Toilet bowl cleaning tool

• US 3,319,281 A
• Filed: 03/31/1966
• Issued: 05/16/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1966
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James M. Montgomery
• Original Assignee: James M. Montgomery
• Inventors: Montgomery, James M.
• Application Number:
  US04/539,087
• Time in Patent Office: 411 Days
• US Class Current: 15/244.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 11/10 Hand tools for cleaning the toilet bowl , seat or cover, e.g. toilet brushes cleaning devices without flushing A47K17/00; mechanical devices for cleaning toilet bowls E03D

Claims

1. TOILET BOWL CLEANING TOOL CONSTRUCTION INCLUDING A MOP HEAD FORMED OF SPONGE RUBBER HAVING FIRMNESS SUFFICIENT TO RESIST SUBSTANTIAL DISTORTION WHEN PRESED AGAINST A SURFACE TO BE CLEANED, THE OUTER SURFACE OF THE MOP HEAD BEING FORMED AS A SURFACE OF REVOLUTION CONFIGURED TO PROVIDE FOUR AXIALLY ADJACENT SECTIONS;

EACH HEAD SECTION HAVING A SPHERICAL OUTER SURFACE PORTION, THE FIRST AND FOURTH SECTIONS PROVIDING SPHERICALLY SHAPED END SURFACES FOR THE MOP HEAD, THE SECOND AND THIRD SECTIONS BEING REVERSELY ORIENTED WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER TO FORM A CENTRAL ANNULAR GROOVE;

AND A HANDLE JOINED TO THE MOP HEAD, A REDUCED SHANK UPON THE HANDLE, AN ENLARGED ROUNDED TIP UPON THE TERMINAL END OF SAID SHANK, THE MOP HEAD BEING FORMED WITH AN INTERNAL RECESS GENERALLY MATCHING THE CONTOUR OF BUT SMALLER THAN THE CONTOUR OF THE SHANK AND TIP, THE HANDLE SHANK AND TIP BEING INSERTED IN AND HELD IN SAID RECESS BY COUPLED ENGAGEMENT OF THE ENLARGED TIP IN THE MATCHING RECESS PORTION.