US856160A - Cuspidor-cleaner. - Google Patents

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No. 856,160. PATENTED JUNE 4. 1907. 0. KEROUSE.

GUSPIDOR CLEANER.

APPLICATION IILED AUG. 31, 1906.

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ATTORNEYS THE mums PETERS 00., WASHINGTON, u. c.

OTTO KEROUSE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

CUSPlDOR-CLEANER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 4, 1907.

Application filed August 31, 1906. fierial No. 332,881.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Orro KERoUsn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented an Improvement in Cuspidor-Cleaners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a contractible and expansible device adapted for cleaning cuspidors and other receptacles or tubular bodies especially those whose mouths or entrant portions are contracted or made of less diameter than the body portion.

The details of construction, arrangement, and operation of the device are as hereinafter described, and illustrated in accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side view or my improved cleaner'in the contracted position; and Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same in the expanded position. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 33 of Fig. 2. Fig.4 is a detail sec tion illustrating the connection between the brushes and the handle and sliding rod by which these brushes are adjusted. Fig. is an interrupted section at right angles to the sections shown in Fig. 4 and taken at one side of the handle.

The handle of the implement is composed of two parallel rods 1, 1, having a head 2 which is provided with lateral extensions or arms 3, the same being held in one hand of the operator when the implement is in use. A third rod 4 is arranged between the handle rods 1 and attached at its upper end to a head 5 having a lateral arm, the same being provided with holes to receive the rods 1 so that it may slide thereon. The lower end of the slidable rod 4 is detachably connected with a cross-head 6, see Fig. 4, which is also provided with parallel holes to receive the rods 1 and to slide thereon in the same manner as the head 5. The cleaning devices proper 7, are connected with the lower end of the rods 1, and with the cross-head 6, and also with each other, as will now be de scribed. The cleaning devices 7 are preferably constructed as brushes, bristles being set in a stock 8 having a backing 9 see Fig. 3. Both the stock and the backing are slightly curved lengthwise so that the brushes present a slightly convex outline. The two lower brushes are connected by a pivot screw 10 and also with the block 11 secured to the lower end of the rods 1, and also pivotally connected with each other. The upper brushes are connected with the cross-head 6 by pivots 12; see Fig. 4. The outer ends of the pairs of brushes are pivotally connected by screws 13. It will be seen that two of the brushes lie on one side of the rods 1, 1, and 4, and the other two upon the opposite side. The outer ends of the two pairs are spaced from each other by a sleeve 13 through which the pivot screw passes while the cross-head 6 and head, or block, 11 serve to space the other ends of the brushes from each other the bristles of the several brush backs project outwardly or laterally at a considerable angle to adapt them for contact with the sides of the cuspidor.

It will now be understood that, when the handle or head 5 of rod 4 is slid upward on the rods 1, as shown in Fig. 1, the brushes will be drawn practically into alinement and thus the width of the brush portion of the implement will be contracted so that it may be introduced through the contracted mouth of a cuspidor or other vessel; on the other hand, if the head 5 be pushed down on the rods 1, as indicated in Fig. 2, the cross-head 6 will be carried into proximity to the end block 11 of rods 1 and thus the brushes will be adjusted practically horizontal as shown in Fig. 2, or in other words, the brush portion of the implement will be expanded as required to adapt it for frictional contact with the sides of the enlarged body of the cuspidor or other receptacle. Then, upon rotating the implement or adjusting it up and down in the cuspidor or other receptacle, the latter will be rubbed and cleaned in a rapid and effective manner. Upon again raising the head 5, the brush will be contracted so that it may be removed from the receptacle.

What I claim is The improved cleaning implement comprisin a handle formed of two parallel rods, a third rod which is arranged slidably between the others, and a head connected with the third rod and arranged slidably on the handle, two lower brushes pivoted to the lower end of the handle on opposite sides, two upper brushes pivoted to the said head on opposite sides, the outer ends of the two pairs of brushes being pivotally connected and also spaced apart, as shown and described.

OTTO KEROUSE.

IVitnesses:

J. H. ANDERsEN, JOHN J. KELLY.

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