EP0848927B1 - Reinigungswerkzeug - Google Patents

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EP0848927B1
EP0848927B1 EP19970121570 EP97121570A EP0848927B1 EP 0848927 B1 EP0848927 B1 EP 0848927B1 EP 19970121570 EP19970121570 EP 19970121570 EP 97121570 A EP97121570 A EP 97121570A EP 0848927 B1 EP0848927 B1 EP 0848927B1
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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
    • A47L13/20—Mops
    • 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
    • A47L13/20—Mops
    • A47L13/24—Frames for mops; Mop heads
    • 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
    • A47L13/38—Other dusting implements

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  • This invention relates to a cleaning implement, for cleaning hard-to-reach surfaces.
  • the implement can be used for dusting and may also be useful for mopping up spilt liquids.
  • US Patent 4 829 622 describes a cleaning device which is generally thin and flat and which can reach a short distance into hard-to-reach places. This device can reach into gaps to clean them, probably as far as the eye can see, but cannot reach to the back of the gap and so cannot properly clean the gap.
  • US Patent 4 364 144 describes a duster head comprising a central sleeve portion with a plurality of spaced apart longitudinally extending rows of yarn fringe material stitched thereto. The sleeve accommodates a handle which can be removed when the duster head is to be cleaned.
  • US Patent 5 560 069 describes a lint brush for a dryer duct, having a body which has an elongate arcuate shape. The body is flexible to permit the brush to flex in the direction of the radius of curvature and adapt to variations in the arcuate shapes of ducts.
  • the spine can be a length of plastics strip which may be extruded.
  • the strip can be either hollow or solid.
  • the stiffness in the first plane and flexibility in the second plane can be achieved as a result of the spine having a relatively large dimension in the first plane and a relatively small dimension in the second plane.
  • the ratio of the large dimension to the small dimension can be in the range 10:1 to 3:1, with the preferred ratio being substantially 5:1.
  • the spine can be completely enclosed in the sleeve, and the sleeve can have a portion without cleaning fringes, with the part of the implement where the spine is enclosed in the portion of the sleeve without fringes forming a handle for the implement.
  • the sleeve can include a hanging loop by which the implement can be hung for storage.
  • the cleaning fabric is preferably a needle fleece which is able to absorb moisture, so that the implement can be used to mop up spilt liquids.
  • the spine is preferably removable from the cleaning fabric sleeve, and the sleeve is preferably washable.
  • the spine is preferably parallel-sided.
  • the sleeve may be formed from two overlying layers of fabric which can be fixed together to form a pocket for the spine, with the cleaning fringes extending laterally from the lines of stitching, and the fringes being formed by cutting the fabric along lines running generally at right angles to the length of the pocket.
  • the layers may be fixed together by any suitable means, for example by stitching or gluing.
  • Figure 1 shows an implement 10 with a grip portion 12 at one end and the rest of the length of the implement forming a cleaning portion 14.
  • a spine 16 (Figure 2) extends the length of the implement, and is received in a pocket 18 in a fabric sleeve 20.
  • the sleeve 20 is made of two layers 20a and 20b of needle fleece material which are initially placed one on top of the other, and are then stitched together, using a conventional sewing machine, along stitch lines 22. The stitch lines then hold the two layers together and form the pocket 18 for the spine 16.
  • Typical dimensions for the spine 16 are: length 750 mm, width 25 mm and thickness 5 mm.
  • the invention is not restricted to these dimensions, and smaller or larger implements can be made, keeping within these general proportions. Indeed implements in accordance with this invention could be made to specific sizes for specific cleaning tasks.
  • the needle fleece fabric is a commercially available product available, inter alia, from the company Datex GmbH & Co, K G Postfach 1218, D 46362, Bocholt, Germany.
  • the fabric is absorbent and will soak up liquids. It can be washed in a washing machine, and it has static electricity characteristics which make it very suitable as a dry duster.
  • the lateral edges of the fabric can be slit along a large number of slit lines 24 to form cleaning fringes 25.
  • the slits are generally at right angles to the stitching 22, and will be present in both the layers 20a and 20b. It will be convenient to slit through both layers in one operation, but it would also be possible to make the slits separately in the two layers.
  • the fabric at either side of the grip portion 12 is then also cut away to leave just the pocket 18.
  • a hanging loop 30 ( Figure 3) is sewn to the grip portion.
  • the spine 16 which may be an extruded strip of polypropylene or the like is then inserted into the pocket 18.
  • the pocket has two overlapping flaps 26,28 at the handle end, as can be seen in Figure 3.
  • the flaps are pulled apart to allow the spine to enter, and when the spine is fully inserted, its end will lie under the outer flap 26, and the inner flap can be replaced under the outer flap, to retain the spine without requiring any clips or fasteners.
  • the implement is now ready for use, and can be slid into a gap to be cleaned.
  • the lateral stiffness of the spine ensures that the implement can be moved from side to side within the gap to reach all parts of the gap and to carry out effective cleaning even at the remote end which may be as much as 1000 mm from the user.
  • fringes are not essential to have two fringes along each side of the implement; one fringe on each side could suffice.
  • the fringes could be formed just by the edges of the fabric, and it may not be necessary to slit the fabric at all.
  • the invention provides a cleaning implement which may be used in homes, factories, shops, hospitals and other places where cleaning is to be carried out in hard-to-reach places.
  • the implement may be used, for example, for cleaning secondary double glazing, cleaning cars inside and out, including vents, gear column, and spokes of wheels. It may also find application in the cleaning of blades of jet engines or the like, slats of chairs, or cleaning wine bottles.

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Claims (14)

  1. Reinigungsvorrichtung (10) mit einem länglichem Stab (16), einer Reinigungstextil-Hülle (20) mit einer Tasche (18) für die Aufnahme des Stabs (16) und Reinigungsstreifen (25) an der Hülle (20), die sich seitlich von der Tasche (18) erstrecken,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet,
    dass der längliche Stab (16) im wesentlichen flach ist und in einer ersten Ebene steif und in einer zweiten Ebene flexibel ist, die im rechten Winkel zur ersten Ebene steht.
  2. Reinigungvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Stab (16) ein Abschnitt eines Plastikstreifens ist.
  3. Reinigungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Streifen extrudiert ist.
  4. Reinigungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 2 oder Anspruch 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Streifen massiv ist.
  5. Reinigungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 2 oder Anspruch 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Streifen hohl ist.
  6. Reinigungsvorrichtung nach wenigstens einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Steifigkeit in der ersten Ebene und die Flexibilität in der zweiten Ebene dadurch erreicht wird, dass der Streifen (16) in der ersten Ebene eine relativ große Ausdehnung und in der zweiten Ebene eine relativ kleine Ausdehnung aufweist.
  7. Reinigungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verhältnis der großen Ausdehnung zu der kleinen Ausdehnung im Bereich 10:1 bis 3:1 liegt.
  8. Reinigungsvorrichtung nach Anspruch 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Verhältnis in wesentlichen 5:1 ist.
  9. Reinigungsvorrichtung nach wenigstens einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Streifen (16) von der Tasche (18) vollständig umhüllt ist.
  10. Reinigungsvorrichtung nach wenigstens einer der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Hülle (20) einen Teil ohne Reinigungsstreifen hat, und der Teil der Reinigungsvorrichtung, wo der Stab (16) von der Hülle ohne Streifen ummantelt ist, einen Griff (12) für das Gerät (10) bildet.
  11. Reinigungsvorrichtung nach wenigstens einer der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Hülle einen Aufhänger (30) aufweist, mit dem die Reinigungsvorrichtung zur Lagerung aufgehängt werden kann.
  12. Reinigungsvorrichtung nach wenigstens einer der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Reinigungstextil Feuchtigkeit aufnehmen kann.
  13. Reinigungsvorrichtung nach wenigstens einer der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Streifen (16) von der Reinigungstextil-Hülle (20) entfernt werden kann und die Hülle (20) waschbar ist.
  14. Reinigungsvorrichtung nach wenigstens einer der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Reinigungstextil (20) aus einen Nadel-Vlies besteht.
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GBGB9626181.3A GB9626181D0 (en) 1996-12-17 1996-12-17 Cleaning tool
GB9626181 1996-12-17
GB9716707 1997-08-08
GB9716707A GB2320420B (en) 1996-12-17 1997-08-08 A cleaning implement

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US6550092B1 (en) 2000-04-26 2003-04-22 S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Cleaning sheet with particle retaining cavities
US6530108B1 (en) 2000-06-30 2003-03-11 S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Dusting mitt
MXPA02002612A (es) 2000-07-10 2002-07-30 Uni Charm Corp Articulo de limpieza.
US7891898B2 (en) 2005-01-28 2011-02-22 S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Cleaning pad for wet, damp or dry cleaning
US7740412B2 (en) 2005-01-28 2010-06-22 S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Method of cleaning using a device with a liquid reservoir and replaceable non-woven pad
US7976235B2 (en) 2005-01-28 2011-07-12 S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Cleaning kit including duster and spray
US8893347B2 (en) 2007-02-06 2014-11-25 S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. Cleaning or dusting pad with attachment member holder

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