US3568234A - Mop element and a manufacturing method thereof - Google Patents

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US3568234A
US3568234A US788131A US3568234DA US3568234A US 3568234 A US3568234 A US 3568234A US 788131 A US788131 A US 788131A US 3568234D A US3568234D A US 3568234DA US 3568234 A US3568234 A US 3568234A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
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    • D03D—WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
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  • An improved mop element is manufactured by first arranging a number of tough, water-insoluble strands in the form of a neat row of parallel strands as the warps, thereafter weaving these warps into a continuous lengthy plain fabric by repeating the process of weaving two kinds of continuous adjacent plainly woven sections, one of which being woven, upto a predetermined breadth, with said warps of strands and wefts of a tough, but water-soluble chemical filament and the other of said adjacent sections being woven, up to a predetermined relatively narrow breadth, with the adjacent warps of strands and wefts of a water-insoluble tough yarn made of fibers selected from the group consisting of natural fibers, chemical fibers, synthetic fibers and their mixtures so that the resulting continuous plain fabric consists of a plurality of said two sections disposed in alternate fashion, and cutting the continuous lengthy plain fabric along the transverse
  • the present invention is concerned with an improved mop element and a manufacturing method thereof, and more particularly, it relates to an improved mop element and a manufacturing method thereof by the use of warps of strands and weaving them into a continuous lengthly plain fabric in which two different kinds of woven sections are disposed in alternate fashion, one of said two sections being woven with said warps of strands and wefts of a tough, but water-soluble chemical filament and the other of the sections being woven with the adjacent warps of strands and wefts of a water-insoluble yarn, cutting the resulting continuous lengthy plain fabric along the transverse centerline in each of the sections Woven with said warps of strands and said wefts of a tough, but watersoluble chemical filament, so that the mop elements thus prepared are easily stitched together to a piece of tough cloth to form a mop head.
  • the object of the present invention to eliminate the foregoing drawbacks of the mop element manufacturing methods of the prior art and to provide an improved mop element and a method for manufacturing such mop elements by the use of strands which are laid in parallel, side-by-side relation to each other and by weaving them, as the warps into the continuation of woven fabric consisting of alternately disposed two kinds of plainly woven sections, one of which being woven, up to a predetermined breadth, with said warps of strands and wefts of a tough, but water-soluble filament and the other of the sections being woven, up to a predetermined relatively narrow breadth, with the adjacent warps of strands and wefts of a water-insoluble yarn, eventually forming a continuous plainly woven fabric which is quite convenient for being applied to the feeding mechanism of a sewing machine because there arises no derangement of the row of strands owing to the fact that they are connected to each other by the water
  • the present invention provides an improved mop element and a method for manufacturing the same which permits the whole manufacturing operation to be performed, with a great deal of easiness and which is suitable for being employed in mass production on an industrial basis, said method comprising the following steps that, first, a large number of strands each being made with a plurality of tough yarns produced with, for example, synthetic fibers and by imparting them an appropriate degree of twist to form a twisted strandsare arranged in the form of a neat row of strands laid in parallel, side-by-side relationship to each other to be used as the warps; thereafter weaving, by use of an appriprate weaving apparatus, a plain fabric of a predetermined breadth with these warps and with wefts consisting of a tough, but water-soluble chemical yarn; thereafter weaving, as a continuous section, a plain fabric of a predetermined narrow breadth with the adjacent warps of strands and with wefts consisting of a water-insoluble yarn made of fibers selected from the
  • Each of the pieces of fabric thus severed constitutes an individual mop element in the form of being developed in one plane and being arranged in such a way that the narrow section woven with the warps of strands and with wefts of a Water-soluble yarn is flanked, on both sides, by two sections of plain fabric having equal breadths which both are woven with warps of strands and wefts of a watersoluble filament, the breadth of each of these latter two sections corresponding to one half of the breadth of the section of the same kind in the continuous plain fabric prior to being cut and severed.
  • the operationof stitching the severed pieces of plain fabric-which are in thestage prior to being dipped in the waterto a tough piece of cloth is performed while the individual strands are still connected to each other and not separated from each other for free movement unlike the rows of strands stitched together in the operation according to the conventional methods, and therefore, themop element which is provided in the form of a plain fabric by the present invention is quite convenient for being applied to the feeding mechanism of sewing machines andinsures easy and satisfactory stitching.
  • FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a part of a continuous, lengthy plain fabric consisting of alternatively arranged two different kinds of fabric sections which are woven by first arranging a number of warps of strands in the form of a neat row of parallel strands, thereafter weaving first plain fabric section with said warps of strands and with a tough, but water-soluble chemical filament, and then weaving continuous adjacent section of plain fabric woven with some of the remaining warps of strands and with wefts of a water-insoluble yarn, and by repeating these weaving processes;
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view, showing a part of a complete mop element which is obtained by first cutting the continuous, lengthy plain fabric shown in FIG. 1 along the transverse central line in the plain fabric section which has been woven with said warps of strands and with said water-soluble chemical filament.
  • reference number 1 represents a strand which is formed by appropriately twisting together a plurality of yarns made of fibers selected from the group consisting of natural fibers such as cotton fibers and synthetic fibers, especially acrylonitn'le synthetic fibers, and their mixture. A number of these continuous lengthy strands are arranged in the predetermined parallel positions on the weaving machine so as to serve the warps.
  • wefts each consisting of a tough, but watersoluble chemical filament 2 such as a polyvinyl alcohol filament
  • a plain fabric with said warps of strands and these wefts up to a breadth corresponding to twice the length of each tuft-like portion of the complete mop head which depends from the lateral edges of the central plain fabric section which serves to hold the tuft-like free-ended strands.
  • Each of the resulting individual plain fabrics thus severed will have the structure that a plain fabric section of a narrow breadth which is woven with the warps of strands and with the wefts of a water-insoluble yarn made of either natural fibers such as cotton fibers, or synthetic fibers, or their mixtures, is flanked-on both sides in continuous fashion with said narrow breadth section-by two sections of plain fabric woven with the warps of strands and with wefts of a watersoluble chemical filament 2, each of said two flanking sections of plain fabric extending up to a length corresponding to that of each of the tuft-like portions of the complete mop depending from both sides of the central narrow fabric made of the wefts of a water-insoluble yarn and the warps of strands.
  • the water-soluble chemical filament wefts 2 will dissolve away in water, and the individual strands having free ends which have been connected to each other till then by the wefts of the water-soluble chemical filament 2 will be separated from each other, forming a complete mop head of the type that two rows of tuft-like strands of a required length depend downwardly from the bilateral edges of the central narrow plain fabric section.
  • a plurality of the severed individual mop elements which are thus produced in the form of plain fabric prior to being dipped in water are then stitched together to a mop element holding piece of tough cloth such as canvas in the section of the narrow plain fabric in each mop element.
  • the method of the present invention obviates the complicated and diflicult operation in the prior art of stitching a row of individual parallel strands to a tough piece of cloth wherein derangement of the neat row of strands has been unavoidable. These inconvenience and difficulty gave rise to a considerable re duction in the efficiency of the operation.
  • a multitude of warps consisting of strands 1 and wefts consisting of a Water-soluble chemical filament 2 are woven to form a first section of plain fabric, and then a second section is woven with the adjacent warps of strands and with wefts of a Water-insoluble yarn v3, so that there is obtained a continuous lengthy plain fabric consisting of alternately assorted two sections made of different wefts.
  • the sewing of this continuous plain fabric to an anchoring piece of tough cloth is by far the more conveniently performed as compared with the instance in corporating the prior art where the individual strands disposed in a row are not connected each other.
  • this method of the present invention which contemplates the formation of the aforesaid plain fabric is quite convenient in applying the fabric to the feeding mechanism of sewing machines, and insures satisfactory stitching, and furthermore, it greatly enhances the efliciency of the operation especially where this method is employed industrially.
  • a method for manufacturing a mop e1ernent,,comprlsmg first arranging a number of warps of water-insoluble tough strands in the form of a neat row of parallel strands, thereafter Weaving these warps into a continuous lengthy plain fabric by repeating the process of weaving continuous and adjacently and alternately disposed two kinds of plainly woven fabric sections, one of which being woven, up to a predetermined breadth, with said warps of strandsand wefts of a tough, but water-soluble chemical filament and the other of said adjacent sections being woven, up to a predetermined relatively narrow breadth, with the adjacent warps of strands and wefts of a Waterinsoluble tough yarn made of fibers selected from the group consisting of natural fibers, chemical fibers, synthetic fibers and their mixtures, and cutting the resulting continuous lengthy plainly woven fabric along the transverse center line in each of the sections Woven with the warps of strands and wefts of a water-soluble
  • a mop element woven in the form of a continuous fabric comprising adjacently and alternately disposed two kinds of plainly woven fabric sections, one of which sections being woven, up to a predetermined breadth with warps consisting of a neat row of parallel, water-insoluble strands and with wefts of a tough but water-soluble chemical filament, the other of said fabric sections being woven, up to a predetermined relatively narrow breadth with adjacent unwoven part of said warps of strands and with wefts of a water-insoluble tough yarn made of fibers selected from the group consisting of natural fibers, chemical fibers, synthetic fibers and their mixtures, so that the resulting mop element in fabric form is of the arrangement that said the other of the plainly woven fabric sections is flanked by said one of the plainly woven fabric sections on both sides of said one of the fabric sections.

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US3859941A (en) * 1972-05-11 1975-01-14 David Krieger Textured embroidered fabric
DE3000615A1 (de) * 1980-01-09 1981-07-16 Vereinigte Mop-Werke Salmon-Ostermann Gmbh & Co Kg, 6980 Wertheim Feuchtwisch-mop
US4790604A (en) * 1986-02-26 1988-12-13 Rockford Manufacturing Company A continuous process for making a continuous fabric
US6260229B1 (en) * 1998-06-05 2001-07-17 E. I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company Bristle sub-assemblies and method of making same
US20010049869A1 (en) * 2000-06-13 2001-12-13 Monika Fehrer Method and apparatus for producing mop trimmings
US20030115708A1 (en) * 1998-06-05 2003-06-26 Edwards Mark Stephen Method and apparatus for making articles having bristles
US7533438B1 (en) * 2004-11-16 2009-05-19 Newell Robert D Tasseled woven mop

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3859941A (en) * 1972-05-11 1975-01-14 David Krieger Textured embroidered fabric
DE3000615A1 (de) * 1980-01-09 1981-07-16 Vereinigte Mop-Werke Salmon-Ostermann Gmbh & Co Kg, 6980 Wertheim Feuchtwisch-mop
US4790604A (en) * 1986-02-26 1988-12-13 Rockford Manufacturing Company A continuous process for making a continuous fabric
US6260229B1 (en) * 1998-06-05 2001-07-17 E. I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company Bristle sub-assemblies and method of making same
US20030115708A1 (en) * 1998-06-05 2003-06-26 Edwards Mark Stephen Method and apparatus for making articles having bristles
US20010049869A1 (en) * 2000-06-13 2001-12-13 Monika Fehrer Method and apparatus for producing mop trimmings
US7100253B2 (en) * 2000-06-13 2006-09-05 Monika Fehrer Method and apparatus for producing mop trimmings
US7533438B1 (en) * 2004-11-16 2009-05-19 Newell Robert D Tasseled woven mop

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