US1338665A - Soap-holding attachment for scrub-brushes - Google Patents

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HARRY E. ADAMS, on BELLE vnnivoiv, rnivivsvnvnnia.

SOAP-HOLDING ATTACHMENT non soRUeBaUsHEs.

Application ledOctober 3, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

jBe it known that I, HARRY E. DAMs, a citizen. of the United States, residing at Belle Vernon, in the county of Vestmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soap-Holding Attachments for Scrub-Brushes, of which the following Ais a specification.

This inventionfrelatesto soap holding attachments for scrub brushes and it has for its object the provision of a simple and inexpensive structure of such nature that it may be slipped upon scrub brushes of the usual and well known construction and when in position will serve to retain a piece or a number of pieces of soap. The device is so constructed that when the scrub brush is dipped into a pail of water some of the water may enter the receptacle and will thereafter feed from the receptacle as soapy water down to and upon the surface being scrubbed.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a structure of the character above indicated so constructed as to fit brushes of different sizes and provided with means for engaging the back of the brush, of such nature that the mere act of slipping the structure into position upon the back of the brush secures the same in place. No skill is required to apply the attachment and thus it is adapted to be manufactured and sold as an article of manufacture separate from the scrub brushes.

The attachment is an article of great utility because it obviates the necessity of rubbing soap upon a scrub brush and also renders it possible to use the small pieces of soap that would otherwise be wasted.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a scrub brush having the attachment applied thereto;

F ig. 2 is a transverse vertical section through the brush and attachment;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the attachment with the cover thereof removed; and

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the attachment.

Like numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawing.

Referring to the drawing 5 designates the back and 6 the bristles of an ordinary scrub brush. My improved soap holding attach- Specification of Letters'Patent.

Patented May 4, 1920. serial no. 328,223.

nient consists of a receptacle which is preferably made of galvanized or other rust proof metal and comprises the side walls 7 and 8 which are 'shaped to conform to the nose of the back of the brush. These sidewalls are united by a transverse rear wall 9 which lies above the back 5 and is continued to form a spring tongue 10 that is `provided with a downwardly directed terminal end 1'1. The side walls 7 and 8 project downwardly beyond the tongue 10 and are provided at their lower edges with in-turned flanges 12. In applying the receptacle the forward end or nose of the back of the brush is thrust into the space between tongue 10 and flanges 12, the flanges 12 engaging the edges of the back of the brush and the tongue 1'0 resiliently bearing upon the upper face of the back of the brush. To permit of a limited yielding of the side walls 7 and 8 with respect to each other so that the structure may be used upon brushes of varying sizes the transverse rear Wall 9 is indented to form the V shaped portion 13 and the tongue l0 is cut out as indicatedy at 14. The receptacle is provided with a cover l5 having a number of openings 16 formed therein and when the brush is dipped into a pail of water the receptacle lls through these openings and some of the soap indicated at 17 is dissolved by the churning action imparted to the water by the back and forth movement of the brush, in use, and the soap and water pass, as soapy water through the openings 18 between the edges of the tongue 10 and the side walls and the edges of the back of the brush to, and upon the bristles of the brush.

IVhile it is not essential I may, if desired corrugate the side walls as indicated :at 19 in F ig. 4 both for the purpose of adding strength and for providing vertical channels through which the soapy water may .find its way past the edge of the back 5.

It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise construction set forth but that it includes within its purview whatever changes fairly come within either the terms or the spirit of the appended claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A device of the character described consisting of a receptacle comprising side walls having inturned flanges at their lower edges, means carried by the receptacle to engage the upper face of the back of a scrub brush, the side walls extending downwardly the back of the brush being received be- Y tween said means and said flanges, said receptacle comprising a removable cover, having means for permitting the entry of water to the receptacle when the structure is dipped into a pail of water, and means being provided for permitting the flow oi' water from the receptacle past the edges of the scrubV brush onto the bristles of the same. Y f

2. A receptacle of the Character described comprising side wallsV having inturned lianges at their lower edges, a perforated the iianges.

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vdistance to permit the insertion of the back of a scrub brush between the rear wall and 3. A structure as recited in claim 2 Vin combination with a spring tongue carried by one of said walls and bearing yieldingly upon the upper facie of the back of a brush when in position.

4. A structure as recited .in claim 2 in Combination with a Jforwardly projecting spring tongue extending from the lower edge of the rear wall and lying in spaced relation to the side wall. Y

1n testimony vwhereof aiiiX my signature.

HARRY E. ADAMS.

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