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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6694560 | Fixture for mop heads A mop fixture for receiving and holding a mop head has a hood of resilient polymeric material which is attachable to a mop handle. A mop retaining bar has opposite ends terminating in down turned hook portions and snaps into spaced end walls of the hood. ... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6023808 | Convenient button-locking mop holder A convenient button-locking mop holder is essentially comprised of a cloth bits frame, a locking bar and a locking device, said locking bar can more parallelly relative to the transverse bar of the cloth bits frame. When in use, first release the locking ... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5913347 | Mop head with integral fused brush array A dual-purpose mop head assembly comprising a housing having a threaded recess for threadably engaging a handle on one end thereof, mopping yarns secured within and extending from the opposite end of the housing, and an array of closely packed, brush bris... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5584938 | Electrostatic particle removal and characterization An electrostatic decontamination method and decontamination device (10) is disclosed for decontaminating the surface of a semiconductor substrate. The decontamination device (10) includes particle ionizing device (24) that charges contaminating particles ... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5481777 | Releasable mop head A mop head for releasably securing absorbent mop material to a handle comprises a mount for the absorbent material having a reaction surface thereon shaped and arranged for receiving the absorbent material thereacross and a clamp member attached to the mo... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5243729 | Mop frame holder The invention relates to a mop frame holder comprising a housing having a slot for receiving a portion of a mop frame, a cover plate slidably engagable with the housing for selectively covering the slot so as to lock the frame portion within the slot, a r... | 09/14/1993 |
| 4995134 | Mop connector Invention embodiments comprise two separate and distinct parts, a mop support device and a cap embodying a tubular portion defining a through passage which is tapped intermediate its ends, to enable a secure balanced connection thereof to a mop handle. In... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4850072 | Mop head for holding a removable mop A mop head for holding a removable mop includes first and second elongate support members that are movable relative to each other to clamp a mop therebetween. The support members are releasably connected to each other at one end by a projection which can ... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4422203 | Plastic mop holder A holder for a string-type or similar mop head. The holder is preferably made entirely of plastic and comprises a yoke, a mop head support member connecting the free ends of the arms of the yoke, and a mop head clamping assembly reciprocally mounted insid... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4356586 | Sponge mop A sponge mop having a mop head which will accept an ordinary household sponge as a replacement sponge and which has an improved wringer. The mop head comprises front and back jaws which are slidably interengageable with one another to compressively clamp ... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4085475 | Scouring device A scouring device in which a shaped scouring pad is held up into a rigid skirt portion of a pad holder, the skirt portion being generally concave and having downwardly extending projections, by a securing member which has a washer-like member at its base ... | 04/25/1978 |
| 3996638 | Mop holder having slideable jaw A sturdy mop mounting base having an elongated upper handle-receivable portion and lower face spaced-apart anchoring receptacles, with length thereof along an axis extending in alignment with the two receptacles being shorter than the width of a mop to be... | 12/14/1976 |
| 3983596 | Reversible sponge rubber mop, brush or duster A reversible sponge or foam rubber mop, brush or duster which includes a resiliently compressible block or sheet of a synthetic or sponge rubber generally square in configuration with its thickness substantially less than the length of its sides. The comp... | 10/05/1976 |
| 3947915 | Steel wool pads and holder therefor A scrub-tool holder for steel wool comprising an elongated handle, a frame support means at one end of the handle and clamping means. The frame support means is adapted to support a steel wool pad having a slit through the center thereof and to extend thr... | 04/06/1976 |
