Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Pile or nap type surface or component – Edge feature or configured or discontinuous surface
Patent
1997-03-24
1998-09-08
Morris, Terrel
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Pile or nap type surface or component
Edge feature or configured or discontinuous surface
15208, 1522911, B32B 302, A47K 702, A47L 1310
Patent
active
058042741
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a cleaning cloth for cleaning dirty surfaces and a mop on which said cleaning cloth is arranged.
PRIOR ART
A vast number of arrangements for cleaning or wiping dirty surfaces are known from time immemorial. The most usual device is perhaps a piece of cloth of different kinds but even more mechanised arrangements are in use, especially during recent time. Vertical, horizontal and also sloping surfaces have to be cleaned from time to time and the arrangements for carrying out the cleaning work vary greatly due to the position, shape and nature of the surfaces. A common and very much used device for cleaning floor surfaces is a so-called mop.
A mop consists principally of an extended shaft at the lower end of which a disc is hingedly attached and at the underside of which the cleaning device itself, for example a piece of cloth, is arranged. The mops are usually used in such a way that they are wetted or dipped into water and they are pulled or pushed over a floor, whereby the dirt is partly dissolved and partly withdrawn with the mop. After the cleaning of the floor has been completed by means of the mop, the water is evaporated together with possibly volatile solvents, however, leaving a covering film consisting of first dissolved and then dried dirt.
TECHNICAL PROBLEM
Use of pieces of cloth and mops may often per se give an acceptable result. With regard to cloths it is, however, often necessary to wipe with more cloths successively and with regard to mops the above-mentioned film of dirt will be left. A further problem is that there must exist a certain friction between the support which is to be cleaned and the cleaning tool but this friction must not be too large, which means that an optimisation of the friction is desirable.
THE SOLUTION
It has therefore for a very long time been a wish to improve the cleaning cloth and, for example, mops with cleaning cloth attached at the underside so that the cleaning becomes better and less strenuous.
According to the present invention a cleaning cloth for cleaning dirty surfaces has accordingly been brought about, which cleaning cloth is characterized by a base fabric having on one side longer loops of yarn with a normal fibre fineness and shorter loops of microfilament yarn having great dirt and liquid absorption ability and at the other side substantially microfilament yarn with great liquid absorption ability, preferably in the shape of short loops.
According to the invention it is suitable that the base fabric is a woven or knitted cloth consisting wholly or partly of microfibres or microfilaments.
It is further suitable according to the invention that the shorter loops consist of yarn of microfilaments or microfibres having a fineness of at most 1 Dtex.
The longer loops should, according to the invention, consist of yarn of filaments or staple fibres having a fineness of at least 1 Dtex.
The ratio between shorter and longer loops on one side of the cloth should be, according to the invention, such that 75%-25%, preferably 50% are made up by the shorter loops.
The microfilament yarns which are used according to the present invention consist suitably of synthetic fibres of polyester and polyamide, for example in a ratio of 70:30.
The yarn having a normal fibre fineness should, according to the present invention consist wholly or partly of synthetic fibres of polyester.
The cleaning cloth according to the present invention is used, according to a further aspect of the invention, on mops where the cloth is arranged on that side of the mop which faces the dirty surface.
The mop according to the present invention is further characterised in that the side of the cleaning cloth facing the dirty surface is the one which comprises both longer and shorter loops.
According to the invention it is suitable that the mop with the cleaning cloth is such that the cleaning cloth is sewn together with another cloth between which cloths a further one or more absorption layers for water, preferably in the shape of t
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Morris Terrel
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