Classifications

• • 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

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a cleaning unit, in particular for clean room cleaning, comprising a cleaning mop and a packaging.
• Cleaning companies in particular often use cleaning mops, in particular for floor cleaning. These cleaning mops are usually intended for repeated use, that is, after each cleaning cycle, the cleaning mops are to be washed. In particular with cleaning mops, which are used for the clean room cleaning, special precautions and precautions are to be taken not only in the production, the transport and the storage, but also with the washing used cleaning mops. The effort to be applied in connection with such cleaning mops then increases again for those mops that are to be used for the cleaning of sterile rooms, especially of sterile clean rooms.
• the invention therefore an object of the invention to provide cleaning systems available that allow a reliable, yet cost-effective cleaning of particular clean rooms and / or sterile rooms.
• a cleaning unit comprising a first liquid-tight, in particular sealed by welding or gluing, packaging, in particular plastic film packaging, and, in this packaging, in particular plastic film packaging, present, at least one, in particular a plurality of pre-impregnated with a liquid cleaning mop.
• the cleaning mop is already completely impregnated in the packaging, in particular plastic film packaging, this can be used immediately after removal from the packaging for cleaning, without further wetting or further impregnation with additional cleaning liquid is necessary.
• the cleaning unit according to the invention can be dispensed with the regularly used cleaning trolley, which usually always include at least one container with cleaning fluid.
• the packaging is generally sized so that not the entire volume of the package is filled with liquid and caremopp (s) (s), but that there is also (purified) air or an inert gas therein.
• the cleaning unit according to the invention even without having to provide cleaning liquid available via separate containers or pails, makes it possible to provide sufficient liquid for cleaning even larger areas of a room to be cleaned, in particular a clean room.
• the amount of cleaning liquid which is optimally matched to the cleaning mop for a cleaning task can always be used. The cleaning fluid is therefore always correctly dosed.
• the cleaning unit according to the invention not only a single impregnated mop, in particular a flat mop, is present therein, but there are two or more mops, in particular flat mops, projecting toward one another.
• mops in particular flat mops
• 3 or 4 to 20 mops, in particular flat mops may be provided in the first package of the cleaning unit according to the invention.
• the cleaning mop of the cleaning unit according to the invention constitutes a flat mop.
• Flat mops generally have a rectangular base surface and are provided with a cleaning or front side and a cover sheet or rear side. These flat mops advantageously have on the cover sheet or back over at least one engaging pocket, preferably two engaging pockets, for a flat mop holder.
• This Flachmopphalter are usually connected via a joint with a style or handle, so that even larger areas can be easily cleaned using the cleaning unit according to the invention.
• the cleaning unit according to the present invention is particularly suitable for use in clean room cleaning. Accordingly, the cleaning mop, in particular the Flat mop, the cleaning unit according to the invention also a clean room cleaning mop.
• the cleaning unit according to the invention it is possible to provide not only immediately a cleaning mop available for clean room cleaning, but also the necessary liquid system, for example in the form of a cleaning liquid or a disinfecting liquid. In this way, the effort to provide suitable cleaning fluid and suitable containers for receiving this cleaning fluid for clean room cleaning, can be significantly reduced.
• the external supply of cleaning liquid can be dispensed with.
• the cleaning mop used with the cleaning unit according to the invention is expediently, especially when used for clean room cleaning, a disposable cleaning mop.
• the mop is mopped as a disposable cleaning mop, ie the cleaning mop does not have to be manufactured and designed in such a way that it survives the usually required 50 to 60 wash cycles unchanged, the costs associated with the production of the cleaning unit according to the invention costs are kept within limits.
• cleaning units according to the invention in particular also for clean room cleaning, which further comprise at least one further, in particular liquid-tight, plastic film packaging in which the first plastic film packaging, in particular liquid-tight, is packaged, preferably closed by welding.
• the first packaging in particular plastic film packaging
• the first plastic film packaging surrounding plastic film packaging.
• a cleaning unit is provided which can be used particularly efficiently and practicably for clean-room cleaning.
• the outer packaging can be removed in a lock area in the transition to the clean room, so that it is ensured that only one of the clean room conditions sufficient packaging along with cleaning fluid and cleaning mop gets into the clean room.
• the cleaning unit comprises a first packaging and a further, second packaging
• the outer, second packaging is usually removed in a first lock.
• the inner, first packaging present in the outer, further or second packaging, containing the cleaning mop and the liquid system are present in purified or sterilized air. This means that the inner packaging has already been introduced into the outer packaging and sealed under clean-room conditions or under sterile conditions. Only in a second lock is the inner packaging then preferably removed, so that only the cleaning mop impregnated with the liquid system reaches the sterile room or the clean room. Alternatively, it is also possible to disinfect or sterilize the inner packaging in the second lock to take them into the room to be cleaned with it.
• first and / or the further, second plastic film packaging are tubular and that the welds are preferably present in each case on the opposite narrow sides of the plastic film tubes.
• the liquid system of the purification unit according to the invention may be, for example, an aqueous system, in particular containing at least one disinfectant, in particular i-propanol and / or ethanol, and / or at least one, in particular biocidal, cleaning agent.
• the liquid system may be a cleaning fluid or a disinfecting fluid.
• Suitable cleaning fluids may be alkaline or acidic. Alkaline cleaning fluids are commonly used when degreasing properties are required. Sour cleaning fluids are generally used to remove limescale and / or rust residues.
• Cleaning liquids in the context of the present invention are regularly distinguished by the fact that they contain at least one surfactant in an aqueous system.
• Suitable surfactants for the clean-room cleaning or the cleaning of sterile spaces are known to the person skilled in the art.
• Suitable disinfecting liquids generally represent aqueous systems which are endowed, for example, with a biocidal, bactericidal, sporicidal and / or fungicidal action and accordingly contain at least one biocide, bactericide, sporocide and / or fungicide.
• cleaning fluids or disinfectant liquids are generally used, where the water used is deionized water or WFI grade water.
• the water of suitable cleaning and disinfecting liquids has preferably been subjected to a filtration process (0.2 ⁇ m).
• disinfecting liquids are preferably used on aqueous systems, the alcohols such as i-propanol and / or ethanol, peroxides, peracids such as peracetic acid, quaternary ammonium compounds such as Benzalkoniumchlord, guanidine derivatives or chlorine-based compounds such as chlorine dioxide, sodium hypochlorite, chlorhexidine, chloramine T, included.
• the alcohols such as i-propanol and / or ethanol
• peroxides such as peracetic acid
• quaternary ammonium compounds such as Benzalkoniumchlord
• guanidine derivatives such as chlorine dioxide, sodium hypochlorite, chlorhexidine, chloramine T, included.
• a particularly suitable disinfectant for clean room cleaning and for the cleaning of sterile rooms is an aqueous system containing 70% by volume of i-propanol and 30% by volume of water.
• Particularly useful cleaning units according to the invention are also those which are used for the cleaning of sterile rooms, in particular sterile clean rooms.
• the cleaning units according to the invention it is particularly simple and reliable possible to transfer cleaning mops together with cleaning liquid in a previously sterilized form in a sterile room.
• cleaning mops can be used reliably in sterile environments without having to accept sterility losses.
• a sterility safety level (SAL value) can be maintained which is not above 10 -6 . That is, among 1,000,000 cleaning units according to the invention, on average only one is contaminated with a viable germ.
• SAL value sterility safety level
• the maximum SAL value for parenterals should be 10 -6 .
• the flat mop over at least one front or cleaning side layer and at least one back or cover sheet side position and optionally at least one middle, between the front and the back layer disposed intermediate layer having at least one, preferably two, engaging pocket (s) for a flat mop holder on the back.
• the flat mop has a front or cleaning side with a trimming or loop structure and a back or cover sheet side, wherein the front side and the back at least one woven, knitted or knitted layer formed from microfiber material or wherein the front side at least one front side woven, knitted or knitted layer formed of microfiber material and the back at least one back layer of a particular solidified nonwoven material, in particular comprising or consisting of polyolefin fibers, in particular polypropylene fibers.
• the at least one intermediate layer arranged between the front-side and back-side layer comprises or consists of a non-bonded, non-bonded material or a foam material.
• Suitable microfiber material includes, for example, polyamide microfibers and / or polyester microfibers, especially polyethylene terephthalate microfibrils. Polyester microfibers are preferred.
• the nonwoven material of the intermediate layer preferably comprises or consists of, in particular recycled, polyester fibers, in particular polyethylene terephthalate fibers.
• microfiber material for the cleaning mops of the cleaning unit according to the invention is expediently formed from an endless fiber.
• the microfiber material is particularly suitable, in particular circular knit or warp-knit terry tissue.
• Such microfiber materials are preferably applied to the front or cleaning side of a flat mop of a cleaning unit according to the invention.
• the microfiber material of front and / or back has an average fineness less than or equal to 1 dtex, in particular in the range of 0.3 dtex to 0.8 dtex, and / or that the fiber material of the intermediate layer has an average fineness in the range from 0.5 dtex to 4 dtex, in particular in the range from 1 dtex to 3 dtex and particularly preferably in the range from 1.5 dtex to 2.5 dtex.
• cleaning units according to the invention in which cleaning mops are used in which the front and / or back layer of microfiber material over a basis weight of at least 150 g / m 2 or in the range of 150 g / m 2 to 400 g / m 2 , preferably of at least 200 g / m 2 or in the range of 200 g / m 2 to 350 g / m 2 , and more preferably of at least 225 g / m 2 or in the range of 225 g / m 2 to 300 g / m 2 , and / or where the at least one intermediate layer has a basis weight in the range from 50 g / m 2 to 150 g / m 2 , preferably in the range from 75 g / m 2 to 125 g / m 2 and particularly preferably in the range from 90 g / m 2 to 110 g / m 2 .
• the at least one intermediate layer may e.g. also represent a needle felt.
• the fibers of the at least one intermediate layer can be staple fibers, in particular with a mean length in the range of 20 mm to 80 mm, preferably in the range of 30 mm to 70 mm and particularly preferably in the range of 40 mm to 60 mm.
• the at least one backside layer preferably represents a spunbonded material. Also, this backsheet layer is particularly preferably designed as a single layer.
• the front-side layer and the rear-side layer or the front-side layer, the intermediate layer and the backsheet layer are preferably connected to each other along their peripheral edges by means of overlock sewing methods.
• the engagement pocket or the engagement pockets have been obtained by folding over one or more edge portions of the flat mop, so that the material of the backsheet reaches each other in the area of the engagement pocket or engagement pockets.
• the folded-over edge portions along its peripheral edges to form the engaging pocket by means of overlock sewing method may be present together.
• the front-side layer expediently has an average thickness of at least 0.5 mm or in the range of 0.5 mm to 5.0 mm, preferably of at least 1.0 mm or in the range of 1.0 mm to 4.5 mm, and more preferably at least 1.5 mm or in the range of 0.5 mm to 5.0 mm.
• the intermediate layer preferably has a thickness in the range of 0.5 mm to 10 mm, preferably in the range of 1.0 mm to 8 mm and particularly preferably in the range of 2.0 to 5 mm.
• the invention was based on the surprising finding that cleaning mops, in particular for commercial cleaning, can be made available in a practicable and cost-effective manner, in particular also for commercial cleaning.
• the cleaning units according to the invention it is possible to completely dispense with an additional impregnation, moistening or wetting of the cleaning mops. Rather, immediately required for the respective cleaning process, optimal amount of liquid system, such as cleaning or disinfecting liquid, are provided.
• Another advantage is that with the cleaning unit according to the invention any effort for the Preparation of a cleaning mop to be used for cleaning is eliminated. This has a particularly beneficial effect on clean room cleaning and the cleaning of sterile rooms.
• the cleaning mop for example if designed in the form of a flat mop, as a disposable cleaning mop.
• the cleaning mops used for the cleaning units according to the invention in particular flat mops, can, of course, be used again for cleaning after removal from the packaging and use for cleaning after passing through a washing or decontamination cycle. It is also possible for such cleaning mops, which are provided as disposable cleaning mops for the clean room cleaning or the cleaning of sterile rooms, after a washing or decontamination cycle at least once again for the cleaning of rooms that are not clean rooms or not must be kept sterile to use.

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