DUST MOP WITH THROW AWAY MOPPING ELEMENT

• US 3,760,450 A
• Filed: 01/10/1972
• Issued: 09/25/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Dana K. Griffin, John R. Wilson
• Original Assignee: Dana K. Griffin, John R. Wilson
• Inventors: Griffin, Dana K., Wilson, John R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Blum, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US05/216,356
• Time in Patent Office: 624 Days
• Field of Search: 15/144A,228,229AP,229B,229BC,229BP,231,232 211/16,65,66,89 298/110,111,314
• US Class Current: 15/229.6
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/255 for mops of textile fringes or the like

Abstract

A dust mop provided with a throwaway mop head. The dust mop includes an elongated carrier member to which is swivelly mounted a mop handle. The carrier member includes an upper rigid portion and a lower cushion portion. A disposable mop head is mounted against the lower cushion portion and it includes a mop element made from an absorbent material and which is attached to a nonwoven fiber cloth backing material that is folded upwardly and over the carrier member upper rigid portion and secured thereto by releasable retainer means.

Claims

1. In a dust mop, the combination comprising:

a. an elongated carrier member provided with a pair of holes on each end thereof, on the upper side thereof;

b. a mop handle;

c. means for attaching the carrier member in a swivel manner to said mop handle;

d. a mop head including a mop element made from strands of an absorbent material and fixed to a backing material having a pair of attachment flaps extended upward and over the upper side of said carrier member;

e. retainer means carried in said holes on said carrier member for operative engagement with said attachment flaps for releasably securing the mop head to the carrier member;

f. said mop head backing material comprising non-woven polyprophylene fiber cloth material;

g. said retainer means including a plurality of inverted retainer cups mounted in said holes and provided with slits on the outer ends thereof through which are extended portions of said attachment flaps for releasably securing the mop head to the carrier member. h. said swivel attachment means including an elongated clip means attached to the carrier member and including a pair of spaced apertured ears extended upward from the carrier member;

i. an attachment plate connected to said handle;

j. a pivot tube formed on the lower end of said attachment plate and being disposed between said spaced apart apertured ears, a pivot rod extended through said ears and through said pivot tube;

k. a plastic washer disposed on said pivot rod between each ear and each end of said attachment plate; and

l. a lock nut means on said pivot rod for securing the pivot rod in a selected adjusted position between said attachment plate and said pair of ears.

2. The dust mop structure as defined in claim 1, wherein:

(a) said carrier member includes an upper rigid portion in which said holes are formed, a lower cushion portion which is secured to the lower surface of said rigid portion, and a peripheral cushion formed around the periphery of said rigid portion.