Mops and mop frames
AssigneeJani-Jack Limited
InventorJan Bohacek
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Abstract
A folding mop frame has a pair of lateral outer sections pivoted on a central section of the frame and resiliently engagable by that central section to hold them extended with all the sections co-planar. On the upper faces of the lateral sections, near their outer ends, are S-form resilient hangers which grip the ends of a mop head extending around the ends of the frame and over its bottom face. Simply by applying a downwards force to the outer sections, they can be released from their engagement with the center section and swing downwards to leave the mop head hanging loosely, in which state it can easily be wrung out. Because of the resilient nature of the S-form hangers, they can ensure the mop head is held taut across the bottom of the frame independently of any shrinkage of the mop head material due to wetting.
Claims14
A mop frame comprising a pair of frame sections, said sections being in laterally opposed relation and taking up an essentially co-planar extending configuration in a generally horizontal working position, pivot means on the frame, mutually adjacent end regions of said frame sections being engaged by said pivot means, remote from said adjacent regions opposite end regions of the frame sections each extending in cantilever manner in said extended configuration, said sections being downwardly pivotable on the pivot means to bring said opposite end regions towards each other to assume a collapsed configuration, attachment means at said opposite end regions of the frame sections for attaching a mop head to the frame, said attachment means being resiliently deformable in the lateral direction, whereby the mop head can be held taut by the attachment means when the frame sections are in their extended configuration and the attachment means can yield in response to shrinkage of the material of the mop head.
A mop frame comprising a centre portion, pivot means on said centre portion, a pair of laterally opposite frame sections connected to the centre portion through said pivot means, said sections being releasably locatable in an essentially co-planar extended configuration, to assume a generally horizontal working position, attachment means on said sections for releasably holding a mop head on the frame with a working region of the mop head being located against the bottom of the frame in said working position, said sections being downwardly pivotable on said pivot means from said extended configuration to a collapsed configuration in which said ends of the frame sections lie close to each other, each frame section comprising a plate-like element that extends over at least a substantial part of the plan area of its frame section, and each section having a peripheral framing element that depends below the plate-like element of the section.
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