JP2003111704A - Cleaner - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a raking-up body to surely rake up even the dust embedded into the piles of a thick-piled carpet while smoothly sliding a dustpan section on a floor surface. SOLUTION: The cleaner 10 is constituted by vertically oscillatably supporting the dustpan section 23 to a frame 15 independently from the raking-up body 16 and supporting a dust receiving section 23C of the dustpan section 23 openably from the frame 15.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a cleaning tool.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a cleaning tool, as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-262827, a scooping member is rotatably supported on a frame, and a dust removing part is supported on the rear part of the scooping member on the frame. There is something.

[0003]

The dust collector does not swing up and down with respect to the frame independently of the scooping member. For this reason, when the cleaning tool is used to clean a carpet with long fluff, as the dust collector slides on the upper surface of the carpet, the scraping body also slides on the upper surface of the carpet. It is not possible to scrape up the dirt buried in the floor with the body. When the scraper is pushed by the user with a stronger force so that the scraper goes under the hair of the carpet, the dust collecting part is strongly pressed by the carpet, resulting in a large resistance to the forward movement, which deteriorates the operability.

An object of the present invention is to allow a scraping member to smoothly scrape dust trapped in the hairs of a long-haired carpet while smoothly sliding the dust collector onto the floor surface. There are things.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a scooping body is rotatably supported by a frame, and a dust collecting section is supported by a rear portion of the scooping body in the frame, and the dust collecting section is a floor surface. A cleaning tool having a bottom surface portion in contact with, a scooping surface portion for guiding dust scraped up by the scooping body, and a dust receiving portion for receiving the dust. It independently supports swingable up and down, and supports the dust receiving portion of the dust collecting portion so that it can be released from the frame.

[0006]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION As shown in FIG.
The support arm 13 is swingably connected in the left-right direction to the tip of the handle 11 via the joint portion 12, and the frame 15 is swingable in the front-rear direction via the support shaft portion 14 on both side arm portions 13A of the support arm 13. Supports freely.

A flexible scraping body 16 made of a brush is rotatably supported on the front part of the frame 15 via a rotary shaft 17, and a contact rotary body 18 made of a roll body is mounted on the rear part of the frame 15 as the rotary shaft. It is rotatably supported via 19, and the scraping body 16 and the contact rotary body 18 are arranged in parallel. The raking body 16 includes a raking portion 16A (brush portion) and a tire portion 16B, and a raking diameter (brush diameter) of the raking portion 16A is larger than a tire diameter of the tire portion 16B. The contact rotating body 18 includes a roll-shaped contact portion 18A and a tire portion 18B. The outer diameter of the tire portion 18B is larger than the outer diameter of the contact portion 18A.
8B is made rollable on the floor surface on both outsides of the dust removing portion 23 described later, and the tire portion 18B is arranged inside the dust removing portion 23. As a result, the contact portion 18A is shielded from the floor by the dust collector 23, and fluff on the floor side is prevented from adhering to the contact portion 18A. The tire portion 18B is located outside the dust removing portion 23. The contact portion 18A of the contact rotating body 18 may be provided with an uneven portion on its surface. The uneven portion is the contact portion 18A.
Means that ribs, convex portions, concave portions, grain surfaces, etc. are provided on the roll surface.

On the scraping body 16 and the contact rotary body 18, an adhesive roll 21 straddling the scraping body 16 and the contact rotary body 18 is placed, and the adhesive roll 21 is rotated by the rotation of the scraping body 16 and the contact rotary body 18. The upper portion of the frame 15 serves as a loading / unloading port for the adhesive roll 21, and is covered with a removable transparent cover 15A. The pressure-sensitive adhesive roll 21 includes a structure of a roll for winding a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, a structure of which the surface is made of an adhesive elastomer, and the surface of which is cleaned to be reusable. In the adhesive roll 21 of this embodiment, the adhesive sheet 21A is used as the core 21.
It is configured by a winding roll that is wound around B and can be unwound and cut with the adhesive surface of the adhesive sheet 21A facing outward.

A dust removing part 23 is supported on the rear part of the scraping body 16 in the frame 15. The dust collecting portion 23 includes a bottom surface portion 23A that is in contact with the floor surface, a curved surface (or flat surface) rake surface portion 23B that faces the scraping body 16 without a gap (or through a gap), and a concave dust receiving portion 23C. Have. Further, the dust removing portion 23 is arranged so as to shield the contact portion 18A of the contact rotating body 18 from the floor as described above. The dust removing portion 23 is supported by the frame 15 so as to be vertically swingable as will be described later, and the bottom portion 23A and the rake face portion 2 are supported by their own weight.
The bottom end of 3B is brought into contact with the floor surface without any gap, and the scraping body 16
The scraping part 16A of the scooping part 16B scoops up all the scraped dust without letting it escape backward along the floor surface.
Is guided to the adhesive roll 21 side, and large dust is sent to the dust receiving portion 23C.

The cleaning operation by the cleaning tool 10 is performed as follows. (1) The cleaning tool 10 is moved forward by the operation force applied in the axial direction of the handle 11, the scraping body 16 and the contact rotary body 18 are rotated, and at the same time, the adhesive roll 21 is rotated together.

(2) When the scraping portion 16A of the scraping body 16 scrapes up dust on the floor surface, the dust is guided by the dust collecting portion 23 and sent out to the side of the adhesive roll 21, and the adhesive roll 21 Adsorbed and captured on the adhesive surface.

(3) The dust trapped on the adhesive surface of the adhesive roll 21 contacts the rotating body 18 as the adhesive roll 21 rotates.
To the side of, and is pressed and fixed on the adhesive surface of the adhesive roll 21 by the contact rotator 18.

(4) Adhesive roll 21 from transparent cover 15A
When it is visually recognized that a large amount of dust has been captured on the entire circumference of the adhesive surface of (1), the cover 15A is opened, one cycle of the adhesive sheet 21A is peeled and cut off to expose a new adhesive surface, and then the cover 15A is opened. close.

The cleaning tool 10 can move backward as well as forward. The dust collecting part 23 flips up the tail end of the bottom surface part 23A in a rounded shape, and prevents the tail end from being caught on the floor surface when moving backward.

According to the cleaning tool 10 described above, the carpet is scraped up by the scooping member 16, and the dust is then adsorbed and captured by the adhesive roll 21. Adhesive roll 21
Does not directly contact the carpet, so that it does not damage the carpet, it is possible to capture dust that has sunk in the deep portion of the fibers of the carpet, and the durability of the adhesive performance of the adhesive roll 21 is improved.

Also in the flooring, as in the case of the carpet, since the adhesive roll 21 does not directly contact the flooring, the adhesive roll 21 is not strongly adhered to the flooring and fixed.

The structure for supporting the dust removing portion 23 by the frame 15 will be described below. (Figs. 1-3)

The dust collecting portion 23 is supported on the frame 15 so as to be vertically swingable independently of the scraping body 16, and the dust receiving portion 23C of the dust collecting portion 23 is supported so as to be openable from the frame 15.

Specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the dust removing portion 23
The front end on the side close to the scraping body 16 in the swinging part 40
(Pin 41 provided on both front end side surfaces of dust removing portion 23 is vertically movably engaged in elongated holes 42 provided on both side walls of frame 15) and is swingably supported on frame 15. . In addition, the hole 51 of the engagement / disengagement portion 50 provided at the rear end of the dust collecting portion 23 on the side far from the scraping body 16 is provided in the frame 15
The hole 51 is detached from the disengageable pin 52 so that the rear end of the dust removing part 23 can be released from the frame 15. With the hole 51 of the dust removing part 23 engaged with the detachable pin 52 of the frame 15, the detachable pin 52 is used as the central axis of the swing of the dust removing part 23, and the hole 51 of the dust removing part 23 is used as the frame. With the pin 15 detached from the detachable pin 52, the swinging part 40 serves as the opening central axis of the dust removing part 23.

Therefore, the cleaning tool 10 as described above has the following operations. Since the dust collecting part 23 can be swung independently of the scraping body 16, when the cleaning tool 10 is used for a carpet having long hair, the scraping body 16 dives into the hair of the carpet to remove dust. While scraping up, the dust removing part 23 does not move like sliding on the upper surface of the carpet and does not resist the forward movement, and the operability is good.

Since the dust receiving portion 23C of the dust collecting portion 23 is supported to be openable from the frame 15, the dust receiving portion 23C
Can be opened downward to appropriately discharge and remove the dust collected in the dust receiving portion 23C.

The scraping body 16 includes a scraping portion 16A,
When the tire portion 16B is formed, even if the tire portion 16B is submerged in the fluff of the carpet, the dust removing portion 23 slides on the upper surface of the carpet and does not resist the forward movement.

A swinging portion 40 is provided at one end of the dust collecting portion 23, and a disengageable pin 52 for opening is provided at the other end. Dust collector 23
Since the swinging part 40 is not an engaging / disengaging part for opening the dust collecting part 23, the swinging part 40 has no wear or the like due to the detachment.
It is possible to maintain the swinging portion 40 of the dust removing portion 23, to which force is applied during cleaning, in a stable swinging state (a state in which it does not come off) without wear.

The dust collecting part 23 is the contact part 1 of the contact rotating body 18.
Since 8A is cut off from the floor so that the contact portion 18A does not directly face the floor, the contact portion 18A does not adsorb extra fluff on the floor due to static electricity.
The pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet of the pressure-sensitive adhesive roll 21 that is in contact with is long-lasting.

(Other Functions) (1) Since the tire portion 18B of the contact rotating body 18 is located outside the dust removing portion 23 and the outer diameter of the tire portion 18B is larger than the outer diameter of the contact portion 18A, the tire portion 18B. Is rotated by being pressed against the floor surface by the weight of the cleaning tool to reliably rotate the contact portion 18A. The contact rotator 18 comes into contact with the adhesive roll 21 to surely rotate the adhesive roll 21. Therefore, the adhesive surface of the adhesive roll 21 in contact with the scraping body 16 can be uniformly and efficiently utilized by rotating, and the dust scraped up by the scraping body 16 can be securely sucked and captured by the new suction surface of the adhesive roll 21. To do. At this time, since the pressure-sensitive adhesive roll 21 is laid over the scraping body 16 and the contact rotary body 18, the pressure-sensitive adhesive roll 2 of any size, large or small, having any outer diameter.
1 can also be loaded into the cleaning tool 10. Therefore, the adhesive roll 21
A degree of freedom in manufacturing can be obtained in the outer diameter dimension, and the adhesive roll 21 having an appropriate outer diameter can be selected according to the floor condition.

(2) The dust scraped up by the scraping body 16 from the deep portion of the fiber of the carpet and the dust scraped backward from the hard flat surface of the flooring are scooped up by the dust collecting part 23 at the rear part of the scraping body 21. And surely adhesive roll 2
Guided in the direction of 1, the dust collection performance can be improved.

(3) Since the scraping body 16 is provided with the tire portion 16B, the tire portion 16B is pressed against the floor surface by the weight of the cleaning tool 10 and rotates, thereby reliably rotating the scraping body 16. Since the scraping diameter is made larger than the tire diameter, the scraping portion 16A strongly scrapes dust by the scraping force based on the restoration of the elastic deflection to improve the scraping performance and also the dust in the deep part of the fiber of the carpet. You can scrape it well.

(4) By providing the contact rotating body 18,
The dust that has been adhered and captured by the adhesive roll 21 can be well pressed and fixed on the adhesive surface of the adhesive roll 21.

(5) When the adhesive force of the adhesive roll 21 is strong,
Since the adhesive roll 21 and the contact portion 18A of the contact rotator 18 rotate together, the rotation is difficult and the operation becomes heavy. Therefore, an uneven portion is provided on the surface of the contact portion 18A of the contact rotating body 18. The concavo-convex portion means that a rib, a convex portion, a concave portion, a grain surface or the like is provided on the surface of the contact portion 18A of the contact rotary body 18. In this embodiment, the rotation can be lightened by providing at least two uneven portions. That is, the provision of the uneven portion on the contact rotary body 18 forms a gap between the adhesive roll 21 and the contact rotary body 18, so that the contact area between the two can be reduced and the operability can be improved. . Since the adhesive roll 21 and the contact rotator 18 do not adhere to each other and dust attached to the contact rotator 18 is transferred to the adhesive roll 21, the preferred height of the uneven portion is 0.1 to 0.5 mm,
More preferably, it is 0.2 to 0.4 mm.

As the pressure-sensitive adhesive roll used in the present invention, a core roll which is detachably covered with a cylindrical sheet may be used. At this time, the original shape of the tubular sheet is a sheet-type envelope sheet, and a large number of envelope sheets can be stacked and stored.

Further, in the present invention, the scraping body is not limited to the brush, but may be a sponge, a rubber blade, an elastomer, an elastic protrusion or the like.

Further, in the present invention, the contact rotating body is not limited to the roll body, but may be a tire or the like.

In the present invention, the floor surface is a tatami mat, a flooring, a carpet or the like, and has a particularly remarkable and unique effect on the carpet.

[0034]

As described above, according to the present invention, while smoothly sliding the dust collecting part on the floor surface, the scraping body can reliably remove dusts buried in the hairs of a long-haired carpet. It can be scraped up.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing a cleaning tool.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing an engagement / disengagement portion between a frame and a dust collecting portion.

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view of a cleaning tool.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 cleaning tools 15 frames 16 scraping body 16A scraping part 16B tire part 23 Dust collector 23A bottom part 23B Rake face 23C Garbage receiving part 40 Swing part 52 detachable pin

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A scooping body is rotatably supported by a frame, and a dust collecting part is supported by a rear part of the scooping body in the frame. The dust collecting part scrapes the bottom surface part in contact with the floor surface and the scooping body. A cleaning tool comprising a rake surface portion for guiding dust to be lifted and a dust receiving portion for receiving dust, which supports the dust removing portion with respect to the frame so as to be vertically swingable independently of the scraping body. , A cleaning tool that supports the dust receiver of the dust collector so that it can be released from the frame. 2. The cleaning tool according to claim 1, wherein the scraping body includes a tire portion and a flexible scraping portion having a diameter larger than a tire diameter of the tire portion. 3. One end of the dust collecting portion near the scraping body is swingably supported by the frame by a swinging portion, and the other end of the dust collecting portion far from the scraping body is released from the frame by a disengageable pin. 3. The cleaning tool according to claim 1, wherein the cleaning tool is supported movably, and the engagement / disengagement pin serves as a central axis of swinging of the dust removing section, and the swinging section serves as a central axis of opening of the dust removing section. 4. The cleaning tool according to claim 1, wherein the contact rotating body is rotatably provided side by side with the scraping body, and an adhesive roll straddling the contact rotating body is provided. 5. The cleaning tool according to claim 4, wherein the dust removing portion is provided so as to block the contact rotary body from the floor.