Mop head with a pouch and a strap

Details Mop head with a pouch and a strap Mop head with a pouch and a strap

1992-07-13

1995-02-21

Simone, Timothy F.

Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning

Implements

Fabric

151472, 152298, A47L 1310, A47L 1316, A47L 13255

Patent

active

053903900

DESCRIPTION:

BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND

1.0 Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to a mop head for the wet or damp wiping of floors, and more particularly to mop heads including an elongate textile layer which carries mop fringes and which is adapted to the shape of two plastic flaps of a mop holder with the flaps being adapted to snap together from a locked working position, the mop holder also including fastening elements for the releasable fixing of the mop head.
2.0 Discussion of Related Art
Mop head/mop holder systems in the field of the invention are used, for example, in institutional room cleaning.
A mop head described in DE-OS 37 14 178, comprises either a pocket at each longitudinal end, and an additional fastening element for fixing the mop head to the flaps of the mop holder, or two pockets on its upper surface and an additional fastening element on only one pocket. Similar mop heads are described in DE-PS 32 46 161, and DE-OS 37 14 178.
With these known mop heads, the two flap ends are supposed to be secured in the pockets of the mop head in the working position, i.e. during wiping, and thus facilitate the wiping movements. The additional fastening elements are provided to enable the mop head to be placed in washing buckets and presses for washing and squeezing out without having to be touched by hand. The additional fastening elements are designed in such a way that, when the flaps of the mop holder snap together, they come free from the pockets so that the mop head can only be offered to the washing bucket or the press hanging from the additional fastening elements. Depending on its construction, the mop head either hangs down lengthwise from a holder flap, where it is fixed at only one end or, where it is fixed at both ends, depends from the mop holder in the manner of a swing. After they have been squeezed out, the mop heads are placed back on the floor, the ends of the holder flaps are inserted into the pockets and the mop holder is brought into locked working position. All the operations described above are supposed to take place without the hand of the cleaner coming into contact with the mop head.
In view of this requirement, however, known mop heads have disadvantages, which do result in the hand of the user coming into contact with the mop head.
In one version which is described in DE-PS 32 46 161, the additional fixing plate is stitched to the pocket at the longitudinal end of the textile layer inside the pocket. If, now, the flap end attached to the additional fixing element comes free from the pocket, the mop head cannot in any way extend lengthwise downwards (to form almost a vertical extension of the flap end), being prevented from doing so by the opening edge facing the handle holder of the mop holder or rather by the width of the pocket. Because the pocket is stitched to the textile layer and where the end of the flap extends substantially vertically for large areas of the mop head, a part of the mop head is always inclined more or less horizontally thereto, substantially corresponding to the width of the pocket longitudinally of the textile layer. This part prevents the wet mop from being completely squeezed out, for example in roller presses. The danger arises that this end cannot be properly inserted into the roller press or may even snap back onto the end of the flap so that it cannot be squeezed out at all.
Moreover, the additional fixing plate must be of such a length that the flap end attached to it is unable to come free from the pocket. Problems thus arise when the end of the flap is re-inserted into the pocket because the additional fixing plate--by folding back and bending--prevents insertion of the flap end into the pocket. This disadvantage also attends the other known version where, besides pockets, additional fixing plates are arranged outside the pocket at both longitudinal ends of the textile layer.
In view of the disadvantages described above, the person using this cleaning system very quickly and spontaneously uses his or her hand to eliminate the difficulties arisin

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patent: 3324495 (1967-06-01), Van Schwartz
patent: 4680826 (1987-07-01), Schunter
patent: 4961242 (1990-10-01), Kresse
patent: 5253387 (1993-10-01), Kresse et al.

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