Collapsible holders for mops

申请号 US8142461 申请日 1961-01-09 公开(公告)号 US3082456A 公开(公告)日 1963-03-26
申请人 CALLAWAY MILLS CO; 发明人 SHORT JOE T;
摘要
权利要求
  • 3. A COLLAPSIBLE HOLDER FOR A POCKETED MOP COMPRISING: A RIGID FRAME ASSEMBLY INCLUDING A CROSS MEMBER AND A FIRST WING RIGIDLY SECURED THERETO, SAID FIRST WING COMPRISING A GENERALLY U-SHAPED, OPENWORK HAVING LEGS EXTENDING GENERALLY AT RIGHT ANGLES TO SAID CROSS MEMBER, AND MEANS RIGIDLY FIXING THE END PORTIONS OF SAID CROSS MEMBER TO SAID LEGS AT POSITIONS NEAR THE INNER ENDS OF SAID LEGS, THE INNER END PORTIONS OF SAID LEGS BEING UPWARDLY OFFSET AND DISPOSED ABOVE THE GENERAL PLANE OF SAID FIRST WING, SAID INNER END PORTIONS OF SAID LEGS LYING SUBSTANTIALLY IN A PLANE PARALLEL TO THE GENERAL PLANE OF SAID FIRST WING; A HANDLE; UNIVERSAL JOINT MEANS FIXED RIGIDLY AT ONE END PORTION THEREOF TO A CENTRAL PORTION OF SAID CROSS MEMBER AND FIXED AT ITS OPPOSITE END PORTION TO SAID HANDLE, SAID ONE PORTION OF SAID UNIVERSAL JOINT RIGIDLY FIXED TO SAID CROSS MEMBER COMPRISING A PORTION OF SAID JOINT WHICH ENABLES PIVOTING MOVEMENT OF SAID HANDLE AT A RIGHT ANGLE TO THE LATERAL AXIS OF SAID HOLDER; AND A RESILIENT, GENERALLY U-SHAPED, OPENWORK, SECOND WING HAVING LEGS PROVIDED WITH UPWARDLY EXTENDING AND INTEGRAL LOOP PORTIONS NEAR BUT SPACED FROM THE INNER ENDS THEREOF, EACH SAID LOOP PORTION ENTIRELY ENCIRCLING A PORTION OF SAID ASSEMBLY UPON WHICH IT IS MOUNTED, SAID LOOP PORTIONS BEING ROTATABLY AND SLIDABLY MOUNTED ON SAID RIGID FRAME ASSEMBLY JUST INWARDLY OF ADJACENT PORTIONS OF THE LEGS OF SAID FIRST WING, PORTIONS OF THE INNER ENDS OF SAID LEGS OF THE SECOND WING ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID LOOP PORTIONS EXTENDING BENEATH SAID UPWARDLY OFFSET END PORTIONS OF THE LEGS OF THE FIRST WING TO LATCH SAID WINGS IN SUBSTANTIALLY A COMMON PLANE AND THEN BEING DIRECTED LATERALLY INWARDLY AND UPWARDLY TO TERMINATE IN UPSTANDING RELEASE PINS WHICH CAN BE SQUEEZED TOWARD EACH OTHER TO RELEASE SAID LATCHING ACTION TO PERMIT SAID SECOND WING TO SWING DOWNWARDLY WITH RESPECT TO SAID RIGID FRAME ASSEMBLY ABOUT THE AXIS ON WHICH SAID LOOP PORTIONS ROTATE, SAID SECOND WING, WHEN LATCHED WITH SAID FIRST WING, BEING SELF STRESSED SO THAT THE LEGS THEREOF TEND TO SPRING OUTWARDLY AT THE OPEN INNER END OF THE SECOND WING.
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