Vining Industries, Inc.

Erie Plastics Corporation

Mary M Hoagland

Diana W Juratovac

William Knight Nook, Sr

Paul C Roche

A battery box for holding a single battery includes a one-piece container portion to receive a battery therein and a one-piece, vented lid releasably attached to the container portion through a latching arrangement. The container portion has a base with a raised portion for supporting the battery and at least one depression for receiving battery acid. Four walls extend from the base with opposed side walls including latching components. The lid has at least one extension spaced from an associated wall of the container portion adapted to accommodate battery cables or the like. Each lid vent includes a snap-on vent cover. A pair of handles attached to the container portion is attached to a pair of elongated ribs for distributing forces between the handle and the end wall. A pair of grooves in the base extend between opposed walls and are adapted to receive a strap therein on an exterior of the battery box and form the raised area and adjacent depressions in the interior. A plurality of ribs formed on the inside of the side walls define a plurality of positions for a movable partition within the battery box.

Battery box

A sponge mop head including a support plate for supporting a sponge and a wringer plate pivotally attached to a front edge of the support plate. A planar extension plate portion is provided extending rearwardly from the support plate such that a sponge will be substantially fully compressed between the wringer plate and the support plate and extension plate portion during a wringing operation. In addition, a handle mounting socket is provided located rearwardly of the support plate for facilitating use of the mop in low overhang areas, and to accommodate a wringer plate large enough to fully cover a compressed sponge during a wringing operation.

Sponge mop head

Mop head

Combined kitchen brush handle and scraper

Bowl cleaner brush handle

Brush handle

Grill cleaner brush handle with scraper

Bath and body brush handle

Scrub brush handle

Hand and fingernail cleaning brush handle

A sponge refill backplate for easy replacement on mop heads having mop clips, turn-lock assemblies or long slotted attachment members comprising opposed raised locking clips open only at their distal ends having locking slots with a wider channel below to receive a mop clip, the locking slot being of sufficient length so that mop clips on a sponge mop head may slide far enough into the locking clip to allow the outer side of the opposite locking clip to fall into place at its attachment without bending the backplate or sponge; and a pair of locking ramps located at the open distal end of each locking clip, angled inwardly toward the open end to assist in loading the refill and which acts as stop members for the mop clips or long slotted attachment members but which may be overridden by a predetermined force in the longitudinal direction of the mop head. This is an advantage over most current sponge refills which require wetting and/or bending the sponge and backplate to attach the refill to the mop head.

Backplate for a sponge refill cartridge

A hand brush having an elongated bristle block body, with substantially planar top and bottom surfaces. The brush bristles extend downwardly from the bottom of the body. The forward end of the body is provided with a forwardly extending nose. A handle has a first portion extending upwardly from the nose and the adjacent forward portion of the top of the body and a second grip portion directed rearwardly above the top of the body. The nose is narrower than the forward end of the body forming a recessed alcove to either side of the nose. A pair of mirror image fingernail cleaners extend forwardly from the forward end of the brush body along and spaced from each side of the nose. The forward ends of the fingernail cleaners are sharp enough to remove grime from beneath the user's nails, but do not represent a hazard to the user since they are set back in their respective alcoves and do not extend beyond the brush nose.

Hand and fingernail cleaning brush

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Mary M Hoagland