Patent Application
20200077780
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The disclosure and prior art relates to brooms and more particularly pertains to a new broom for wet sweeping.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a handle having a proximal end and a distal end. A broom head has a base and a plurality of bristles. The base has a top side coupled to the distal end of the handle and an underside coupled to the plurality of bristles. A bottle mount is selectively engageable with the handle proximal the distal end. A spray assembly is coupled to the bottle mount. The spray assembly comprises a reservoir bottle, a bottle mount, and a spray mechanism. The reservoir bottle is coupled to the bottle mount and the spray mechanism is coupled to, and in fluid communication with, the reservoir. The spray assembly is configured to spray a liquid in front of the broom head when activated. A trigger assembly is coupled to the spray mechanism and comprises a push rod coupled to the spray mechanism and a pull trigger coupled to the push rod. The pull trigger has a rest position and a pulled position. The pull trigger activates the spray assembly when moved from the rest position to the pull position.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A spray assembly 42 is coupled to the bottle mount 40 and comprises a reservoir bottle 44 and a spray mechanism 46. The reservoir bottle 44 is coupled to the bottle mount 40 and the spray mechanism 46 is coupled to, and in fluid communication with, the reservoir bottle 44. The spray assembly 42 is configured to spray a liquid in front of the broom head 30 when activated. The liquid may be water or a cleaning agent to help loosen dirt and debris for the broom head to sweep. The spray mechanism 46 may comprise a head 48, a cap 50, and a pump 52. The head 48 has a nozzle 54 coupled within an angled nozzle extension 56. The cap 50 is selectively engageable with the reservoir bottle 44 in order to refill the liquid. The head 48 is coupled to the cap 50 and depresses within it. The pump 52 has a body 58 coupled to the cap 50 and a plunger 60 coupled to the body 58 and to the head 48. The plunger 60 moves within the body 58 as the head 48 is depressed to create suction. An exit tube 62 is coupled to the plunger 60 and to the nozzle 54 and a pick-up tube 64 is coupled to the body 58 and extends into the reservoir bottle 44. When the head 48 is depressed the pump 52 takes the liquid from the reservoir bottle 44 through the pick-up tube 64, into the body 58, and out the exit tube 62 to be sprayed through the nozzle 54 of the head.
A trigger assembly 66 is coupled to the spray mechanism 46. The trigger assembly 66 may comprise a push rod 68 coupled to a pull trigger 70. The push rod 68 has a foot 72 having a recess 74 that is selectively engageable with the head 48 of the spray mechanism. The pull trigger 70 has a pivot 76 coupled within the trigger aperture 28 and has a rest position 78 and a pulled position 80. The push rod 68 is coupled to the pull trigger 70 within the inner cavity 24 of the handle and extends through the push rod aperture 26. The pull trigger 70 activates the spray assembly 42 when moved from the rest position 78 to the pull position 80. A first spring keep 82 may be coupled within the inner cavity 24 proximal the trigger aperture 28. A second spring keep 84 may be coupled to the push rod 68 proximal the pull trigger 70. A return spring 86 may be coupled around the push rod 68 between the first spring keep 82 and the second spring keep 84 to return the pull trigger 70 from the pull position 80 to the rest position 78.
In use, the pull trigger 70 is pulled from the rest position 78 to the pulled position 80 to activate the pump 52 and spray the liquid from the reservoir bottle 44 through the nozzle 54 in front of the broom head 30 onto a surface to be cleaned. The broom head 30 is then used to sweep the surface.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
