US57703A - Improved mop and scrubber - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

WILLIAM T. GRANT, OF JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVED MOP NND SCRUBBER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,703. dated September 4, 1866.

. exact description thereof, 'reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The drawing accompanying is a perspective View of my device, consisting of the following described parts, viz: the brush-head A, composed of wood or other suitable material, in which are arranged bristles or any other mat-crial suited to the character ot' the Work to bc performed, and situated that the plane ofthe brush may be on the door or surface operated ou when in the hands of the operator. In the Wood composing the head, and to the rear or farther side from the operator, is placed a thick strip or slat of india-rubber, B B, running the entire length of the head, and extend.- ing outward from the brush far enough to answer the purpose for which designed-wiz., as a rubber to alternate the action-otq the brush or bristly part, and facilitate the removal ot' grease or dirt spots from the tloor.

Placed in the brush-head, as above described, is a handle, O, of convenient length and at an angle of about forty live degrees from the plane of the brush, that when in the hands of the operator the brush may be in the most ad- `vantageous position for the Work required.

D, ot such capacity that it may slide up and down or around the handle, at the will of the operator. To the lower end of this band is an extended arm, g, through a hole in which passes, at right angles to the handle C, a bar, E E, for the purpose of attaching the mopping arrangement, which consists of the following, Viz: A substantial piece of linen or other fabric, F, may be of variable width, and attached at one end, under the handle, to the brush-head, the other end to the bar, passing through the arm g, as above described.

When the operator desires to mop from the floor the Water, the band D, already described, may be dropped from the pin h, on the handle,

which sustains it while the scrubbing process only is in progress. The linenA or cloth F thus comes in contact with the floor or surface washed, absorbing the 'water as the scrub bin gis performed 5 an d, when desired, the band may be raised or slid up and around the handle, thus wringing from it the water, as desired by the operator.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the brush-head A, the rubber strip B, mop F, handle O, bar E E, cylinder D, catch or pin O, and arm g, as and for the purposes set forth.

WM. T. GRANT.

Witnesses:

CALEB LETToN,

JEREMIAH PrERsoN.

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