Mop frame assembly

Claim 1

A mop frame assembly comprising: a mop frame, a handle holder attached to said mop frame, said handle holder and mop frame being formed of materials that are resistant to normal cleaning solutions, and said mop frame comprising: a rigid body member and a rigid base member removably engageable with said body member wherein said body member is formed with opposed parallel edge portions and having parallel depending flange portions along said edge portions, said flange portions being directed in the same direction and commencing on either side of an intermediate portion of each of said edge portions, the edge portions of said intermediate portions being slightly inset from and parallel to said parallel edge portions of said body member, said base member having (1) a pair of parallel upstanding opposed elongate S-shaped stiff but flexible engaging members positioned to engage said intermediate edge portions between the intermediate ends of said flange portions, the curved portion of said engaging members adjacent said base member being spaced apart a distance corresponding to the spacing between edge portions of said body member (2) and substantially parallel opposed edge portions on said base member which are spaced apart so that said base member fits loosely within the area defined by said flange portions but close enough to permit one of said base member edge portions to come into contact with an adjacent body member flange portion when the opposite S-shaped engaging member is disengaged from said body member to prevent the base member from being completely disengaged, one of said body member or said base member being attached to said handle holder.