US38734A

US38734A - Improved mop

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Publication number: US38734A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1863-06-02
Anticipated expiration: 1880-06-02

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD H. EWING, OF ELIZABETHTOWN, OHIO.

|MPP.ovED MOP.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,734, dated J une?, 1863 antedated March 11, 186:2.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RICHARD H. EWING, of Elizabethtown, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mops; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

Figure l is a perspective view of the mop, and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same.

M v invention is in the nature of an article of manufacture; and it consists in the form and construction of the implement as hereinafter described.

A is the head-piece of the mop, consisting of an oblong block of wood about one inch thick and of any convenient length and width. One of the long edges of the block is bored centrally to the depth of about two inches for the round handle B, which ts tightly and may be of any convenient length. The opposite edge of the head-piece is grooved with a flaring groove, a, as represented, extending from end to end. C is a clamp of stout wire resting loosely in groove a, and bent up at right angles against the ends ofthe head-piece. The ends of the wire at a distance of one or two inches from the angles are formed into round eyes b. At points in the ends of the head-piece corresponding with the eyes b bitholes are bored, and these receive wire pins o, which likewise pass through eyes b and confine the clamp to the headfpiece.

Fibrous material, D, when appropriately introduced between the head-piece and the clamp and compressed by the latter into the groove, and the pins o afterward inserted through the eyes into the bit-holes, is trmly held and the implement is in condition for use.

To renew the fibrous material, the pins c are withdrawn, newmaterial introduced and pressed into the groove by the clamp, and the pins inserted as before.

The form and construction of my improved mop herein described aiiords a simple, inexpensive, and efficient implement.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

As a new and improved article of manufacture, the inop,substantially as herein described.

R. H. EWIN G.

Witnesses: v

STEPHEN COOPER, A. R. LIND.