Patent ID: 6487749
Filing Date: 2002-12-03
Classification: A47L

Abstract:
A pail for squeezing water from a mop, comprising:a pail body having a pail mouth; a rotatably fixed roller provided at a first peripheral edge location of said pail mouth; a translationally movable roller provided near a second peripheral edge location of said pail mouth, said translationally movable roller being movable down an inclined guiding recess toward said rotatably fixed roller; pedal actuating means making use of the lever principle is oppositely fixed on lateral walls of said pail body; and, a spindle for said translationally movable roller being connected with said pedal actuating means, wherein said pedal actuating means comprises: two main rods with lower ends of each of said two main rods being fixed in holding holes defined in said lateral walls of said pail body, said holding holes for said two main rods being located in lower portions of said lateral walls, near bottom edges and a rearward pail wall of said pail body, and serving as a fulcrum of said pedal actuating means, with upper ends of said two main rods being connected together though said spindle; a branching rod extending from an upper portion of said two main rods along said lateral walls of said pail body toward a frontward pail wall of said pail body, said branching rod including two inclined portions extending along said lateral walls and an horizontally extending portion in front of said frontward pail wall; a restoring spring at positioned at said fulcrum of said pedal actuating means, with one end of said restoring spring being fixed to one of said lateral walls of said pail body; and, a pedal plate fixed to said horizontally extending portion of said branching rod.