JP2011244876A - Glass cleaning cloth and cleaning method using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cleaning cloth capable of increasing a cleanable objective area per a unit area of the cleaning cloth, and capable of enhancing wiping-up performance, as to the glass cleaning cloth.SOLUTION: A pile-woven section and a nonpile-woven section are provided in a cloth of the glass cleaning cloth, a synergy effect is exhibited by making excellent collectability imparted to the pile-woven section functioned alternately with excellent scraping ability for a contaminated particle, imparted to the nonpile-woven section, while making the best use of the respective sections, and the cleanable objective area per the unit area of the cleaning cloth is increased thereby to enhance the wiping-up performance, in the glass cleaning cloth.

Description

  The present invention relates to a cleaning cloth and a cleaning method relating to glass cleaning.

  In the past, cotton towels were used for glass cleaning. In recent years, it has been a mainstream to use a cloth called a wiping cloth made by weaving yarns made of ultrafine fibers of synthetic resin such as nylon or polyester. And when using a wiping cloth, the style of wiping the glass after wetting it with water and squeezing it has become mainstream. This point is indicated by the expression that water is impregnated between the fibers in the invention of Japanese Patent No. 3696651 listed in Patent Document 1.

  Wipin cloth's extra fine fibers have a special shape on the surface of the fiber, and the shape of the fine fibers can be used to scrape off dirt on the glass surface. By moving the scraped dirt from the glass surface to the cloth, Clean the glass. There are various types of dirt, but the most common glass that faces the outdoors is the minute dust contained in the raindrops remaining on the glass surface after the raindrops have dried. Most of the fine dust is contained between 0.1 mm and 1 / 1,000 mm in diameter. Less than a thousandth of a millimeter is outside the scope of cleaning because it cannot be seen with the naked eye.

  Now, there are roughly two methods of wiping cloth weaving. One is a pile weave and the other is a non-pile weave. Here, the definition of pile weave and non-pile weave will be described. Pile weaving is a weaving method represented by towels and carpets, and is a weaving method in which a pile projects vertically from a base fabric. Non-pile weaving is a weaving method represented by plain weaving that has existed since ancient times, and is a weaving method that combines yarns vertically and horizontally. Looking at the wiping cloth in the market, pile weave is called thick, and non-pile weave is called thin. In addition, even a plain weave combining warp and weft may have a protrusion formed in a direction perpendicular to the yarn itself, but this is included in the category of pile weaving.

  Each of the non-pile and pile wiping cloths has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of a non-pile woven wiping cloth is its high ability to scrape dirt particles. Non-pile weaving is made of a combination of warp and weft, so when cleaning the warp and weft come into contact with the glass surface, the glass surface and the thread are grounded in the horizontal direction. Taking ability is high. This point is an advantage, but the disadvantage is that weaving is a close combination of warp and weft, so there is less space between the yarn and the yarn, which means that there is less space for dirt particles. . Logically, an amount of dirt particles equal to the volume of the space between the yarns can be collected. However, in practice, since the cleaning ability begins to decline before the collection capacity is exceeded, the result of poor glass cleaning occurs and it becomes unsuitable for use. In other words, the clogging phenomenon occurs and the overall cleaning ability is reduced.

  On the other hand, the advantage of the pile-woven wiping cloth is that it has a good collection property. Since the pile protrudes from the base fabric in the vertical direction, a space is created between the piles, and dirt particles can be held in the space, so that the collection property is good. However, the ability to scrape dirt is low. This is because dirt particles slip through the space between the piles and remain on the glass surface. In this way, the advantages and disadvantages of the pile woven wiping cloth are in contradiction.

  As described above, even in the case of wiping cloth woven from the same yarn, the characteristic of performance related to glass cleaning varies depending on the weaving method. The wiping cloth has a problem that a high dirt-scraping ability has a low collecting performance, and a high collecting ability has a low dirt-scraping ability.

Japanese Patent No. 3696651 JP-A-5-192284 Noto 3061564 JP 2007-117480 A

  The present invention solves the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and allows a single piece of cloth to have a high collection performance and a high dirt scraping ability, thereby increasing the amount of wiping cloth that can be cleaned per unit area. It is what.

  In the present invention, a pile weave area and a non-pile weave area are provided on the surface of a piece of fabric, and each area is changed to act on the object to be cleaned. During the cleaning operation, the pile weaving area is first used and then the non-pile weaving area is used for the object to be cleaned in which dirt particles are present. First, a pile weave area with a high collection capacity takes dirt particles into the pile-pile space. However, there are dirt particles remaining on the glass surface through the space between the piles. Then, the non-pile weave area then scrapes and finishes the remaining particles. Moreover, clogging of non-pile woven areas is relatively reduced. This is because the pre-pile area has collected most of the dirt particles.

  In this manner, the overall cleaning ability can be enhanced by alternately functioning the feature that the supplementary property of the pile weave area is good and the feature that the scraping ability of the non-pile weave area is high. Compared with conventional pile-woven wiping cloths, it has a higher ability to scrape dirt and has a better finish. Further, compared with a conventional non-pile woven wiping cloth, there is an effect that clogging does not occur and the glass area that can be cleaned with one piece of fabric increases. As a result, it is possible to save time and labor for washing. In addition, in actual No. 3061564 listed in Patent Document 3, there is an invention in which pile and non-pile are combined, but this is woven by mixing pile and non-pile, and each of the present invention The idea is different from the invention of providing a zone.

It is a perspective view of the 1st form for carrying out the present invention. It is a perspective view of the 2nd form for carrying out the present invention. It is a perspective view of the 3rd form for carrying out the present invention. It is a perspective view of the 4th form for carrying out the present invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  The first embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. A pile-woven fabric and a non-pile-woven fabric are connected by sewing. When cleaning, fold in half at the sewing part. It is necessary to perform a wiping operation of wiping once with a cloth of a pile weave, and then wiping with a cloth of a non-pile weave. If the back surface is formed in the same manner as the front surface, when the fabric becomes dirty and the finish of the glass surface becomes worse as the cleaning operation proceeds, the unused surface can be used by folding. In other words, you can use the front and back.

  The second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 shows a tubular shape obtained by further sewing the cloth width of FIG. When a hand is inserted into a hand such as a glove or a mittens, as in the first embodiment, there is a slight improvement in the effort to change the pile-woven fabric and the non-pile-woven fabric. A cylindrical wiping cloth is disclosed in the invention of Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2007-117480 cited in Patent Document 4, and this is an improved invention. First, wipe with a pile-woven fabric, then finish with a non-pile-woven fabric. Then, the next glass is wiped with a pile-woven fabric again.

  A third embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 3 shows another example in which the tubular cloth width shown in FIG. 2 is further sewn at two places to form a pile weave and a non-pile weave on the front and back of the cloth. It may be sewn or woven. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-192284 listed in Patent Document 2 is formed with a pile weave and a nonwoven fabric on the front and back sides, respectively, but the properties of the nonwoven fabric are not suitable for glass cleaning. The reason for this is that non-pile weaving is grounded perfectly on the glass surface and therefore has a high ability to scrape dirt. In contrast, non-woven fabric has a rough surface and a gap is easily formed on the grounding surface with glass. Therefore, the dirt scraping ability is low. Compared with pile weaving, voids are formed as in pile weaving, but since the volume of the space is larger in pile weaving, the trapping property is also less than in pile weaving.

  A fourth embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 4 shows an example in which pile weave areas and non-pile weave areas are alternately arranged on the same surface of the fabric. The advantage of this embodiment is that cleaning does not have to be performed twice, so that cleaning is completed by wiping once. However, since each area must be used continuously, if it is used in the horizontal direction, there is a disadvantage that it cannot be used in the vertical direction. An arrangement that improves on this drawback is that the pile weave and non-pile weave are arranged in a checkered pattern. In this case, it can be used in the horizontal direction, the vertical direction, and further in the oblique direction. A similar material may be formed on the back surface by weaving or sewing.

  Regarding the above-mentioned various forms, the area ratio of the pile woven area and the non-pile woven area is desirably 50:50, but in the experiment, any of 10:90 to 90:10 was practical.

  It was confirmed by experiment that the cleanable amount per unit area of the cloth width is improved by the present invention. Apply a non-pile woven wiping cloth 40cm in length and width to water and squeeze it tightly, fold it four times to make it a square with a side of less than 10cm, hold it by hand, and use it to clean an outdoor window glass in your house Wiped. The size of the window glass is 120 cm long and 90 cm wide. The cleaning of one piece of glass was completed, but the finish deteriorated around two-thirds of the progress of the cleaning, and wiping marks remained.

  Next, a comparative experiment was performed on adjacent glass windows. First, a pile-woven cloth of the same size was made into a square with a side of slightly less than 10 cm, and four pieces of glass stained with the same degree were wiped off under the same conditions. Next, the four glasses wiped with this pile-woven cloth were further wiped with an unused non-pile-woven wiping cloth under the same conditions. Then, until the four sheets were completed, it was possible to wipe with a sufficient finish without leaving a wiping trace. From this experiment, it was found that the target area that can be cleaned per unit area is more than doubled according to the present invention.

1 Pile weaving area 2 Non-pile weaving area

Claims (6)

  A cleaning cloth made up of pile-woven and non-pile-woven areas.   The cleaning cloth according to claim 1, wherein the cleaning cloth is composed of one pile weave area and one non-pile weave area on one side.   The cleaning cloth according to claim 2, wherein the pile weave area and the non-pile weave area are connected by sewing to form a tubular shape.   The cleaning cloth of Claim 1 which formed the front and back which made the area | region of a pile weave one surface and the area of a non-pile weave on the other side.   The cleaning cloth according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of pile-woven and non-pile-woven areas are continuously formed on one surface.   A cleaning method in which the cleaning cloths according to claims 1 to 4 are first wiped with a fabric in a pile-woven area and then wiped with a cloth in a non-pile-woven area.

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