JP4757048B2 - Wiping body for cleaning and mop using the same - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a cleaning wiping body used for cleaning a floor or the like , and a mop using the wiping body .

  Various types of cleaning tools (mops) for cleaning the floor of a building have been known. A typical mop consists of a mop body with a wiping body mounting head attached to the tip of the handle and a wiping body for wiping off dirt such as dust and dirt. This wiping body is the mounting head for the mop body. Removably attached to.

As the wiping body, for example, in Patent Document 1, there are two types of loop pile having a wrinkle shape and a cut pile having a cut tip on the lower surface of a sheet-like base fabric to be attached to the mop body. A cleaning cloth for dry wiping formed by attaching the pile is disclosed.
This cleaning cloth is intended to wipe off dust and other various kinds of dust on the floor surface. The above cut pile is arranged on almost the entire lower surface of the base cloth, and the loop pile is placed on the outer periphery of the base cloth. It is arranged. More specifically, the loop pile is arranged so as to extend outward from the base fabric, so that, when cleaning, the pressing force from the handle mainly acts only on the flexible cut pile, and on the hard loop pile. It is configured to be difficult to do. Therefore, it is suitable for wiping off dust and other dust on the floor surface, but is not suitable for removing dirt adhering to the floor surface. This is because a flexible cut pile is not suitable for removing dirt as compared with a harder loop pile, and the pressing force from the handle is easily absorbed by the flexibility of the cut pile.

However, the cleaning wiping body is configured such that the above-described loop pile and cut pile having different properties can be combined well so that dust on the floor surface and dirt attached to the floor surface can be removed simultaneously. If it can, the cleaning efficiency is improved.
JP 2003-111708 A

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to use two types of piles, a loop pile and a cut pile, to remove dust and other dust on the surface to be wiped such as a floor surface and to remove dirt adhered to the surface to be wiped. It is providing the wiping body for cleaning provided with the functional structure which can perform simultaneously and effectively , and the mop using this wiping body .

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, the lower surface of a sheet-like base material has a cleaning wiping portion formed of a pile made of a plurality of fibers. an inner wiping portion located on the lower surface area to remove dirt adhering to the wiping surface, an outer wiping portion located enclose takes around inner wiping portion to remove dust or other dirt on the wiped surface it has been from the inner wipe portion is formed by the loop pile wheels奈状, the outer wiping portion, cleaning the wiping body, characterized in that it is formed by a cut pile with a cut tip Provided.

  In the present invention, the length of the cut pile from the base end fixed to the base material to the tip end cut is from the base end of the loop pile fixed to the base material to the loop front end. It is desirable that the length is equal to or greater than the length.

Preferably, in the present invention, at least the cut pile of the loop pile and the cut pile is formed by bundling a plurality of fiber bundles formed by loosely twisting or densely arranging a plurality of long fibers, and cleaning. Sometimes, the pile diameter can be expanded by defibrating the long fibers into a state where they are separated from each other. that is configured so as be maintained.
The long fibers can be defibrated by immersion in water and rocking.

  In the present invention, it is desirable that at least a part of the plurality of fibers constituting the pile is an ultrafine fiber having a fiber diameter of 10 μm or less.

  According to the present invention, there is provided a mop comprising the wiping body according to any one of claims 1 to 4 attached to the mounting head of a mop body comprising a handle and a wiping body mounting head. Provided.

According to the cleaning wiping body of the present invention and the mop using the same , among the wiping portions on the lower surface of the base material, the inner wiping portion is formed with a loop pile, and the outer wiping portion is formed with a cut pile. Remove the dirt and other debris by lightly contacting the wiped surface with a soft cut pile by pressing the hard and volumey loop pile strongly against the wiped surface such as the floor. As a result, the two types of piles with different properties can be skillfully used to perform the function suitable for each property, thereby removing dirt and dust and other debris simultaneously and reliably. It is possible and can be superior in cleaning efficiency.

  FIG. 1 shows an example of a mop configured using a cleaning wiping body according to the present invention. This mop is for wiping off the dust 1 and the wiping body 1 in a replaceable manner. It consists of the main body 2 of the mop.

  The mop body 2 has a handle 4 made of a rod-like member such as a synthetic resin pipe or a metal pipe, and a synthetic resin wiping body mounting head made of a synthetic resin having a rectangular plate shape for mounting the wiping body 1. The handle 4 is connected to the center of the upper surface of the mounting head 5 so as to be tiltable in the front-rear and left-right directions.

  The lower surface of the mounting head 5 is provided with a hook-shaped protrusion 6 which is one of a hook-shaped protrusion and a wrinkle-shaped protrusion constituting a hook-and-loop fastener on substantially the entire surface thereof, and the wiping is performed on the protrusion. On the upper surface of the body 1, the other wrinkle-shaped protrusion 7 is formed, and the wiping body 1 is attached to the mounting head 5 by engaging the wrinkle-shaped protrusion 7 with the hook-shaped protrusion 6. It is detachably attached.

  As can be seen from FIGS. 2 and 3, the wiping body 1 is a bottom surface of a base plate 10 having a rectangular plate shape made of a material having both elasticity and flexibility, such as a nonwoven fabric, a woven fabric, or a synthetic resin sheet. In addition, a large number of piles 13 and 14 formed in a string shape by bundling a plurality of fibers are fixed along the fastening lines 15 and 16 by an appropriate method such as sewing or welding, so that a plurality of piles can be collected. The cleaning wiping part 11 is formed. The wiping portion 11 includes an inner wiping portion 11a located in the lower surface region of the base material 10 and an outer wiping portion 11b surrounding the inner wiping portion 11a. The outer wiping portion 11b is formed by a cut pile 14 having a cut tip.

  The loop pile 13 and the cut pile 14 may be basically formed in a string shape by appropriately twisting a plurality of fibers or arranging them in parallel, but preferably at least the cut pile 14 is As shown in FIG. 4, a fiber bundle 17 formed by loosely twisting a plurality of long fibers 17 a or densely arranging them is used, and a plurality of these fiber bundles 17 are bundled to form a string. It is that you are. In the illustrated wiping body 1, the loop pile 13 and the cut pile 14 are both formed by the fiber bundle 17, and in the case of the loop pile 13, a plurality of fiber bundles 17 are twisted together as shown in FIG. In the case of the cut pile 14, as shown in FIG. 6, the plurality of fiber bundles 17 are formed in a string shape by aligning them in a parallel state without twisting each other.

  The loop pile 13 constituting the inner wiping portion 11 a is attached to the base material 10 so that the long string-like material formed as shown in FIG. 5 straddles the fastening line 15 extending in the longitudinal direction of the base material 10. It is performed by bending it into a zigzag shape and sewing the bent portion between the tip portion 13a and the tip portion 13a to the base material 10 at the position of the fastening line 15. In the illustrated example, three rows of such loop piles 13 are provided side by side. When these loop piles 13 are folded in a closed state and stretched along the lower surface of the base material 10, all the loop piles 13 are located completely within the lower surface region of the base material 10, and It is arranged at a length and position so as not to protrude outward from 10. Accordingly, a cut pile mounting portion 10a is formed around the inner wiping portion 11a so as to surround the inner wiping portion 11a.

  Moreover, the cut pile 14 which comprises the said outer side wiping part 11b bends the string-like short piece which was comprised as shown in FIG. The plurality of short pieces are directed to the attachment portion 10a by directing the cut tip portions 14a alternately in opposite directions and positioning the base end portion 14b, which is a bent portion, on the fastening line 16. It arrange | positions so that the circumference | surroundings of the inner side wiping part 11a may be surrounded, and those base end parts 14b are being fixed to the said attaching part 10a by fringe sewing. Of these cut piles 14, the cut pile 14 having the tip end portion 14 a facing the outer peripheral side of the substrate 10 partially extends to the outside of the substrate 10. Moreover, the cut pile 14 in which the front end portion 14a faces the inside of the base material 10 partially overlaps with a part of the loop pile 13 constituting the inner wiping portion 11a.

  Before attaching to the base material 10, the string-shaped short piece bent into two is integrated in advance by sequentially joining adjacent objects by appropriate means such as sewing or adhesion, and the integrated short piece The rows can also be sewn to the substrate 10. At that time, if a common thin string is passed through the bent portion, they can be easily integrated.

  The cut pile 14 has a length from the base end portion 14b fixed to the base material 10 to the tip end portion 14a, from the base end portion 13b fixed to the base material 10 of the loop pile 13 to the loop tip end portion 13b. It is desirable that the length is equal to or longer than the length of. Thereby, the outer wiping portion 11b made of the cut pile 14 can be formed slightly thicker than the inner wiping portion 11a made of the loop pile 13, thereby increasing the volume. As a result, even if the cut pile 14 has a characteristic that is softer and more easily compressed than the loop pile 13, the force (pressing force) by which the outer wiping portion 11b is pressed against the floor surface during cleaning is increased and the cut pile 14 is used. The necessary cleaning function can be fully exhibited. In addition, even if it says that the pressing force at the time of cleaning of the outer side wiping part 11b is raised in this way, it is in the range smaller than the pressing force of the inner side wiping part 11a.

  As described above, the cut pile 14 is formed by the fiber bundle 17 formed by loosely twisting or densely arranging a plurality of long fibers 17a, so that the long fibers 17a are separated from each other (fibers). The pile diameter can be expanded by defibration to a state in which the interval between them is widened, and the pile diameter is expanded without restoring the fibrillated long fibers 17a to the initial string-like state with a converging rod ( The bundle diameter expansion state) can be maintained. This defibrating is performed before the wiping body 1 is first used for cleaning, and then cleaning is performed. Therefore, the cut pile 14 has a substantially string-like appearance before defibration.

  The defibration can be performed by washing the wiping body 1, for example. In other words, the washing method is to immerse the fiber bundle 17 in water and swing it relative to the water. According to this method, since the long fibers 17a float in the water, the distance between them increases, and the long fibers 17a are easily shaken and separated. The other fiber portions excluding the sewn base end portion 14b or the portion close to the base end portion 14b are separated from each other and are defibrated. In this case, it is not necessary for all the long fibers 17a to be completely defibrated, and it is sufficient that most of the long fibers 17a are defibrated and the bundle diameter of the fiber bundle 17 is enlarged.

  As described above, as a result of the defibration of the long fibers 17a of each fiber bundle 17, the pile diameter of the cut pile 14 is increased, and the distinction for each fiber bundle 17 is almost eliminated, and the long fibers 17a of all the fiber bundles 17 are eliminated. Are separated from each other in a substantially free positional relationship. As a result, the apparent volume of the entire outer wiping portion 11 is increased, the texture is improved, the dust trapping effect is enhanced, and the usability during cleaning is also improved.

  In other words, if the cut pile 14 is not defibrated, the long fibers 17a of the fiber bundles 17 are kept in a string shape and the entire pile diameter is small. Therefore, it means that the outer wiping portion 11 is less bulky and compact, and it is understood from this fact that it can be easily handled and stored as a product.

Thus, since the filament 17a once defibrated has almost no twisted wrinkles, it is not restored to the initial state as a string with the twisted wrinkles, and the separated state is maintained as it is. Therefore, the volume and texture of the wiping body 1 are maintained as they are without decreasing.
As another method for defibrating the cut pile 14, there is also a method of mechanically spreading with a brush or the like. Also in this method, since the long fibers 17a are only loosely twisted, there is no case where the brush is caught and becomes unbreakable.

  The loop pile 13 is also formed by using the fiber bundle 17 having the same configuration as the cut pile 14. However, since the plurality of fiber bundles 17 are twisted together, the long fibers 17 a are formed together with the cut pile 14. Even if it is slightly defibrated, the degree of defibration is small.

The wiping body 1 having the above configuration is immersed in a cleaning liquid such as water so that the loop pile 13 and the cut pile 14 are appropriately impregnated with the cleaning liquid, and the floor surface and the like are cleaned in this state. At this time, the inner wiping portion 11a is formed of the loop pile 13 and the outer wiping portion 11b of the wiping portion 11 on the lower surface of the base material 10 is formed of the cut pile 14, so that the loop pile is hard and has low compressibility. 13 is strongly pressed against the floor surface by the operation force from the handle 4, and the cut pile 14 that is flexible and easily compressed around the floor 13 is pressed against the floor surface with a weaker force. Then, dirt attached to the floor surface is removed by the loop pile 13 having a strong pressing force, and dust and other dust on the floor surface are removed by the cut pile 14 having a weak pressing force. As a result, by skillfully using two types of piles with different properties and performing the function that suits each property, it is possible to remove dirt and dust simultaneously and reliably, and to improve cleaning efficiency. It is.
In particular, when the cut pile 14 is defibrated and used by defibrating it, the difference in properties from the loop pile 13 with a string shape becomes more remarkable. The cleaning effect due to the characteristics becomes even more remarkable.

The fibers forming the loop pile 13 and the cut pile 14 may be natural fibers such as silk, rayon, and cupra, synthetic fibers such as polyester and acrylic, or a mixture thereof. Further, the fiber diameter is not particularly limited, but in order to make the wiping body 1 excellent in dust capturing effect and dirt removing effect, it is desirable to use an ultrafine fiber having a fiber diameter of 10 μm or less. It is desirable that at least a part of all the fibers contain the ultrafine fibers. The fibers are preferably linear fibers, but may be wavy crimped fibers.
The loop pile 13 is formed by twisting a plurality of fiber bundles 17, but can be formed by pulling the plurality of fiber bundles 17 in the same manner as the cut pile 14. In this case, the degree of defibration of the long fibers 17a is greater than when twisted together.

Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the surface fastener is used to attach the said wiping body 1 to the attachment head 5 of the mop main body 2, it replaces with such a surface fastener and the base material 10 in the said wiping body 1 is used. A pair of pockets may be formed at both ends of the upper surface in the longitudinal direction, and both ends of the mounting head 5 may be inserted into these pockets.
The technique of the present invention can also be applied to a dry wiping body that is used without being impregnated with a cleaning liquid.

It is a perspective view which shows embodiment of the mop using the wiping body of this invention. It is a bottom view of the wiping body. FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view of FIG. 2. It is a partial side view which shows the structure of the fiber bundle which forms a pile. It is a side view which shows a part of string material for loop piles formed with the fiber bundle of FIG. It is a side view which shows a part of string piece for cut pile formed with the fiber bundle of FIG.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Wiping body 2 Mop body 4 Handle 5 Mounting head 10 Base material 11 Wiping part 11a Inner wiping part 11b Outer wiping part 13 Loop pile 14 Cut pile 13a, 14a Tip part 13b, 14b Base end part 17 Fiber bundle 17a Long fiber

Claims (6)

Dirt that has a wiping part for cleaning formed of a pile made of a plurality of fibers on the lower surface of a sheet-like base material, and the wiping part is located in the lower surface region of the base material and adheres to the surface to be wiped an inner wiping portion for removing, located enclose takes around inner wipe portions consist the outer wiping portion to remove dust or other dirt on the wiped surface, the inner wiping portion, Wa奈A wiping body for cleaning, characterized in that the outer wiping portion is formed by a cut pile having a cut end portion.
  The length of the cut pile from the base end portion fixed to the base material to the tip end portion cut is larger than the length of the loop pile from the base end portion fixed to the base material to the loop tip portion, It is equivalent or more, The wiping body of Claim 1 characterized by the above-mentioned.   At least the cut pile of the loop pile and the cut pile is formed by gathering a plurality of fiber bundles formed by twisting a plurality of long fibers loosely or densely, and collecting the long fibers together during cleaning. The pile diameter can be expanded by defibration to a separated state, and the defibrated long fibers can be maintained in an expanded state of the pile diameter without being restored to the initial string-like state with a converging rod The wiping body according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the wiping body is provided.   The wiping body according to claim 3, wherein the long fibers can be defibrated by immersion in water and swinging.   The wiping body according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein at least a part of the plurality of fibers constituting the pile is an ultrafine fiber having a fiber diameter of 10 µm or less.   A mop comprising the wiping body according to any one of claims 1 to 5 attached to the mounting head of a mop body comprising a handle and a wiping body mounting head.

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