EP0161113A2 - Reinigungsgerät - Google Patents

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EP0161113A2
EP0161113A2 EP85303261A EP85303261A EP0161113A2 EP 0161113 A2 EP0161113 A2 EP 0161113A2 EP 85303261 A EP85303261 A EP 85303261A EP 85303261 A EP85303261 A EP 85303261A EP 0161113 A2 EP0161113 A2 EP 0161113A2
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work head
reservoir
handle
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head
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Barrie Abram David Levison
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ALPHAPLAN Ltd
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L—DOMESTIC WASHING OR CLEANING; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47L13/00—Implements for cleaning floors, carpets, furniture, walls, or wall coverings
    • A47L13/10—Scrubbing; Scouring; Cleaning; Polishing
    • A47L13/16—Cloths; Pads; Sponges
    • A47L13/17—Cloths; Pads; Sponges containing cleaning agents

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  • This invention relates to a cleaning device and particularly to a cleaning device comprising a work head carried by a handle which incorporates a reservoir for a liquid to be dispensed by way of the work head during use of the device.
  • Such devices find use in the domestic environment where they are used to clean, for example, baths, the work head comprising a rigid base carrying a porous resilient material body formed, for example, of a plastics material sponge, having a working surface member formed by a porous plastics material member having the necessary abrasive cleaning properties, bonded thereto.
  • a cleaning liquid such as a detergent solution
  • a cleaning liquid is introduced into the reservoir, and when the working surface member is engaged with an object being cleaned, cleaning liquid passes from the reservoir into the work head and thus onto the object being cleaned.
  • the reservoir is sealed save for a discharge hole leading from the reservoir into the work head.
  • Cleaning liquid cannot leave the reservoir through the discharge hole except when the device is in use, since normally air cannot enter the reservoir to displace liquid.
  • the work head is compressed against the object being cleaned, and on compression of the work head air is introduced into the reservoir through the discharge hole, which air displaces liquid from the reservoir through the discharge hole into the work head when the compression of the work head is released.
  • a cleaning device comprising a work head carried by a handle which incorporates a reservoir for a liquid to be dispensed by way of the work head during use of the device, in which the work head is mounted on the handle such that it is movable thereon relative thereto, there being a single discharge hole in the reservoir, which discharge hole can selectively be brought into register with any one of a group of mutually different size liquid entry holes in the work head by appropriate movement of the work head relative to the handle.
  • the device of this invention has the advantages that it can be set to discharge liquid from the reservoir to the work head at varying rates in dependence upon the size of the liquid entry hole in the work head aligned with the discharge hole in the reservoir, and that the size of liquid entry hole used can be chosen in dependence upon the viscosity of the liquid contained in the reservoir.
  • the cleaning device comprises a work head 1 carried by a handle 2 which also constitutes a reservoir for a cleaning liauid 3 to be dispensed by the work head 1 during use of the device.
  • the handle 2 is a hollow elongate transparent member moulded from high tensile polyvinylchloride, having an open end 4 by which the liquid 3 can be introduced into the handle 2, the open end 4 being closed in air-tight manner after introduction of the liquid 3, by a cap 5 which is in screw-thread engagement with the handle 2.
  • the other end 6 of the handle 2 terminates in an enlarged circular cross-section portion, and is closed apart from a small discharge hole 7 through a pimple 8 on a substantially flat closing end wall 9.
  • the work head 1 comprises a substantially rigid circular base member 10 having an upstanding flange 11 about its periphery sized to receive the end portion 6 of the handle 2 therein. At two diametrically opposed positions the flange 11 is of increased height to provide two securing members 12 by which the head 1 can be detachably secured to the handle 2 in a clip-on arrangement, the head 1 being rotatable relative to the handle 2 about the axis of the head 1, when mounted on the handle 2, as indicated by the arrow in Figure 1.
  • the end portion 6 of the handle 2 is formed with a pair of stops 15 which engage the ends of the increased height flange portions 12 on the head 1 to limit the rotation of the head 1 relative to the handle 2.
  • the base member 10 of the head 1 has bonded thereto a porous resilient plastics material sponge body 13 which in turn has a porous plastics material working surface member 14 bonded thereto.
  • the base member 10 of the head 1 is formed in its outer surface with two diametrically opposed groups of three dimples 16, the dimples 16 in each group being arranged on an arc having a radius from the axis of rotation of the head 1 on the handle 2 equal to the distance of the pimple 8 on the end wall 9 of the portion 6 of the handle 2 from that axis.
  • the pimple 8 can be brought into register with any one of the dimples 16 of a group thereof.
  • one of the dimples 16 in each group is blind, while the other two dimples of the group have mutually different size liquid entry holes 17 at their bottoms; which entry holes pass through the base member 10 of the head 1.
  • the-head 1 is mounted on the handle 2 and turned to a position in which the pimple 8 on the handle is received in a blind dimple 16 on the head 1.
  • a cleaning liquid 3 is then introduced into the handle/reservoir through the open end 4 thereof, and the cap 5 then fitted.
  • the head 1 is then rotated relative to the handle 2 until the pimple 8 is engaged in a dimple 16 having a liquid entry hole 17 at its bottom, thereby aligning the discharge hole 7 in the pimple 8 with that liquid entry hole 17
  • cleaning liquid 3 from the handle/reservoir 2 will pass through the discharge hole 7 in the pimple 8 and the entry hole 17 in the dimple 16 in which the pimple is engaged, and impregnate the work head 1 as necessary.
  • the head 1 When cleaning is completed the head 1 can be rotated on the handle 2 to a position in which the pimple 8 is received in a blind dimple 16 thereby to prevent-seepage of the cleaning liquid 3 from the device when not in use.
  • Two groups of dimples 16 are provided since with use of the device the work head 1 may become unevenly worn, at which time the head 1 can be detached from the handle 2, rotated through 180° relative thereto, and then remounted on the handle 2, the pimple 8 thus being brought into co-operation with the second group of dimples 16 in the head 1 while the head 1 presents a new leading working surface in use.
  • holes 17 of different size in the dimples 16 of each group thereof enables the flow rate of the cleaning liquid 3, during use of the device, to be varied as required, for example in dependence upon the viscosity of the cleaning liquid.

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  • Cleaning By Liquid Or Steam (AREA)
  • Cleaning Implements For Floors, Carpets, Furniture, Walls, And The Like (AREA)
EP85303261A 1984-05-08 1985-05-08 Reinigungsgerät Withdrawn EP0161113A3 (de)

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GB8411693 1984-05-08
GB08411693A GB2160092A (en) 1984-05-08 1984-05-08 Cleaning device

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EP0161113A2 true EP0161113A2 (de) 1985-11-13
EP0161113A3 EP0161113A3 (de) 1987-03-11

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JP (1) JPS6129325A (de)
AU (1) AU4244485A (de)
GB (1) GB2160092A (de)

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FR2777174A1 (fr) * 1998-04-14 1999-10-15 Alain Edouard Billat Dispositif de nettoyage pour vitres, meubles et objets analogues
WO2002041745A1 (en) * 2000-11-24 2002-05-30 Easy-Do Products Limited Improvements to implements for cleaning, polishing or sanding
US6540424B1 (en) 2000-03-24 2003-04-01 The Clorox Company Advanced cleaning system
US6773194B2 (en) * 2002-06-12 2004-08-10 The Libman Company Soap-dispensing scrubber
US6964535B2 (en) 2000-03-24 2005-11-15 The Clorox Company Advanced cleaning system with off-head mounted nozzle
US6976802B2 (en) 2000-10-11 2005-12-20 The Clorox Company Fluid distribution nozzle and stream pattern
US7004658B2 (en) 2000-03-24 2006-02-28 The Clorox Company Fluid valve and actuator for inverted fluid reservoir
US7048458B2 (en) 2000-03-24 2006-05-23 The Clorox Company Fluid valve and actuator for inverted fluid reservoir
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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2777174A1 (fr) * 1998-04-14 1999-10-15 Alain Edouard Billat Dispositif de nettoyage pour vitres, meubles et objets analogues
EP0950369A1 (de) * 1998-04-14 1999-10-20 Alain Edouard Billat Reinigungsvorrichtung für Scheiben, Möbel und dergleichen
US7048458B2 (en) 2000-03-24 2006-05-23 The Clorox Company Fluid valve and actuator for inverted fluid reservoir
US6540424B1 (en) 2000-03-24 2003-04-01 The Clorox Company Advanced cleaning system
US7004658B2 (en) 2000-03-24 2006-02-28 The Clorox Company Fluid valve and actuator for inverted fluid reservoir
US6986618B2 (en) 2000-03-24 2006-01-17 The Clorox Company Advanced cleaning system
US6899485B2 (en) 2000-03-24 2005-05-31 The Clorox Company Advanced cleaning system
US6964535B2 (en) 2000-03-24 2005-11-15 The Clorox Company Advanced cleaning system with off-head mounted nozzle
US6976802B2 (en) 2000-10-11 2005-12-20 The Clorox Company Fluid distribution nozzle and stream pattern
US6893183B2 (en) 2000-11-24 2005-05-17 Easy-Do Products Limited Implements for cleaning, polishing or sanding
AU2002223876B2 (en) * 2000-11-24 2006-04-27 Easy-Do Products Limited Improvements to implements for cleaning, polishing or sanding
WO2002041745A1 (en) * 2000-11-24 2002-05-30 Easy-Do Products Limited Improvements to implements for cleaning, polishing or sanding
US6773194B2 (en) * 2002-06-12 2004-08-10 The Libman Company Soap-dispensing scrubber
GB2526886A (en) * 2014-07-01 2015-12-09 Easy Do Products Ltd Improvements to fluid-dispensing apparatus
GB2526886B (en) * 2014-07-01 2016-05-11 Easy-Do Products Ltd Improvements to fluid-dispensing apparatus
US9526326B2 (en) 2014-07-01 2016-12-27 Easy-Do Products Limited Fluid-dispensing apparatus

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AU4244485A (en) 1986-02-20
GB8411693D0 (en) 1984-06-13
JPS6129325A (ja) 1986-02-10
GB2160092A (en) 1985-12-18
EP0161113A3 (de) 1987-03-11

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