Talk:Mop

message: Not exactly joelibyan. It seems that the basic idea was created in the United States but then it was improved in Spain.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.31.99.165 (talk) 08:16, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In Spain the vase was changed as today and the conic, one piece "dryer" aplied.
--77.210.161.217 (talk) 05:47, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  origins 

message: We haven't included the sponge mop, which is common at least in New Zealand.  It has a sponge on the end with a mechanism attached to the handle which folds the sponge in half to squeeze out excess water.  Ppe42 09:11, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sponge mop

message: Should the wringer link under the picture really go to wiktionary? If done purposely, why so?
: Good point. I think it must be edited.--77.210.161.217 (talk) 05:48, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes. The picture does not display a wringler, but a dryer. The dryer is the main point in the new mops. Please stop reverting as a consensus seems reached--Kim FOR sure (talk) 02:40, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link 

message: I looked at the listing for "mop" & found the following 2 statements:
"The inventor Jacob Howe received a patent for a mop in 1837. U.S. Patent 241"
"The mop was invented by Thomas W. Stewart, an African-American inventor. It was awarded Patent Number 499,402 on June 13, 1893"
I know nothing about patents, but is it true that the mop has been patented twice?
I checked the listing originally because I also was told that the mop was invented in Spain.
Jbprochnow 01:29, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  mop 

message: Expanded the article with flat mops and different types of mops. I will try to add pictures of these kinds of mops as soon as possible.Bjornwireen (talk) 23:21, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Professional mops 

message: My question is: how were floors cleaned before the invention of the mop? I would have assumed that mops "just evolved", that like most basic tools, they probably had several unknown, unnamed inventors centuries or millenia ago, but evidently this is not the case if the patent was first awarded in the 1800s, and the stick not added until the 1950s! Does this mean that before that, people had to get down on all-fours and push the mops around by hand (before 1956)?  Shanoman (talk) 21:23, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What was used before mops were invented? 

message: How ironic it is that the Cleanup tag has been applied to the entry for Mop. ;-) 71.185.144.127 (talk) 23:38, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Extremely XD   Atomic putty? Rien!  16:35, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irony 

message: Jacob Howe received the first U.S. patent for a mop in 1837.  Then, in 1893, 56 years later, Thomas W. Stewart received a patent for a mop.  According to my quick perusal of the patent records, at least 300 mop related patents were issued by the USPTO within that time.  Can someone explain the significance or importance of Mr. Stewart's particular contribution to mop technology that it bears mention here so prominently, while the other 300+ are exluded?  Ultranothing (talk) 07:43, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas W. Stewart 

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