US815343A - Scrubber. - Google Patents

Description

'PATENTED MAR. 20, 1906.

HG.H.GARNBT SORUBBBR. APPLICATION FILED mm.21. 19 0s.

INVENTOR WITNESSES.-

v To all whom) it may concern:

GEORGEHENRY GARNET, OF ALLENTOWN, IENNSYLVANIA.

SCRUBBER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 20, 1906.

Application filed March 21, 1905. Serial No. 251,268.

Be it known that I, GEORGE HENRY GAR- NET, a citizen of the United States, residing at Allentown, in the county of Lehigh and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scrubbers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to scrubbers foroiling floors and for other similar purposes; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawin s, Figure 1 is a front view of the scrubber. Rig. 2 is a detail plan view, from below, of the block. Fig. 3 is a detail front view of the cover. Fi 4 is a cross-section taken on the line a: m in ig. 1 and drawn to a larger scale.

A is a block which is provided with any suitable form of handle I). This block A has a longitudinal groove B extending along its bottom, and C represents grooves and holes in the block which extend upward from the said longitudinal groove.

D is a cover. of textile material, a pile fabric such as carpet being preferably used. This cover is closed at its ends, so, as to form a trough-she ed bag or sack, and it has a row' of eyelets around its edge. l

D is absorbent material, such as felt or sponge, arranged in the said bag or sack un der the said block. The bag or sack incloses the absorbent material and the lower part of the block, and it is secured to the said block by any approved fastening devices, such as screws e, which engage with the block and with the said eyelets. When these screws are removed, the bag or sack may be taken -over the bottom of the block. The side porofl. The absorbent material preferably consists of a U-shaped piece of felt which is bent tions of the piece of felt are cut or trimmed away in wedge-shaped form and are secured against the sides of the lower part of the block. The grooves and holes 0' extend above the top edge of the bag or sack.

. The device is dipped in a vessel containing oil. or other similar fluid which passes down the holes and grooves and saturates I the absorbent material. The oil passes slowly through the textile material and oils the floor as the device is moved back and forth over its surface. The block preferably has the absorbent material secured to it by nails f.

What I claim is 1. In a scrubber, the combination, with a narrow block, of a u shaped strip of absorbent material inclosing the bottom edge of the said block and having wedge-shaped side portions which are secured against the sides of the said block, and a bag of textile material having a rounded lowerportion which incloses the said absorbent material and having its upper side ortions also secured to the sides of the said lock. f

2. In a scrubber, the combination, with a block provided with a longitudinal groove in its bottom and passages extending upwardly therefrom, of a strip of absorbent material secured over the bottom of the said block, and a bag of textile material secured over the said absorbent material and the lower part of the block without obstructing the said assages.

In testimony whereof I have a edmy signature in the presenceof two witnesses.

GEORGE HENRY GARNET.

Witnesses: I

'FLOY'D A. SAUIDT,

OSWILL M. SGHAFFER.

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