US1298788A - Sanitary ventilated dish-mop. - Google Patents

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WILLARD M00. REID, 0F EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO REID-GEISLER MANUFAC- TUBIN G 00., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

SANITARY VENTILATED DISH-MOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 1, 1919-.

Application filed .Tune 8, 1918. Serial No. 238,810.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLARD MoC. REID, a citizen of the United States, residing at Evanston, in the county of Cook and State .of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Sanitary Ventilated Dish-Mops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to mops used in washing dishes, the same as ordinarily sold in the trade, comprising a wooden handle with a swab of cotton threads tied thereto. As ordinarily constructed, the device is apt to become unsanitary in use due to the fact that portions of mop material proper which come in contact with the wooden handle have little chance to dry out and consequently become sour, with consequent unpleasant odor and other unsanitary results. The object of this invention is to so construct the mop that air can pass through the center of the swab or mop body proper, to assist in drying it out and rendering it sanitary. The invention consists in means for carrying out the foregoing objects which can be easily and cheaply made; which is satisfactory in operation and not readily liable to get out of order. More in detail, the invention consists in the features and details of construction which will be here after more fully set forth in the specification and claims.

Referring to the drawings, in which similar numerals indicate the same parts throughout the several views- Figure 1 is a sideview of a mop having the device of this invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a central sectional view through the attaching portion of the mop handle, illustrating the device in detail.

In constructing the device of this inven tion, an ordinary cylindrical handle 10 is provided to whichthe mop member 12 is to be attached. Instead of attaching the mop 12 directly to the handle, as has been the usual practice heretofore, a metallic tubular member 14 is provided, preferably having formed upon it two circular ridges 16 and 18, constructed approximately as shown. Into one end of this tubular member 14 is fitted the more or less contracted end portion 20 of the handle 10, the same being secured in place by any suitable means, such for instance as pin or rivet 22. The remaining portion of the tubular member 14 and particularly that portion between the ridges l6 and 18, is provided with a large number of perforations 24 of sufiicient size so that air can readily pass through them. About the tubular member 14 and over these perforations 24 is placed a mop member 12, secured in place by any suitable means, as for instance by a band 26. This band may be placed at any point, but is preferably located as shown intermediate of the length of the perforated portion of the tubular member-14 so that air may pass through and around the mop material and through the holes 24 to the central interior passageway 28 of the tubular member. The upper edges 30 of the mop member 12, being thus free to bend away from the upper portion of the tubular member 14, thus making a clear passage through the upper holes '24 for this ventilating purpose.

In the operation of the device, the mop is used in the ordinary manner, whereupon it is either hung up by any suitable means not shown, in the vertical position shown in the drawing, with the result that the tubular member 14 holds the central portions 32 of the mop in separated position part for part, as shown in Fig. 2 so that air can pass up through the center of the mop, thence through the holes 24, through and around the mop material on the exterior of the handle, in the obvious manner and as heretofore described, or the mop can be inverted so that the mop material falls away from the end of the tube 14, leaving entrance to passage 28 wide open with obvious results.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device ofthe class described, in combination with a body of mop material, a perforated tubular member inserted inside the body of said mop material in such a way that air can pass through said tubular member and the perforations therein into the mop material for the purpose of obtaining ventilation of the complete mop and a handle device connected to the tubularmember, for the purposes set forth.

2. In a device of the class described, a tubular member, a handle entering one end of the tubular member, for a portion of the In Witness whereof, I have hereunto sublength thereof, means securing the handle to scribed my name in the presence of two W1tthe tubular member, a body of mop matenesses.

rial attached to the tubular member beyond WILLARD MoC. REID. 5 the end of the handle, there being p'erfora- Witnesses-z tions in the tubular member surrounded DWIGHT B. CHEEVER,"

by the mop for the purposes set forth. M. S. ROSENZWEIG.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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