Mophead

Claim 1

A DEVICE FOR SECURING A MOPHEAD TO A HANDLE COMPRISING: AN ELONGATED CLAMPING MEMBER HAVING A PAIR OF OPPOSED FACES AND AN OPENING THERETHROUGH INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS THEREOF; A PAIR OF FINGERS JOINTED TO RESPECTIVE ENDS OF THE MEMBER AND EACH EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID MEMBER TOWARD THE OTHER FINGER, WHEREBY TO DEFINE A SPACE BETWEEN THE MEMBER AND THE FINGERS FOR RECEIVING A PORTION OF THE MOPHEAD, THE EXTREMITIES OF SAID FINGERS SPACED FROM SAID MEMBER BEING OVERLAPPED WITH EACH OTHER AND PROVIDED WITH RESPECTIVE ALIGNED APERTURES IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID OPENING, ONE OF SAID APERTURES BEING OF POLYGONAL CONFIGURATION; A THREADED FASTENER HAVING SHOULDER-PRESENTING STRUCTURE COMPLEMENTAL TO SAID ONE APERTURE, SAID FASTENER EXTENDING THROUGH SAID OPENING AND SAID STRUCTURE BEING DISPOSED IN SAID ONE APERTURE WITH THE FASTENER PROJECTING OUTWARDLY FROM THE FACE OF SAID MEMBER OPPOSITE TO THE FACE ADJACENT SAID FINGERS AND HAVING A HEAD ENGAGING ONE OF SAID EXTREMITIES FOR LIMITING THE MOVEMENT OF THE FASTENER OUTWARDLY OF SAID OPPOSITE FACE OF THE MEMBER; MEANS THREADED ON SAID FASTENER AND NORMALLY IN ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID OPPOSITE FACE, WHEREBY SAID EXTREMITIES ARE INTERCONNECTED WITH SAID MEMBER TO CLAMP SAID PORTION OF THE MOPHEAD THEREBETWEEN; AND AN ENDLESS BAIL ADJACENT TO AND SPACED FROM SAID FINGERS AND HAVING AN OPENING THERETHROUGH FOR RECEIVING THE MOPHEAD, SAID OPENING OF THE BAIL HAVING A MAXIMUM TRANSVERSE WIDTH SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THE MAXIMUM TRANSVERSE WIDTH OF SAID FINGERS, WHEREBY THE PART OF THE MOPHEAD BETWEEN THE BAIL AND SAID SPACE WILL PROJECT OUTWARDLY FROM THE SIDES OF THE FINGERS AND THEN INWARDLY THROUGH SAID OPENING OF THE BAIL.