US2823405A - Mop holder - Google Patents

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Feb. 1-8, 1958 T. L. JONES 2,823,405

MOP HOLDER Filed June 7, 1955 I N VEN TOR MAMMA .BY mw V ATTORNEYS,

United States Patent i MOP HOLDER Troy L. Jones, Columbia, S. C. Application June 7, 1955, Serial No. 513,750

2 Claims. (Cl. 15-153) This invention is an improved mop holder. The standard mop per se, composed usually of cotton strands, has an encircling band for holding the strands in position at about the middle thereof. The principal object of the present invention is to provide an improved mop holder which will utilize such a standard mop and will so hold such mop that the metallic ends of the mop holder are, in effect, within the outer portions of the mop, so that in use such outer metallic ends, even when run along the baseboard of a room, will not contact and scratch the baseboard.

To this end, the mop holder comprises a substantially U-shaped trough member and a pair of diverging supporting arms which engage in the ends of the trough member. The bottom of each end of the trough member is provided with an inset recess, the open end of which faces outwardly, and the diverging, supporting arms are provided with inwardly-turned ends which are seated in respective recesses. As a result of this con struction, the outermost portion of said in-turned ends is substantially hush with the outer edges of the trough so that they do not project beyond the ends of the trough and so do not scratch the baseboard.

The invention further comprises a detachable anchor Ibar which serves to engage against and clamp the middle of the mop in place in the trough for holding the mop in operative position. The ends of this anchor bar extend almost to the end faces of the in-turned ends of the supporting arms. 1n other words, the anchor bar just clears the end faces of said in-turned ends.

Further details of construction and operation will be described in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. l is a side view, partly in section, of the improved mop holder ot the present invention;

Fig. 2. is a cross-section taken along line 2-2 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is a plan view on an enlarged scale of the mop holder.

Referring now to these drawings, the mop holder comprises a pair of supporting, diverging arms 2 and 4, adapted to engage and support the trough-like mop engaging member o, which is substantially U-shaped, said trough member having a bottom wall 8. Each end of the bottom wall 8 is provided with an inset recess 10 adapted to receive the inwardly bent ends 12 ot the supporting arms 2 and 4. Ends l2 are preferably welded in place at 13. The depth ot each recess is about the same as the diameter ot the inwardly turned ends l2, so that the outermost portion of the arms 2 and 4 is substantially ilush with the ends 14 ot the trough 6.

l 2,823,405 Patented Feb. 18, 1958 rice A mop 16 of standard construction is held in place in`= the trough by an anchor bar or rod 18. In order to anchor this rod, there is provided a threaded member 20 whichfextends through the bottom wall 8 and partially encircles rod 18, as at 22, being secured thereto by welding. On the threaded member 20 is a wing or similar nut 23 which can be readily loosened and tightened up for removing and replacing the mop.

With the described construction, wherein the outermost parts of the arms 2 and 4 are within the outer edges 14 of the trough, there are no projecting portions to mar the baseboard when the mop is in use. In practice, with the mop clamped in position by the anchor bar 18, the side portions of the mop are outwardly laterally over and outside the ends 14 of the trough, so that these ends and the ends of the arms 2 and 4 are in effect embedded within the mop and so cannot scratch the baseboard.

The arms 2 and 4 are bent into parallelism at 24, and these parallel portions may be secured to a cylinder 26 for receiving the end 28 of the ordinary wooden mop handle. The bent portions of the supporting arms are further secured in place by a disc or washer 30 provided with suitable holes for the passage therethrough of the bent portions of arms 2 and 4. The lower ends of portions 24 are secured in sockets 33 in retaining ring 32, in turn secured to cylinder 26.

I claim as my invention:

1. A mop holder, comprising in combination a substantially U-shaped trough, the bottom of said trough being provided with an open-ended recess at each end thereof, a pair of diverging arms having inturned ends, said inturned ends being seated in said recesses and having a portion overlying and permanently secured to said trough, said recesses being at least as deep as the thickness of said inturned ends of said diverging arms, a substantially straight anchor bar, shorter than said trough and positioned just above the bottom of said trough and extending parallel to and lengthwise thereof, and positioned between the end faces of said inturned ends of said arms and on the same level therewith, and in line therewith, and a centrally positioned threaded member passing through the bottom of said trough and secured to said anchor bar, and provided with a cooperating nut, for holding said anchor bar toward the bottom of said trough.

2. The combination of claim 1, further comprising a cylindrical member adapted to receive the end of a mop handle, said diverging arms being bent into parallelism alongside and outside of said cylindrical member, and means engageable with said parallel portions of said arms for securing said parallel portions alongside and outside said cylindrical member.

References Cited in the le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 131,674 Fitzhugh Sept. 24, 1872 979,834 Ean Dec. 27, 1910 1,358,399 Sommer et al. Nov. 9, 1920 1,401,051 Dalton Dec. 20, 1921 2,042,803 Pleiss June 2, 1936 FOREIGN PATENTS 652,188 France Oct. 22, 1928

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