JP2002177186A - Mop grip tool with handle - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mop grip tool with a handle, by which the handle is compactly folded with the handle not swinging loosely to a head, cleaning is easily performed without changing a posture and a mop is easily attached/ detached. SOLUTION: The head 1 and the joint 3 of the handle are connected to be rotatable in the mop grip tool with the handle. The head 1 is opened/closed in a wing shape by connecting a pair of mop grip pieces 12 so as to be rotatable, a joint boss 17 formed in the joint 3 is fitted to the bush 20 of the rotary connecting part 2 of the grip pieces 12 so as to be rotatable around the axial center of the rotary connecting part, a shoe 28 is abutted on the outer peripheral surface of the bush 20 so that the surface pressure can be adjustable and the handle can be held as stopped at an optional rotary position. The rotary connecting part 2 incorporates a lock mechanism for locking the grip pieces 12 to be an open state and is provided with a lock releasing press button 24 in both end parts in the axial direction of the rotary connecting part 2.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a handle-mounted mop holder having a head for holding a mop and a handle rotatably connected to the head. The present invention relates to a handle-fitted mop gripper that can be opened and closed in a wing shape by rotatably connecting.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An example of this type of mop gripping tool is disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 57-46937. As shown in FIG. 12, a head 101 pivotally connects a pair of mop gripping pieces 100. In addition to being connected in a wing shape by the portion 102, a turning connection portion 103 is provided above the turning connection portion 102 in a direction perpendicular to the turning connection portion 102, and the handle 107 is turnably connected via the turning connection portion 103. . That is, the handle 107
Can rotate in the directions of arrows A and B with respect to the head 101.

[0003] By tilting the handle 107 on the head 101 side, it is possible to easily clean even a narrow gap such as the space between the lower surface of the furniture and the floor surface, and by opening and closing the pair of mop gripping pieces 100, The operation of attaching and detaching the mop M to and from the head 101 can be easily performed.

[0004]

In the conventional handle-type mop holder shown in FIG. 12, it is considered that the first step is to remove dust by wiping the floor surface. By providing 103 and 102, the handle 107 can rotate in two directions (A direction and B direction).
Moreover, the handle 107 has no rotation suppressing mechanism in the direction B, and is almost free, and it is considered that the handle 107 fluctuates during the cleaning operation. However, when a sweeping operation like a broom is required, the cleaning operation may be difficult if the handle 107 is not stable with respect to the head 101.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to make it possible to fold a handle compactly while keeping the height of a head low,
An object of the present invention is to provide a handle-mounted mop gripper that does not fluctuate a handle with respect to a head and that can easily attach and detach a mop.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mop holder having a handle having a head for holding the mop and a handle rotatably connected to the head. In the mop gripping device, the head is rotatably connected to a pair of mop gripping pieces by a rotatable connecting portion, so that the head can be opened and closed in a wing shape, and the boss formed on the member on the handle side is rotated by the rotation. The handle is stopped and held at an arbitrary rotation position by fitting to the bush of the connection part so as to be rotatable around the axis of the rotation connection part and pressing the shoe against the outer peripheral surface of the bush so as to adjust the surface pressure. The feature is that it is possible.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the handle-fitted mop gripper of the first aspect, a lock mechanism for locking the mop gripping piece in an open state is incorporated in the rotation connecting portion.
It is characterized in that push-buttons for unlocking are provided at both ends in the axial direction of the rotation connecting portion.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the handle-mounted mop gripper according to the first or second aspect, wherein each of the mop gripping pieces in the closed state is bent so as to move away from each other toward the tip. Features.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a front view of a handle-mounted mop gripper to which the present invention is applied. The head 1 removably holds a mop M, and the head 1 has a rotary connecting portion 2. , And a handle 5 removably connected to the joint 3. The mop M has a large number of piles 9 planted on the lower surface of a base cloth 8 and bag-like insertion portions 10 provided at both ends of the upper surface.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged front view of the head 1. For convenience of explanation, the following description will be made on the assumption that the longitudinal direction of the head 1 (the left-right direction in the figure) is the left-right direction. The head 1 is formed by connecting a pair of left and right mop gripping pieces 12 formed in the shape of “H” to be rotatable by the rotation connecting part 2. M-shaped bag-shaped insertion part 10
, So that the mop M is gripped. The two mop gripping pieces 12 are openable and closable from a state of being opened in a wing shape as shown in FIG. 5 to a state of being closed downward around the rotary connecting portion 2 as shown in FIG.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the head 1. First and second boss portions 14 and 15 are integrally formed at the base end of each mop gripping piece 12 at intervals in the direction of the rotation axis O1. The first boss portions 14 are arranged adjacent to both sides in the axial center direction of the joint boss 17 formed on the joint 3, and the second boss portions 15 are arranged closer to the joint boss 17 than the first boss portion 14. Are formed at distant positions.
The second boss 14 is disposed adjacent to the first boss 14.

The distal end of each mop gripping piece 12 is formed in an arc shape, and a joint 3 (or handle 5) at the time of folding is provided on the upper surface on the base end side as shown in FIGS. A semicircular concave portion 18 for storing is formed.

FIG. 7 is an exploded perspective view of the rotary connecting portion 2 having a lock mechanism. For convenience of explanation, the rotary connecting portion axis O1 is shown.
The direction is simply referred to as the axial direction, and the center line C of the rod-shaped portion of the joint 3
Is referred to as an axially inward side, and a side away from the rod-shaped portion center line C in both axial directions is referred to as an axially outward side. A bush 20 and a locking coil spring 21 which is extendable and contractible in the axial direction are arranged in the joint boss 17.
A pair of locking stopper guides 22, a pair of locking stoppers 23, and a pair of unlocking push buttons 24 are arranged at both ends in the axial direction in the axial direction. Further, a metal shaft rod 25 is provided on the shaft core O1.
Has been arranged.

A shoe housing recess 27 is formed at the upper end of the inner peripheral surface of the joint boss 17, and a bush 2 is provided in the recess 27.
0 at a predetermined pressure against the outer peripheral surface of the bush 20 and the joint 3.
The shoe 28 for frictional resistance which suppresses rotation during the rotation is stored. The lower surface 28a of the shoe 28 is formed in a partial cylindrical surface corresponding to the outer peripheral surface shape of the bush 20.
A cylindrical rod portion 28b is formed on the upper surface of
An adjusting screw 29 screwed into the joint 3 abuts on the upper surface of the rod portion 28b. That is, the surface pressure between the shoe lower surface 28a and the outer peripheral surface of the bush 20 pressed against the shoe lower surface 28a is adjusted by arbitrarily adjusting the amount of downward protrusion of the shoe 28 by rotating the adjusting screw 29, and the joint 3 is arbitrarily adjusted. It can be held by a moderate holding force (frictional force) at the rotation angle.

The rotation connecting portion 2 and the lock mechanism will be described in detail. In the following description, the axial direction refers to the direction of the rotation axis O1, and the bush 20 is formed to have the same axial width as the axial width of the joint boss 17, and extends over the entire length of the inner peripheral surface in the axial direction. A pair of strip projections 32 is formed.

The stopper guide 22 is formed in a cylindrical shape and integrally has a support wall 22a at an intermediate portion in the axial direction. A pair of slide grooves 35 is formed, and a shaft hole 50 into which the shaft rod 25 is fitted is formed in the shaft portion. The outer peripheral surface of the stopper guide 22 has a stepped shape, and the outer peripheral surface 22c on the outer side in the axial direction with respect to the middle step portion is formed to have a small diameter.

The stopper 23 has a cylindrical main body portion, and a locking stopper projection 33 that engages with the slide groove 35 of the stopper guide 22 is formed on the outer periphery of the cylindrical main body portion. In the cylindrical body part,
A pair of connection holes 38 into which the connection protrusions 39 of the push button 24 are inserted and a shaft hole 51 are formed.

Each push button 24 has the pair of connecting projections 39 projecting inward in the axial direction.
An arrow-shaped return portion is integrally formed at the tip of the push button 24 so that the push button 24 can be integrally connected to the stopper 23.

When the push button 24 is inserted into the end face of the first boss portion 14 of each mop gripping piece 12 at the center in the axial direction,
A projection 43 is formed to restrict the stopper 23 from entering the inside in the axial direction.

A pair of locking recesses 40 are formed on the end surface of the second boss 15 of each mop gripping piece 12 on the axial center side so that the locking stopper projection 33 can be engaged and disengaged in the axial direction. In addition, a projection 41 for preventing the displacement of the push button 24 is formed adjacent to each locking recess 40 in the circumferential direction. When the mop gripping piece 12 is opened, the positioning projection 41 comes into contact with the stopper projection 33. By contact, the stopper projection 33 is locked at a position corresponding to the engagement recess 40.

FIG. 8 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken along the line VIII-VIII of FIG. 5, showing a state in which both gripping pieces 12 are opened and locked. In each of the stopper guides 22, a portion on the inner side in the axial center direction is fitted to the inner peripheral surface of the bush 20, and the slide groove 35 is engaged with the strip projection 32. That is, it is axially movable with respect to the bush 20 and integrally rotates. A slide groove 35 is engaged with a stopper projection 33 on an axially outer side portion of each stopper guide 22, so that the stopper guide 22 rotates integrally with the stopper 22.
Further, the slide groove 35 of the small-diameter portion on the outer side in the axial direction of the stopper guide 22 does not engage with the inward projection 43 of the first boss portion 14 due to its small diameter. The side slide groove 35 is disengaged by movement in the axial direction.

The stopper projection 33 of the stopper 23 is
The axially inner portion engages with the slide groove 35 of the stopper guide 22, and the axially outer portion corresponds to the second boss 15.
Is engaged with the locking recess 40.

The push button 24 is fitted to the large-diameter inner peripheral surface of the second boss portion 15 so as to be movable in the axial direction,
Is locked in the connection hole 38 of the stopper 23, whereby the push button 24 and the stopper 23 are integrated in both the axial direction and the rotational direction.

The shaft rod 25 is inserted into the left and right stoppers 23 and the shaft holes 50 and 51 of the stopper guide 22, and the left and right stoppers 23 are locked by locking rings.

[0025]

[Function] [Mop gripping piece opened and locked] Fig. 5
FIG. 8 shows the state of the rotary connecting portion 2 when the mop gripping piece 12 is opened and locked as shown in FIG. 8, and the stopper guide 22 is urged outward in the axial direction by the coil spring 21 for locking. As a result, the slide groove 35 of the stopper guide 22 is engaged with both the strip projection 32 and the stopper projection 33 of the bush 20, and the axially outward portion of the stopper projection 33 locks the second boss 15. Engaging with the recess 40. The slide groove 35 is also engaged with the inward projection 43 of the first boss portion 14. That is, the bush 20, the stopper guide 22, the stopper 23, the second boss 15, the push button 24, and the first boss 14 are integrated in the rotation direction, and as shown in FIG.
Is locked open. In this state, the joint 3 is rotatable with respect to the rotary connecting portion 2, the rotation is suppressed by the friction between the shoe 28 and the bush 20, and the joint 3 can be stopped and held at a desired rotation position.

[Closing the Mop Grasping Piece] In FIG. 8, when the push buttons 24 are pushed inward in the axial direction, the push button 24, the stopper 23, and the stopper guide 22
Moves inward in the axial direction against the coil spring 21 for locking, and as shown in FIG. 9, the stopper projection 33 is disengaged from the locking recess 40 of the second boss 15, and the second boss 15 is 23, stopper guide 22 and bush 2
It becomes freely rotatable with respect to zero. Further, the slide groove 35 portion of the large diameter portion on the inward side in the axial center direction of the stopper guide 22 is disengaged from the inward projection 43 of the first boss portion 14, and the stopper guide 22 becomes rotatable. Therefore, both mop gripping pieces 12 are closed as shown in FIG. 6 by rotating both mop gripping pieces 12 downward. By closing the mop gripping piece 12 in this way, the used mop can be easily removed.
In addition, even if both mop gripping pieces 12 are closed, they are in a state of opening downward like a trumpet.

[When Mop Holding Piece is Opened] A new mop M is placed below the closed head 1 as shown in FIG.
By pressing from above, each of the mop gripping pieces 12 is automatically opened and enters the bag-shaped insertion portion 10, and is automatically locked when opened at a predetermined angle as shown in FIG. More specifically, FIG. 10 shows the stopper projection 33 at the beginning of opening.
And the positional relationship between the locking recess 40 of the second boss 15 and the mop gripping piece 12 pivoted in the direction of the arrow P with respect to the stopper 23 from this state. When the locking projection 40 abuts, the locking recess 40 is positioned at a position where it can be engaged with the stopper projection 33 and
The relative rotation angle between the stopper and the stopper 23 is fixed. When the other mop gripping piece 12 is similarly positioned, each stopper projection 3 is pressed by the urging force of the locking spring 21 shown in FIG.
3 engage with the locking recesses 40, and the two mop gripping pieces 12 are locked in the open state. At the same time, the mop M is also gripped by the two mop gripping pieces 12.

[Cleaning Case] In FIG. 1, since the rotation connecting portion 2 is located at one position, the rotation direction of the handle 5 is only in the longitudinal direction (B direction) of the head 1. Hold 5 with both hands and use it as a broom. At this time, handle 5
Is rotatable only in the longitudinal direction of the head as described above, and is provided with a rotation suppressing mechanism, so that the handle can be cleaned in a stable state without wobbling.

When cleaning the gap between furniture and the gap between the furniture and the floor, the handle 5 is tilted with respect to the head 1 and the head 1 is reciprocated in the head length direction. Since the rotary connecting portion 2 of the two mop gripping pieces 12 and the rotary portion of the handle 1 are aligned on the same axis, the overall height of the head 1 can be kept low,
A mop can be easily inserted even in small gaps in the vertical direction.

Further, since both ends of the mop gripping piece 12 are inserted into the bag-like insertion portion 10 of the mop M,
The tip of the mop gripping piece 12 does not hit furniture or the like, and does not damage furniture.

[0031]

[Other Embodiments] (1) The mop gripping piece 12 is shown in FIG.
It is also possible to form a curved shape in addition to the "H" shape as described above.

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention, (1) a handle-fitted mop gripper having a head for holding a mop and a handle rotatably connected to the head via a joint, The head can be opened and closed in a wing-like manner by rotatably connecting a pair of mop gripping pieces, and the boss formed on the joint is rotated to a bush of a rotary connection between the mop gripping pieces. By pivotally fitting around the connecting part axis, the center of rotation of the handle can be made coincident with the turning connecting part axis of the mop gripping piece, and the height of the head can be kept low. Can be easily cleaned.

(2) The handle can be rotated only at one place,
Moreover, by contacting the shoe with the outer peripheral surface of the bush of the rotary connecting portion so that the surface pressure can be adjusted, the handle can be stopped and held at an arbitrary rotary position, so even when cleaning with a broom, The head does not fluctuate with the handle and can be cleaned in a stable state, making cleaning work easier.

(4) Since a shoe capable of adjusting the surface pressure is pressed against the outer peripheral surface of the bush of the rotation connecting portion between the handle and the head to form a rotation suppressing mechanism, the rotation suppressing force is uniform. It is stable and it is easy to adjust the surface pressure.

(5) The turning portion of the handle and the lock mechanism of the mop holding piece are incorporated in the turning connection portion of the mop holding piece, and push buttons for unlocking are provided at both axial ends of the turning connection portion. As a result, the connecting portion between the head and the handle can be compactly assembled, and the releasing operation is also easy.

(6) If each gripping piece is bent to the handle side in the shape of a "H" or a curve, when the mop is mounted,
By simply pressing the handle from the closed state, the mop gripping piece can be pushed out and spread, and the tip of the mop gripping piece can be automatically inserted into the mop, thereby simplifying the mop mounting operation.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of a mop gripper with a handle to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a head portion of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged plan view of a single mop gripping piece.

FIG. 4 is a view taken in the direction of the arrow IV in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged front view of the head showing an opened and locked state.

FIG. 6 is an enlarged front view of the head showing a closed state.

FIG. 7 is an exploded perspective view of a rotation connecting portion.

8 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken along the line VIII-VIII in FIG.

FIG. 9 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the same portion as FIG. 8 shown in an unlocked state.

FIG. 10 is a sectional view taken along line XX of FIG. 9;

11 is a sectional view taken along line XI-XI in FIG.

FIG. 12 is a perspective view of a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Head 2 Rotation connection part 3 Joint 5 handle 12 Mop gripping piece 14, 15 First and second boss portions of mop gripping piece 17 Joint boss 20 Bush (rotation suppression mechanism) 21 Coil spring 22 Stopper guide 23 Stopper (lock) Mechanism) 24 push button (lock release mechanism) 25 shaft rod 28 shoe (rotation suppression mechanism) 40 locking recess

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Kazutake Nishimura 1-33 Toyotsu-cho, Suita-shi, Osaka F-term in Da Skin Inc. (reference) 3B074 AA07 AB04 EE02

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A mop gripper having a handle having a head for gripping a mop and a handle rotatably connected to the head, wherein the head rotates a pair of mop gripping pieces by a rotation connection portion. By movably connecting, the boss formed on the handle-side member can be opened and closed in a wing shape, and the boss formed on the handle-side member is fitted to the bush of the rotating connection portion so as to be rotatable around the rotation connection portion axis. A mop gripper with a handle, wherein the handle can be stopped and held at an arbitrary rotation position by pressing the shoe against the outer peripheral surface of the bush so as to adjust the surface pressure. 2. A locking mechanism for locking a mop gripping piece in an open state in a rotating connection portion, and a push button for unlocking is provided at both axial ends of the rotating connection portion. The handle-equipped mop gripper according to claim 1. 3. The handle-mounted mop gripper according to claim 1, wherein each of the mop gripping pieces in the closed state bends away from each other toward the distal end.