The Drackett Company

Edward C Gemperle

Richard P Burkhart

A spray head containing a gear pump for drawing liquid from a container and forcing same out of a nozzle. The gear pump comprises a pair of operatively engaged gears each rotatable about horizontal axes transverse to the axis of the nozzle. A ratchet wheel is axially secured to one of the gears and the ratchet and its gear are intermittently rotated about their common axis by a pawl member which is attached to a manually operable trigger which moves in a plane within the plane of the gears.

Manually operated gear pump spray head

A wringer sponge mop and scrubber attachment, the scrubber attachment carrying a detachable scrubber pad. The scrubber attachment may be fashioned of wire, sheet metal, a rigid plastics material or any desired combination of these materials. In the normal or use position of the sponge, the scrubber pad is positioned on one side of the sponge and rearwardly of the sponge working (floor or wall contacting) face. In the sponge wringing or squeezed position of the mop, the sponge is retracted and the scrubber pad rotates to move forwardly of the retracted sponge working face, now able to be applied to a floor or wall to be abrasively rubbed. This combination yields a mop capable of both cleaning, by brushing a liquid laden sponge over a surface, and of abrasively rubbing to effect further cleansing treatment of a surface.

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Edward C Gemperle