Talk:Mop

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origins

Not exactly joelibyan. It seems that the basic idea was created in the United States but then it was improved in Spain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.31.99.165 (talk) 08:16, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

dry mop

Shall we introduce the dry mop that used disposable non-woven cloth to generate static electricity to pick up dust particles? -- Toytoy 16:12, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC) No. That is in no way a mop. 67.180.197.208 (talk)

That picture seriously doesn't illustrate what a mop looks like. I'd rather see a picture of Michael Richards in UHF proclaiming 'life is like a mop'.

I agree that the picture does not illustrate the common household mop.

Sponge mop

We haven't included the sponge mop, which is common at least in New Zealand. It has a sponge on the end with a mechanism attached to the handle which folds the sponge in half to squeeze out excess water. Ppe42 09:11, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is common in the US also, at least for casual home and small business use. Larger businesses and institutions usually don't bother with them, or else they contract out to professional cleaning services, which don't use them either. 173.16.124.196 (talk) 21:16, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

== origins ==

when i was in spain, i was told the mop originated in spain... anyone have any info? -- joelibyan

Link

Should the wringer link under the picture really go to wiktionary? If done purposely, why so?

mop

I looked at the listing for "mop" & found the following 2 statements:

"The inventor Jacob Howe received a patent for a mop in 1837. U.S. Patent 241"

"The mop was invented by Thomas W. Stewart, an African-American inventor. It was awarded Patent Number 499,402 on June 13, 1893"

I know nothing about patents, but is it true that the mop has been patented twice?

I checked the listing originally because I also was told that the mop was invented in Spain.

Jbprochnow 01:29, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

this article contradicts itself. flag it!

Professional mops

Expanded the article with flat mops and different types of mops. I will try to add pictures of these kinds of mops as soon as possible.Bjornwireen (talk) 23:21, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish Improvement

In 1956 Manuel Jalón Corominas added the stick to the mop.

What was used before mops were invented?

My question is: how were floors cleaned before the invention of the mop? I would have assumed that mops "just evolved", that like most basic tools, they probably had several unknown, unnamed inventors centuries or millenia ago, but evidently this is not the case if the patent was first awarded in the 1800s, and the stick not added until the 1950s! Does this mean that before that, people had to get down on all-fours and push the mops around by hand (before 1956)? Shanoman (talk) 21:23, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen in Asterisk comics they had a cloth that they pushed around with a blunt stick when mopping marble.