Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1886
Complete Left, 1st Sept., 1887
Complete Accepted, 4th Oct., 1887.
[Communicated from abroad by CHARLES ALONZO BACON and HAMILTON FRANKLIN
Low, both of Manchester, New Hampshire, United States of America,
Manufacturers.]
1, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent Agents
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide a cheap durable and effective mop cloth
or fabric, and a holder therefor adapted for use both as an operating holder and as a
wringer.
The invention consists partly in a mop composed preferably, of cotton roving knitted
into a tube which is narrowed at a point about midway between its ends, for a purpose
hereinafter explained, the ends of the tube being also preferably narrowed..
The invention also partly consists in the combination with a mop constructed as
above indicated, of a holder and wringer constructed to clamp the narrowed ends of
the mop, and adapted when used as a wringer, to bear against the narrowed portion
of the mop, all of which I will now proceed to describe.
In carrying this invention into practice, I make a mop, of suitable textile material
knitted or woven into a tube or strip which is narrowed at a point about midway of its
ends, and is also, preferably narrowed at its ends, the tube or strip thus having two
enlarged or widened portions an intermediate narrowed portion and two narrowed ends.
The material from which the mop is knitted or woven is preferably cotton roving
twisted somewhat more than the rovings produced in the manufacture of yarn or
thread. This material is particularly adapted for the purpose for which I use
it, because it is capable of absorbing and holding a comparatively large amount of
water; and is, moreover, bulky so that it gives a desirable bulk or body to the mop
at small cost.
I prefer to knit the roving into a tube using the well-known cardigan or ribbed
stitch, and alternately widening and narrowing to give the mop the form above

page_text: described. The tubular form gives the mop the desired double thickness, and keeps
the two layers or thicknesses together, or side by side, without the possibility of their
becoming separated. The cardigan or ribbed stitch produces a thick bulky fabric and
is capable of being readily widened and narrowed to give the described form to the
mop, as is well known to those skilled in the art of knitting.
In connection with the improved mop I use a holder composed of a handle having
a cross head to which is affixed by screws and nuts a clamp or bar between which and
the cross-head the narrowed ends of the mop are clamped, the mop being thus held in
the form of a bight or loop.
A sleeve provided with a frame of stout wire is adapted both to slide and rotate on
the handle which sleeve surrounds the cross head and at one end passes through the
loop of the mop.
When the mop is in use the frame is drawn upwardly on the handle until its lower
end which passes through the loop of the mop lies against the clamp or bar the frame
being retained in this position by a spring, inserted in a slot in the handle, and pressing
outwardly against the sleeve with sufficient force to hold the latter and the frame in
the described position, by friction.
When the mop is to be wrung the frame is pushed downwardly until it straightens
out the mop, and is then rotated on the handle, thereby twisting the mop.
During the wringing operation the narrowed central portion of the mop lies across
the lower end of the frame and being narrower than the width of said frame its
edges do not overlap or project outside of the frame, hence all parts of the mop are
equally subjected to torsional strain and pressure during the wringing operation. If
the edges of the mop upon the end of the frame projected outside thereof, said edges
would not be twisted and dried as fully as the intermediate portions of the mop.
The widened portions of the mop; between the end of the frame and the cross head,
may be of any desired width and may project to any desired extent outside of the
frame when the mop is in a flat condition.
By narrowing the mop at its central portion I am enabled to use a narrow frame
as a wringing attachment while by widening the mop at each side of the narrowed
central portion I give the mop sufficient bulk to make it efficient.
The narrowed ends serve the same purpose as the narrowed central portion in pre-
venting the edges of the mop at its ends from projecting beyond the clamping
devices.
I prefer to pass a stout binding cord or cords across the centre of the mop, to prevent
the narrowed portion from stretching.

page_text: [, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co. Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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:
This invention has for its object to provide a cheap durable and effective mop cloth
or fabric, and a holder therefor adapted for use both as an operating holder and as a
wringer.
The invention consists partly in a mop composed, preferably, of cotton roving
knitted into a tube which is narrowed at a point about midway between its ends, for
a purpose hereinafter explained, the ends of the tube being also preferably narrowed.
The invention also partly consists in the combination with a mop constructed as
above indicated, of a holder and wringer constructed to clamp the narrowed ends of
the mop, and adapted, when used as a wringer, to bear against the narrowed portion
of the mop, all of which I will now proceed to describe.
In the accompanying drawings,
Figure 1 represents a plan view of the mop.
Figure 2 represents a side view of the mop and holder in position for wringing.
Figure 3 represents a similar view in condition for use.
Figure 4 represents an edge view of the mop and holder in the same condition as
shown in Figure 3.
In carrying the invention into practice I make a mop a, of suitable textile material
knitted or woven into a tube or strip which is narrowed at a point about midway of
its ends, and is also, preferably narrowed at its ends, the tube or strip thus having
two enlarged or widened portions 2, 2, an intermediate narrowed portion 3, and two
narrowed ends 4, 4.
The material from which the mop is knitted or woven is preferably cotton roving
twisted somewhat more than the rovings produced in the manufacture of yarn or
thread. This material is particularly adapted for the purpose for which I use
it, because it is capable of absorbing and holding a comparatively large amount of
water; and is, moreover, bulky so that is gives a desirable bulk or body to the mop,
at small cost.
I prefer to knit the roving into a tube, using the well known cardigan or ribbed

page_text: stitch, and alternately widening and narrowing to give the mop the form above
described. The tubular form gives the mop the desired thickness, and keeps the two
layers or thicknesses together, or side by side, without the possibility of their becoming
separated. The cardigan or ribbed stitch produces a thick bulky fabric and is capable
of being readily widened and narrowed to give the described form to the mop, as is
well known to those skilled in the art of knitting.
In connection with the improved mop I use a holder composed of a handle b, having
a cross head c, to which is affixed by screws ee, and nuts ff a clamp or bar d,
between which and the cross head c the narrowed ends of the mop are clamped, the
mop being thus held in the form of a bight or loop, as shown in Figure 4.
C
h represents a sleeve provided with a frame i, of stout wire adapted both to slide
and rotate on the handle band which surrounds the cross head and at one end
passes through the loop of the mop a.
When the mop is in use, the frame is drawn upwardly on the handle until its
lower end, which passes through the loop of the mop, lies against the clamp or bar d,
as shown in Figures 3 and 4, the frame being retained in this position by a spring k,
inserted in a slot in the handle, and pressing outwardly against the sleeve with
sufficient force to hold the latter and the frame in the described position, by
friction.
When the mop is to be wrung the frame is pushed downwardly until it
straightens out the mop, as shown in Figure 2, and is then rotated on the handle,
thereby twisting the mop.
It will be seen by reference to Figure 2 that during the wringing operation the
narrowed central portion 3 of the mop lies across the lower end of the frame i, and
being narrower than the width of said frame its edges do not overlap or project
outside of the frame, hence all parts of the mop are equally subjected to torsional
strain and pressure during the wringing operation. If the edges of the mop upon the
end of the frame projected outside thereof, said edges would not be twisted and dried
as fully as the intermediate portions of the mop.
The widened portions 2, 2, of the mop, hetween the end of the frame and the cross
head c may be of any desired width and may project to any desired extent outside of
the frame, when the mop is in a flat condition.
It will therefore be seen that by narrowing the mop at its central portion I am
enabled to use a narrow frame i as a wringing attachment, while by widening the mop
at each side of the narrowed central portion I give the mop sufficient bulk to make it
efficient.
The narrowed ends 4, 4 serve the same purpose as the narrowed central portion 3,
in preventing the edges of the mop at its ends from projecting beyond the clamping
devices.
I prefer to pass a stout binding cord or cords m across the centre of the mop, to
prevent the narrowed portion from stretching.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by my
foreign Correspondents I declare that what I claim is ;-
First. A mop having the widened portions 2, 2 and the intermediate narrowed
portion 3, as set forth.
Second. A mop having the widened portions 2, 2, the intermediate narrowed
portion 3, and the narrowed ends 4, 4, as set forth.
Third. A tubular mop having the widened portions, 2 2 and the narrowed portion 3
as set forth.
Fourth. A mop composed of roving, knitted into tubular form and having the
widened portions 2, 2, and the narrowed portion 3, as set forth.
Fifth. A mop composed of roving knitted into tubular form, and having the
widened portions 2, 2, the narrowed portion 3, and the binding cord m extending
through said narrowed portion, as set forth.

page_text: Sixth. The combination, of the mop handle having the clamping devices c, d, the
sliding rotary frame i, and the mop clamped at its ends between said clamping
devices, and having the narrowed central portion 3 of less width than said frame,
and the widened portions 2, 2, as set forth.
Seventh. The combination, of the mop handle having the clamping devices, the
sliding rotary frame i, and the mop having the narrowed ends 4, 4 conformed to the
length of the clamping devices, the narrowed central portion 3 of less width than
the frame and the intermediate widened portions 2, 2 as set forth.
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1008
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for Applicant.