US568895A

US568895A - Mop-wringer

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Publication number: US568895A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1896-10-06
Anticipated expiration: 1913-10-06

Description

(No Model.)

H. A. DECHENNE.

MOP WRINGER.

No. 668,895. Patented 061;. 6, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY AUGUST DEOHENNE, OF IVOBURN, ILLINOIS.

l M'o-P-wRiNG ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,895, dated. October 6, 1896.

Application led June 27, l 8 96 serial No. 597,213.y (no model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

CHENNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at lVoburn, in the county of Bond and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful l\Iop-\Vringer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to mop-wringers, and the object in view is to provide a simple and efficient device of this character attached to and forming a part of the pail or bucket and comprising spaced rollers, one of which is divided intermediate its ends to admit of the shank or handle of the mop being passed laterally between the rollers, thus adapting the mop to bedrawn upwardly through or between the rollers for wringing said mop, thereby obviating the necessity of forcing the mop downward between the rollers and spilling the dirty water upon the lioor.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the course of the ensuing description.

The invention' consists in certain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a perspective View of a bucket or pail, showing the improved wringer therein. Fig'. 2 is a sectional viewof the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing one of the springs for actuating the yielding roller. Y

Similar numerals of reference designate oorresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

l designates a pail or bucket, which may be either of wood or metal. For the purpose of carrying out the present invention a rollersupporting frame 2 is provided, said frame being arranged within the bucket and at or near the top edge thereof and occupying about one half of the top of the bucket, the remaining half of the bucket being left free for the insertion of the mop.

The frame 2 is preferably constructed of a single piece of strap metal, the central portion of which is secured tothe inside edge of the pail. From this centralportion parallel arms 3 extend toward the diametrical line of the pail, where they are bent in opposite directions and extended so as to reach the inner wall of the pail, to which they are securely attached at the points 4. Diagonal braces 5 are interposed between the outer ends of the arms 8 and the inner wall of the bucket for giving the necessary rigidity to the frame 2. The arms 3 are provided with longitudinal slots 6, and these slots receive slidingly the opposite ends of the spindle 7 of a wringingroller 8. At each end of the roller 8 is arranged a spring 9, one arm of Which connects with the spindle of the roller S and the other end with the frame 2 or other iixed point. The tension of these springs is exerted to force the yielding roller 8 toward the second roller.

The second roller l0 is -arranged parallel with the roller S, and Ais journaled near the outer ends of the arms 3. This roller is divided at about a central point, thus forming the roller into two sections, each section being journaled on an independent spindle ll. The adjacent ends of the two sections of the roller l() are spaced apart sufliciently to admit the shank or handle of the mop, so that the mop may be passed between the rollers and drawn upward without the necessity of iirst pushing the mop downward between the rollers.

The mop containing the dirty water is introduced into the unoccupied half of the pail, and the shank or handle of the mop is then moved laterally between the ends of the rollersections until it strikes against the roller S. By now drawing the mop upward the dirty water is wrung therefrom and vdeposited in the bottom of the pail, the roller S yielding to allow the upward movement of the mop, but pressing with suificient force against the same to remove the dirty water. This obviates the necessity of pushingthemop downward between the rollers and spilling the water on the floor.

It will be apparent that changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is v 1 1. The combination in a mop-wringer, of parallel rollers, one of said rollers being formed in two sections independently journaled and having their adjacent ends spaced IOO yadjacent ends spaced apart, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY AUGUST DECHENNE.

'Vtnesses:

E. WV. MILLER, J. W. BooKsTRUoK.