LT6300B - Surface cleaning tool with fluid spraying and cleaning function - Google Patents

Abstract

The objective of the invention is a cleaning tool suitable for cleaning electronic equipment screens or other surfaces. The tool serves at least two functions required in the cleaning process: holding and spraying of cleaning fluid and removal of dirt. The cleaning fabric is attached to external surfaces of cleaning fluid container. The cleaning fluid container itself is thin, made of a thin layer of flexible yet liquid-proof material, therefore the entire tool that can be used as a conventional cleaning wipe. The tool includes a cleaning fluid spraying mechanism that evenly spreads the fluid over the surface being cleaned and supplies the predetermined amount of the cleaning fluid during every spraying; the mechanism is covered with a cap to protect against unintended spraying and spillage. The said tool is compact, convenient for both usage and carriage.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The invention relates to tools for cleaning various surfaces, and more particularly to surfaces which first need to be moistened with a cleaning fluid and then cleaned with a cleaning agent. The tool has at least two functional parts connected in one device: a cleaning fluid container with a fluid spray mechanism and a cleaning surface. The entire tool can be used as a regular cleaning cloth.

TECHNICAL LEVEL

The present invention relates to tools for cleaning various surfaces, which have at least two functional parts: a container for spray liquid with a spray mechanism and a cleaning surface. The two parts are combined in one device. The cleaning surface covers the tank of cleaning fluid. The cleaning tank is equipped with a fluid spray mechanism that can evenly spray the cleaning fluid. Sprayed cleaning fluid, along with dirt, is cleaned with a cleaning surface.

Various forms of rigid cleaning fluid containers having various forms of cleaning surfaces are known in the patent specification of the invention (e.g., US8683642B2, US7841795B2, CN201324732 (Y), WO2013131747 (A1)) and publicly available for purchase (e.g., http: //www.vdhsoft .be / sp36 / 36103.htm (Viewed 5/11/2014);

http://getclean.am/pages/store (Viewed 5/11/2014)).

The present invention discloses a similar cleaning tool as disclosed in U.S. Pat. WO9637141 (A1), published June 1996; November 28 . The device described in this patent has a rigid container for cleaning fluid contained in a soft-filled bag with good cleaning properties on the outside. Said soft filler allows the cleaning material to fit well on the surface to be cleaned, but if the filler is too much, the tension of the covering material reduces the ability to adapt to the roughness of the surface to be cleaned and reduces the cleaning surface area; if soft fillers are too low, said rigid container for cleaning fluid limits the effectiveness of the contact with the surface to be cleaned and poses a risk of mechanical damage to the surface being cleaned. If the cleaning agent itself is much larger than the cleaning fluid reservoir, the cleaning process is less ergonomic - you may need to clean the liquid container with one hand and hold the liquid container with the other - in which case it does not make sense to combine spray and cleaning devices into one tool. The filler material of the patented patent device constitutes an additional volume, so that the device may not be as compact as described herein. The shape (and function) of the entire device cited in the patent is more like a cleaning sponge than a cleaning cloth as described herein. The cleaning container of the cited patent occupies only a portion of the total device, and the fluid container of the device described herein occupies all of the contents formed by the cleaning agent.

The closest prior art is US Patent Application US2014223680 (A1), published April 2014. August 14 The device of the cited application and its cleaning agent formulations and the functions it performs herein are analogous, but the method of spraying the cleaning fluid is substantially different. The device cited in the patent has only an orifice orifice for spraying cleaning fluid, which prevents the spray liquid from being evenly distributed; uncontrolled amount of liquid sprayed. There is nothing in the patent specification that refers to a case where the device is compressed more strongly - in which case does the cleaning fluid accidentally escape from the cleaning container through said opening?

Searching for similar tools has shown that most cleaning tools that can perform the cleaning and spraying and cleaning of cleaning fluid do not have at least one of the following aspects:

does not have a flexible cleaning container that can adapt well to the roughness of the surface being cleaned;

not able to use the entire cleaning tool as regular cleaning cloths;

does not have the ability to distribute the cleaning fluid evenly on the surface being sprayed;

does not provide protection against accidental spray liquid spillage or spillage;

the amount of cleaning fluid used during each spray application is different, not metered.

Based on these observed and raised issues, a new cleaning tool, described below.

THE SUBSTANCE OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides a cleaning tool having a flexible cleaning fluid container with a fluid spray mechanism and a cleaning surface partially or completely covering said container. This tool is suitable for cleaning electronic device screens and other smooth surfaces.

The tool of the present invention performs two functions at once: spray cleaning of cleaning surfaces and cleaning; slim, compact, easy to fit even in regular sized pockets; the flexible fluid container allows the tool to be used as a regular cleaning cloth; the fluid spray mechanism distributes the spray liquid evenly over the surface to be cleaned; the liquid volume is dosed uniformly with each spray; the spray mechanism is protected by a cap to prevent accidental spraying and spillage.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING FIGURES

Fig. 1 is a side view of a cleaning tool of the present invention; front and enlarged front view.

PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The present invention is realized by combining at least two separate devices having one function. One of these devices is designed to hold the cleaning fluid and spray evenly on the surface to be cleaned; the other is a cleaning agent which partially or completely covers that container for cleaning various surfaces.

In this description, when referring to layers, the term "thin" is understood to mean the shape of an object / layer, one of whose three dimensions in the three-dimensional coordinate system is vanishingly small relative to the other two dimensions.

The cleaning fluid reservoir (1) is made of polypropylene or other material for sealing the cleaning fluid. The material from which the container may be made shall at least meet the following requirements: be capable of holding the cleaning fluid indoors for a long time and being flexible, capable of adapting to the roughness of the surfaces being cleaned, enabling the complete cleaning tool (2) to be used The structure and shape of the cleaning fluid container are similar to those of an envelope: when the cleaning fluid is much rounder in shape; when there is no liquid, the container becomes almost flat, thin and indistinguishable from a conventional cleaning cloth. A preferred embodiment of such a container is two layers of uniform dimensions, thin layers of polypropylene or other material which are fused, compressed or otherwise reinforced with one another. The said reinforcement of the layers is carried out by a narrow stretch around almost the entire circumference of the two said layers, leaving a small opening which is sealed by a cylindrical surface or other shaped neck, the other end of which is tightly fixed by a spray mechanism (3). An embodiment is possible in which the two open layers of material forming the container are directly sealed with the spray mechanism without the said neck.

The spray mechanism of said container comprises at least the following parts: a fluid spray element, a pressure element (4), a pressure element cap (5) and a housing (3).

Said liquid spray element comprises a system of tubes, auxiliary containers for temporarily storing the fluid to be sprayed and a valve system. One of said tubes must always be in contact with the cleaning fluid at one end, and the other end during spraying delivers the liquid to auxiliary containers from which the liquid enters and is sprayed through the housing (3) or pressure member (4). fluid from auxiliary cleaning tanks to the outside. The valve system closes and opens the openings in the auxiliary tanks at different times of the spray cycle, resulting in fluid flow through the spray element and spray application. The process of spraying the liquid is activated by mechanical pressing of the pressure element (4). All the mechanical energy required to spray the fluid is obtained through the pressure member from the subject pressing the member (4). The spraying process does not require any power source other than the pressing of the pressure element (4). The pressure element (4) is covered by the pressure element cover (5) which, among other functions, prevents accidental pressing of the pressure element (4). All elements enabling the liquid to be sprayed during pressing of the pressure element (4) are contained in the spray mechanism housing (3). Almost all of the spray mechanism is outside the cleaning fluid reservoir, except for one end of the spray element tube, which must contact the cleaning fluid. The outer shape of the spray mechanism may be similar to a cylinder or other shape.

The cleaning agent (6) which performs the cleaning function partially or completely covers the container of the cleaning fluid. The cleaning agent may be of microfiber or other material capable of effectively removing dirt from the surfaces to be cleaned. A preferred embodiment of the invention is where the cleaning material has the same shape and size as the cleaning fluid containers. As in the case of the tank, the two thin layers of cleaning agent covering the tank are reinforced with one another across its entire perimeter, leaving a small opening for the spray mechanism. The reinforcement of the cleaning material may be performed simultaneously with the reinforcement of the container material, i.e. said layers of container and cleaner are stacked, rotated on top of each other in the following sequence: layer of cleaner - container layer - container layer - layer of cleaner and all layers are secured almost their entire perimeter, leaving an opening for the spray mechanism. In other embodiments of the invention, the cleaning material layers may be larger or smaller than the container forming material layers, the cleaning material may only cover one of the two container layers.

In order to illustrate and describe the present invention, the following is a description of the most preferred embodiments. It is not a detailed or restrictive description intended to determine the exact form or embodiment. The description above should be viewed as an illustration rather than a limitation. Obviously, many modifications and variations may be apparent to those skilled in the art. An embodiment is selected and described so that those skilled in the art will best understand the principles of the invention and their best practical application for different embodiments with different modifications suitable for a particular application or application. The scope of the invention is intended to be defined by the appended definition and its equivalents, in which all the foregoing terms have the widest possible meaning, unless otherwise stated.

Embodiments described by those skilled in the art may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention as defined in the following definition.

Claims (6)

DEFINITION OF INVENTION 1. A tool for cleaning various surfaces, comprising at least: a body with a spray that can hold and spray cleaning fluid; a housing surface that can clean the surface mechanically by removing dirt; characterized by having: a thin cleaning fluid container that allows the tool to be used as a cleaning fluid container; the container is made of a flexible material of at least two layers, said layers being joined together by a narrow section along its entire circumference, leaving an opening for securing the spray mechanism; a spray mechanism that evenly distributes the spray liquid on the surface to be cleaned and distributes the cleaning fluid evenly during each spray. 2. A cleaning tool according to claim 1, characterized in that a layer of microfibre surface-effective cleaning agent is applied to the outside of the layers of the cleaning fluid container. 3. The cleaning tool according to the preceding claims 1-2, characterized in that the layers of the tool-forming material are rotated in the following sequence: the layer of the cleaning material - the container-forming layer - the container-forming layer - the layer of the cleaning material. , leaving an opening for the spray mechanism. 4. A cleaning tool according to the preceding claims 1-3, characterized in that said container layer and the cleaning layer are mutually reinforced with their entire plane, then such a double layer is reinforced perimeter with another similar double layer, leaving an opening for the spray mechanism. 5. A cleaning tool according to any of the preceding claims 1-4, characterized in that the liquid container of the cleaning tool is formed of a layer of material having one surface having good surface cleaning properties and the other impermeable to the cleaning liquid by reinforcing at least two such layers. , leaving an opening for the spray mechanism. 6. A cleaning tool as claimed in any one of the preceding claims 1-5, wherein the spraying mechanism is actuated by mechanically pressing the pressure member of said mechanism.