Abstract: A device having angular and rotatable linkage between a handle and squeegee blade for manipulating the blade on the surface of glass being cleaned.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tool for use in spreading soft, malleable materials along an inner corner formed by angular surfaces. The tool has a relatively hard core and an elastomeric covering on the core together forming a spreading nose for the tool. The tool has a handle for the spreading nose. The elastomeric covering is a soft, resilient material so that it will seal against the angular surfaces of the inner corner where the material is being spread, even if those surfaces are somewhat irregular, for confining the soft spreading material and inhibiting it from spreading around a working edge of the tool except at a tip where a bead is formed.

Abstract: A handle having a sprung forked end is releasably securable to a cleaning-implement body by engagement of the fork arms in apertures in the body by means of a clamping device engaging between said arms and being movable, by rotation, displacement or pivoting, to spread the arms apart or draw them together. Various forms of clamping device (comprising a cam disc and/or a slider, or a pivoting lever), various configurations of fork arms and various features of said body are described.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device for holding automobile windshield washing apparatus. The device includes a bin having an open upper end, a lower closed end, and a back panel which tapers generally inward to attribute a restricted width to the closed end. The device also includes a body having an upper and lower portion. A paper towel dispenser is attached to the upper portion. The lower portion of the body includes a pocket into which the bin is adapted to be removably supported in a generally upright position giving access to the interior of the bin. In one embodiment, the body includes a plurality of generally vertically stacked pockets, each holding a bin.

Abstract: There is disclosed a dual blade wiper for a windshield wiper or squeegee in which the wiper is separated along its length into two blade portions except for its ends; at the ends the blade is not separated but at least one of the ends has a slot which communicates with the space between the 2 blade portions; the blade edges are preferably rounded on the ends rather than having the conventional tapered configuration. The construction of the blade, the flexure characteristics of the material and the forces present during motion of the wiper cause the blade portions to separate and come together in the reciprocating action of the windshield wiper, thereby drawing water or moisture into the space between the blade portions and ejecting it from the slot communicating with the space between the blade portions.

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 squeegee blade for a thick film printing apparatus is held between horizontally compressing holder plates. One of the holder plates is integrally formed with a member for attachment to the pressure printing apparatus. The other holder plate attaches to the first one. The squeegee presents a sharp corner edge exposed from the holding plates and provision is made for varying the angle of attack for different inks used in the film printing process.

Abstract: A squeegee has a handle, and includes an elongated blade holder disposed transverse thereto; the blade holder is formed with an elongated recess of T-shaped cross-section into which an elongated blade, having a matching T-shaped projection, fits, so that the blade is easily interchanged with another blade. A second and smaller handle formed with a blade gripper is slidably attached to the blade so as to remove moisture therefrom when sliding along the length thereof.

Abstract: A snow drag in which the snow moving member is a sector of a pneumatic semi-resilient tire carcass extending through an arc of about 120.degree.. A transverse section through the tire carcass is arcuate in shape with the outer edge being used as a snow drag and the interior of the carcass functioning as a scoop for gathering the snow. A handle is rigidly secured to the center of the inner edge of the tire carcass sector and radially extending and arcuate reinforcing members are mounted on the exterior and interior arcuate surfaces. These members are arranged in pairs with rivets interconnecting the two members of each pair and extending through the tire carcass. This arrangement permits the tire carcass to have a certain amount of resiliency while still retaining its overall general shape.

Abstract: Especially effective for use with fast hardening metal fillers comprising resin and catalyst the present spreader, which may be integrally molded in a continuous combination of injection and blow molding comprises an elongated handle which is hollow and deformable and a blade which is solid whereby sculpturing and contouring may be achieved more readily through hand manipulation and the spreader is more easily cleaned.

Abstract: A wiping device includes an elongated wiping blade of elastically yieldable material, a handle, and an arrangement for replaceably mounting the blade on the handle, including an elongated mounting member of U-shaped cross-section which is supported on the handle and which bounds an elongated cavity and an elongated slot communicating the cavity with the exterior of the mounting member. The wiping blade has two marginal portions extending longitudinally of the wiping blade and each having a pair of wiping edges. The thickness of each of the marginal portions exceeds that of a central portion, and the width of the cavity exceeds that of the slot so that, when one of the marginal portions is received in the cavity and the other marginal portion can be located exteriorly of the mounting member, the latter is used for wiping and the former prevents extraction of the wiping blade through the slot.

Abstract: A squeegee apparatus consisting essentially of a pair of substantially parallel arms movable towards and away from one another while remaining parallel, each arm bearing on its inner face a squeegee blade, one squeegee blade being mounted on its respective arm via a resilient mounting.

Abstract: In a copying apparatus where image developer material is cleaned from a reusable imaging surface by a resilient cleaning blade, one edge of the blade is mounted within a blade retaining channel with opposing generally parallel walls spaced apart by a distance slightly greater than the thickness of the blade to provide unobstructed ingress of the cleaning blade mounting edge against a linear base of the channel without compression of the blade. The blade mounting channel has an arcuate intermediate bend resiliently bending the cleaning blade within the channel sufficiently to cause the cleaning blade to resiliently frictionally engage both walls of the channel to frictionally retain the blade and to seal the channel from the image developer material.

Abstract: Squeegee construction for showerbath surfaces which is water impervious. The squeegee construction comprises a hollow, relatively rigid, plastic T-shaped handle mounting an extruded integral squeegee that is formed of two different durometers of plastic material. A rigid backbone portion engages in between rigid non-spreadable jaws defined by an elongate groove formed in the crossbar portion of the handle requiring an endwise entry and an elastomeric squeegee blade protrudes from the crossbar to provide the squeegee function. The squeegee is secured by means of protrusions extending from the rigid backbone into openings formed in the crossbar portion of the handle.

Abstract: A flexible squeegee for use in round or irregularly shaped screen-printing frames, whose design permits it to sweep all, or substantially all, of the screen surface.

Abstract: Apparatus for maintaining surfaces that includes a powered mobile machine having a frame, a scrubbing tool, a liquid distributor ahead of the scrubbing tool, a clean solution tank for supplying liquid to the liquid distributor, a housing mounting the tool, a rear squeegee assembly and side squeegee assemblies, a dirty solution tank on the frame, and a vacuumized system for withdrawing liquid collected by the rear squeegee assembly and transferring it to the dirty solution tank. The rear squeegee assembly is preferably parabolic in plan view. Scissor type linkages are connected to the housing or other parts of the machine and each of the rear and side squeegee assemblies and are spring urged to urge the respective assembly downwardly with nearly constant pressure. Further, in each of the first and second embodiments of the rear squeegee assembly, parallel linkages mount the rear squeegee assembly for limited vertical movement relative the housing.

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus, particularly for cleaning window panes, is fitted with a replaceable strip-shaped rubber wiping element, a U-section holding sheath accommodating the rear edge of the wiping element and, at the forward end of a handle for holding the cleaning apparatus, two clamping plates of which one is detachable and secures the wiping element in its holding sheath. The detachable clamping plate is formed at its transverse front edge with an inwardly angled tapering lip which engages between one side of the holding sheath and the wiping element, and which is provided on its outside flank with rib-like teeth extending transversely to the longitudinal axis of the lip.

Abstract: A wiper device for removing moisture from both flat and arcuate surfaces, such as the washed exterior surfaces of automobiles. The wiper device includes a handle and blade support, which have a unitary lightweight plastic construction, and an elongated flexible wiper blade secured to the support along one of its sides. The wiper blade is made of a relatively soft rubber stock material and extends out from the support a sufficient distance to enable the blade to conform closely to both flat and curved surfaces over which it is passed to facilitate the substantially complete removal of moisture from such surfaces.

Abstract: A squeegee is constructed of a rectangular plate coated with rubber to form a rectangularly-shaped rubber coated body having an elongated working edge. The working edge has sloping side surfaces, in each of which a plurality of ribs extending parallel to the working edge are formed. The working edge, terminates in a thin, flexible rim or blade. A support handle for gripping the squeegee has a tubular shape and is secured to the rubber coated body along the edge opposite the working edge.

Abstract: A windshield wiper imparting hydrophobic properties to a surface over which it moves is prepared from a polymerized silicone elastomer having about 3 to 20 parts per hundred of a dispersed filler selected from silica, mica, molybdenum disulfide, and tetra fluoro ethylene, and about 0.2 to 10 parts per hundred of an additive of dicoco dimethyl ammoniumchloride or an acetate salt of a copolymer with the formula ##EQU1## and X has a total value of from 10 to 400 inclusive. Also disclosed is a method of imparting repellency to a windshield by immersing a wiper in an alcohol solution containing about 50 weight percent of the acetate salt of the copolymer named above.

Abstract: A professional squeegee comprising a handle, wiping blade holder and a resilient wiping blade of rectangular cross section. The blade is retained by the blade holder in a floating restraint by means of a longitudinal groove in the blade or the upper leg of the holder and a corresponding longitudinal bead or other protrusion in the other element for mating engagement with the groove. Removable pins engage the holder and detents at the end of the wiping blade to support the wiping edge at the extremities. Holding the blade in this manner allows it to float and assume its true wiping edge without distortion or influence from external clamping.