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US 5,205,012 AGranted
Cleaning tool
OwnerElla B. Coleyinventor
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Abstract
A cleaning tool having a cloth support element secured to an elongated handle. Any conventional piece of cloth, such as toweling, may be snugly applied across one face of the cloth support element by detachable securement of the peripheral portions of the cloth to the support element without the employment of tools.
Claims2
Apparatus for cleaning surfaces not readily accessible to manual comprising:
- a cloth support element having a substantially flat face bounded by a selected arcuate wall extending upwardly from the periphery of said cloth support element flat face, said arcuate wall having an opposed face opposite said flat face,
- an elongated handle secured to said arcuate configured wall and extending laterally from said opposed face and having its unsecured end shaped for convenient manual grasping;
- a polygonal piece of cloth having an area in excess of said substantially flat face of said support element, whereby peripheral portions of said piece of cloth extend beyond said periphery of said support element when a central portion of said piece of cloth is positioned in abutment with said substantially flat face of said support element;
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- means for detachably securing said peripheral portions of said piece of cloth to said support element said means being only one recess formed in the center of said opposed face of said support element;
- said recess being dimensioned to snugly receiver said peripheral portions of said piece of cloth in inserted relation thereto to detachably secure said piece of cloth to said support element.
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