Improved Mop Buckets and Mops for same.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th July, 1891
Complete Specification Left. 14th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 28th May, 1892.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Mop Buckets and Mops for same.
I SAMUEL SEARLE HAZELAND of the Parish of St. Sampsons in the County of
Cornwall Professional Inventor do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :=
The object of this invention is to provide a bucket with convenient gear for
quickly drying a mop and to make a mop in such fashion as shall best suit the
gear aforesaid. To this end I secure above the bucket either a round metal ring
or a piece of metal bent square with rollers attached through which I draw the
mophead upwards and thereby press out the superfluous water therefrom. The
ring and squarely bent piece of metal may be so fitted as to open and thus let
the mophandle pass quickly into them. The bucket is kept from rising by means
of a rim at bottom on which the user stands whilst pulling the mophead through.
The mophead I make preferably from drawing cotton or its equivalent this I
tie so that somewhat shorter lengths are on one side of the string than on the
other, the round nailhead to lie in the shorter lengths and the leather under nail-
head to be circular in shape and only slightly larger than the nailhead which
should be as small as will suffice to keep the nail from drawing through the string.
If after use but before it is worn out the mophead does not come up dry enough I
tie more stuff into it doing this preferably in such fashion that the centre of the
new stuff is bound tightly down to the nailhead by some of the cotton that is
already in the mop.
Dated this 15th day of July 1891.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Mop Buckets and Mops for same.
I SAMUEL SEARLE HAZELAND of the Parish of St, Sampsons in the County of
Cornwall Professional Inventor do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :=
The object of this invention is to provide a bucket with convenient gear for
quickly drying a mop and to make a mop in such fashion as shall best suit the
gear aforesaid.
To this end I secure above the bucket either a round metal ring or a piece of
metal bent to square with rollers attached through which I draw the mophead
upwards and thereby press out the superfluous water therefrom.
The ring and square piece of metal may be so fitted as to open and thus let the
mophandle pass quickly into them. The bucket is kept from rising by means of a
rim at bottom on which the user stands whilst pulling the mophead through. The
mophead 1 make preferably from common quality rug cotton or its equivalent this
I tie so that somewhat shorter lengths are on one side of the string than on the
other the round nailhead to lie in the shorter lengths and the leather under nail-
head to be circular in shape and only slightly larger than the nailhead which should
be as small as will suffice to keep the nail from drawing through the string. If
after use but before it is worn out the mophead does not come up dry enough I
tie more stuff into it doing this preferably in such fashion that the centre of the
new stuff is bound tightly down to the nailhead by some of the cotton that is
already in the mop.

page_text: In the accompanying drawings I have shown on Sheet 1 at Fig. 1 on Sheet 2 at
Figs. 2 3 & 4 & on Sheet 3 at Figs. 5 6 7 & 8 a mop bucket fitted with roller gear
and opening in front so as to let the mophandle pass quickly into the square after
the mophead is placed in the bucket.
The handle metal square hinge piece and stays connecting them with bucket
should be preferably cast in iron the castings made malleable and galvanized' all
the above can be cast in one piece except the handle & hinge piece the stay pieces
being cast straight & bent to shape, The rollers perferably in brass can be filled
with hard wood and after the nailholes have been made in the wood filling, the
rollers can be fitted to the square by driving the nails through the holes shown
at (A 2) and into the wood filling-the nails being tight in the wood with their
projecting ends loose in the holes aforesaid when the mophead is pulled through
the rollers revolve easily and enable the water to be pressed from the mophead
with less force than would otherwise be needed.
Sheet 1 Fig. 1 shows front view of mop bucket (A) bucket (B) handle
(C) square or frame & stays preferably cast in one (D) hinge pin (E) hinge stop
pin (F) rivets connecting gear with bucket () bottom of bucket (H) hinge
piece (P) rubber pin on frame (Q) rubber pin on hinge piece by means of these
pins and an elastic band the hinge piece & roller attached will fly back to position
shown on Sheet 1 Fig. 1 after the mophandle is pushed through between the hinge
and stop pin (A 2) show the holes for the roller bearings & (A 3) the rivets
.connecting handle with frame,
Fig. 2 Sheet 2 shows part of top view of mop bucket (A) bucket (B) handle
(C) frame & stays (H) hinge piece (1) handle stop pin (J) rollers (Q) rubber
pin on hinge piece.
Fig. 3 shows side section of bucket & gear (A) bucket (B) handle (C) frame
and stays (F) rivets connecting stays with bucket (H) hinge piece (I) handle stop
pin (J) rollers (K) wood filling in rollers (A 3) rivet connecting handle with
frame.
Fig. 4 shows section of bottom of bucket (A) bucket (M) rim in one with
bottom (O) (N) solder securing bottom to bucket.
Sheet 3 Fig. 5 shows side view of bucket gear (B) handle (C) frame
(D) hinge pin (H) hinge piece (1) handle stop pin (P) rubber pin on frame
(Q) rubber pin on hinge piece (A 2) holes for the roller bearings (A 3) rivets
connecting handle with gear,
Fig. 6 shows at top drawing inside view of hinge piece middle drawing bottom
view of same bottom drawing front view of same.
Fig. 7 shows back view of bucket gear (B) handle (C) frame & stays
(3) roller (P) rubber pin on frame (Q) rubber pin on hinge piece (I) handle stop
pin (A 2) holes for the roller bearings (A3) rivets connecting handle with gear.
Fig. 8 shows end view and side section of roller (J) roller (K) wood filling
(L) nail or pin on which rollers run in frame.
Sheet 4 shows the mop handle nail & ferrule. In making the mop I use
preferably common quality rug cottou as it is strong cheap & suitable. I have
the nail & ferrule in malleable iron galvanized and make the nailhead round and
and of sufficient size to enable me to dispense with a leather or other washer
beneath it.
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Fig. 9 Sheet 4 shows end & side view of the mop after being dipped into water
but previous to being drawn through the gear,
Fig. 10 end & side view of same after dipping into water and drawing through
the gear (R) handle (8) ferrule (T) mophend.
Fig. 11 (U) shows side & front view of mopnail.
Fig. 12 (S) shows top & side view of ferrule.
Sheet 5 shows a gear without rollers or hinge piece with this gear the ring can
be turned from position shown.on Sheet 5 into the right position for carrying the
bucket by the ring and when in this position the mophandle can be threaded
through the ring till the mophead touches the ring then when mophead and handle

page_text: are let go the mophead will fall into the bucket ready for pulling upwards through
the ring.
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Fig. 13 shows top and front view of mop bucket (A) bucket (V) ring & swivel
arms (W) standards connecting with bucket (X) cotter pins.
Sheet 6 shows gear with rollers but without hinge piece this bucket to be carried
and the mophandle to be threaded in as with bucket shown on Sheet 5.
Fig. 14 shows top & side view of mop bucket (A) bucket (J) rollers (V) roller
frame & swivel armis (W) standards (X) cottar pins,
Sheet 7 shows a gear without rollers but with hinge piece.
Fig. 15 shows top & front view of mop bucket (A) bucket (A1) hinge
piece (B 1) elastic band (C 1) band pin in one with (A 1) (D1) band pin in one.
with frame (Y) (E1) hinge pin (F1) hinge stop pin (G1) stop pin for handle
(Y) frame and stays (2) handle.
Sheet 8 shows details full size of gear shown on Sheet 7.
Fig. 16 (Z) shows side & end view of handle middle drawing showing the shape
of handle before fixed to the gear.
Fig 17, top view of frame & stays (D 1) elastic band pin (E1) hinge pin
(GI) stop pin for handle (Y) frame & stays.
Fig. 18 shows section at dotted line in Fig. 17 (F 1) hinge stop pin (G 1) stop
pin for handle.
Fig. 19 shows front view of this gear (D1) elastic band pin (E1) hinga
pin (F1) hinge stop pin (Y) frame & stays.
Fig. 20 shows top & front view of hinge piece (C1) elastic band pin (H 1) hole
to work on hinge pin (E 1).
The common quality rug cotton differs from the drawing cotton named in my
Provisional Specification as under-Both are made by twisting a number of single
cotton threads into one but the drawing cotton is both cleaned & bleached whilst
the common quality rug cotton is neither cleaned, nor bleached.
I prefer the common quality rug cotton for these mops as it is both cheaper &
stronger whilst at same time equally suitable in other respects.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
(1) In buckets fitted with gear for wringing a mop a rim at bottom or its
equivalent substantially as shown & described.
(2) For mopwringing buckets made in or substantially in the manner shown &
described.
(3) Mops made of the material specified or its equivalent and in or substantially
in the manner shown & described.
(4) For wringing through or in gear mops made of the material specified or its
equivalent & in or substantially in the manner shown & described.
(5) For wringing through gear made in or substantially in the manner shown &
described mops made of the material specified or its equivalent and in or sub-
stantially in the manner shown & described.
Dated this 13th day of April 1892.