Mop trolley with a central mop sprayer and mop rest

摘要

A mop trolley with a central mop sprayer and mop rest including a wheeled U-shaped base and a continuous recess therein, a pair of removable buckets atop the recess, and an upright support between the buckets. A manually-operable liquid pump assembly between the buckets includes a pump housing containing a pump operated by a pump lever which pumps liquid from an inlet hose in one bucket through a water outlet tube having liquid jet dispensers therealong which, in turn, spray onto a mop cleaning end resting on a mesh tray positioned between the pump housing and the upright support. The mesh tray has openings through which the water used to clean the mop is dispensed into the other bucket. A mop rest hook, disposed on an underside of a cross-member support that supports the liquid jet dispensers, supports a handle of the mop situated on the mesh tray.

主权项

1. A mop trolley with a central mop sprayer and mop rest comprising:
a U-shaped base having a front end, a back end, a vertical right side, a vertical left side, and a recess continuously disposed between the front end, the back end, the right side, and the left side, the recess having a flat top side and a flat bottom side; a plurality of wheels disposed on the bottom side; a removable first bucket continuously disposed within the recess top side, the first bucket having a continuously sloped bottom floor; a removable second bucket continuously disposed within the recess, each of the first bucket and the second bucket having an upper side and further having a width across an entire width of the recess, each of the first bucket and the second bucket terminating at the front end and the back end of the base, respectively and abutting each other at an internal wall of each of the first and second buckets; an upright support disposed on the base between the first bucket and the second bucket; a manually-operable liquid pump assembly disposed on the base between the first bucket and the second bucket, the liquid pump assembly including:
a pump housing disposed on one of the right side and the left side of the base between the first bucket and the second bucket;a manually-operable lever-actuated liquid pump disposed within the pump housing;a water inlet hose continuously disposed between the bottom floor of the first bucket proximal the pump and a check valve disposed on a pump cylinder of the pump;a cross-member support continuously disposed between the upright support and the pump housing proximal a top end of each of the upright support and the pump housing;a hollow water outlet tube having an interior portion in fluid communication with the pump and an exterior portion continuously disposed on an underside of the cross-member support, the water outlet tube having a plurality of spaced apart liquid jet dispensers disposed along the exterior portion,wherein the water inlet hose, the pump, the water outlet tube, and the liquid jet dispensers being in fluid communication with each other;a pivotable pump lever having a handle exteriorly disposed on the pump housing, an interior end disposed on the handle within the pump housing, an arm rotationally extending from the interior end, and a piston rod rotationally extending between the arm and a piston in operational communication with the pump cylinder;a mesh tray continuously disposed between the pump housing and the upright support in a position between the water outlet tube and the upper side of the second bucket, the mesh tray having a plurality of openings continuously disposed therein, the pump lever being in operational communication with the mesh tray, wherein the pivoting of the pump lever from a lowered position with the handle being disposed proximal the upper side of the second bucket to a raised position with the handle being disposed proximal an upper end of the pump housing is configured to draw the amount of water from the first bucket through the water inlet hose and the pump, and further through the water outlet tube and the liquid jet dispensers, through a cleaning end of a mop and the mesh tray, and from the mesh tray into the second bucket; andwherein the mesh tray is configured to support the mop atop thereof.