CN102458207A

CN102458207A - A tool for cleaning surfaces and a method for realising the tool

Info

Publication number: CN102458207A
Application number: CN2010800289384A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 卡尔梅拉·梅西纳
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2009-05-27
Filing date: 2010-05-25
Publication date: 2012-05-16
Also published as: IT1395704B1; WO2010136958A1; ES2465069T3; EP2434934A1; EP2434934B1; ITBO20090344A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a tool for cleaning surfaces and a method for assembling the tool. The tool for cleaning surfaces comprises a sleeve (10) fixable to a handle (190), and provided with a housing (20) for a portion (40) of a floor cloth, the housing (20) being accessible from an opening (120); a floor cloth (30) for cleaning surfaces having a portion (40) which is insertable in the housing (20), such that a perimeter (150) of the floor cloth (30) is entirely located externally of the sleeve (10); compressing means, insertable in the housing (20), for exerting a pressure on the portion (40) of the floor cloth (30), which pressure Is directed towards at least an internal wall of the housing (20) and for obtaining a fastening of the floor cloth (30) to the sleeve (10). The assembly method for the tool for cleaning surfaces comprises arranging the compressing means and the portion (40) of the floor cloth (30) internally of the housing (20) such that the perimeter (150) of the floor cloth (30) is entirely located externally of the sleeve (10) in order to exert a pressure on the portion (40) of the floor cloth (30) which pressure is directed towards at least an internal wall of the housing (20) via the compressing means and obtaining a fastening of the floor cloth (30) to the sleeve (10).

Description

The instrument and the method that is used to obtain this instrument that are used for the clean surface

Technical field

The present invention relates to the burnisher field, especially for clean surface (for example floor, wall, ceiling etc.), this burnisher makes operating personnel not bending over and with under the situation that wash liquid contacts not work.

Background technology

In modern society, can be used for family more and more was restricted with the time that specialty cleans; This causes the sector to create new instrument, and these new tools can be simplified and operation convenient for cleaning, particularly clean relatively large surface, for example the floor.At present, the floor cleaning implement that is called mop is provided on the market, they are associated with the tube that is provided with extrusion element, and therefore replace floor cloth and broom.In these instruments, washing components be fixed on can with connector that handle links to each other on.Operating personnel make washing components raise from ground through the rising handle, and can it be immersed in the bucket that washings are housed, and in the extrusion element of tube, push washing components then, and at this moment she or he only acts on the handle.Like this, operating personnel do not contact with washing components or washings, and these washings possibly comprise the chemical products that is used to clean, and this chemical products is dangerous or excitant arranged, perhaps even be corrosive.

And, thereby operating personnel compelled continue to bend in case pick up the floor cloth rinsing it.

In these burnishers, washing components is made up of a plurality of fabric bands or a plurality of tuft bar usually.Although as advantage, because it can arrive the corner that is difficult to approaching floor, it has such shortcoming in sales promotion for this, in use, band or tuft bar are arranged through handle applies power on washing components direction along operating personnel.This makes in operation and to move the surface that obtains to wash less than through using broom to move the surface that floor cloth obtains to wash through the instrument that makes along a direction.

And this instrument and be not suitable for the cloth (this cloth by the people for being particularly suitable for the clean surface) of specific type: polyester/polyamide microfibre with celluar tissue.This microfibre can lose hair or feathers when being cut, so it is not suitable for bringing use with bar really, because its each edge will need crimping or make, so that reduce depilation.

Recently; In order to increase the clean surface of sponge, developed a kind of instrument that is used to clean the floor, the joint that this instrument uses is identical with the joint categories of in mop, using; But do not use a plurality of bands or fiber, but be fixed on this joint by the textile floor mop of cotton sponge.

Joint comprises sleeve and the cap that begins from the end of this sleeve.This cap provides two housings, and each housing is connected with the pawl friction.The core of a plurality of bands is arranged between two inner shells of concave portions of cap.The frictional coupling device that is made up of extending longitudinally element (two pawls begin from the end of this longitudinal extension element, and vertically stretch with this extending longitudinally element) is connected with housing on-dismountablely, and like this, fixture makes a plurality of bands remain in the said structure.For floor cloth is fixed on the joint, need makes core form fold, and it is arranged between two housings of cap along the littler axis of cloth.Therefore, cloth along littler folded it from one's body, and sew up along the edge, this edge and this axis normal, this edge along with folding and central folding be stacked in they certainly on one's body.

In said joint; The extending longitudinally element of fixture contacts with the floor in the clean operation process; Therefore, operating personnel can not exert pressure to the cleaning member of instrument, and wherein vertical component is less; Because stave will be against wanting clean Surface to damage by pressure, thereby scraping is arranged or destroy the danger on floor (for example parquet floor or marble floor).Therefore, operating personnel can not carry out she or he work with comfortable posture with straight, but opposite, she or he must come work with inclination attitude, rubs between surface and stave so that prevent.The dependence base portion of cap in this case, can not on the floor, apply more energetically, because also must prevent to contact with wanting clean Surface.

Therefore, need repeat repeatedly clean operation when surperficial,, for example not destroy its danger simultaneously especially during fragility when the surface because can not on cleaning member, apply the power that is enough to clean surface through single operation must cleaning dirty especially.Also obvious, the known means assembly that is used for the clean surface needs some skill to be arranged in washing components between the cap housing and is used for fixture is hooked in cap.

Summary of the invention

The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of floor cleaning implement; This floor cleaning implement makes operating personnel to bend over and needn't contact with cleaning fluid; And can on cleaning part, apply the power that is characterized as with higher vertical component; Like this, operating personnel can take to have more the work posture of human engineering characteristic, do not have the danger that destruction is wanted clean Surface simultaneously.

An also purpose of the present invention provides a kind of instrument that is used to clean the floor, and it has bigger clean surface with respect to the instrument of prior art, simultaneously also assembling easily.

An also purpose of the present invention provides a kind of instrument that is used for the clean surface, it can employing meeting off-line or the material of depilation realize, and on needn't be on the edge of crimping or seam bigger crimping or the seam more required than general floorings cloth be provided.

An also purpose of the present invention provides a kind of method that is used to realize the new tool of clean surface.

The instrument of the present invention that is used for the clean surface comprises:

Sleeve, this sleeve can be fixed on the handle, and this sleeve is provided with the housing of a part that is used to receive floor cloth, and this housing can get into from opening;

Floor cloth is used for the clean surface, and this floor cloth has the part that can insert in the housing, so that the peripheral whole outside that is positioned at sleeve of floor cloth;

Compression set, this compression set can insert in the housing, is used on this part of floor cloth, exerting pressure, and this pressure is towards the inwall of housing at least, and is used for floor cloth is fixed on sleeve.

Because the periphery of cloth comes out from sleeve; Therefore when cloth extends on the floor; Sleeve is whole to be positioned on the cloth: cleaning surfaces instrument of the present invention has only washing components to contact with ground, and sleeve is whole to be placed on remainder cloth, that come out from sleeve, therefore can on cloth, apply the pressure with big vertical component; Do not want the danger of clean Surface and have to destroy, and make operating personnel can take to have the posture of human engineering.

The cloth that is fixed on the sleeve can also obtain band or the bigger clean surface of cloth mop than known type, and need be than more crimping of common floor cloth or stitching.

And the instrument that is used for the clean surface can use method of the present invention and assembling at an easy rate, and this method need carefully not located cleaning member before fixing.This method comprised with the next stage: the inside that the said part of compression set and floor cloth is arranged in housing; So that the peripheral whole outside that is positioned at sleeve of floor cloth; So that exert pressure on this part of floor cloth through compression set, this pressure is towards the inwall of housing at least; And floor cloth is fixed on the sleeve.

This part of floor cloth is core preferably, and like this, in case assembled, and burnisher is arranged such that this part of coming out from sleeve of cloth is expanded on the floor, and sleeve is with respect to this cleaning part centering, and conveniently carries out clean operation.

This instrument advantageously comprises a plurality of cloth, and like this, pressure is applied on the sleeve through handle, and this handle is rod preferably, is covered by laminates.And in case wetting, this part of coming out from sleeve that the weight of cloth helps cloth sticks on the floor, this means that in use this part will keep launching more easily, thereby causes more constant clean surface.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 and 2 is the sectional side elevation of two instances that is used for the known means of cleaning surfaces.

Fig. 3 is a sectional side elevation of forming the parts of burnisher of the present invention.

Fig. 3 a is the cross-sectional figure of the parts of burnisher embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is the sectional side elevation of burnisher embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is the also sectional side elevation of an embodiment of burnisher of the present invention.

The specific embodiment

In Fig. 1 to 5, in the explanation to a plurality of embodiment of the present invention, same parts uses same reference numerals to represent, and should be known in that parts have similar characteristic, only if spell out below.

Fig. 1 and 2 shows obtainable two kinds of instruments that are used for the clean surface on the market.They comprise Connection Element 200, and this Connection Element 200 can be connected with handle 190, and in the instance of Fig. 2, the cloth 30 or a plurality of cloth band 300 (as shown in fig. 1) that are used for the clean surface are fixed on Connection Element 200 through fixture.Connection Element 200 comprises sleeve 10 and cap 210, and this cap 210 starts from the end of sleeve 10.Cap 210 has two housings 220, and each housing 220 will be connected with the pawl friction.Fixture 250 is made up of the first extending longitudinally element 240, and two pawls 230 that extend perpendicular to the direction of extension of first element 240 occur from the end of this first extending longitudinally element 240.Fig. 2 shows rectangle or how curling along its littler axis (not shown) foursquare cloth is, so that produce crimping portion 260.The crimping portion 260 (Fig. 2) of core of a plurality of bands 300 (Fig. 1) or cloth 30 is located in two cap concave portions between the housing 220.Be present in two materials between the housing 220 and fix, connect thereby be created in friction between pawl 230 and the housing 220, non-removable through fixture 250.Cloth 30 along littler folded it from one's body, and along cloth 30, make with the edge 270 of this axis normal, said edge after folding with central folding be stacked in they certainly on one's body.

The extending longitudinally element 240 of cap or rely on base portion in the vertical or oblique use of the instrument of Fig. 1 and 2, to contact with the floor.

Preferably, housing and can get into from the end of sleeve near the end of sleeve.In this case, handle preferably is fixed on the other end of sleeve.

Fig. 3 shows in Fig. 4 the parts that clean the execution of instrument example of the present invention on floor with being used to shown in the cutaway view, wherein, can be connected with housing 20 frictions of sleeve 10 by the element 60 of part 40 local envelopments of cloth 30.Sleeve 10 can be fixed on the handle 190 through being threaded.The inwall of housing 20 has groove 280, and this groove 280 is as anti-rotation device.Fig. 3 A is the cutaway view of the sleeve 10 of Fig. 3, wherein can see groove 280.

Fig. 4 shows an also preferred embodiment; Wherein, Compression set comprises elastic buckling element 60; This elastic buckling element 60 inserts in the housing 20 with deformation state, and in housing 20 by part 40 local envelopments of cloth 30, so that the part 40 of cloth 30 is applied direct pressure towards housing 20 inwalls at least.The part 40 of cloth 30 is pushed and/or is pushed against the inwall of housing 20 through elastic buckling element 60.

In Figure 4 and 5, deliberately exaggerated at the wall of element 60 and the part 40 and the distance between other parts of cloth, so that understand explanation better to instrument.By element 60 applied pressures cloth is fixed on the sleeve, and elastic buckling element 60 will make by part 40 local envelopments and more difficult from sleeve, take out cloth, make things convenient for the assembly manipulation of instrument of the present invention simultaneously.This is just enough because preferably use compressed air to apply power near element 60 (this element 60 is by part 40 local envelopments, and is arranged in horizontal (transit) seat of housing 20), so that make element 60 be out of shape and obtain instrument of the present invention.

Therefore, method preferably includes following steps:

Arrange elastic buckling element 60 in advance, this elastic buckling element 60 will be in its deformation state and in the part 40 local envelopments ground insertion housing 20 by floor cloth 30;

Come local envelopment elastic buckling element 60 with the part 40 of floor cloth 30;

The inside that to insert housings 20 by the elastic buckling element 60 of part 40 local envelopments of floor cloth 30 makes elastic buckling element 60 strains, and like this, pressure is applied on the part 40 of floor cloth 30 towards the inwall of housing 20 at least.

In a preferred embodiment; Elastic buckling element 60 can preferably be arranged on the lateral seat of cloth housing 20 in the center; And power can preferably use compressed air along quill to direction apply so that make elastic buckling element 60 distortion and its is inserted in housing 20.Element 60 will be by part 40 local envelopments of cloth 30.

Elastic buckling element 60 can be advantageously be through solid basically ball type device, hollow ball shape element or the inner western lattice ring (seeger ring) that makes the material globulate obtain because it can be at an easy rate through clamp, be clasped or use compressed-air actuated pressure fitted to be positioned at enclosure interior.

In a particularly advantageous embodiment, housing 20 has the narrowed portion 70 at opening 120 places, and wherein, housing 20 can be connected with the part 40 local elastic buckling element that twines 60 frictions by cloth 30, has bigger fixedly assurance because friction connects.

Therefore, the manufacturing approach of burnisher of the present invention is very favourable, because housing 20 is connected with elastic buckling element 60 frictions that part 40 parts by cloth 30 center on.

Advantageously, narrowed portion can be made up of ring, promptly by constituting with the concentric constant cross-section edge of sleeve axis, shown in Fig. 3 to 5.

When the narrowed portion of the arranging constant cross-section of edge and the axis normal of sleeve not, but when for example being made up of the convexity of arranging along diameter, it is also as anti-rotation device, and this anti-rotation device prevents part 40 rotations of cloth and therefore attenuates and leave housing 20.

When narrow not when the anti-rotation device, floor cleaning implement is particularly advantageous to be that the inwall at least of its housing 20 has anti-rotation device.These anti-rotation devices can be convexity, burr or the pawls that the inwall from housing 20 begins.

Particularly advantageous is in sleeve, and anti-rotation device is included in a plurality of cannelures 280 in the inwall of housing 20, and shown in Fig. 3 and 3a, because with respect to the sleeve with burr, convexity or pawl, these grooves are realized through molded more easily.But, of the present invention, do not comprise in the instrument of anti-rotation device, note not along the part of leaving sleeve of a direction extruding cloth and just enough along the other direction compression sleeve.This can use the tube that is provided with extrusion element to accomplish.

Instrument of the present invention shown in Fig. 5, that be used for the clean surface is preferred especially, because it can be associated with the tube that is provided with extrusion element, thereby pushes cloth more efficiently.In this embodiment; Wall 100 comes out from the end of sleeve 10 near the opening 120 of housing 20; This wall 100 surrounds sleeve 10; And surface 140 arranged, this surface 140 will be in use towards wanting clean Surface, and be included between 10 ° and 90 ° and periphery 150 whole wall 110 outsides that are positioned at of cloth 30 with respect to the tilt angle alpha of sleeve 10 axis.In this embodiment, in use, wall 110 is positioned on second expandable part cloth 30, that leave from sleeve.Like this, wall 110 does not contact with wanting clean Surface, and does not have the risk of scraping and infringement.Wall 110 preferably becomes the truncated cone shape concentric with sleeve.

In unshowned embodiment, surface 140 can be with respect to 90 ° of angles of axis inclination of sleeve 10.Like this, the pressure that is applied on the washing components that places between this surface and the floor by operating personnel can evenly distribute.

Fig. 5 shows an also particularly advantageous characteristics of instrument of the present invention; Be that it comprises a plurality of cloth 30; These a plurality of cloth 30 are in a single day wetting just because their weight and adhering on the ground fully, therefore guarantee the surface of the second portion of the cloth that the clean surface equals to leave from sleeve.

This instrument comprises two overlapping cloth 30; Same size preferably, as the first 40 of center cloth in the center, wherein; At least one material piece 160 is inserted between two cloth; And size two sheets 160 littler preferably than the size of cloth 30, wherein, the core 170 local envelopment elastic buckling elements 60 of material piece 160; Insert elastic buckling element 60 in the housing 20 and on this core 170, apply, and the periphery 180 of material piece 160 is positioned at the outside of wall 110 fully towards the pressure of housing 20 inwalls at least.In the embodiment of Fig. 5, in use, trilaminate material places and wants between clean Surface and the wall 110 at least: two-layer is because the second portion of cloth 30, and one deck is because the residue peripheral part of material piece 160 at least.This makes operating personnel can use the power with bigger vertical component, and therefore between three layers, cleans more accurately, and damping relies on the pressure of base portion on the floor.Fig. 3 has schematically illustrated 4 layer materials with cutaway view, and two exterior layers relate to 30, two interior layers of cloth and relate to two material piece.

In unshowned embodiment; Optional mode as the embodiment shown in Fig. 5; Instrument comprises the cloth 30 of folded in half, and at least one cloth sheet 160 (preferably two) be inserted between two folded parts, and the elastic buckling element 60 in the housing 20 is inserted in core 170 local envelopments of this cloth sheet 160; Elastic buckling element 60 applies on this core 170 towards the pressure of housing 20 inwalls at least; Wherein, the size of material piece 160 is half the less than the size of cloth 30, and the periphery 180 of material piece 160 is positioned at the outside of wall 110 fully.

In this embodiment and in the embodiment shown in fig. 5, on the whole second portion that directly is shelved on, cloth 30 10 that come out of wall 110 from sleeve.

Material piece 160 preferably is made up of the material with the cloth same type.

Also have its instrument that advantageously is used for the clean surface also to comprise joint, handle 190 can be connected with this joint, and wherein, this joint is positioned at the end of distally sleeve of the opening 120 of housing 20 and locates.Sleeve 10 preferably is connected through being threaded with handle 190, shown in Fig. 3 to 5.

The fabric of processing cloth 30 and/or elastic buckling element 60 and/or material piece 160 advantageously is the microfibre by the polyester/polyamide manufacturing, and it has celluar tissue, because spot is caught, keeps and washed to this convenient material.

Claims

1. instrument that is used for the clean surface comprises:

Sleeve (10), this sleeve can be fixed on the handle (190), it is characterized in that: this sleeve (10) is provided with the housing (20) of a part (40) that is used to receive floor cloth, and this housing (20) can get into from opening (120);

Floor cloth (30) is used for the clean surface, and this floor cloth has the part (40) that can insert in the housing (20), so that the whole outside that is positioned at sleeve (10) of periphery (150) of floor cloth (30);

Compression set, this compression set can insert in the housing (20), are used on the said part (40) of floor cloth (30), exerting pressure, and this pressure is towards the inwall of housing (20) at least, and are used for floor cloth (30) is fixed on sleeve (10).

2. according to the described instrument of aforementioned claim; Wherein: compression set comprises elastic buckling element (60); This elastic buckling element is used for in its deformation state and a said part (40) the local envelopment ground insertion housing (20) by floor cloth (30); So that on the said part (40) of floor cloth (30), exert pressure, this pressure is towards the inwall of housing (20) at least.

3. according to the described instrument of aforementioned claim, wherein: elastic buckling element (60) is through making textile material form solid member, hollow ball shape element or the inner western lattice ring of the substantially spherical that sphere obtains.

4. according to aforementioned any described instrument of claim; Wherein: housing (20) has the narrowed portion of locating at opening (120) (70), its middle shell (20) but interference fit ground be connected with elastic buckling element (60) by a said part (40) local envelopment of floor cloth (30).

5. according to aforementioned any described instrument of claim, wherein: the inwall of housing (20) has anti-rotation device at least.

6. according to the described instrument of aforementioned claim, wherein: anti-rotation device is included in a plurality of cannelures (280) at least one wall in the inwall of housing.

7. according to aforementioned any described instrument of claim; Wherein: wall (110) from sleeve (10), begin near the end of the opening (120) of housing (20), this wall surrounds sleeve (10), and has surface (140); This surface will be in use towards wanting clean Surface; This surface (140) is with respect to the shaft angle degree (α) of sleeve (10), and this angle is included between 10 ° and 90 °, and the whole outside that is positioned at wall (110) of periphery (150) of floor cloth (30).

8. according to the described instrument of aforementioned claim; Comprise: the floor cloth of two stacks (30); The first (40) of floor cloth (30) is at the center; And heart is inserted between two floor cloths (30) at least one cloth sheet (160), and this cloth sheet (160) is littler than floor cloth (30), and core (170) the local envelopment elastic buckling element (60) of this cloth sheet (160); And the elastic buckling element (60) that inserts in the housing (20) will be applied on this core towards the pressure of housing (20) inwall at least, and the whole outside in wall (110) of periphery (180) of this cloth sheet (160).

9. instrument according to claim 7; Comprise: the floor cloth of folded in half (30); At least one cloth sheet (160) is inserted between two folded parts; Core (170) the local envelopment elastic buckling element (60) of this cloth sheet (160); And the elastic buckling element (60) that inserts in the housing (20) will be applied on this core towards the pressure of housing (20) inwall at least, and the size of this cloth sheet (160) half the less than the size of floor cloth (30), the whole outside in wall (110) of periphery (180) of this cloth sheet (160).

10. according to aforementioned any described instrument of claim, also comprise: joint, handle (190) be through this joint and being connected with sleeve (10), this joint be positioned at handle (190), locate in the end in opening (120) distally of housing (20).

11. according to aforementioned any described instrument of claim, wherein: the textile material of making floor cloth (30) and/or elastic buckling element (60) and/or cloth sheet (160) is a micro fibre material.

12. according to aforementioned any described instrument of claim, wherein: micro fibre material is the polyester/polyamide microfibre with celluar tissue.

13. assembly method like any described, instrument of being used for the clean surface in the claim 1 to 12; It is characterized in that; It may further comprise the steps: the inside that the said part (40) of compression set and floor cloth (30) is arranged in housing (20); So that the whole outside that is positioned at sleeve (10) of periphery (150) of floor cloth (30), so that exert pressure on the said part (40) of floor cloth (30) through compression set, this pressure is towards the inwall of housing (20) at least; And floor cloth (30) is fixed on the sleeve (10).

14., further comprising the steps of according to the described method of aforementioned claim:

Arrange elastic buckling element (60) in advance, this elastic buckling element will be with in its deformation state and a said part (40) the local envelopment ground insertion housing (20) by floor cloth (30);

Make a said part (40) local envelopment of elastic buckling element (60) by floor cloth (30);

To insert housing (20) inside by the elastic buckling element (60) of a said part (40) local envelopment of floor cloth (30); Make elastic buckling element (60) strain, so that pressure is applied on the said part (40) of floor cloth (30) towards the inwall of housing (20) at least.

15. according to the described method of aforementioned claim, wherein: housing (20) is connected with elastic buckling element (60) through interference fit, and this elastic buckling element is by a said part (40) local envelopment of floor cloth (30).