Improvements in Apparatus for Wringing Water out of Mops Used for Cleansing Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 5th July, 1889-Accepted, 14th Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Wringing Water out of Mops Used
for Cleansing Purposes.
SAMUEL HORATIO HODGES 2 Avenue Road Clapton London Salvation Army
Officer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Heretofore when mops have been used for cleansing purposes difficulty has been
experienced in wringing them-The operator has had to clasp the mop between the
hands and thus press the water out. This has been a very dirty and unpleasant
work.
To obviate this I make a grating preferably of galvanized iron bars extending across
the top of a bucket. This grating I make about 5 or 6 inches wide so that there is
room for the mop to be passed bye it into the water beneath when necessary.
I make the bars of this grating in shape as the segments of a circle and as the
material of which the mop is made lies closer together near the handle than at the
extremities I make the segments to conform to the shape of the mop by making
the curves deep or shallow as required.
Attached to this grating by a hinge is a handle which carries a plunger the shape
of half a saucer and so hung as that the hollow of the saucer is brought down into
the hollow grating by means of said handle.
The mop being placed in the hollow of the grating and the plunger brought
down upon it and pressure applied the water is effectually wrung out of the mop.
Tuno 21st 1880
SL. HORATIO HODGES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Wringing Water out of Mops Used
for Cleansing Purposes.
I SAMUEL HORATIO HODGES of 2 Avenue Road Clapton London Salvation Army
Officer 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 :-
Heretofore when mops have
experienced in drying them.
arm or over some article in
been used for cleansing purposes difficulty has been
The operator has either had to trundle them over the
which case the water flies in all directions a mode
obviously unsuitable in doors; or a dirty cold wet mass has to be clasped in the
hands and pressed until sufficiently freed from water for further use.
My present Invention is designed to meet this difficulty.
In the accompanying Drawings.
Figure. 1. Represents the top view of the apparatus placed on the rim of a bucket
or pail.
Figure. 2. Is a side view of the apparatus.
Figure 3. Is a section of the Presser Block on a line a. b of Fig. 2.
Figure 4. Represents the top view as in fig. 1. with the Handle or Lever D. C.
removed.
I make a Strainer consisting of a grating preferably of Galvanized iron bars G HJK.
Fig. 4. which shall be of sufficient length to take a mop of ordinary size. This
Strainer I place in a frame consisting of two pieces of wood B. B². I propose to rest
this apparatus on the top of a bucket; and four or five inches being a suitable width
for the grating there will be space on one side of this strainer for the mop to be

page_text: I do not confine myself to any particular shape for this grating or strainer; but I
prefer making it of bars shaped as the segments of a circle; and as the material of
which the mop is made lies closer together near the handle than at the extremities I
make the segments to conform to the shape of the mop by making the curves deep or
shallow as seen in Fig. 2. The bar G. having a deeper curve than the bar H. and H
in its turn a deeper curve than J and so on. This variation of curve is only necessary
for wringing ball shaped mops.
Attached to this frame by the Hook E and the Eye F is a Handle or Lever D. C.
which carries the Presser Block I. The operating face of this Presser for convenience
I make in shape like a saucer and it being one half of a circular block the face will be
like a saucer cut in halves. And I so place it on the frame as that the hollow I of
the Block 1 may be brought down into the hollow of the strainer by means of the
Lever D. C.
There is a further action possible to this lever and block and which will be sometimes
useful. The Hook E and the Eye F form a hinge of such flexibility as to allow the
Lever to make a quarter turn in which case the convex side of the Presser Block I
may be brought down into the hollow of the Strainer G H. J. K. when required by
the particular shape or the condition of the mop.
For a strainer I do not confine myself to a grating of bars. Any suitable
material perforated with a sufficient number of holes may be used to the same
effect.
Neither do I confine myself to an apparatus separated from a bucket. The same
apparatus may be attached with more or less of a permanent fastening to the vessel
used for carrying water. But under ordinary circumstances I contemplate its use
as a separate article in which case it rests across the top of the bucket A as shown in
Fig. 1.
The wet mop being then placed in the hollow of the strainer and the Presser
Block I brought down upon it and pressure applied by Lever D C. the water is
effectually wrung out and falls into the bucket underneath and this without necessarily
wetting or soiling the hands of the operator.
Having thus particularly described and 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 an apparatus of the kind specified the Strainer G H J K. substantially as
and for the purpose stated.
2. In an apparatus of the kind specified the Lever or Handle D. C. carrying a
Presser Block substantially as and for the purposes stated.
3. In an apparatus of the kind specified the Flexible Hinge E. F. substantially as
and for the purpose stated.
4. In an apparatus of the kind
and a Pressing Lever D. C. and
stated.
specified the combination of a strainer G. H. J. K.
Hinge E F substantially as and for the purposes
Dated this 5th day of July 1889.
SAML. HORATIO HODGES,
Applicant.