER, F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

MOP.

Application filed December 30, 1925.

This invention relates to the class of mops and swabs.

The present invention contemplates the provision of a mop or swab cleanin element made of any preferred material SUCH as ropeyarns, thrums, or any other suitable soft cleaning material constructed in a novel manner so as to embody or have associated therewith handle attaching and holding 0 means by virtue of which the cleaning element may be readily applied to one extremity of any type of handle or staff against displacement, but which may be readily detached.

.5 The invention further contemplates a novel form of attaching and holding means for associating the cleaning element with a handle which will not leave staining or soiling matter upon portions of the cleaning :0 element, and which will not mar or scratch surfaces to be cleaned, and which will permit the cleaning element to be used freely and in difficult places to get at.

The present invention further contem- 15 plates an attaching means for attaching a mop to a handle,which can be readily incorporated for the intended purposes, which will be extremely inexpensive, and which will not be a drawback when it is desired to 0 purge the mop of dirt and other foreign matter by boiling or washing the same.

The nature of the invention and its distinguishing features and advantages will appear when the following specification is 5 read in connection with the accompanying drawing in which is illustrated one embodiment by way of example, and in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a mop constructed in accordance with the present in- 0 vention, a portion of the handle thereof being broken off.

Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional View taken 5 on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a view of the essential parts of the mop cleaning element showing certain stages of its mode of construction and prior to its being put into the mop shape or con- 0 dition.

The mop of the present invention will essentially comprise a handle and a cleaning element 11, The handle 10 will be in the nature of a stick or staff of suitable 5 length preferably of wood, and will therefore be comparatively inexpensive. The

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cleaning element 11 may be diversely formed of some soft suit-able cleaning material such as rope-yarns, strands, thrums, or pieces of cloth of proper length and width. In the presentinstance the cleaning element is shown as being made up from rope-yarns 1:2 of suitable length, a sufficient number of rope-yarns being used and laid upon each other to give thickness and body to the cleaning element. The said ropeyarns 12 are stitched together by lines of stitching 13, while in the condition as shown in Fig. 4, the lines of stitching occurring adjacent a medial point indicated by the dot and dash line 14, upon which the ropeyarns 12 are folded so as to provide inner and outer fringe sections 15 and 16 re spectively on a bight 17. In this condition the rope-yarns are put into the form of a circular body, the confronting or adjacent bight portions being stitched as at 18 to maintain the formation as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 3. Attaching and holding means in the nature of tying cords or

tapes

19 and 20 are provided. Each of the

cords

19 and 20 is retained in place by two lines of stitching 13, each of the

cords

19 and 20 passing through the rope-yarns as indicated in Fig. 4. Each of the

cords

19 and 20 may be incorporated before or after the stitching is done and may be passed between the portions of the ropeyarns one or more times. Each of the

cords

19 and 20 is of sufficient length to provide portions capable of being tied together. It is to be noted that the lines of stitching 13 are in the outer section of the cleaning element as shown most clearly in Fig. 2, that the cord 19 is incorporated near the bight 17, and that the cord 20 is incorporated below the cord 19 spaced therefrom. In applying the cleaning element 11 to the handle v 10, one end of the handle is inserted in the open end of the cleaning element at the bight and is extended inwardly a distance so that the extremity of the handle will be slightly above the plane of the cord 20. The cord 20 is then drawn up tightly so as to flex portions of the rope-yarns inwardly as shown most clearly in Fig. 2 to limit or prevent inward movement of the extremity of the handle 10 beyond a certain point.

The flexed condition of the rope-yarn portions is maintained by the extremities of the cord 20 as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The cord 19 is drawn tightly so as to make the bight portions of the rope-yarns to tightly embrace the end of the handle, after which the extremities of the cord 19 are Wrapped about the end of the handle and are tied together as shown in Fig. 1. It will now be apparent that the

cords

19 and 20 as incorporated and applied serve for attaching and holding the cleaning element 11 associated with the handle 1.0 against separation, although making pr0- vision for easily detaching the cleaning element 11 from the handle When it is desired to detach the same.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that there has been described a cleaning element having functional attributes based upon novel features of construction, and appurtenances by virtue of which a cleaning element may be readily associated with any type of handle or staff; that the use of divers fastening means such as rivets, wire frames and other metallic parts is obviated; that the cleaning element may be purged of dirt and foreign matter whenever the ocei sion arises; that scratching and inarring of surfaces being cleaned is absolutely eliminated, and that a cleaning element of the indicated character may be produced at a comparatively low cost.

I claim:

1. A mop comprising ahandle, a cleaning element constituted of yarns folded to provide inner and outer fringe sections on a. looped bight, said handle being arranged in the loop of said bight, means threaded through the bight of the cleaning element and secured to one end 01": the handle to bind the cleaning element thereto, and

means carried by and extending through the outer fringe section below the handle end and brought together to limit the movement of the cleaning element relative to the handle.

2. A mop comprising rope strands held together by lines of stitching extending transversely thereof, said strands being folded upon themselves to provide a bight portion and inner and outer fringe sections with the stitching occurring in the outer fringe section, the bight portion formed into a loop and the meeting edges being sewed to each other, a handle inserted in the bight end thereof, and binding and tying cords arranged in the outer fringe section and restricting the bight end to cause portions thereof to embrace and to confront the end of the handle, the ends of one of the cords being tied together, and the ends of the other cord being wrapped around the end of the handle and tied thereto.

A cleaning element comprising rope strands held together by lines of stitching extending transversely thereof, said strands being folded upon themselves to provide a bightportion and inner and outer fringe sections with the stitching occurring in the outer tringe section, the bight portion formed into a loop and the meeting edges being sewed to each other, and binding and tying cords extending through the outer fringe section, each of the binding and tying cords arranged between two lines of stitches, and the ends of said cords disposed externally.

ESTHER T. CRATER.