Abstract: A mop is provided with a fibrous yarn head, there being a ring engaging the yarn strands and forming them into loops, the ring being carried on a sleeve which is slidable and rotational over the mop handle, the handle having means projecting from one end and engaging the loop strands intermediate their ends, such that when the sleeve is in one position the strands have their intermediate portions withdrawn towards the sleeve and in cross-section define a general cardioid shape, while in another position the strands are stretched out to define a general cylindrical shape, and in the second position the strands can be wrung by a relative twisting action between the sleeve and the handle.

Abstract: A device for cleaning the magnetic heads of magnetic recording and/or playback machines, comprising an elongate holder and a holding member for holding and retaining a tape head cleaner, the holder and the holding device being interconnectible by a spigot and socket connection which is such as to allow a plurality of orientations of the spigot relative to the socket.

Abstract: A mirror cleaning device which provides for a generally closed container having cleaning and defogging liquid maintained therein. The cleaning device includes a cup member having a cover. A liquid dispensing securement device consisting of a pair of tubular elements secured each to the other and intersecting in a substantially perpendicular manner extends through and is secured to the cover. A pair of cotton rolls are inserted within each of the tubular members into contiguous contact with each other. One of the cotton rolls is vertically directed and extends from the first tubular member, partially immersed within the cleaning liquid maintained within the cup. The second tubular member is generally horizontally directed and is partially open in contour to allow exposure of the cotton roll inserted therein. Capillary or wicking action permits the continuous flow of fluid from the liquid within the cup to the horizontally directed cotton roll where a mirror to be cleaned may be wiped across a bottom surface.

Abstract: A basting device for injecting fluid flavoring material under pressure, said device including a hollow elongated member with perforations adjacent one end and with an annular flange adjacent the other end. A tip having a pointed head for penetrating a food article is threadedly attached to the end of the elongated member adjacent the perforations. A bowl is threadedly attached to the flange, said flange forming a cover and including peripheral grooves communicating with the bowl for pressure relief if the device becomes plugged, said elongated member extending through the flange and including perforations for straining the flavoring fluid.

Abstract: The Gramophone record cleaner proposed is of the roller type having a sticky surface formed of a rubbery organopolysiloxane elastomer having a relatively low hardness and adapted to pick up dirt or dust and other contaminants from within the grooves of a record as the roller is passed over the record surface. The roller-type cleaners are superior in their easy performance of complete dirt removal in repeated operations, since the sticky surface of the roller once choked with contaminants can be cleaned simply by rinsing with water.

Abstract: A trim guide for a painter's brush having optional right and left-hand guide brackets mounted in selected biangular relation to the lengthwise brush axis for respectively supporting individual guide shoes in position to engage walls or other guide surfaces in a manner suitable to maintain the axis of the brush and bristles in predisposed angular relation and contact with a surface to be painted. The guide also performs to adjustably regulate the touch and area of bristle contact while operably guiding the brush for movement along a desired path.

Abstract: A novel tray for use in a garden or on a lawn, and which serves for picking up trash, lawn weeds and the like; the tray being in the general shape of a conventional dust pan and made of plastic material; the tray consisting of a flat rectangular bottom wall having upstanding walls on three sides while the fourth side forms a straight edge over which the various trash or the like can be scooped up. A pivoted handle having spurs is provided on the bottom of the tray.

Abstract: An applicator for applying a liquid coating to a suitable object includes a pad and a detachable handle. The pad includes a cushion, working means applied to the cushion lower surface, and a backing plate secured to the cushion upper surface. The plate is provided with hooks extending upwardly from its upper surface, and each hook is arranged along one of three sides of an imaginary square so as to capture an object slidably inserted into this imaginary square from the fourth side thereof. The handle has, adjacent one end, an outturned square perimetrical flange which is adapted to be inserted into engagement with the hooks at any of four angular positions. The applicator may further include an adapter arranged to be inserted into the open end of the tube-like handle, to modify the same to matingly receive the threaded end portion of an extension pole.

Abstract: A hand tool especially adapted for cleaning automotive windows and windshields has a plate set in the head of a handle and provided with an ice-scraping edge. A squeegee, also set in the head, has a blade for wiping away slush and fog as well as ice broken loose by the edged plate. The rigid plate has a snap fit into the head and a lock for holding the flexible squeegee against displacement. The plate and the blade have strategic locations on the head in relation to each other such as to eliminate the need for tool turn-over or other difficult, time-consuming maneuvers during successive scraping and wiping actions across the surface being cleaned.

Abstract: A pushbutton switch is disclosed which includes a pushbutton formed of a synthetic resin to have a recess, and a lever having an attachment portion for fitting into the recess. The lever is formed of a synthetic resin relatively harder than the material of the pushbutton and relatively small in creep contraction rate. The attachment portion has projections thrusting into the wall of the recess so as to prevent the lever from coming out of the recess.

Abstract: In the driving of golf clubs, particularly on moist ground, divots and muddy earth are met by the driving head of the club and attached thereto, requiring removal repeatedly. This has meant in the past the carrying by the golfer of a wiping cloth and its use to clean the driving head of the club and which is time-taking and requires the golfer to handle a progressing dirty cloth. By means of the present invention, the golfer's shoe, either right or left, is provided with a plate, held by two or more of standard pointed shoe spikes, the plate carrying a wiping element for the club head, and with a simple sweep-movement of the club its head is quickly cleaned with ease. The wiping element may be of brush form or a relatively soft upstanding element such as fabric.

Abstract: A device for scraping ice or frost from vehicle windows and windshields. A substantially flat flexible member, an edge of which follows the contour of a to be cleared surface has a series of recesses on one side of the member to break up the frozen surface prior to turning the member over for final clearing.

Abstract: A bowling alley lane cleaner having a frame with paralleled end pieces spaced wider than the width of a bowling alley lane, a supply reel having a roll of cleaning paper thereon rotatably mounted between the frame end pieces, an elongated pad of resilient material between the frame end pieces spaced parallel to and below the paper reel, a takeup reel rotatably mounted between the frame end pieces, cleaning paper from the supply reel being looped over the pad and around the takeup reel so that as the device is pulled over a bowling alley lane the paper adjacent the pad engages the lane and cleans dust particles from it, a handle extending from the frame providing means for pulling the device over the lane and ratchet means between the handle and the takeup reel so that each time the user lifts the device to move it from one lane to another the ratchet means automatically advances the takeup reel to insure that clean paper is advanced over the pad to contact the lane being cleaned.

Abstract: A louvered window cleaning device. The device comprises a handle, and two sets of holders extend laterally in opposite directions from the handle. Absorbent pads or strips are clamped within the holders of one set and the pads are spaced apart to define a slot that receives the louver window section to be cleaned. By moving the device along the window section, opposite surfaces of the window section will be cleaned. Rubber-like blades or squeegees are secured to the second set of holders and are similarly spaced apart to define a slot that receives the window section. Movement of the squeegees across the window section serves to remove the water from the opposite surfaces of the window section.

Abstract: A lotion applicator comprising a handle terminating in a mount supporting a sponge is disclosed herein. The mount is removable from the handle for alternative direct manual grasping. In addition, the sponge itself is secured to a channel support segment which is conformed for sidewise translation over the mount. The handle itself includes, a lateral recess conformed to accept the mount with the sponge mounted thereon. To aid in the withdrawal of the mount and thus to facilitate renewal of the sponge, the mount itself includes a planar projection which extends on the distal side of the handle to provide a grasping surface for manipulative convenience. The support segment, shaped in a manner of a thin-walled channel, includes V-shaped side walls, the apex of each V-shaped side wall being directed towards the interior of the channel to thus provide a reduced dimension between the channel walls.

Abstract: The invention is a tip cleaning device especially designed for use with small or miniature soldering irons. It consists of a low profile case forming a self-contained water well with a shaft for supporting a wiping sponge having a central aperture of a size to receive the soldering iron tip. There is a wick between the wall and the underside of the sponge to keep the wiping sponge wet as long as there is water in the well.

Abstract: A hair brush having bristles extending from openings extending through a cushion on the base of the hair brush is disclosed. The openings allow a flow of air from a hand-held hair dryer or blower to reach the hair and scalp during brushing. The brush has a handle, a base connected to the handle, and vents running through the base. Bristles are mounted on a long, narrow, substantially rectangular track. The track is affixed to the base so that the bristles extend from the openings. The openings are wider than the tracks and bristles to allow a flow of air to pass through.

Abstract: A sponge forms an inner shaftway with interiorly projecting ribs to engage the sides of a lug nut, a shaft with a bottom plate attached to the bottom of the shaft is attached by adhesive material to the sponge body and a handle attached perpendicularly to the distal end of the shaft are used to rotate the sponge on the lug nut; the shaft can be made of round cross section with a hexagonal central shaftway or can be made of hexagonal cross section for strength of the shaft.

Abstract: A tool for scraping coatings such as paint or paper from walls and similar surfaces comprises a housing with a flat guide face designed to come to rest against a surface to be scraped, two lateral housing walls extending beyond a transverse edge of that guide face and carrying a blade swingably mounted thereon with the aid of a pair of shanks having pivot pins received in slots perpendicular to the guide face to enable an adjustment of the blade position. The blade is externally concave between two working edges which are parallel to the transverse edge of the guide face and come alternately into contact with the surface to be scraped, depending upon the direction of movement of the tool thereover. An ancillary attachment, to be used in the scraping of curved surfaces, can be clipped onto the transverse guide-face edge and additionally supported by the convex side of the swingable blade.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for constructing a mop head comprising a ram adapted to be urged downwardly having a ram head thereon to insert a rigid mop fiber securing wire into a preformed mop head. As the ram moves downwardly, the head is aligned with and engages a resiliently mounted mop head support apparatus in which a mop head is inserted. Mop fibers are placed over the mop head and metal fingers are positioned over the ends of the mop head. The ram head engages guide members to align the securing wire with the mop head and the ram is urged downwardly, causing the ends of the wire to engage the metal fingers such that the wire is moved past the metal fingers and under shoulders formed in the ends of the mop head and securely positioned thereon and retain the mop fibers therein. The fibers frictionally engage the sides of the mop head and are retained therein by the wire.