US826657A - Cuspidor-cleaner. - Google Patents

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PATENTED JULY 24, 1906. L. HALVORSON & I. JOHNSON.

GUSPIDOR CLEANER. APPLIOATION FILED JULY 7, 1905.

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UNITED STATES LARS HALVORSON,

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OF VVILLMAN, AND IVER JOHNSON, OF OHOKIE,

'MINNESOTA; SAID HALVORSON ASSIGNOR TO JAMES J MOOAN- NEY, OF STEVENS COUNTY, MINNESOTA.

CUSPIDOR-CLEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 1906.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LARs HALvonsoN, residing at Willman, in the county of Kandiyohi, and IVER JOHNSON, residing at Ohokie, in the county of Stevens, State of Minnesota, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ouspidor-Oleaners; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled. in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention has for its object to provide an efficient device for cleaning cuspidors and various other vessels; and it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout both views.

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, showing the complete device. Fig. 2 is a detail view showing a portion of the device on a larger scale .than shown in Fig. 1, some parts being broken away.

The numeral 1 indicates a bearing-bracket having bearing- sleeves 2 and 3 extending at right angels to each other and provided at its upper 'end with a handpiece 4. The upper end of a shaft 5 is journaled in the bearing 2, and the inner end of a crank-shaft 6 is journaled in the bearing 3. A beveled gear 7 is secured to the inner end of the crank-shaft 6 and meshes with a beveled pinion 8 on the extreme upper end of the shaft 5. The shaft 5 at its lower end is bent outward at 9. Immediately below the bearing 2 the shaft 5 is provided with a laterally-projecting lug 10 and just above its bent portion 9 is provided with a similar lug 11. A supplemental shaft 12 is loosely journaled in'the projecting lugs 10 and 11 and at its lower end is provided with a portion 13, bent at an angle thereto. At. its upper end above the lug 10 the shaft 12 is bent outward at 14, and to this bent portion is pivoted a ring 15, that is adapted to be turned downward over the end of said lug 10 to lock said shaft 12 with its bent end 13 projecting in'the same plane with but in an o posite direction from the bent end 9 of the s aft 5. Mo sections 16 and 17 are loosely attached to t e bent ends 9 and 13, respecinner surface thereof at a hig tively, of the shafts -5 and 12. These mops 16 and 1-7 are preferably formed'by loosely connected and interwoven wire rings.

To enable the mops and the bent ends of the shafts 5 and 12 to be inserted into a cuspidor or other vessel through the contracted neck portion thereof, the shaft 12 is turned as shown in Fig. 2, and after the mops have been inserted the said shaft 12 is turned back into the position shown in Fig. 1 and is locked in such position by the ring 15. The device is then operated by taking hold of the handpiece 4 with one hand and revolving the crankshaft 6 with the other hand, thereby revolving the main shaft 5 and the supplemental shaft 12 as a single shaft or stem and causing the mops 16 and 17 to be thrown outward under the action of centrifugal force. The mops are thus thrown against the sides of the vessel and are caused to ass over the speed, and thus thoroughly clean the vessel.

In actual practice we have found this device to be extremely efficient for the purposes had in view.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a rotary shaft and means for rotating the same, said shaft having a laterally-extended lower end and having a mop loosely attached to said laterallyextended end, and a crank-like arm pivoted on and carried by said rotary shaft and hav ing a mop loosely attached to the projecting lower end thereof, substantially as described.

2. The combination with abearing-bracket having tively mounted in said bracket, a supplemental shaft journaled in the bearings carried by the main shaft, said two shafts having laterally-bent ends, mops applied to the bent ends of said two shafts, and means for locking said supplemental shaft with its bent end turned away from the bent end of said main shaft, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a bearing-bracket having a handpiece, of a shaft 5 rotatively mounted in'said bracket and provided with a laterally-bent end 9 and with bearing-lugs 10 and 11, a supplemental shaft 12 mounted in said lugs 10 and 11, and having the latera handpiece, of a main shaft rotaally-bent end 13, means for locking the upper end of said supplemental shaft to said lug 10, metallic mops 16 and 17 attached to the end portions 9 and 13 respectively, of said shaft 5 and 12, a crank journaled in said bearing-bracket, of gears connecting said crank to the upper end of said shaft 5, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We aflix our signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

LABS HALVORSON. IVER JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

GEO. H. OTTERNEss, GEORGE MULLER.

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