US1767385A

US1767385A - Water expeller

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Publication number: US1767385A
Application number: US361137A
Authority: US
Inventors: Thomas J Logan
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1929-05-07
Filing date: 1929-05-07
Publication date: 1930-06-24
Anticipated expiration: 1947-06-24

Description

T. J. LOGAN WATER .EXPELLER June 24, 1930.

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O 55 v l Patented June 24, 1930 THOMAS J. LOGAN, OF WAPATO, WASHINGTON WATER nxrmmnn Application filed May 7, 1929. Serial No. 361,137.

This invention is a device for expelling surplus water from mops and from clothes or other articles or materials, the object being to provide an exceedingly simple and inexpensive device which may be readily attached to any tub or pail and by the use of which surplus water in a mop may be quickly and efiici'ently expelled or clothes partly driedfwithout injury to the articles 'or materials. The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing and will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing my improved device in operativeposition upon a pail, and I Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section.

The pail or tub 1 may be of any usual or approved construction and serves as a container forthe supply of water in which the mop is to be immersed from time to time or in which clothes may be washed. The device constituting the present invention comprises an open top receptacle comprising triangular end plates 2 and a reticulated side plate 3 which is bent into V-shape so as to conform to the triangular form of the end plates and which is reinforced around its edges by flanges or flat strips 4 which are disposed against and rigidly secured to flanges 5 formed along the edges of the end plates 2, as shown and as will be understood. In the lower portion of each end plate 2 are formed perforations 6 through which water may escape. Secured to each end plate above the center of the same is a metallic strip 7 which projects beyond the edges of the plate and is provided at its inner end with an opening through which is inserted a supporting rod 8, said rod being 7 of such length that it may extendjentirely across the pail or tub and rest upon the edge of the same, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. At the opposite end of each strip 7 a short rod 9 is secured in and extends between the projectingends of the strips so as to resist any tendency of the adjacent side plate 3 to buckle and also resist spreading of the projecting portions of the strips. The projecting front ends of the strips are bent inwardly, as shown at 10, and then downwardly,

as shownat 11, to form hangers or clips which are adapted to bear against the outer side of the tubor pail, as shown clearly in r Fig. 3, and thereby aid in supporting the receptacle-as well as preventing its movement across the pail.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen that I have provided an exceedingly. simple and inexpensive device which may be readily supported upon the top of a pail or tub and direct water into the same. In use, the mop is inserted into the receptacle and suflicient pressure exerted through the mop handle to force the head close to the bottom of the receptacle and as the bottom is exceedingly restricted and the side walls theregf converge downwardly the mop head will e that the surplus water will be expressed therefrom and will flow back to the pail or tub. The openings 6 through the end walls of the receptacle facilitate the return of the water as is obvious. The device may be used as a substitute for a clothes Wringer by inserting the wet washed clothes into the receptacle and pressing them as closely as possible into the bottom of the same, whereupon the same squeezing and water-expel ling action will occur. The device may be easily placed in position or removed as it end walls having openings through their lower apexportions, a reticulated plate V- squeezed between the reticulated sides so shaped transversely to correspond to the edges of the end walls, secured along the edges plate, inwardly projecting flanges along the edges of the end walls to which the flanges of the reticulated plate aresecured, supporting strips secured across the end walls and having their outer ends formed into reinforcing strips pendent hangers to engage across the edge of said reticulated of a tub and against the outer side of the tub, a brace fitted in and extending between the projecting front ends of said strips, and a rod carried by the rear ends of the strips to extend across and rest upon the edge of a tub.

In testimony whereof I aifix my si nature.

THOMAS J. LOGAN.