US641744A

US641744A - Mop-wringer.

Info

Publication number: US641744A
Application number: US71953499A
Authority: US
Inventors: Alfred B Westrup
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1899-06-06
Filing date: 1899-06-06
Publication date: 1900-01-23
Anticipated expiration: 1917-01-23

Description

No. 64!,744. Patented Ian. 23, I900. A. B. WESTRUP.

MOP WRINGER.

(Application filed June 6, 1899.)

(No Model.)

I IHIIIIIHll/H/HH UNITED STATES ALFRED l3. WVESTRUP,

PATENT. OEErc OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MOP-WRINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 641,744, dated January 23, 1900. Application filed June 6,1899. Serial No. 719,534. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED B. WESTRUP, of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Mop-Wringers, of which the following is a specification.

I will first describe my improvement in detail and then point out the novel features in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of a mop-wringer embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is an enlarged partial sectional view of the same on the plane of the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view showing a mop-wringer embodying my improvement in position for wringing a mop, and Fig. 4 is a partial detail showing parts of a mop-wringer embodying my improvement.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates a bucket. As shown, this bucket is of the ordinary rounded shape; but the bucket may be made of any desired shape and material. The bucket will preferably be provided with toes a a.

B B designate opposite angular standards, which maybe bent at their ends and these ends fastened to the wall of the bucket A by rivets b 6. Of course the manner in which the standards B B are fastened to the bucket A is immaterial.

O O designate guide-slots formed in the opposite branches of the angular standards B. The pins cl are shown as passing through the ends of a pair of inverted-U-shaped handles E E and through the guide-slots O C, and may be screwed into the ends of the rolls D D, which wringing-rolls are preferably made of wood. i

I will now describe the operation of the device.

The wringing-rolls D and D being at the lower outer ends of the guides O, and therefore separated to their widest extent, the handle E may be thrown by the operator over against the handle E. Fig. 2 illustrates how the various parts of the wringer will then be disposed toward each other. A mop, as F, is

then placed between the rolls D D, and after immersion in the liquid the operator grasps the handles E E and pulls them upward. This movement will cause the rolls to approach each other until they reach the upper inner or elevated ends of the guides C. When the rolls have reached this position, the operator draws the mop through the rolls, thereby wringing it, at the same time drawing upward on the handles, thus regulating the pressure of the rolls upon the mop. The operator may place his feet on the toes aa to hold down the bucket while the mop is being drawn between the rolls. When the mop has been wrung by being drawn between the rolls, the operator releases his hold on the handles E E, and the rolls will then descend to the lower outer ends of the guides C. When at the lower outer ends of the guides O, the rolls are sufficiently far apart to permit the mop to be reinserted in the fluid contained in the bucket.

It will be seen that by my improvement I produce a mop-wringer at once simple, cheap, and highly eifective. The handles E E not only serve as means for drawing the rolls together, but they also serve as handles for the bucket.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a mop-wringer, the combination with opposite angular standards having opposing guide-slots converging toward their inner upper ends, of opposing wringer-rolls having their ends journaled in said slots, and U- shaped handles connected at their terminals to the journals of the rolls.

2. In a mop-wringer, the combination with opposite standards, each of which is provided with a guide-slot, said slots being inclined and parallel, a wringer-roll journaled in said slots, an opposing roll, and a bail or handle of inverted- U shape having its terminals connected to the ends of the roll.

ALFRED B. WESTRUP.