EP1345523B1 - Cleaning device with a cleaning portion comprising an adhesive surface and a cleaning cloth surface - Google Patents

Cleaning device with a cleaning portion comprising an adhesive surface and a cleaning cloth surface Download PDF

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EP1345523B1
EP1345523B1 EP01995873A EP01995873A EP1345523B1 EP 1345523 B1 EP1345523 B1 EP 1345523B1 EP 01995873 A EP01995873 A EP 01995873A EP 01995873 A EP01995873 A EP 01995873A EP 1345523 B1 EP1345523 B1 EP 1345523B1
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Hiroshi Shimada
Tomohiro Ohki
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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
    • A47L25/00—Domestic cleaning devices not provided for in other groups of this subclass 
    • A47L25/005—Domestic cleaning devices not provided for in other groups of this subclass  using adhesive or tacky surfaces to remove dirt, e.g. lint removers
    • 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
    • A47L13/12—Implements with several different treating devices
    • 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
    • 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

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  • This invention relates to a cleaning device for cleaning surfaces to be cleaned, for example a floor surface such as a flooring, a plastic tile, and a tatami mat inside a building and the like, surfaces of furniture, and so forth. More particularly, this invention relates to a cleaning device capable of removing dust, sand, and the like having sizes exceeding a predetermined size that have been difficult to remove by using conventional cleaning methods.
  • FIG. 1 An example of a conventional cleaning device is shown in Fig. 1.
  • This cleaning device 1 includes a cleaning cloth 6 such as a non-woven fabric cloth that is wound on the surface of a holding sheet 2 and is fixed by fixing members 5 such as screws to a surface 4 opposite a cleaning surface 3.
  • a support arm 7 is fitted to the surface 4 of the holding plate 2 through pivot 8 for pivotally supporting it relative to the holding plate 2. Therefore, even when the angle of the support arm 7 changes, the cleaning surface 3 of the cleaning cloth 6 always keeps contact with the surface to be cleaned. When the support arm 7 is moved back and forth, dust and the like is entrapped between the fibers of the cleaning cloth 6 and are thus removed from the surface to be cleaned.
  • a further cleaning device according to the preamble of claim 1 is disclosed in JP11137503.
  • the present invention is directed to solving such a problem, and to providing a cleaning device capable of reliably removing not only small dust but also dust and sand having sizes exceeding a predetermined size from the surface to be cleaned.
  • a cleaning device comprising a cleaning portion having a cleaning surface and an opposing surface opposite the cleaning surface, a support arm having a handle portion, a pivot for affixing the support arm on the opposing surface, wherein the cleaning surface of the cleaning portion comprises an adhesive surface and a cleaning cloth surface, and wherein the adhesive surface and the cleaning cloth surface can individually come into surface contact with a surface to be cleaned.
  • the cleaning device also includes a stopper for restricting movement of the handle portion relative to the pivot. The cleaning cloth surface can contact the surface to be cleaned when the support arm is tilted within a predetermined angle relative to the surface having the pivot, and the adhesive surface can contact the surface to be cleaned when the support arm is tilted beyond the predetermined angle relative to the surface having the pivot.
  • the cleaning surface of the cleaning portion comprises the adhesive surface and the cleaning cloth surface.
  • the cleaning device is generally used while the cleaning cloth surface is brought into surface contact with the surface to be cleaned.
  • the adhesive surface is brought into surface contact with the surface to be cleaned. A user can change from the cleaning cloth surface to the adhesive surface easily by tilting the support arm beyond a predetermined angle from the surface having the pivot.
  • Fig. 2 is a side view of a cleaning device according to one embodiment of the present invention.
  • the cleaning device 9 shown in Fig. 2 includes a cleaning portion 10 having a cleaning surface 13, a support arm 11 equipped with a handle 16, and a pivot 12 for pivotally supporting the support arm 11 on the surface opposite the cleaning surface 13 of the cleaning portion 10.
  • a flexible member 15 is fitted and fixed (preferably by an adhesive) to a holding plate 14, and the cleaning surface 13 is disposed on the bottom surface of this flexible member 15.
  • the cleaning surface 13 comprises an adhesive surface 17 and a cleaning cloth surface 18.
  • a stopper 19 is provided next to the pivot 12 for restricting movement of the support arm 11.
  • the holding plate 14 is made of a rigid plastic material such as an ABS resin, for example.
  • the flexible member 15 is made of a flexible material such as a rubber or foamed urethane.
  • the cleaning cloth 18 can use woven fabrics such as a dust-cloth and a knitted fabric.
  • the adhesive surface 17 must have tackiness to such an extent that it can adhere to the dust or the like having a size exceeding a predetermined size. Therefore, an adhesive is applied to the surface, or an adhesive tape is bonded, to form the adhesive surface 17.
  • These cleaning cloth and adhesive surface are preferably replaceable. Further preferably, they are individually exchangeable.
  • the support arm 11 is interconnected to the cleaning portion 10 by the pivot 12. Movement of the support arm 11 is restricted by the stopper 19 provided next to the pivot 12 within a predetermined angle ⁇ from the surface having the pivot. In other words, the support arm is freely movable within the range of this angle ⁇ , where the cleaning portion stays parallel to the surface 20 to be cleaned at any angle within this range, so that the cleaning cloth surface 18 keeps surface contact with the surface 20 to be cleaned.
  • the support arm 11 can be freely tilted within the range of the angle ⁇ . However, when the support arm 11 is tilted beyond this angle ⁇ , the stopper 19 restricts the movement of the support arm 11, so that the support arm 11 cannot be tilted beyond the angle ⁇ . When the stopper arm 11 is further tilted against the stopper 19, the cleaning portion 10 is tilted as shown in Fig. 3. As a result, the cleaning cloth surface 18 separates from the surface 20 to be cleaned, and the adhesive surface 17 comes instead into surface contact with the surface 20 to be cleaned.
  • the cleaning surface 18 can collect fine dust between the fibers and can remove the dust.
  • this cleaning cloth surface 18 cannot collect the dust greater than a predetermined size. Therefore, this cleaning cloth surface 18 is used for ordinary cleaning and when the large dust gathered by the cleaning cloth surface 18 is collected, the support arm is tilted so that the adhesive surface 17 can be brought into surface contact with the surface 20 to be cleaned and the large dust is caused to adhere to the adhesive surface and is removed.
  • Switching between the cleaning cloth surface 18 and the adhesive surface 17 can be easily made during the cleaning operation by merely changing the tilt angle of the support arm. While the cleaning cloth surface 18 keeps surface contact with the surface to be cleaned, the adhesive surface is out of surface contact with the surface to be cleaned. Therefore, the cleaning cloth surface can freely come into sliding contact with the surface to be cleaned and its movement is not impeded.
  • the cleaning cloth surface and the adhesive surface have a unitary structure, in which the adhesive 22 may be applied to a predetermined position of the non-woven fabric 21, and may be affixed to the cleaning portion so that the adhesive surface and the cleaning cloth surface can be arranged to a predetermined position of the bottom surface of the flexible member 15 when held by the cleaning portion 10.
  • the adhesive surface and the cleaning cloth surface are exchangeable.
  • This adhesive portion 22 may be covered with a peelable protective sheet 23, in such case the adhesive surface can be formed by peeling the protective sheet at the time of use.
  • the non-woven fabric and the like applied with this adhesive layer has a laminate structure, the cleaning effect can be maintained for a longer time by peeling the outermost layer when the adhesive/cleaning effects drop.
  • the flexible member 15 equipped with the adhesive surface 17 and the flexible member 15 equipped with the cleaning cloth surface 18 by separate members and to fix them to the holding plate 14 so as to form the cleaning cloth surface and the adhesive surface.
  • the cleaning cloth surface and the adhesive surface are separately constituted in this way, the cleaning cloth surface and the adhesive surface can be exchanged individually, and only the contaminated portion can be exchanged.
  • a commercially available cleaning device a product of Kao K. K., having the construction shown in Fig. 1 was used, and a dust-removing sheet commercially available from Kao K. K. under the trade name "Quickle" was fitted as the cleaning cloth 6.
  • dust collection ratio (%) (dust amount (g) adhering to cleaning cloth surface and to adhesive surface) (scattered amount of dust on floor) x 100
  • the cleaning surface of the cleaning portion comprises the adhesive surface and the cleaning cloth surface individually capable of coming into surface contact with the surface to be cleaned.
  • the cleaning device is generally used while the cleaning cloth surface is kept in surface contact with the surface to be cleaned, and the adhesive surface is brought into surface contact with the surface to be cleaned when a large dust that cannot be collected by the cleaning cloth are collected. Switching of the cleaning cloth surface and the adhesive surface can be easily achieved as the support ann is tilted by a predetermined angle from a surface having a pivot.

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EP01995873A 2000-11-30 2001-11-16 Cleaning device with a cleaning portion comprising an adhesive surface and a cleaning cloth surface Expired - Lifetime EP1345523B1 (en)

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PCT/US2001/043514 WO2002043555A1 (en) 2000-11-30 2001-11-16 Cleaning device with a cleaning portion comprising an adhesive surface and a cleaning cloth surface

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