CN1968636A

CN1968636A - Disinfecting bucket

Info

Publication number: CN1968636A
Application number: CN 200580019582
Authority: CN
Inventors: 小A·R·范兰丁汉姆
Original assignee: Rubbermaid Commercial Products LLC
Current assignee: Rubbermaid Commercial Products LLC
Priority date: 2004-05-05
Filing date: 2005-05-05
Publication date: 2007-05-23

Abstract

A mop bucket can be used to apply liquid to a stack of flat mop pads. The mop bucket includes a container body with an opening at a top portion thereof, a liquid storage area within the container body, and a pad storage area within the container body and in fluid communication with the liquid storage area. The liquid storage area is below the pad storage area when the bucket is in an upright position. The mop bucket also includes a lid configured to form a substantially liquid-tight seal of the opening of the container body.

Description

Disinfecting bucket

The horizontal reference of related application

This application requires U.S. Provisional Application Nos.60/567,794 (submissions on May 5th, 2004), 60/637,440 (submissions on December 21st, 2004), with the priority of 60/646,986 (submission on January 27th, 2005), above-mentioned application is incorporated into this in full with for referencial use.

Technical field

Flat mop pads can be used in many application.Their for example can be used for sterilizing floors in hospital ward.Especially, thimerosal is applied to flat mop pads, and flat then mop pads is used for making thimerosal to be dispersed in the floor in ward.

Background technology

It is desirable to by in each ward, using different pads to reduce the risk of cross pollution.Therefore, advantageously has a kind of reinforcement source of supply that comprises the flat mop pads of thimerosal.The user can select flat mop pads and with its ward of sterilizing, select new flat mop pads from source of supply then when he or she moves in the new ward from source of supply.

A kind of technology of the supplies of the mop pads that is used to provide flat is the lamination that thimerosal is applied to flat mop pads.Way can be that thimerosal is poured in the bucket, and the lamination of flat mop pads is placed in the bucket, will cover on bucket sealing its opening, and invert barrel enters the lamination of flat mop pads to cause thimerosal.After taking away lid, bucket accommodates and is impregnated with thimerosal and standby flat mop pads lamination.

Because some flat mop pads supersaturation ground contain thimerosal, so this technology is disadvantageous.Be not that all thimerosals are all absorbed by flat mop pads.Therefore, after bucket turns back to its stand up position, will form a beach thimerosal in the bottom of bucket.Flat mop pads at laminated bottom will be arranged in this beach thimerosal and the supersaturation that becomes.This is problematic, and reason is that disinfecting bucket does not usually comprise the wringer of the excessive thimerosal that is used to back-out.When the user takes out oversaturated flat mop pads, thimerosal will drip on the floor.

Summary of the invention

One aspect of the present invention relates to a kind of mop-pail stands that is used for liquid is applied to a folded flat mop pads.Mop-pail stands is included in its top and has container body, the zone of the liquid storage in the container body of opening and the pad storage area that is communicated with the liquid storage regional fluid in the container body.When bucket was in stand up position, the liquid storage zone was below the pad storage area.Described mop-pail stands also comprises lid, and this lid is configured to define the close sealing of liquid basically of the opening of container body.

Another aspect of the present invention provides a kind of method that liquid is applied to a folded flat mop pads.Described method comprises the step that bucket is provided, and described bucket has the container body, is used for the lid of container body, the zone of the liquid storage in the container body and the pad storage area in the container body.Liquid storage zone and pad storage area fluid are communicated with, and when bucket was in stand up position, the liquid storage zone was below the pad storage area.Described method further may further comprise the steps: liquid is poured at least in the liquid storage zone, one folded flat mop pads is placed in the pad storage area, the container body that joins the lid to the lamination that comprises liquid and pad is with the airtight container body, the lamination for flat mop pads absorbs invert barrel in the pad storage area to distribute the liquid at least in part, and takes down lid on the calm body.

Should be understood that the general introduction of front and following specific descriptions all are of the present invention giving an example, purpose is to provide summary or framework to be used to understand the character and the feature of institute of the present invention prescription.Accompanying drawing is included to provide to further understanding of the present invention, and is included in this specification and constitutes its part.Accompanying drawing shows various embodiment of the present invention, and is used from explanation principle of the present invention and operation with specification one.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is according to the perspective view of the inside of mop-pail stands of the present invention under the uncovered situation;

Fig. 2 is at the perspective view that the outside of the mop-pail stands of Fig. 1 under the situation of lid is arranged;

Fig. 3 is the vertical view of the mop-pail stands of Fig. 1 under the uncovered situation;

Fig. 4 is the sectional view of the mop-pail stands of Fig. 1 under the uncovered situation, and wherein flat mop pads is in mop-pail stands;

Fig. 5 is the sectional view of the mop-pail stands of Fig. 1 under the uncovered situation, and wherein flat mop pads and is in the inverted position of part in mop-pail stands.

The specific embodiment

Show currently preferred embodiments of the present invention in the drawings.In all figure, attempt to use same or analogous reference number to represent same or analogous parts.

First embodiment according to mop-pail stands of the present invention has been shown in Fig. 1-5.Mop-pail stands 10 is configured to liquid is preferably disinfectant, is applied to a folded flat mop pads 70.Phrase " flat mop pads " is with referring to flat basically mop pads here, although have less deviation can be expected and should be in the scope of this term with the plane.Mop-pail stands 10 preferably has container body 20, pad storage area 30, liquid storage zone 40 and covers 50.

Container body 20 is configured to keep liquid.Container body 20 preferably includes sidewall 21.Container body 20 also preferably includes diapire 22.Leg 23 can extend so that the bottom that contacts with surperficial (not shown) to be provided downwards from diapire 22, and mop-pail stands 10 will be shelved on this surface.Opening 24 is arranged on the top of container body 20 to allow to enter its inside.Handle 25 can be located on the container body 20 so that carry mop-pail stands 10.

Pad storage area 30 is arranged in the container body 20.As shown in Figure 4, flat mop pads 70 can be stored in the pad storage area 30.

Liquid storage zone 40 also is arranged in the container body 20.When mop-pail stands 10 was in stand up position, liquid storage zone 40 was below pad storage area 30.Preferably, liquid storage zone 40 is configured to keep when mop-pail stands 10 is in stand up position liquid 80 to separate with pad storage area 30.Yet pad storage area 30 and liquid storage zone 40 fluids are communicated with, thus when container body 20 by when small part is inverted, can be transferred to from the liquid in liquid storage zone 40 and to fill up storage area 30.

Liquid storage zone 40 can be included in a plurality of to upper process 41 on the diapire 22.All preferably have relatively large radius on the upper surface at them to upper process 41, and so that the cleaning mode be spaced apart from each other.Height to the top of upper process 41 is configured to be higher than the expection height that will be fed to the liquid 80 in the bucket 10.Preferably have less than about 1 inch height to upper process 41, and more preferably be about 0.9 inch.As shown in Figure 4, when mop-pail stands 10 is in stand up position, stop the liquid 80 in the liquid storage zone 40 to contact the flat mop pads 70 of filling up in the storage area 30 to upper process 41.More specifically, to upper process 41 lamination of flat mop pads 70 is remained on the height place of the liquid that is higher than in the liquid storage zone 40.

To upper process 41 can be the form that is molded in the rib in the diapire 22.This makes a body component that becomes container body 20 to upper process 41, thereby they will can not separate and lose.Yet, can be configured to the independently form of molded plastic part (not shown) to upper process 41, described parts are located in the bottom of container body 20.

Lid 50 (referring to Fig. 2 and 5) are formed at the close sealing of liquid basically of the top formation opening 24 of container body 20.Bindiny mechanism 60 can be set be fixed to container body 20 will cover 50.Bindiny mechanism 60 can comprise opening 61 and the projection of covering in 50 on container body 20 62.Projection 62 is installed in the opening 61 and remains on the container body 20 will cover 50.

Mop-pail stands 10 also can be included in the quantitative projection 65 of extension of diapire 22 tops and express liquid injection liquid level.Quantitatively projection 65 is arranged in a plurality of height, and each highly indicates the amount of the liquid 80 in container body 20.

The present invention can be used in an advantageous manner liquid 80 being applied to the lamination of flat mop pads 70.Liquid 80 can be introduced in the above-mentioned mop-pail stands 10.When quantitatively projection 65 can be used for having determined to provide the liquid 80 of appropriate amount.A folded flat mop pads 70 can be placed in the pad storage area 30 (referring to Fig. 4) then.Covering 50 then is connected on the container body 20 by bindiny mechanism 60.Mop-pail stands 10 is inverted (referring to Fig. 5) at least in part, and the lamination for flat mop pads 70 absorbs in the pad storage area 30 so that liquid 80 is assigned to.Preferably, mop-pail stands 10 is completely upside down.Mop-pail stands 10 is got back to stand up position then, and the liquid 80 that is not absorbed by flat mop pads 70 will begin because gravity is discharged to downwards in the liquid storage zone 40.The lamination of flat mop pads 70 is remained on the height place of the liquid 80 that is higher than in the liquid storage zone 40 to upper process 41, thereby when liquid 80 was discharged to the bottom of mop-pail stands 10, lower flat planker pad 70 was not arranged in the beach liquid and the supersaturation that do not become.Calm then body 20 takes down and covers 50, and the flat mop pads 70 at first in lamination of mop frame (not shown) and flat mop pads 70 or top is linked to each other.After mopping the floor, can take down the first flat mop pads from mop frame, and second flat mop pads in the lamination of flat mop pads is connected to mop frame to be used to drag diverse location.

Preferably, mop-pail stands 10 can be configured to allow all the flat mop pads 70 in the lamination to flood the liquid of equivalent basically.Thereby mop-pail stands 10 can be configured to can not make the pad supersaturation of foot.

Disinfecting bucket 10 of the present invention can use with the mop pads support member of many flat mop pads peace.Preferably, it with simultaneously by Judy Cline application, denomination of invention is that (sequence number is No.___ to " ColorCoded Mop Pads and Method of Color Coding Same " (" color coding mop pads and carry out color-coded method to it "), agency's file number is 086554-1178) patent application in disclosed flat mop pads use together, the full content of above-mentioned application is incorporated into this with for referencial use.Preferably, disinfecting bucket 10 was applied for by the inventor with the while, denomination of invention is that " Mop Having Ergonomic Handle andJoint " (" mop with ergonomics handle and joint ") (sequence number is No.___, agency's file number is 086554-1179) patent application in disclosed flat mop pads support member use together, the full content of above-mentioned application is incorporated into this with for referencial use.

It is evident that those skilled in the art can carry out various improvement and variation to the present invention under the situation that does not break away from the spirit and scope of the present invention.Thereby, the invention is intended to contain improvement of the present invention and variation, if these improvement and variation are in the scope of appended claim and equivalents thereof.

Claims

1. one kind is applied to the method for a folded flat mop pads with liquid, said method comprising the steps of:

Bucket is provided, described bucket has the container body, is used for the lid of described container body, the zone of the liquid storage in described container body and the pad storage area in described container body, wherein said liquid storage zone and described pad storage area fluid are communicated with, and when described bucket was in stand up position, described liquid storage zone was below described pad storage area;

Liquid is poured in the described at least liquid storage zone;

One folded flat mop pads is placed in the described pad storage area;

Described lid is connected on the described container body of the lamination that comprises described liquid and described pad to seal described container body;

Be inverted described bucket at least in part, absorb with the lamination that described liquid is assigned in the described pad storage area for described flat mop pads; And

Take down described lid from described container body.

2. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, described liquid is disinfectant.

3. the method for claim 1 further may further comprise the steps:

First flat mop pads in the lamination of mop frame and described flat mop pads is connected; And

Mop the floor.

4. method as claimed in claim 3 further may further comprise the steps:

Take down described first flat mop pads from described mop frame;

Second flat mop pads in the lamination of described mop frame and described flat mop pads is connected; And

Mop the floor.

5. mop-pail stands that is used for liquid is applied to a folded flat mop pads, described mop-pail stands comprises:

The container body that has opening at its top;

Liquid storage zone in described container body;

In described container body and the pad storage area that is communicated with described liquid storage regional fluid; Wherein when described mop-pail stands was in stand up position, described liquid storage zone was below described pad storage area; And

Lid, it is configured to define the close sealing of liquid basically of the described opening of described container body.

6. mop-pail stands as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that described liquid is disinfectant.

7. mop-pail stands as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that, described container body comprises diapire, and described liquid storage zone is included in a plurality of to upper process on the described diapire.

8. mop-pail stands as claimed in claim 7 is characterized in that described height to upper process is configured to be higher than the height of described liquid.

9. mop-pail stands as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that, described container body comprises diapire and extends above described diapire and the quantitative projection of express liquid injecting height.

10. mop-pail stands as claimed in claim 5 further comprises being used for described lid is connected to bindiny mechanism on the described container body.