Abstract: A cleaning tool for cleaning a surface is disclosed. The cleaning tool comprises a cleaning frame including a rigid body defining a perimeter surrounding an interior opening and at least one spacer arranged within the interior opening. The cleaning frame secures over a backing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a floor cleaning tool. In one embodiment the floor cleaning tool comprises a backing and a handle. The backing comprises a first surface and a second surface. The handle is attached to the second surface of the backing apparatus. The backing has a generally triangular perimeter having a first edge, a second edge, and a third edge. A portion of the first edge is curved and a portion of the second edge is curved. The first edge and second edge meet at a leading point. The third edge is concave. The floor cleaning tool is capable of supporting a wipe.

Abstract: A handle assembly for use with a fibrous cleaning pad. The handle assembly includes a generally rigid first member including a first insertable portion, and a handle portion with a first end of the handle portion fixed to a second end of the first insertable portion and a manually engageable part adjacent a second opposite end of the handle portion. The handle assembly also includes a second member including a second insertable portion, and an actuation portion having a first end fixed to a second end of the second insertable portion. A first end of the second insertable portion opposite the actuation portion is pivotally mounted on a first end of the first insertable portion opposite the handle portion for relative movement of the insertable portions by manual manipulation of the actuation portion between a diverging position with outer surfaces of the insertable portions diverging from their first ends, and an adjacent position with the outer surfaces of the insertable portions generally parallel.

Abstract: A portable dispenser with which lengths of a sheet material may be manually dispensed from a supply roll of the sheet material. The dispenser has a frame including a bridging portion adapted to extend along a portion of the periphery of the roll of sheet material, and end wall portions fixed to the ends of the bridging portion and adapted to extend along the opposite end surfaces of the roll of sheet material on which the roll of sheet material is rotatably journaled. A resiliently flexible cantilevered portion of the frame has a proximal edge fixed to the bridging portion and has a sharp cutting edge along its opposite distal edge. A guard portion of the frame extends between its end wall portions and has an inner surface extending along the side of the cutting edge opposite the roll.

Abstract: An elongated length of a single or double-sided stretch releasing adhesive tape that can be cut to a selected length with integral pull tabs for stretch removing the tape from a substrate. The stretch releasing adhesive tape can be provided as long strips or roll form. The elongated stretch releasing adhesive tape article includes an elongate length of stretch releasing adhesive tape defining a longitudinal axis. The stretch releasing adhesive tape has a first surface and a second non-adhesive surface. The first surface comprises one or more adhesive regions and one or more non-adhesive regions arranged along the longitudinal axis. At least a portion of the non-adhesive regions comprise a series of pull tabs arranged along the longitudinal axis that can be grasped in combination with the second non-adhesive surface by a user during stretch removal of the tape from an associated substrate.

Abstract: A portable dispenser with which lengths of a sheet material may be manually dispensed from a supply roll of the sheet material. The dispenser has a frame including a bridging portion adapted to extend along a portion of the periphery of the roll of sheet material, and end wall portions fixed to the ends of the bridging portion and adapted to extend along the opposite end surfaces of the roll of sheet material on which the roll of sheet material is rotatably journaled. A resiliently flexible cantilevered portion of the frame has a proximal edge fixed to the bridging portion and has a sharp cutting edge along its opposite distal edge. A guard portion of the frame extends between its end wall portions and has an inner surface extending along the side of the cutting edge opposite the roll.

Abstract: A brush including a laminate having a handle end portion adapted for manual engagement, and an opposite head end portion; and a plurality of rows of bristles having end portions adhered between adjacent plies in the head end portion of the laminate and projecting outwardly. The brush is formed from pieces of oriented polymeric film, portions of which are adhered to individual plies to be incorporated in the laminate and have portions projecting from the plies separated into bristles before the plies are laminated to form the brush. Lamination is done by driving moisture out of pasteboard layers coated with dried water activatable adhesive by exposure to radio freqeuncy energy which activates the adhesive to form the laminate.

Abstract: A brush including a laminate having a handle end portion adapted for manual engagement, and an opposite head end portion; and a plurality of rows of bristles having end portions adhered between adjacent plies in the head end portion of the laminate and projecting outwardly. The brush is formed from pieces of oriented polymeric film, portions of which are adhered to individual plies to be incorporated in the laminate and have portions projecting from the plies separated into bristles before the plies are laminated to form the brush. Lamination is done by driving moisture out of pasteboard layers coated with dried water activatable adhesive by exposure to radio frequency energy which activates the adhesive to form the laminate.

Abstract: A brush including a laminate having a handle end portion adapted for manual engagement, and an opposite head end portion; and a plurality of rows of bristles having end portions adhered between adjacent plies in the head end portion of the laminate and projecting outwardly. The brush is formed from pieces of oriented polymeric film, portions of which are adhered to individual plies to be incorporated in the laminate and have portions projecting from the plies separated into bristles before the plies are laminated to form the brush. Lamination is done by driving moisture out of pasteboard layers coated with dried water activatable adhesive by exposure to radio frequency energy which activates the adhesive to form the laminate.

Abstract: A pen-like dispenser for applying rust converting liquid including a cap having an outer abrading surface adapted to scrape loose paint and rust from a surface to which the liquid is to be applied; and a liquid dispensing part including an elongate fluid reservoir having resiliently flexible walls, and a dispensing tip assembly. The tip assembly includes a valve member normally closing the tip assembly and having a tip projecting through an outlet passageway through the housing under the influence of a spring. The valve member may be moved to an open position by pressing its tip against a rusted substrate to afford outflow of the liquid, which flow can be controlled and aided by pressing inwardly on the flexible walls of the reservoir.

Abstract: A telecommunication service wire shield connector stamped and formed from a sheet of metal and having a generally planar elongate base, a ground stud connection tongue extending from one end of the base, a strain relief adjacent the opposite end of the base and having teeth inclined toward the base for engaging the service wire sheath, and a shield connector between the connection tongue and the strain relief and having small teeth inclined toward the base for scraping the service wire shield upon insertion and making electrical connection to the shield.

Abstract: A closable vessel including a main body portion and a hingeably affixed lid portion. A suction cup affixing structure is providing on either the lid or the back of the main body for removably affixing the vessel to a surface. When affixed the vessel presents its contents at an appropriate angle between the horizontal and the vertical for easy access by the user and to allow drainage of water. Drain holes accomplish drainage and provide ventilation to the contents when the vessel is closed. Alternate embodiments include use of partitions and a retaining bar for holding the contents. Further, a mirror may be provided for shaving or the like.

Abstract: A cable branch-off sealing member for use with a heat shrinkable material that is wrapped around two closely spaced parallel cables and pinched together between the cables to one side of the cables to create a loop of heat shrink material between the cables. The cable sealing member has an elongate tongue smoothly tapered at its leading end for insertion into the loop of heat shrinkable sheet material, which tongue has a width greater than the spacing between the cables to bridge between the peripheries of the cables and is bowed centrally of its width along its length to cause the two layers of heat shrink material to bow outward midway between the cables.

Abstract: A shield connector is provided for use with a telephone cable having a central core of individual conductors, a metallic sheath surrounding the central core, and a polymeric sheath encapsulating the shield which offers high initial contact force, a long travel in spring action, and resistance to high amperage currents. The connector includes an inner shoe inserted between the shield and the core conductors, an outer shoe overlying the cable sheath and clampingly engaged with the inner shoe by means of a threaded stud interconnecting the inner and outer shoes through a slit provided in the shield and the sheath, and a tang extending from one of the inner or outer shoes to contact the other of the inner or outer shoes exteriorly of the shield and the sheath.

Abstract: A method of repairing damage to the sheath of a communications cable in which a heat shrinkable material is wrapped around the communications cable to bridge across the damaged area of the sheath. A flexible strip heater having a base with a heating element in a portion of its width and a parallel insulating layer overlying only a portion of the base is wrapped in a spiral around the heat shrinkable material with the portion having the insulating layer wrapped on the portion of the previous turn not having the insulating layer. The insulating layer substantially abuts itself in adjacent turns of the heater to position the portions of the base containing the heating element adjacent each other along the heat shrinkable material. The heating element is activated to cause the heat shrinkable tape to shrink tightly onto the communications cable to cover the damaged portion of the sheath and, the flexible strip heater is then removed.

Abstract: A strip heater for wrapping around and applying heat to elongate generally cylindrical objects has a thin, flexible, elongate fiber reinforced base with a uniform width along the majority of its length, resistance wire insulated within the base across a uniform portion of the width of the base and a flexible insulating layer having a width equal to that of the portion of the base containing the resistance wire and overlying only a portion of one surface of the base. The heater is designed to be wrapped around a cylindrical object, such as a communications cable, with the thicker insulating portions overlying the portions not having the insulating layer and abutting itself in adjacent turns around the object to position the portions of the base containing the resistance wire adjacent each other in the spiral adjacent the object.