US880086A

US880086A - Broom-cover.

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Publication number: US880086A
Application number: US24484005A
Authority: US
Inventors: William S Lodge
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1905-02-09
Filing date: 1905-02-09
Publication date: 1908-02-25
Anticipated expiration: 1925-02-25

Description

PATENTED FEB. 25, 1908.

W. S. LODGE.

BROOM COVER.

APPLICATION FILED P1139, 1905.

broom, to be usee .1

WILLIAM S LODGE, G

F ALBANY, NEW YORK.

BROGN-CGVER.

Application filed February To all whom it may concem:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM S. LODGE, a citizen the United States of .m1erico, and a resident of the city and county of Albeny, State of New York, have invented certain new and usetul bnprov'ements in Brooms Covers, which the following is specifies tion.

My invention to improvements in.

dusting and poo j "vie-es, and. the object of my mventaon orovide covey for leasing and brushing the coil v and woiis eod polishing the floors of on apartmen 1 attain this eject by means of mech anism ifiustmtez, in the accompanying (ire, ings, in which:

Figure 1 is e petspeetive vi W of my broom "i cover, 511g, 2 e perspective 718W 01 a room and my invention, showing the H1351 oer of placing the sever on e broom. 3 as e persgectlve View of e-broom Wlth my 111- "vention thereon in position for use. Fig. 4

is a perspective View of o modified form of my invention. Fig. 5 ise persoeotive View of a further modified form thereof.

Similar letters refer to similol throughout the severe Views.

I preferably make my cover of knit oioth, in the form of e eylinder, opened at eeoh end,

end provided. with e working pert, 1%., of

heavy :fieeeed materiel, and at each end thereof secure lighter jtoa-teria], B, U, end.

so to broom, and

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as 3 end Specification of Letters Patent.

1905 Serial No. 2%.840

double filiCkUQSS oi the heavy fleeeed material makes o soft and resilient oushion, by which the surface to be cleaned will be acted on most advontegeoilsly and with! o danger of injury by scratching, o1 othel end after it is Worn on one side it can be turned over on the other side of the broom and. present 8.1182 7 surface, also, when cover worn at the oorners, it may be to Med, so thet the W017i portion may eome away from the corners of the broom. It eon be reversed, end for end, piecing the WOLA end in contact with the blOOIll proper, and the other end'mede to do the work of dusting one. polishing ete.

I Show; in Fig. 4, & modified form of my invention, 1'11 which the ortion is e. to pass over the end of t 1e broom, the broom passing through or into fillies-1 formed. cover, shown in I. 3, the lighter portiaols, j, f, pro; shin strings, G, G, respeetively, pose of seeming on each side of the broom the cover to the homfie,

I show, in Fig. 5, e further modifiedform in which the poTtiooA", is closed at one end, forming a seek, and at the opposite end orovided with the ates portioio, o, to whiofl shin string, e, 1e attached. In. use the broom is thrust into the seek thus formed, and the seek is held piece thereon by the shire styingg's o.

oo' tions, shown in 1 5 and C on? be united, sewing; the pieces together, they 12' oe mode of one elee, out o eioth. eon

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t Alt-3d v M 3 port and toe pert. eoeor- Emu been

for seeming the cover to Z03? r'ooidmg flap down,

mention and desire weight secured to each end of said working each end secured to the broom, suhstan- 10 portions, respectively; a, means for contially as described. tracting the loose edges'of said lighter fabric; Signed at Albany, N..Y. this 7th day .ofi, all so eggstrrgcigd thlz ztda brocinihrieay be Feb. 1905. v Y 5 serted t on ecym rlca ig rweig. A

Eortion and about midway through the v LODGE eavy Working portion; the balance of the Witnesses: broom cover being bent over upon the por- FREDERICK W. CAMERO tion covering one side of the broom, and Lo'r'rI-E PRIOR.