US2682678A - Cleaning cloth with combined scraper and hang-up element - Google Patents

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B. A. KINGMAN July 6, 1954 CLEANING CLOTH WITH COMBINED SCRAPER AND HANG-UP ELEMENT Filed Jan. 6, 1950 INVENTOR. fiarcZgyA 37m:

Patented July 6, 1954 TENT OFFICE 2,682,678 cLEANI'NG oL'oTH WITH COMBINED SCRAPER AND HANG-UP ELEMENT Barclay Kingman, Orange, N. J., assignbr to Metal Textile Corporation, Roselle, N. J a a cor-'- poration of Delaware Application January 6, 1950, Serial No. 137,101

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to improvements in cleaning and scouring cloths for use in cleaning soiled surfaces generally, and especially for cleaning cooking and other utensils and articles of various kinds.

The invention has for an object to provide a flexible cleaning cloth, which may be of either abrasive or non-abrasive character, and to provide such cloth with a novel edged scraper element which is incorporated therewith as a unitary part thereof.

The invention has for a further object to provide, in combination with a cleaning cloth, a scraper element of such novel form and structure and so related to the body of the cloth that, in addition to its function as a scraping means, the same also provides a means for hanging up the cloth when the latter is not in use.

An illustrative embodiment of the invention is shown in the acompanying drawings, in which-- Fig. 1 is an obverse face view of a cleaning cloth according to this invention; Fig. 2 is a fragmentary reverse face view thereof; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view, taken on line 3-3 in Fig. l, but drawn on an enlarged scale; and Fig. 4 is a fragmentary side elevational view in part section, showing operative application of the scraper element of the cleaning cloth to a surface undergoing cleaning treatment.

Similar characters of reference are employed in the above described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, the reference character Hl indicates the body of a cleaning cloth which may be made of any suitable flexible sheet material, woven, knitted or felted cloth, or terry cloth or other form of pile fabric. The cleaning cloth body may be treated to provide the same with a mildly abrasive surface, if so desired. For example, the cleaning cloth may comprise a body of terry cloth provided with a coating containing an abrasive filler such as disclosed in United States Patent 1,961,911.

The cloth It may be provided in any suitable size and of any selected peripheral shape. Preferably, the marginal portions H of the cloth body are suitably treated to render the same non-raveling and non-fraying. 7

Attached to the body ll] of the cleaning cloth, preferably at a point adjacent a margin or margins thereof, as e. g. within a corner of a square cloth or cloth of other polygonal peripheral shape, is a scraper element. This scraper element, in a preferred form thereof, comprises a metallic eyelet or grommetuike structure, having a tubular mid-section "I 2 which extends through the body it of the cloth. Such midsection 12 of the scraper element terminates at one end in an annular gri er flange 13 and at its opposite end an annular anchoring member or flange l4. Said anchoring member [4 may be of scored or split formation as shown, or of coiled or rolled formation with or without a cooperative washer as sometimes provided in grommet-like structures. The body Ill of the cloth is embraced and gripped between said gripper flange l3 and said anchoring member I- l, whereby to immovably engage the scraper element with and tosecurely fasten the same to said body lfl of the cloth as a unitary part thereof. Integral with the gripper flange l3, to project therefrom, is an outwardly and downwardly inclined annular scraper member IS, the free margin of which provides a scraping edge It which lies in a plane outwardly offset from the plane of the adjacent face surface of the body ll) of the cloth.

When it is desired to make use of the scraper element with which the cleaning cloth is thus provided, the cloth is grasped in the operators hand in such manner as to oppose the scraper member [5 to a surface desired to undergo cleaning treatment, and so that the index finger of the operators grasping hand may press down upon the scraper element (see Fig. 4). When the cleaning cloth is so held, the operator can thereupon slide the scraping edge [6 of the scraper member l5 back and forth over the surface operated upon. Such movement, as thus transmitted to the scraper element, causes the scraper member l5 to plow against encrusting substances or dirt which adheres to the surface under treatment, so that the scraping edge it of said scraper element I5 will quickly and easily loosen and detach the adherent encrusting substances or dirt from said surface, whereupon said substances and dirt can thereafter be easily and quickly washed or wiped away by wiping the surface with the body l0 of the cleaning cloth. It will be obvious that a very efiicient and easily manipulatable cleaning instrumentality is provided, by use of which hard adherent dirt can be readily detached from soiled surfaces, so that further and final cleaning of said surfaces is greatly expedited. It will, therefore, be understood that the device of this invention provides a cleaning instrumentality of which is well adapted for operation upon all sorts of soiled surfaces, and which is especially efiicient for use as a means for cleaning pots, pans and other kitchen, household and other utensils.

Owing to the eyelet or grommet-like form of the scraper element of this invention, the same is adapted to serve another function in addition to its scraper function, viz. as a convenient means for hanging up the cleaning cloth which is equipped therewith, when said cleaning cloth is not in use.

Although a preferred form of scraper element for incorporation in a cleaning cloth has been shown in the drawings and above described, it will be obvious that the specific form of said element, and of the means for attaching the same to the body of a cleaning cloth, is subject to more or less variation within the scope of the here following claim.

Having now described my invention, I claim:

The combination with a fiat flexible cleaning cloth of a rigid scraper element, said element comprising a metallic eyelet having a tubular mid-section extending through an opening in the cloth adjacent to a marginal edge thereof, said mid-section terminating at its opposite ends in outwardly extending annular flanges turned one toward the other between which the intervening 4 portions of said cloth surrounding said midsection are gripped, whereby to afiix said eyelet to the cloth, one of said flanges having an annular marginal portion projecting radially therefrom in angularly inclined outwardly ofiset relation to the plane of the adjacent face of the cloth, thus providing the cloth with a scraper element ofiset from said face of the cloth, and the tubular mid-section of the eyelet providing a through opening by which the cloth can be hung up when not in use.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 627,806 Earl June 2'7, 1899 666,633 Farmer Jan. 22, 1901 1,304,176 Goldsmith May 20, 1919 1,478,112 Flather Dec. 18, 1923 2,275,546 Motto Mar. 10, 1942 2,396,388 Reenstierna Mar. 12, 1946 2,553,051 Kingman May 15, 1951 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 692,443 France Aug. 4, 1930

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