US1668465A - Mop - Google Patents

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May I, 1928 J. V. PETRONE MOP . Filed Nov. 11,

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Patented May 1, 1928.

UNITED. STATES JAMES V. FETRONE, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

MOP.

; Applieatioafiled November 11, 1927. Serial No. 232,690.

This invention relates to an improvement in mop constructions, The features of the invention will be best understood from the drawings and following description.

Referring to the drawings Fig. 1 shows aform for the wire. core of the mop head;

Fig. 2 shows a slightly modified form;

, Fig. 3 shows a mop head with its wire core dotted, the mop,materialbound to the core, and the mop handle; and

Fig. i is a larger view of the parts in Fig. 3 with the mop material omitted.

According to my invention I bend and shape the wire core of a mop head A. into the shape shown. A principal charzuwteristic of this shape is that in it the core has two spaced legs 1 and 2 jointed by a diagonal leg 3. The mop handle it is attached at the center of the diagonal leg 3 where the latter is bent into portion 3 at right angles to the other legs so as to take the handle. The shapes B and C illustrate that the same characteristic can be readily embodied in modified forms.

The mop material, shown only at M in Fig. 8, is conveniently caught between the twists of two wires which together form the wire core shown in the other figures.

This way of binding mop or brush material 'to a wire core is well understood. In the case of a mop enough materialusually of a soft, flufi'y nature such as soft yarn for example, is assembled on the wire core to make a large mop head, to quite effectively bury the wire core and thus prevent rit from ever making direct contact when the mop is used to clean. a surface. One of my objects is to form the association of core, mop material, and mop handle so that there is much less liability of the handle end being pressed directly against the surface cleaned by the mop.

This feature is attained in the mop shown by attaching the handle it on the diagonal leg of the wire core of the mop. The handle socket 7 has a two-part clamp or hearing arranged transversely at the end of the handle, which bearing is opened and closed by a thumb nut to mountthe handle on portion 3. The bearing is arranged so that the wide core may turn around in the clamp and thus the mop head may be reversed from time to time to use its two sides and without any necessary change in position of the handle 72 \Vhichever side of the mop is being used, the handle may pivot on portion 3 and press the mop against a surface for cleaning purposes as the handle is swung back and forth or fromlside to side. In such use of the mop it will be-seen, particularly from Fig. 3, that the end of the handle occupies a position at the center of the mop material as arranged. From such center the wire core of the mop branches out from opposite sides of the bearing and in opposite directions, but only for short distances relative to the size of the mop head. From the ends of such branches the core is bent back on itself and extends beyond the bearing in the opposite direction to bring its free ends to diagonally opposite points from the. central portion 3'. By this arrangement the central portion 3' is braced quite effectively against moving out of the central plane of the mop head. The mop material can be readily arranged on the core so that it naturally extends to a greater distance outwardly than it does inwardly. This may be accomplished by binding the strands of the mop material in the twists of the wire core near the strand ends, so that most of their lengths are left free to spread outwardly, as indicated generally in Fig. 3. But even without this precaution, such material will extend far enough from the core if the said strands are long enough.

By bringing all the bracing points of the bent wire core as close to the bearing at the handle end as can be done and by positioning the mop material so that it will spread out over the desired area. I attain a better support for the handle end pressure than. in any similar type of reversible mop head of which I am aware. The attachment of the handle to the diagonal leg of the mop core necessarily puts pressure from the handle onto diagonally opposite portions of the parallel legs where such portions can best distribute it over the mop head to a surface for cleaning.

To increase the amount of mop material carried by the core. I may bend back on themselves the remote ends 5and 6 of the legs 1 and 2. These may be bent outwardly as in Fig. l or imvardly as in Fig. l. In all the figures it is apparent that I obtain a mop core of considerable length so as to carry a considerable amount of fluffy mop material without extending the core far from the handle attaching portion in any direction. At the same time the mop material is effectively placed to cover a comparatively large area, because it extends much further from the handle than any parts of the core. The form of mop head core shown in Fig. 2 extends the parts from portion 3' more than in the other figures, but even in this shape the diagonally arranged free ends 8 and 9 of the core B are braced against easy bending by the oppositely arranged diagonal leg 3 which serves to join these free ends with portion 3 where the pressure is applied by the handle.

From the foregoing it will be seen that my new mop construction includes a mop head core which is inexpensive to make and which; primarily by shape alone, is arranged to coordinate a desired type or pivoted handle attachment (permitting); the mop head reversal) with a wide spread of mop material so held by the handle as to keep the latter from readily pushing to its surface.

lVhat I claim is:

A mop made of an unbroken wire support formed from two strands of stifl' bendable wire twisted together with a continuous layer of fluffy mop material bound between the twisted strands except for a short central portion of the support, a handle pivotally mounted on said central portion for complete rotation, the whole support with its mop material being bent into an N-shape, with its legs substantially parallel except for said central portion arranged at right angles to the legs, with the free end portions of the side legs doubled'bacl't sharply on the side legs to form extra thickness of the fluffy mop material at such ends, and with sharp bends in the support where the side legs join the diagonal leg to form extra thickness at such corners, all constructed so that the four corners of the N-shaped support locate bunched mop material to brace the mop head against pressure from the centrally located handle arranged for complete relative rotation when the mop is in use.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature.

JAMES V. PETRONE.

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