Improved Mop or Appliance for Dusting or Cleaning Floors, Furniture, Books, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Nov.. 1891-Accepted, 19th Dec., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Mop or Appliance for Dusting or Cleaning Floors,
Furniture, Books, and the like.
I, DOROTHY ANNIE GARNER, of 6 Matheson Road, West Kensington, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentlewoman, 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 mops, feather dusters and like implements for use in cleansing floors,
furniture, books and the like are usually of objectionable appearance and unsightly
when hung up in a room, and the object of my invention is to provide an implement
of this nature that shall not need to be hidden away but which may be made
ornamental and capable of being hung up in a room ready for constant use or of
standing upright on the ends of the ribs supporting the cover.
In carrying out my invention I provide a rod pole or tube at the end of which
is secured the material or feathers forming the mop head. Above this I secure to
the tail, handle or pole a metallic collar carrying a circular flange or plate having
at intervals round its circumference holes through which pass ribs or wires as
hereafter described.. Round the lower portion of the pole or handle I place a short
tube carrying at its lower extremity the upper ends of the wires or ribs passing
through the holes in the plate. The lower ends of the wires are flattened out and
perforated and to or over these wires is secured an ornamental or other cover of any
suitable material. The short tube is slotted and retained by a pin or stud in the
pole or handle the whole forming a kind of umbrella like cover that encloses the
mop head or feathers when not in use and is withdrawn therefrom when desired for
the purpose of dusting or cleaning, the cover being then folded against the tail and
unlikely to come in contact with articles of furniture.
Referring to the accompanying drawings and to the figures and letters of reference
thereon,
Figure 1 is a view of my appliance showing the umbrella-actioned frame with-
drawn and the mop ready for use (the cover being not shown).
Figure 2 is a view showing the umbrella like cover opened and pushed over the
mop such being not in use, a portion of the said cover being cut away to show one
of the ribs or wires.
In these figures A is the shaft, tail or pole carrying the mop or feathers B.
C is the collar fixed over the mop with Hange or plate D through which at
holes E E E pass the wires or ribs F F F terminating in flattened and perforated
ends G G G to which the bottom of the cover H is attached. J is a sliding tube
having therein a slot K working over a stud L fixed into the tail or rod.
The tops of the wires or ribs are secured in any well known manner to the bottom
of the tube J at M and the pole or handle may have a ring or other device at its
end for the purpose of hanging up the appliance.
The top of the cover which is cut or formed to shape after the fashion of an
umbrella cover is attached at M to the ribs or wires and any method of securing
may be adopted at either M or G.
Having now 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
1st. A mop or duster provided with a screen or cover for the head thereof having
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page_text: 2nd. The appliance for mopping or dusting substantially as hereinbefore described
and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of October 1891
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.