Improvements in or Connections for Mops, Brooms, and Brushes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 30th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 19th Oct.. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Connections for Mops, Brooms, and Brushes.
I, JOHN CORDEN of Great Chatwell near Newport in the County of Salop, Farmer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in mops, brooms and brushes, or their
attachments or fitting connections, as hereinafter described.
In carrying out my invention, I will first describe it in connection with a stratum
woollen-stuff mop, or a mop consisting of layers of woollen stuff, connected to the
lower end of a stale.
Usually, the squares or layers of cloth or other woollen stuff constituting the mop,
are attached to the lower end of the stale or other part, by a headed spike, or nail,
driven through the said layers, and taking up the lower end of the stale as aforesaid.
By so connecting the said layers, the head of the nail or spike is exposed.
My invention has for its object, the hooding or sinking of the said head within
a connection, or the head of the mop, in such a manner, that the said head of the
nail is unexposed.
According to my said invention, I make the attachment or head of the mop, bell
or inverted cup shaped, with a hole through its crown, wherethrough the lower end
of a stem, or screwed stem, which is driven into the stale or handle part, passes.
The layers of woollen stuff, are threaded or passed on to the said stem, below
the bell, and are forced home, or adjusted in position by a screw nut, taking upon
the said end, whilst the middles of the mop layers, with nut at end of stem, are
drawn within the interior of the inside of the bell, up to the crown thereof, by a
fly or other nut, taking upon the screwed stem above the bell, and with the lower
part of the said nut taking its abutment upon the crown; so that the turning of
the fly draws the mop middles, head or nut end, and interposing washer into the bell.
The stem which is spiked at its outer end, and driven into the stale, may be
secured and shouldered at its lower end; against the latter, the top of the bell comes,
whilst upon the former, the mop layers and nut come and screw.
The stem may be reduced and shouldered at its extreme lower end, which takes
through the crown of the bell; and up the middle of the end of the said stem, a
screw pin, with the mop layers threaded upon it, passes.
As a further modification, the bell or cupped attachment may be made a part of,
or attached directly to, the stale, and the mop layers secured in position by a driven-in
spike, pin, nail or scrow.
If necessary, the bell part may be made to adjust itself by screwing upon the
stem, so that no supplementary nuts or screws are required.
In applying my invention to a string or other like mop, I prefer to clamp the
middles of the strings or strands between a boss, and the inner side of the bell,
inverted cup, (of any configuration) or sunken end of a stale or handle part.
In applying my invention to brooms and brushes, I proceed essentially in the same
manner as described with respect to a mop, other than that the shapes of the parts
are changed, and that the bristles are gripped between inner and outer cupped
shells, of the shape of the head of a broom or brush.
Dated this Twenty-ninth day of January 1889.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Connections for Mops, Brooms, and Brushes.
I, JOHN CORDEN of Great Chatwell near Newport in the County of Salop, Farmer,
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 relates to improvements in mops, brooms, and brushes, or their
attachments or fitting connections, as herein-after described.
In carrying out my invention, I will first describe it in connection with a stratum
woollen stuff mop, or a mop consisting of layers of woollen stuff, connected to the
lower end of a stale.
Usually, the squares or layers of cloth or other woollen stuff, constituting the mop,
are attached to the lower. end of the stale or other part, by a headed spike or. nail,
driven through the said layers, and taking up the lower end of the stale, as aforesaid.
By so connecting the said layers, the head of the nail or spike is exposed.
My invention has for its object, the hooding or sinking of, the said head, within a
connection, or the head of the mop, in such a manner, that the said.head of the nail is
unexposed.
According to my said invention, I make the attachment or head of the mop, bell or
inverted cup shaped, with a hole in its crown, wherethrough the. lower end of a stom,
or a screwed stem, which is driven into the stale or handle part, passes.
The layers of woollen stuff are threaded, or passed on to, the said stem, below the
bell, and are forced, home, or.adjusted in position by a screw nut, taking upon the said
end, whilst the middles of the mop layers, with.nut at end of stem, are drawn within
the interior of the inside of the bell up to the crown thereof, by a fly or other nut,
taking upon the screwed stem above the bell, and with the lower part of the said nut
taking its abutment upon the crown, so that the turning of the fly, draws the mop.
middles, head or nut end and interposing Washer into the bell.
The stem which is spiked at its outer end, and driven into the stale; may be screwed
and shouldered at its lower end; against the latter, the top of the bell comes, whilst
upon the former, the mop layers and nut come and screw.
The stem may be reduced and shouldered at its extreme lower end, which takes
through the crown of the bell, and up the middle of the end of the said stem, a screw
pin, with the mop layers threaded upon it, passes.
As a further modification, the bell or cupped attachment may be made a part of; or
attached directly to the stale, and mop layers secured in position by a driven in spike,
pin, nail or screw.
If necessary, the bell part may be made to adjust itself by screwing upon the stem,
so that no supplementary nuts or screws are required.
In applying my invention to a string or other like mop, I prefer to clamp the
middles of the strings or strands between a boss, and the inner side of the bell,,
inverted cup (of any configuration) or sunken end of a stale or handle part.
In applying my invention to brooms and brushes, I proceed essentially in the same
manner as described with respect to a mop, other than that the shapes of the parts are
changed and that the bristles are gripped between inner and outer cupped shells, of the
shape of the head of a broom or brush.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents in elevation, a rag-mop,
provided with a connection or fitting, made according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents a transverse vertical section of the same, but with the mop
lower-part, or the rag stuff thereof, broken away. It will be thus seen that the
means for affixing the rag stuff to the connection, is hooded or sunken.
Figure 3 represents a top side plan of the said connection, and figure 4 an inverted
plan of the same.
Figure 5 shows an underside plan, and figure 6 a section of the bearing or pressure
boss, separately.

page_text: Figure 7 is an elevation of the said mop connection, upon a larger scale, and
with its spike end bent to an angle of 45 degrees, to admit of mop stale being
held at an angle by the user.
a is an inverted cup or bell head, with a centrally disposed hole or piercing a², in
its crown, wherethrough the inner end 62, of the screwed stem 6, inwardly passes;
and which said stem is spiked at its outer end, and which, when in use, is driven
centrally up and into the inner end of a stale or handle c, (see figure 1).
Strung or threaded upon the inner end of the said stem, below the inside crown
of the cup or bell head, is a pressure boss d, held in position, and prevented from
coming off, by a linch pin e; and in order to prevent the said pressure boss or shell
from rotating, ribs d² are arranged upon its under and concaved side, and against
which, the said linch pin comes.
Taking upon the screwed stem disposed above the outside crown of the cup or
bell head a, is a fly nut f, which on being. turned from left to right, draws up the
said stem, and contracts the distance between the top side of the pressure boss,
and the inside crown of the cup or head, thereby clamping the mop stuff between
them and in position, and with the pressure boss, and inner end of stem lying
within the interior of the said cup or boll-head, outside the mop stuff.
By constructing connections as described, mop stuffs, such as flannel, cloth, string,
rope or other mopping materials, are readily held in position, and clamped without
any solid part of the connection protruding or extending itself in such a manner
as to come in contact with surfaces to be mopped.
Figure 8 represents a sectional view of another form of my invention.
a is an inverted cup or bell head, with a plain tube a² through its crown, where-
through the screwed.inner end 62, of a plain spiked stem b,. inwardly passos, and
with a shoulder 63 of it, coming upon the outside crown of the bell connection.
Taking upon the screwed end 62, is a screw nut d, and interposed between the
inside presented face of it, and the mop stuff g, is a washer d².
To connect the mop stuff, to the connection, thread the same, if flannel or rag,
upon the end 62, then compress the said rag or flannel, and screw up the nut, (with
washer before it) when the mop stuff will be clamped between it, and the inside crown
of bell connection.
Figure 9 shows a string mop, provided with my new or improved connection.
Figure 10 shows another connection, made according to my invention, in which
the clamping device is made in the form of a screw pin, taking into a tapped
metallic stem.
a is an inverted cup or bell head, b is a spiked stem, with its inner end 62,
shouldered and screwed up its middle, wherein the screwed stem d², of a screw pin d,
takes; so that the mop stuff, is gripped between the inside head of the said screw pin,
and the inside of the inverted cup or bell head, when the said screw is screwed home.
The metallic stem b, may be substituted for that of the inner end of mop stale, and
with the mop stuff clamped in position, by a wood screw, taking into the said end of
the stale.
Figure 11 shows another form of my invention.
a is an inverted cup or bell-head, b is a screwed stem, with the inner end 62, headed,
and the outer end 63, spiked-The screwed middle part of the said stem, screws
through the crown of the bell, which has a nut shoulder a, on its top side, which
admits of the hood connection being turned by a spanner or the like.
Inside of the crown of the connection, is a washer 63, threaded on the stem b, and
which is for the purpose of preventing the mop-stuff from rotating, on the same
being clamped between the head 6, of the stem, and the inside of the inverted bell
connection.
Figure 12 represents another form of my invention.
a is an inverted cup or bell head, 6 a nail or spike, driven into the inner end of
stale or handle fitting within a socket a², at the crown of the said cup or bell head;
so that the mop stuff is clamped between the inside of the cup or bell head, and
the head 62, of the nail or spike.

page_text: The stale or handle c, is prevented from being removed, by a nail or scrow b³,
passing through the socket, and taking into the wood of the handle lying within it.
Having now 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
First A mop connection, consisting of an inverted cup or bell head, whereby
the head end, or the protruding end of the mop stuff securing means, is hooded
over, protected, and prevented from coming in contact with a surface being mopped,
substantially as described and set forth in the several figures of the drawing.
Secondly-A mop connection, consisting of an inverted cup or bell head, with
a securing stem, screw, spike, or the like, whose head or protuding end, lies within
the hollow of the said connection, substantially as described and set forth.
Thirdly-The combination with an inverted cup or bell head mop connection,
of a stem b, swivelling pressure or clamping boss d, and nut, or fly-nut f, sub-
stantially as and for the purpose as described and set forth in figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
and 7.
Fourthly A mop connection, consisting of an inverted cup or bell-a, stem b,
and screw nut d, arranged substantially as described and set forth in figure 9.
Fifthly A mop connection, consisting of an inverted cup connection a, stem b,
and screw pin d, substantially as set forth in figure 10.
Sixthly A mop connection, consisting of a bells, with nut shoulder a², and screw
stem b, with head 64, whereby mop stuff is clamped between the said head, and the
inside of the bell, substantially as set forth in figure 11.
Seventhly A mop connection, consisting of a bell a, with socket a², wherein the
inner end of the stale fits, and between the inner end of the said bell, and a driven
în spike or nail head b, be, mop stuff is thereby clamped, substantially as described
and set forth in figure 12.
JOHN CORDEN.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.
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