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US 4,048,692 AGranted
Combined dust pan and broom holder
OwnerD. A. Coffeyinventor
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Abstract
A novel dust pan is provided having flexible partially secured top wall, foldable handle means and a crosswire retainer means, wherein a broom is intended to be stored in said dust pan when both are not in use against the wall, the handles of said pan resting on the floor.
Claims8
A claimed dust pan and broom holder comprising a receptacle having a pan portion with upwardly and outwardly sloping side walls, and an upstanding rear wall connected to said side walls;
- a top panel flexible along an axis from front to back and secured in part to said pan portion, disposed in a plane generally parallel to the pan, said top panel terminating its non-secured portion in a terminal portion removably engageable with one of said upstanding side walls of the pan to form an enclosure which is open at the front;
- b. a crosswire retainer rotatably secured on one end at the forward end of one side of said top panel, the other end thereof being engageable with either of a pair of apertures on the other side of said top panel, moveable;
- c. a handle means movable from a stowable to a grippable position, secured to the external side of said rear wall of said pan and adopted such that the receptacle can be stored in a vertical position resting on said handle means when said handle means is in the stowable position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.