FLOOR WAX APPLICATOR WITH THROW-AWAY HEAD

• US 3,827,100 A
• Filed: 03/28/1973
• Issued: 08/06/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/1973
• 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:
  US05/345,519
• Time in Patent Office: 496 Days
• Field of Search: 15/147R,147A,228,229R,229A,229AP,229B,229BP,231,232 211/6,16,89 248/314
• US Class Current: 15/229.2
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/20 Mops
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/254 Plate frames
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 13/29 having movable or detachable polishing or shining cloths

Abstract

A wax applicator provided with a throw-away wax applicator head. The wax applicator includes an elongated carrier member to which is rigidly secured an elongated pulling handle. The carrier member includes an upper rigid portion and a lower cushion portion. The disposable wax applicator head is mounted against the lower cushion portion and it includes a wax applicator element made from an absorbent material and which is centrally attached to a sheet of non-woven, non-absorbent backing material that is folded upward and over the carrier member upper rigid portion and secured thereto by releasable retainer means.

Claims

1. In a wax applicator, the combination comprising:

a. an elongated carrier member provided on the upper side thereof with a first plurality of holes disposed inwardly from the ends of the carrier member, and a second plurality of holes disposed between the ends of the carrier member and said first plurality of holes;

b. an elongated handle;

c. means for rigidly attaching the lower end of the handle to said carrier member and for maintaining the handle at an acute angle to the upper side of the carrier member for retaining the handle in a position for pulling the wax applicator over a surface being waxed;

d. a wax applicator head including a wax applicator element made from an absorbent material and fixed centrally to a sheet of non-absorbent backing material along a straight line so as to provide a pair of attachment flaps on either side of the applicator element, and which attachment flaps are folded upward and over the upper side of said carrier member;

e. retainer members carried in said plurality of holes on said carrier member for operative engagement with said attachment flaps for releasably securing the wax applicator to the carrier member; and

, f. said wax applicator head being provided with a plurality of attachment tabs for operative engagement with the retainer members in said first plurality of holes.

2. The wax applicator structure as defined in claim 1, wherein:

a. said wax applicator head backing material comprises a non-woven polypropylene material.

3. The wax applicator structure as defined in claim 1, wherein:

a. said retainer member in each of said holes comprises a retainer cup mounted in each hole and provided with slits on the outer end thereof through which are extended said attachment tabs for said first plurality of holes, and through which are extended portions of said attachment flaps in said plurality of holes for releasably securing the wax applicator head to the carrier member.

4. The wax applicator structure as defined in claim 3, wherein:

a. each of said attachment tabs is provided with a retainer member which is adapted to be extended into one of the retainer cups in the first plurality of holes for releasably securing the attachment tab in the retainer cup.

5. The wax applicator structure as defined in claim 2, 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.

6. The wax applicator structure as defined in claim 5, wherein:

a. said wax applicator element comprises strands of an absorbent material.

7. The wax applicator structure as defined in claim 5, herein:

a. said wax applicator element comprises loops of an absorbent material.

8. The wax applicator structure as defined in claim 5, wherein:

a. said wax applicator absorbent material comprises a cotton material.

9. The wax applicator structure as defined in claim 5, wherein:

a. said wax applicator absorbent material comprises a rayon material.

10. The wax applicator structure as defined in claim 5, wherein:

a. said carrier member rigid portion includes an elongated, rectangularly shaped block of wood, and said cushion portion comprises a cushion pad secured to the lower side of said block of wood.