US2475027A - Holder for wallpaper cleaner - Google Patents

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Patented. July 5, 1%49 UNIED STATES PATENT OFFICE HOLDER FOR WALLPAPER CLEANER John Andrew Johnson, Belleville, 111.

Application August 4, 1948, Serial No. 42,473

1 Claim. 1

My invention relates to improvements in holders for wall paper cleaner.

My invention relates more particularly to a holder for wall paper cleaner of the type that is normally held in the hand of the user and rubbed over the paper picking up dust, dirt, fly specks, cob webs and generally cleansing the surface of the paper in a very satisfactory manner. The cleaner is a pliable mass which is kneaded to bring cleaner parts of the same to the surface as it is used, having been introduced some years ago and now being in extensive use throughout the country.

A disadvantage in the use of this cleaner however lies in the fact that high ceilings, borders and upper parts of walls are inaccessible to the average housewife, unless she uses a step-ladder or other support which must be constantly moved as the upper Wall or ceiling is being cleaned.

I have overcome this disadvantage by providing a holder which due to its particular construction fixedly holds a mass of cleaner in position for use, the construction preventing the removal of the mass during use, yet permitting kneading of the same to permit bringing cleaner parts of the mass to the surface as the cleaner is being used.

The holder is also provided with a socket to receive the end of a broom or mopstick sothat for high portions of the walls and the ceilings the holder can be fastened on the end of a broom or mopstick to bring these surfaces within the reach of the housewife without the use of step ladders or other supports.

Other objects and advantages will be more apparent from the following description wherein ref erence is had to the accompanying drawing, upon In the embodiment of the invention which I have chosen to illustrate and describe herein, in Fig. l, I have shown the construction of my improved holder which includes a container l piv= otally mounted at the end of a socket l2 that may be fastened over a pole M of any suitable or desirable length.

The container it is filled with a mass of wallpaper cleaner M of the type to which I have referred with sufficient of the cleaner protruding from the holder so that it can form a surface to press against the paper upon the wall or ceiling l6 and as it is rubbed across the same, it will pick up dirt, dust, cobwebs or other sediment which has settled upon the surface of the wallpaper.

The holder may be in the form of a rectangularly shaped container having the bottom wall l 8, the side walls 20 and 22, the front wall 24 and a back wall 26 which is outwardly curved and extended upwardly to a higher point than the top of the front wall 24. The top opening 28 may be smaller than the internal size of the container, it being desirable to form an inward roll 30 in the upper edge of each of the side walls.

I extend a pivot member 32 downwardly from the bottom of the container, the same having an opening therethrough and adapted to be fastened by means of a screw member 34 through a pair of ear members 36 and 38 at the upper end of the socket [2.

I provide a wing nut 40 for securely fastening the socket and the container together the wing nut being provided so that there may be adjustment between the socket and the holder when desired.

From the above and foregoing description it can be seen that due to the roll-over edges of the opening 28 in the container, a quantity of wallpaper cleaner M may be placed therein being firmly pressed into the container with the finger or thumbs of the hand so that portions of the cleaner fill out the entire container and the mass becomes locked in the open end of the container due to the positioning of some of the same beneath the rolled-over edges.

When a portion of a wall or ceiling has been cleaned, the surface of the cleaner will have dirt and dust thereon and at this time the mass is kneaded with the thumbs to dispose this portion of the cleaner inwardly and bring to the surface cleaner and fresher portions of the mass. In this way, with occasional kneading of the mass a comparatively large surface area can be cleaned with a given quantity of cleaner.

With the construction which I have provided, it can be seen that the holder may either be manually grasped by the socket for cleaning wallpaper, or other surfaces, or the socket may be positioned over the end of a pole such as a broom or mopstick after which higher Wall surfaces and ceilings may be easily reached for cleaning without the use of ladders or other supports.

While I have illustrated and described a specific embodiment of the invention, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that changes being upwardly sloping and the back wall being 10 higher than the front wall, a circular inwardly turned ledge around the top of the entire periphery of the four side walls of the holder, said ledge formed integral with said side walls and having its inwardly turned edge positioned against said side walls, said ledge adapted to retain the wall paper cleaner in said holder during use.

JOHN ANDREW JOHNSON.

REFERENCES CITED The following referenlces are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 558,292 Lyons et a1 Apr. 14, 1896 1,111,499 Sayre Sept. 22, 1914 1,872,289 Hoff Aug. 16, 1932

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