US2427137A - Scrubbing implement - Google Patents

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Sept. 9, 1947. E. w. HALL SCRUBBING IMPLEMENT Filed Jan. 15, 1944" Inzienior: 15768716! WHaZZ.

Patented Sept. 9, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SCRUBBING IMPLEMENT Elisha W. Hall, Scituate, Mass.

Application January 15, 1944, Serial No. 518,398

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to scrubbing implements for pots, kettles, pans, and other kitchen ware, and is concerned with an implement having a handle to which is secured a strip helically wound to present a coil, one end of the cell being afilxed to the handle and the other end of the coil being exposed for use in scrubbing. The invention will best be understood by reference to the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing of one specific embodiment thereof, while its scope will be pointed out more particularly in the appended claim.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is an elevation of one form of scrubbing implement embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan of the same; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale on line 3--3 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing and to the embodimerits of the invention illustrated therein as examples, and having reference at first to the form shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, there is shown a strip 8 of scrubbing material such as bias-cut cotton cloth formed to present numerous openings 18 as by providing the same with deep corrugations 12 formed, for example, as pleats maintained as by stitches i4 therethrough. The strip as thus formed is spirally wound to present a coil (see Fig. 2 )one end of which is affixed to a handle [8 (see Fig. 3) having a socket it which receives that end of the coil, while the other end is exposed beyond the end of the socket.

The coil is adhesively secured in the socket as by making the socket, and preferably the whole handle, of water-soluble, cold-setting glue of the urea-formaldehyde type, preferably reinforced by mixing the same with small pieces 28 of fibrous material such as Wood saw-dust. This composition is molded to form the handle and socket and preferably one end of the coil is placed in the mold so that some of the composition flows into the openings Ii) and interlocks with the corrugations 12, while at the same time some of the adhesive permeates the fibers of the cloth, thus firmly securing the coil in place in the socket of the handle. The glue, on setting, is waterproof and hence will not be affected by water while kettles, pans, and the like are being scrubbed.

The effectiveness of the implement for scrubbing is increased as by providing the corrugated strip, preferably before coiling, with a covering 22 which combines an adhesive and an abrasive. Preferably, the adhesive is the aforesaid glue which, after drying, is waterproof. The abrasive may be for example powdered tripoli. While the adhesive and the abrasive might be mixed and then applied, I have found it well to dip the strip first into the adhesive to produce an adhesive coating and then to dip the adhesive coating into the powdered abrasive to produce an abrasive coating on the adhesive .coating. If the described glue be used, the strip should either be wound at once before the glue becomes set, or if the glue has become set, the strip should be worked to and fro to break the adhesive coating here and there so that the strip will coil readily. If, on the other hand, the adhesive be inherently flexible, as latex rubber, for example, it will re main sufficiently flexible so that it may be Wound without difficulty, and will remain flexible indefinitely, an advantage when in use. In either case, the dipping into the adhesive and into the abrasive should be such as to produce a coating which enters the openings Ill and practically fills them to a sufiicient depth to produce a durable scrubbing surface.

Having thus described one embodiment of the invention, what I claim and desire by Letters Patent to secure is: k

In a scrubbing implement for pots, pans, and other kitchenware, the combination of a, strip of cloth formed to present numerous openings by the provision of corrugations formed as pleats and spirally wound to present a coil in which said openings are maintained, and a handle of molded plastic extending into said openings and inter looking with said corrugations.

- ELISHA W. HALL.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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