Improvements in Cleaning Mops.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 6th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cleaning Mops.
I, JOHN HENRY SHIELDS LIVINGSTON of Hendham Vale, Queen's Road
Manchester, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to
be as follows:-
:-
This invention has for its object to provide a simple and effective means for
securing the fibres of a mop to the stail or handle without the risk of splitting the
said stail and entirely avoiding the danger of damaging valuable articles upon
which the same is used.
In performing my invention I take a socket of cast or wrought iron or other
Buitable metal and either tinned or galvanised and I fit said socket upon the stail
or handle of the mop. Said socket is provided or formed with a shank or spindle
projecting from the closed end and situated in the centre thereof. I then take a (by
preference) leather or rubber washer or ring and slip it over the shank or spindle
aforesaid causing it to lie against the socket. The said shank is then passed
through the centre of the fibres or material forming the mop and another leather
or rubber washer slipped onto the shank. These two washers or rings and the
fibres are then forced together and against the socket by means of a nut screwing
upon a threaded portion of the shank.
Instead of the nut and screw the attachment of the fibres may be effected by
rivetting over the end of the shank, a metal washer being placed on the shank after
the second leather or rubber washer.
The end of said shank and nut may if so preferred be afterwards covered with
fibres or material to prevent the same from damaging any article of value upon
which the same is used.
The socket may be round, square or other convenient shape to fit a corresponding
section of handle and may be secured to the same by means of a set screw.
Dated this 23rd day of November 1893.
JOHN G. WILSON & Co.,
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cleaning Mops.
1, JOHN HENRY SHIELDS LIVINGSTON of Hendham Vale, Queen's Road,
Manchester, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for its object to provide simple and effective means for
securing the fibres of a mop to the stail or handle without the risk of splitting the
said stail and entirely avoiding the danger of damaging valuable articles upon
which the same is used.
In performing my invention I take a socket of cast or wrought iron or other
suitable metal and either tinned or galvanised and I fit said socket upon the stail
or handle of the mop. Said socket is provided or formed with a shank or spindle
projecting from the closed end and situated in the centre thereof. I then take a
(by preference) leather or rubber washer or ring and slip it over the shank or
spindle aforesaid causing it to lie against the socket. The said shank is then
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page_text: passed through the centre of the fibres or material forming the mop and another
leather or rubber washer slipped onto the shank. These two washers or rings.and
the fibres are then forced together and against the socket by means of a nut
screwing upon a threaded portion of the shank.
And in order that my said invention shall be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings and will
now proceed to describe the same with the assistance of the various figures and
letters of reference marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 a top plan and Fig. 3 an underside plan of my
improved mop attaching device.
Figs. 4, 5, and 6 shew the application of said device to the stail or handle of
a mop, Fig. 6 shewing the arrangement for preventing the mop damaging valuable
articles on which may be used.
In accordance with my invention I employ a socket (A) made, by preference of
cast or wrought iron and either tinned or galvanised. This socket I fit upon the
end of the stail (B) (see Figs. 4, 5 and 6) fixing it by a screw or nail through the
hole (C). By thus applying the socket the end of the stail is effectually protected
and prevented splitting. From the closed end of this socket rises the slightly
tapered shank or spindle (D) which is sufficiently long to pass through the substance
of the mop and is, by preference screw threaded near its top end to receive a nut (E)
(see Fig. 4). In applying the mop a leather or rubber washer (F) is first slipped
over the shank (D) and lies against the socket (A) as illustrated. The shank is
then passed through the fibres or material forming the mop and another leather or
rubber washer (G) is slipped onto the shank. The two washers and the mop fibres
are then forced together and against the socket (A) by the nut (E) screwing onto
the screw threaded portion of the shank.
In this way the mop fibres are securely fastened to the handle or stail.
Instead of the nut and screw the attachment of the mop fibres may be effected
by rivetting over the shank as shewn in Figs. 5 and 6 a metal washer (H) being
placed on the shank on top of the washer (G). To prevent the end of the shank
doing damage to articles upon which the mop is used it may be covered with a
fibrous, leather or similar cap or shield (I) as shewn in Fig. 6. This shield is
pressed over the rivetted end of the shank and its edges pressed under the
washer (G).
A similar protecting shield may be applied to the protruding end of the shank (D)
shewn in Fig. 4 with its edges pressed under the washer (G).
The socket (A) may be round, square, or other convenient shape to fit a
corresponding shape of handle. The spindle (D) may also be straight instead of
tapered, square or round.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
For securing the fibres of a nop to a stail or handle the use and employment of
the socket and shank device shewn in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 or its equivalent with the
washer, rings and nut, when mounted and applied substantially as herein before
described and shewn in Figs. 4, 5 and 6 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 24th day of August 1894.
JOHN G. WILSON & Co.,
Agents.