Patent CA-107897-S (CA)
Title: Bucket for wringing out mops
Filed: 2004-08-05
Granted: 2007-01-16
Abstract: The said industrial design consists of the shape, configuration and ornamentation of a bucket for wringing out mops having a wringing out device which, in a first position, is mounted on the mouth of the bucket; the wringing out device has a support frame and two symmetrical pieces which, in a first position, are mounted in the support frame; the support frame has a generally elliptical shaped inner space occupied by the two symmetrical pieces; the support frame has two farthest opposite ends having outside straight sections which are parallel to each other, inside these ends of the support frame, narrow curvi-convex elevations limited inside by parallel flat walls prolonging downward that end in coplanar flat portions having small windows opposite small curved top flanges; upward flat partitions opposite each other and directed towards the centre of the support frame originate from the free edge of theportions; the support frame comprises a generally reversed U-shaped perimetric profile, with uneven branches, whose inside wing the two flat walls prolonged downward form part of, the channel that limits this profile being interrupted by small crosswise ribs; the outside wing has three small elongated notches that narrow downward; in correspondence with these notches and under them, small curved extensions directed downward that form part of this outside wing are defined; these small extensions include inside projections opposite the notches; two of these notches are arranged in two opposite points located in correspondence with the straight sections of the frame, whereas the third notch is located in an intermediate point of one of the larger curved sections of the support frame; this section increases its width from the centre towards its ends; the other complementary larger curved section of the support frame has a constant width and, in an end area, there is a projecting portion with a general shape of a circular segment having a broad curved shaped recess; the curvature of the curvi-convex elevations continue in some arched curvi-convex surfaces of the two symmetric pieces; these curvi-convex surfaces form part of a skirt extending downward and of which a rear wall adjacent to each one of the end parallel walls of the support frame forms part; this rear wall has several bottom windows corresponding with the curved flanges of the flat portions belonging to the support frame unit; this curvi-convex perimetric skirt ends in a narrow top arched strip limiting and surrounding a broad curved surface cavity having parallel grooves; the groove ends in a narrow front partition that increases its height toward its end sections defined by curvi-convex areas that converge in the initial ends of these top strips; in the centre of this narrow front partition, there is a curved recess; the bottom space delimited between the perimetric skirt and the broad curved surface cavity is interrupted by several flat ribs parallel to each other, some of which have arched edges opposite the free ends of the ascending flat partitions of the support frame; the bucket has a hollow body with a generally rectangular-shaped bottom, one of the smaller sides of the bucket has a gentle arching outward and the other small side has a pronounced curvature that tangentially connects to the larger sides; the larger sides connect to the arched smaller side in a rounded manner;the bucket widens slightly upward according to a gentle divergence towards the mouth that ends in a low perimetric skirt; the mouth is limited by a gentle arched plane slightly descending from the area of the wringing out device up to the opposite area where a small portion of the projecting wall with a curved profile with a diverging slant upward is defined; this portion emerges from another curvi-convex portion whose height progressively reduces towards the rear area where the wringing out device is located; the bottom is joined to the surface of the rounded perimetric wall; the handle comprises a generally U-shaped rod with its arched crosspiece and whose ends end in some short angular portions introduced in side holes of the perimetric skirt of the mouth of the bucket; the holes are located in correspondence with some small bulges of the perimetric skirt.Representations of the design are shown in the figures wherein:Fig. 1 is a top perspective view of the design for the bucket for wringing out mops with the wringing out device in a first position situated on the mouth of the bucket and the two symmetrical pieces in a first position in the support frame for the wringing out device;Fig. 2 is a front view thereof;Fig. 3 is a left side elevation view thereof;Fig. 4 is a top view thereof;Fig. 5 is a right side elevation view thereofFig. 6 is a rear view thereof;Fig. 7 is an exploded top perspective view of the bucket of the wringing out mops with the wringing out device in a second position removed from the bucket and a bottom perspective view of one of the two symmetrical pieces in a second position removed from the support frame for the wringing out device;Fig. 8 is a bottom perspective view of the bucket for wringing out mops with the wringing out device in a second position removed from the bucket and one of the two symmetrical pieces in the second position removed from the support frame for the wringing out device;Fig. 9 is an exploded front elevation view of the bucket for wringing out mops with the wringing out device in a second position removed from the bucket and the two symmetrical pieces situated in the first position in the support frame for the wringing out device;Fig. 10 is an exploded right end view of the bucket for wringing out mops with the wringing out device in a second position removed from the bucket and the two symmetrical pieces situated in the first position in the support frame for the wringing out device;Fig. 11 is an exploded rear elevation view of the bucket for wringing out mops with the wringing out device in a second position removed from the bucket and the two symmetrical pieces situated in the first position in the support frame for the wringing out device; andFig. 12 is an exploded left end view of the bucket for wringing out mops with the wringing out device in a second position removed from the bucket and the two symmetrical pieces situated in the first position in the support frame for the wringing out device.Diagrams of the design are included.